Sunshine Butterfly

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Sep 7 1980
Likes: Arsenal, Technopop, The Cataracs, Adele, Pedro Almodovar, Sodagreen

Quotes:
"If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages."
"A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful."
"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."

Saturday, January 28, 2006 @ 1:31 AM

Happy CNY to all

Time flies ... it's the fourth
day of CNY

Happy times always fly
away juz lidat

the hours evaporates like
the fresh scent of a flower

I like the preparation for the
new year ... & I like
the goodies, the fun
& the joy but
I HATE the aftermath

I HATE waking up the day
after CNY ...
hate the feeling tt
the celebration is over

even after so many years ...
CNY is still v fun

but the times of receiving
ang pao is cmg to an
end ... soon

my relatives joke tt as a toddler
I put my angbao under
the pillow & even
woke up in the
middle of the nite to
check whether it was there

Strangely, I was out shopping
for lotsa birthday
pressie tis January

Usually I don have to do
all the shopping ...
but my frenzs r all bz
... so I juz do it

Abel shopped with me on Mon
@ Parkway Parade

Parkway Parade brought back
lotsa memories ... lotsa of
it ... as a child and
an undergrad
I have fond memories of the plc

... it is much diff now

Abel juz waited for me patiently,
to sniff out items

in the end, I only bought
an item

& on Wednesday nite...
after chatting with
Vincent over msn ...
I finally decided on
the bdae pressie on Cheehong

the moment Vincent
suggested the idea ... I liked
it instantly!!

It was a gud gift ... Siangyong
agreed with me

I finally passed Rongzhang's age
old present to him ... I
felt a big load of stone
off my back

tt nite I shopped with
Stella + Siffanie ... we juz
talked throughout the nite
& we saw Steven Lim
juz outside CK Tangs

I was glad tt
I finished Bdae gift No.3 on tt
Wed nite... We even
managed to slash the
price by $3 at
Far East Square ... even
Singapore oso can
bargain ... haha

This year new year is GREAT FUN...
but I'm rather tired now!!!

I was wearing pink on the first &
third day of New Year

I ate a lot of cuttlefish
on New Year Eve ...
Cuttlefish is a worst addiction
den potato chips

Once u chew , u can't stop !!!

I feel quite blessed tt I don
have an allergy to cuttlefish

by the third day of new year,
all the cuttlefish in my home were
finished ... I went
to my tuition boss's home
to pai nian & just realised
he got one whole BIG
packet of cuttlefish ... I was
munching cuttlefish
& keropok at his plc

on New Year Eve, the crabs for
dinner were realli not
up to standard

It wasn't the cooking ... but
the crab itself ... it seems
male crab tastes better
den the female

we prayed @ the Teochew temple
juz @ 12 am sharp ...
it is a family routine ...
something we din realli miss
for years

sitting on my uncle's lorry... we
'cruised' along the busy streets of
Marina & Chinatown ... I reached
home juz in time
for Arsenal's match ... the
match was a disaster

but don't tell me ... Arsenal is in
crisis

it's a fault ... but I have a stubborn
belief in the things I support
& the people I like/love

Nothing can quite wear tt
belief away!!

I don have much dreams
during the whole 3 days of new year...
guess I'm juz too tired to
bother about tinking in my sleep

New Year is like being stuff
with goodies & seafood ...
seafood which exceeds
the amount u consume
in a year

Day 1: Dinner @ YS plc ... such
a massive of food !!!, crashing
with pple @ marina, supper &
soccer telecast

Day 2: Lotsa of relatives arrive
@ my place, hosting pals
YS & CK, Karaoke ... spending
the nite with cousins @ Hotel 81.

Day 3 ...

so I'm darn tired ... I will
stop writing lifeless stuff now

Goodnite & sweet dreams!!!

Sunday, January 22, 2006 @ 12:11 AM

2006 is still not heavenly for me

It has been a while since I wrote here ....
There aren't a lot of tings
to do, but I just doesn't
seem to have enuff
time

21 days of January n my
fone has only been
with me for five days ...
it has been @ the workshop
for day & day

the fone was gud until
my frenz asked me about
the phone, I said "
except for a few hiccups, it's
a great fone"

ever since, my fone
has spent more
time in the treatment
room den "running
an errands for me"

it was raining on Hari Hara
Haji & with a bad bout
of flu, I din manage

to take pics of the
sunrise with Junwei

the sun din came out until
the 12th day of the month ...
it was like a day worth
celebrating

Some hit the beach ... I din remember
wat I did ... but I was
outdoor n I could feel
the warmth of the sunrays,
the lightness in the air ...

with the bad weather, I juz
stayed at home recovering
from my flu ... I juz closed
all the windows & I din realli
bathe ... juz to
protect myself frm
the chill

It's a crazy way to cure
oneself ... but it
works ...

Much better den the
anti-histamine I had
taken

staying at home for 2
full weeks leave me
with plenty of stuff to
do

I have been preparing
tuition materials during the past 2
weeks ... it's a lot of
work ... but it's a
commitement

I donno how long I will still
be teaching tuition ...
but I will leave
my students in gud
shape if I do leave

I always have a soft boss
for my tuition's boss,
normally I won't change
my decision, but my
boss has the
ability to make
me change my decision,
to continue teaching the
class

I'm indebted to him ...
becuz he has alwae
been v nice to me...
when I needed more
cash ... he will
arrange tuition classes
for me ... so
I always find it
hard to say NO ...
but with an
impending job, driving
lessons & other
tuition assignments ... I will
have to trim my classes

tis week is New Year week ... so
I don have much stuff
to prepare for
tuition ... so I got
much time to shop,
watch movies, arrange
gathering, do some
sports & plan
my year

I watched "Crying out
love in the centre of the world" a few
days ago. Before, I was
curious about the long title &
the fanfare the movie
generates. The drama
serial, based on the
same journal, was less
successful

I'm not usually a fan of
"melodrama", but
"Crying out ..." is
special in its own way. It has
a poetic touch and it
celebrates the beauty
& everlasting quality
of first love. I recommend
watching "Crying out ..." on DVDs ...
& with a real gud
sound system

I have the VCDs of 'Tale of 2
sisters' & 'Red Shoes' on my table ...
but juz din had the time
to watch it ... anyway I luv
horror movies ... but it's
v difficult to come
across a very unique one...
somehow writers are still
stucked with the idea that
horror movie must have
a moral story behind it ...
tt y this genre hasn't
make quite a
quantum leap ...

My recommendation is "Dark Water" ...
"Dark Water" is an one-off... I doubt
there will be horror
movie as creative as
this one in the near future ... I might
be wrong though

I did a veri cheapo ting on 15 Jan 2006 ...
went in Popular & read all the 250
past year Basic Theory questions ...
the book costs $6

I set for the Basic Theory the nxt day ...
I couldn't afford to fail becuz
my driving lessons were
all booked ... & I passed!!!

On Tuesday I painted my
room pink, I'm oki
with pink so when
my cousin suggested it, I juz
nodded my head

It was like years & years
since I last painted ...
the last thing I could remember
was working in
my uncle's renovation company
many, many years ago ...
tt was hell of an experience ...
the sheer
satisfaction of seeing the
finished product
is more fufilling than
scoring 100 marks for an exam

met up with SEP (Student Exchange
Program) mates @ Marche on Wed ...
it was a long, long while since
we were last @ Sweden,
but the memories are still
as rich ... & our penchant
for travelling hasn't quite faded

we were talking abt an East-europe
trip, with Pat being
the most enthusiastic ... den
we talked abt other continents &
countries like Argentina, Venezuela
started cmg in ...

'U realli have to seriously consider
abt gg S. America for ur
honeymoon ... there's plenty of
'distractions' there, u noe' - Pat

gg to the karaoke during the CNY
is realli $$$ ... KBox costs
ard $35/pax & Party World Costs
$25/pax ... heard that
there is a place called KGarden which
is realli cheap, but I have
nvr been there b4.

After a bout of sore throat, I hope
my voice back ...

Sunday is supposed to be sunny ... &
the sun shines & sparkles in
the afternoon... a PERFECT
time to savour & enjoy
its warmth ... I was @ Botanic
Garden with Junwei

On tt afternoon, I could feel
my enthusiasm for photography is
back again ... Junwei is
serious abt his hobbies ..& his
enthusiasm has spreaded
onto me

his tripod stand weighs 4kg, but
he carries it around n
walk unimaginable distance with
it, as though the stand was
part of him

taking 'macro' (close-up) shots with
tripod stand is a luxury !!!

we came across another
photographer & his tripod
was realli light but it costs
$800 ... $800 for a
tripod is a MASSIVE
investment

but my major acquisition are
(1) A tripod stand
(2) A wide-angle len
(3) A telephoto len
this will complete my
camera ... but it will
burn a real
big hole in my pocket

I want to take pictures of flower
and water droplets... & I hope
my pics can reveal
the beauty, joy &
miracle of living

Sunday was tiring but
fruitful & juz PERFECT

for me !!!

Monday, January 09, 2006 @ 8:13 PM

Off to a bad start

there hadn't been any trace of the
sun since the start of the year

n the rain din help my flu ...
I have been sneezing
for the past few days

talking abt resolution ... I had made
a promise to be illness-free in 2006

guessed this one doesn't count ...

I refused to see a doc on Sunday ...
becuz the doc has been disappointing ...
if I went, it will be the third time
within a space of one
mth

the first two times, I thot
I will get beta ...
but the med
din deliver

I rather not see a doc again

on the second day of New Year ...
my phone was down @ the
Nokia care centre
for repair ...

the on-off switch was spoilt after
6 mths !!!

n the staff told me
they are waiting for the parts
to be shipped to Singapore

wat a shamble ... it's
realli inconvenient with
a mobile

except for tuition, I haven't
been out ... it's
hard to arrange
anything without
my mobile ... so I reckon
I will juz nurse myself
at home

the last week of December was
fun stuff ... 2005 ended well

Boxing day I was @ JB with Eugene,
Wanying & Mingzi ... it
has been a long, long while since
I met WY & MZ ... the most
rewarding part of the trip
was buying a suitable
6R foto frame for
the pic I took with Tony Adams!!!

my advise is nvr developed a 6R foto ...
it's hard to find a suitable frame ...
the bez photo frame I had
seen was in Venice ...
but can u imagine
buying a frame for $46 SGD ???
I DOUBT u will buy it

27 Dec was a gathering for
some of my JC frenzs ...
KH was bad from UK with
his galfrenz ... so we
went to Newton
for hawker fare ...
the clayfish were
too ex ... but it was
nice juz chatting over dinner ...
I no longer care
too much abt the food ...
it's the company tt counts !!!

my love for food has took a dive
... when I was
in my pri/sec sch days ...
I used to salivate over food
... n get excited over
gud stuff ... a few
of my favourites are
(Roasted suckling pig, turtle
soup, braised duck wings,
claypot rice, pandan
chicken)

somehow my love for
food has evaporated over this
few years ...
I no longer get excited
abt food

the only exception was during
my hongkong trip when
I woke up
thinking abt dimsum ...
Chicken feet was my
favourite dish, haha =) &
steven refuses to eat it. I said
he has missed one of the
bez food ard

other than tt ... I don
remember getting excited
over food in 2005

but I know I still like
fast food, seafood &
chocolate & I'm not
fated to enjoy
fast food & chocolate
in my life

December I was eating a lot
of fast food & chocolate ...
I muz admit my
last chocolate dessert
@ NYDC was the
final straw ...
what followed was
inflamed throat, dry cough
n flu ... wat next ???

thursday I was @ the premiere of
'A very tall story' ... it's
one of the funniest movie
I had seen in a while ...
if I have the $$$ i might buy
the dvd when it's out

pal Jayce invited me to his
hse for new year eve ...
he asked me to cook
a dish ... I don wan
to be a spoilsport
so I agreed

luckily ... it was juz a
harmless lie ... I
cannot imagine how
my veggie will turn up
... it might be too starchy,
salty or mabbe juz nice

during the wee hours
of New Year Day
we had prata
at Jalan Kayu ...
me, JJ, Vivian & DL
were sitting at one table
... & all the four of
us had illness
of some kind !!! haha...
I boasted tt I'm in
a beta shape den
them ... now I tink
i'm the worst

but it's OK ... i will recover soon

I finalli booked my driving
lessons... class will
start in February

February will be
a hectic month ...

I hope to get my driving license
this year!!!

Sunday, January 01, 2006 @ 3:55 PM

Memories of a year

2005 is a topsy-turvy year ...
a year whereby my
actions are motivated
by events

a year where the
two halves are an exact
contrast of each other

Jan - Apr are unimaginable
months, days which
are wholly different from
the rest of my undergrad
days

after having so much fun during
my undergrad life ... honours
year was an one-off

A REAL STRUGGLE!!!

January: Official start of my
honour year project; deadline
of project - end April. By the
end of January, my project
was in shambles!
I did my best but mabbe
my bez wasn't enough ...

February: CNY celebration
was gud tis year, a couple
of my frenzs were down @ my
hse for new year.
First project presentation
was always juz
a formality ...
my project seemed to
be in sixs & sevens
One prof remarked: "ur
project does not have enuff
meat"
tt was a quotation which
my prof eventually
liked.
The other prof said "good
presentation" though
he could later tell his students
tt my preliminary results
weren't favourable.
By end Feb, part of the gloom
evaporated. I moved
into hostel at the end of Feb
hoping to give myself more time
for the project

March: 2 honour year students
but different fate; room-mate,
Cliff was having the time
of his life in hostel enjoying
his last year while the best
of my undergrad life
had passed. 3 years of
merry ... even if it meant
one year of pain, it should be
worth the while

Cliff & I got along
quite well, sometime we
watched soccer together or
play games on his gameset ...

but by end March
my project deadline were nearing ...
I whispered to myself "I
WILL SURVIVE"

Apr: Exams, thesis deadline, days
n days ... I wandered whether the final
semester will be the nemesis
of my lack of devotion in my studies ....
I spent 11 days writing my
thesis, by the time I finished
I knew I had woke
up from my nightmare,
a long suffocating nightmare lasting
one year
I wanted to thank pple who
made my last-minute
rush possible, who helped
me through the
struggle, here you are (not in
any particular order) =),
guobao, cheefeng, audrey,
michie, cheehong,
raofeng, eugene
On the last day of
exam, I juz dumped my
lecture notes into the
dustbin ... it was
A SATISFYING MOMENT ...
tt nite raofeng, guobao &
me spent the nite
watching the
move & singing karaoke
... tt was a merry moment ... &

the next day I was
off to Desaru

May: graduation trip w
Sinwah, Yuansong, steven.
The trip was loads of fun,
& it was within budget.
11 days Beijing/Hongkong
within a budget of
ard of 1.7k is the
real deal. Hongkong
dim sum is still
the bez, I woke up
every morning with a
smile knowing there r loads
of gud food entering my mouth.

June: gatherings, gatherings n
more gatherings ... friends
that I haven't meet for
a long while.
exam results were released,
& I got the
honours class I wanted

July: I never expected so
many people at
my graduation ceremony. By
the end of the day, I
couldn't smile anymore. If
there is juz one day in July, this
was the day I would not
forget

August/Sep: August was boring
stuff - resume sending ...
I din get to work in
the place I want so I started
responding to advertisement in Sep
... I attended my first interview
in Sep, the shortest interview
I ever attended ... I couldn't
speak dialect so I jeoparidsed my
chance.

Oct/Nov: by end Novemeber, I had
sent up ard 15 resumes (not
a lot though) ... got a
job offer in Nov (din accept it
though) ... n after
some twists n turns
I will work in February

Dec: I LUV DECEMBER!!! The
month of December mirrored
tt of June

_____________________________

My new resolution is to be free of
illness for the whole of 2006.

Subplots of the year:
(1) to get my driving license

(2) start working hard for my
postgraduate

(3) learn blading

(4) maintaining & improving
my korean website

(5) saving for my BIG trip

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Saturday, January 28, 2006 @ 1:31 AM Happy CNY to all Time flies ... it's the fourth day of CNY Happy times always fly away juz lidat the hours evaporates like the fresh scent of a flower I like the preparation for the new year ... & I like the goodies, the fun & the joy but I HATE the aftermath I HATE waking up the day after CNY ... hate the feeling tt the celebration is over even after so many years ... CNY is still v fun but the times of receiving ang pao is cmg to an end ... soon my relatives joke tt as a toddler I put my angbao under the pillow & even woke up in the middle of the nite to check whether it was there Strangely, I was out shopping for lotsa birthday pressie tis January Usually I don have to do all the shopping ... but my frenzs r all bz ... so I juz do it Abel shopped with me on Mon @ Parkway Parade Parkway Parade brought back lotsa memories ... lotsa of it ... as a child and an undergrad I have fond memories of the plc ... it is much diff now Abel juz waited for me patiently, to sniff out items in the end, I only bought an item & on Wednesday nite... after chatting with Vincent over msn ... I finally decided on the bdae pressie on Cheehong the moment Vincent suggested the idea ... I liked it instantly!! It was a gud gift ... Siangyong agreed with me I finally passed Rongzhang's age old present to him ... I felt a big load of stone off my back tt nite I shopped with Stella + Siffanie ... we juz talked throughout the nite & we saw Steven Lim juz outside CK Tangs I was glad tt I finished Bdae gift No.3 on tt Wed nite... We even managed to slash the price by $3 at Far East Square ... even Singapore oso can bargain ... haha This year new year is GREAT FUN... but I'm rather tired now!!! I was wearing pink on the first & third day of New Year I ate a lot of cuttlefish on New Year Eve ... Cuttlefish is a worst addiction den potato chips Once u chew , u can't stop !!! I feel quite blessed tt I don have an allergy to cuttlefish by the third day of new year, all the cuttlefish in my home were finished ... I went to my tuition boss's home to pai nian & just realised he got one whole BIG packet of cuttlefish ... I was munching cuttlefish & keropok at his plc on New Year Eve, the crabs for dinner were realli not up to standard It wasn't the cooking ... but the crab itself ... it seems male crab tastes better den the female we prayed @ the Teochew temple juz @ 12 am sharp ... it is a family routine ... something we din realli miss for years sitting on my uncle's lorry... we 'cruised' along the busy streets of Marina & Chinatown ... I reached home juz in time for Arsenal's match ... the match was a disaster but don't tell me ... Arsenal is in crisis it's a fault ... but I have a stubborn belief in the things I support & the people I like/love Nothing can quite wear tt belief away!! I don have much dreams during the whole 3 days of new year... guess I'm juz too tired to bother about tinking in my sleep New Year is like being stuff with goodies & seafood ... seafood which exceeds the amount u consume in a year Day 1: Dinner @ YS plc ... such a massive of food !!!, crashing with pple @ marina, supper & soccer telecast Day 2: Lotsa of relatives arrive @ my place, hosting pals YS & CK, Karaoke ... spending the nite with cousins @ Hotel 81. Day 3 ... so I'm darn tired ... I will stop writing lifeless stuff now Goodnite & sweet dreams!!! back to top?
Sunday, January 22, 2006 @ 12:11 AM 2006 is still not heavenly for me It has been a while since I wrote here .... There aren't a lot of tings to do, but I just doesn't seem to have enuff time 21 days of January n my fone has only been with me for five days ... it has been @ the workshop for day & day the fone was gud until my frenz asked me about the phone, I said " except for a few hiccups, it's a great fone" ever since, my fone has spent more time in the treatment room den "running an errands for me" it was raining on Hari Hara Haji & with a bad bout of flu, I din manage to take pics of the sunrise with Junwei the sun din came out until the 12th day of the month ... it was like a day worth celebrating Some hit the beach ... I din remember wat I did ... but I was outdoor n I could feel the warmth of the sunrays, the lightness in the air ... with the bad weather, I juz stayed at home recovering from my flu ... I juz closed all the windows & I din realli bathe ... juz to protect myself frm the chill It's a crazy way to cure oneself ... but it works ... Much better den the anti-histamine I had taken staying at home for 2 full weeks leave me with plenty of stuff to do I have been preparing tuition materials during the past 2 weeks ... it's a lot of work ... but it's a commitement I donno how long I will still be teaching tuition ... but I will leave my students in gud shape if I do leave I always have a soft boss for my tuition's boss, normally I won't change my decision, but my boss has the ability to make me change my decision, to continue teaching the class I'm indebted to him ... becuz he has alwae been v nice to me... when I needed more cash ... he will arrange tuition classes for me ... so I always find it hard to say NO ... but with an impending job, driving lessons & other tuition assignments ... I will have to trim my classes tis week is New Year week ... so I don have much stuff to prepare for tuition ... so I got much time to shop, watch movies, arrange gathering, do some sports & plan my year I watched "Crying out love in the centre of the world" a few days ago. Before, I was curious about the long title & the fanfare the movie generates. The drama serial, based on the same journal, was less successful I'm not usually a fan of "melodrama", but "Crying out ..." is special in its own way. It has a poetic touch and it celebrates the beauty & everlasting quality of first love. I recommend watching "Crying out ..." on DVDs ... & with a real gud sound system I have the VCDs of 'Tale of 2 sisters' & 'Red Shoes' on my table ... but juz din had the time to watch it ... anyway I luv horror movies ... but it's v difficult to come across a very unique one... somehow writers are still stucked with the idea that horror movie must have a moral story behind it ... tt y this genre hasn't make quite a quantum leap ... My recommendation is "Dark Water" ... "Dark Water" is an one-off... I doubt there will be horror movie as creative as this one in the near future ... I might be wrong though I did a veri cheapo ting on 15 Jan 2006 ... went in Popular & read all the 250 past year Basic Theory questions ... the book costs $6 I set for the Basic Theory the nxt day ... I couldn't afford to fail becuz my driving lessons were all booked ... & I passed!!! On Tuesday I painted my room pink, I'm oki with pink so when my cousin suggested it, I juz nodded my head It was like years & years since I last painted ... the last thing I could remember was working in my uncle's renovation company many, many years ago ... tt was hell of an experience ... the sheer satisfaction of seeing the finished product is more fufilling than scoring 100 marks for an exam met up with SEP (Student Exchange Program) mates @ Marche on Wed ... it was a long, long while since we were last @ Sweden, but the memories are still as rich ... & our penchant for travelling hasn't quite faded we were talking abt an East-europe trip, with Pat being the most enthusiastic ... den we talked abt other continents & countries like Argentina, Venezuela started cmg in ... 'U realli have to seriously consider abt gg S. America for ur honeymoon ... there's plenty of 'distractions' there, u noe' - Pat gg to the karaoke during the CNY is realli $$$ ... KBox costs ard $35/pax & Party World Costs $25/pax ... heard that there is a place called KGarden which is realli cheap, but I have nvr been there b4. After a bout of sore throat, I hope my voice back ... Sunday is supposed to be sunny ... & the sun shines & sparkles in the afternoon... a PERFECT time to savour & enjoy its warmth ... I was @ Botanic Garden with Junwei On tt afternoon, I could feel my enthusiasm for photography is back again ... Junwei is serious abt his hobbies ..& his enthusiasm has spreaded onto me his tripod stand weighs 4kg, but he carries it around n walk unimaginable distance with it, as though the stand was part of him taking 'macro' (close-up) shots with tripod stand is a luxury !!! we came across another photographer & his tripod was realli light but it costs $800 ... $800 for a tripod is a MASSIVE investment but my major acquisition are (1) A tripod stand (2) A wide-angle len (3) A telephoto len this will complete my camera ... but it will burn a real big hole in my pocket I want to take pictures of flower and water droplets... & I hope my pics can reveal the beauty, joy & miracle of living Sunday was tiring but fruitful & juz PERFECT for me !!! back to top?
Monday, January 09, 2006 @ 8:13 PM Off to a bad start there hadn't been any trace of the sun since the start of the year n the rain din help my flu ... I have been sneezing for the past few days talking abt resolution ... I had made a promise to be illness-free in 2006 guessed this one doesn't count ... I refused to see a doc on Sunday ... becuz the doc has been disappointing ... if I went, it will be the third time within a space of one mth the first two times, I thot I will get beta ... but the med din deliver I rather not see a doc again on the second day of New Year ... my phone was down @ the Nokia care centre for repair ... the on-off switch was spoilt after 6 mths !!! n the staff told me they are waiting for the parts to be shipped to Singapore wat a shamble ... it's realli inconvenient with a mobile except for tuition, I haven't been out ... it's hard to arrange anything without my mobile ... so I reckon I will juz nurse myself at home the last week of December was fun stuff ... 2005 ended well Boxing day I was @ JB with Eugene, Wanying & Mingzi ... it has been a long, long while since I met WY & MZ ... the most rewarding part of the trip was buying a suitable 6R foto frame for the pic I took with Tony Adams!!! my advise is nvr developed a 6R foto ... it's hard to find a suitable frame ... the bez photo frame I had seen was in Venice ... but can u imagine buying a frame for $46 SGD ??? I DOUBT u will buy it 27 Dec was a gathering for some of my JC frenzs ... KH was bad from UK with his galfrenz ... so we went to Newton for hawker fare ... the clayfish were too ex ... but it was nice juz chatting over dinner ... I no longer care too much abt the food ... it's the company tt counts !!! my love for food has took a dive ... when I was in my pri/sec sch days ... I used to salivate over food ... n get excited over gud stuff ... a few of my favourites are (Roasted suckling pig, turtle soup, braised duck wings, claypot rice, pandan chicken) somehow my love for food has evaporated over this few years ... I no longer get excited abt food the only exception was during my hongkong trip when I woke up thinking abt dimsum ... Chicken feet was my favourite dish, haha =) & steven refuses to eat it. I said he has missed one of the bez food ard other than tt ... I don remember getting excited over food in 2005 but I know I still like fast food, seafood & chocolate & I'm not fated to enjoy fast food & chocolate in my life December I was eating a lot of fast food & chocolate ... I muz admit my last chocolate dessert @ NYDC was the final straw ... what followed was inflamed throat, dry cough n flu ... wat next ??? thursday I was @ the premiere of 'A very tall story' ... it's one of the funniest movie I had seen in a while ... if I have the $$$ i might buy the dvd when it's out pal Jayce invited me to his hse for new year eve ... he asked me to cook a dish ... I don wan to be a spoilsport so I agreed luckily ... it was juz a harmless lie ... I cannot imagine how my veggie will turn up ... it might be too starchy, salty or mabbe juz nice during the wee hours of New Year Day we had prata at Jalan Kayu ... me, JJ, Vivian & DL were sitting at one table ... & all the four of us had illness of some kind !!! haha... I boasted tt I'm in a beta shape den them ... now I tink i'm the worst but it's OK ... i will recover soon I finalli booked my driving lessons... class will start in February February will be a hectic month ... I hope to get my driving license this year!!! back to top?
Sunday, January 01, 2006 @ 3:55 PM Memories of a year 2005 is a topsy-turvy year ... a year whereby my actions are motivated by events a year where the two halves are an exact contrast of each other Jan - Apr are unimaginable months, days which are wholly different from the rest of my undergrad days after having so much fun during my undergrad life ... honours year was an one-off A REAL STRUGGLE!!! January: Official start of my honour year project; deadline of project - end April. By the end of January, my project was in shambles! I did my best but mabbe my bez wasn't enough ... February: CNY celebration was gud tis year, a couple of my frenzs were down @ my hse for new year. First project presentation was always juz a formality ... my project seemed to be in sixs & sevens One prof remarked: "ur project does not have enuff meat" tt was a quotation which my prof eventually liked. The other prof said "good presentation" though he could later tell his students tt my preliminary results weren't favourable. By end Feb, part of the gloom evaporated. I moved into hostel at the end of Feb hoping to give myself more time for the project March: 2 honour year students but different fate; room-mate, Cliff was having the time of his life in hostel enjoying his last year while the best of my undergrad life had passed. 3 years of merry ... even if it meant one year of pain, it should be worth the while Cliff & I got along quite well, sometime we watched soccer together or play games on his gameset ... but by end March my project deadline were nearing ... I whispered to myself "I WILL SURVIVE" Apr: Exams, thesis deadline, days n days ... I wandered whether the final semester will be the nemesis of my lack of devotion in my studies .... I spent 11 days writing my thesis, by the time I finished I knew I had woke up from my nightmare, a long suffocating nightmare lasting one year I wanted to thank pple who made my last-minute rush possible, who helped me through the struggle, here you are (not in any particular order) =), guobao, cheefeng, audrey, michie, cheehong, raofeng, eugene On the last day of exam, I juz dumped my lecture notes into the dustbin ... it was A SATISFYING MOMENT ... tt nite raofeng, guobao & me spent the nite watching the move & singing karaoke ... tt was a merry moment ... & the next day I was off to Desaru May: graduation trip w Sinwah, Yuansong, steven. The trip was loads of fun, & it was within budget. 11 days Beijing/Hongkong within a budget of ard of 1.7k is the real deal. Hongkong dim sum is still the bez, I woke up every morning with a smile knowing there r loads of gud food entering my mouth. June: gatherings, gatherings n more gatherings ... friends that I haven't meet for a long while. exam results were released, & I got the honours class I wanted July: I never expected so many people at my graduation ceremony. By the end of the day, I couldn't smile anymore. If there is juz one day in July, this was the day I would not forget August/Sep: August was boring stuff - resume sending ... I din get to work in the place I want so I started responding to advertisement in Sep ... I attended my first interview in Sep, the shortest interview I ever attended ... I couldn't speak dialect so I jeoparidsed my chance. Oct/Nov: by end Novemeber, I had sent up ard 15 resumes (not a lot though) ... got a job offer in Nov (din accept it though) ... n after some twists n turns I will work in February Dec: I LUV DECEMBER!!! The month of December mirrored tt of June _____________________________ My new resolution is to be free of illness for the whole of 2006. Subplots of the year: (1) to get my driving license (2) start working hard for my postgraduate (3) learn blading (4) maintaining & improving my korean website (5) saving for my BIG trip back to top?