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Ok, I'm feeling guilty that I've not been blogging seriously the past few weeks despite me jus lazing, bumming around. Partly due to my lappy which has been going in and out of hospital. And I really mean IN and OUT. Some of you should know. Haiz....
This will be the last entry of the year as I'll be leaving for kukup tmr morning and back the day after tmr. I'll be going with ODAC gang, We'll be touring around the kelong, and play fireworks tho I kinda doubt it. Just a little doubt.

Here's the program directly cut and pasted from my mail.

Rendezvous program: We eat We sing We play mahjong! (first day)
-kelong tour (2nd day morning)
-visit mangrove @ extra cost of 5rm(2nd day morning)
Rendezvous highlight: Fireworks
Rendezvous candlelight meals: 2 X Seafood Lunch, One Tea Break, One BBQ Dinner(eat all u can), One Breakfast,
Expected time to reach Singapore : evening

All these for $85. My dad is saying he can get the same deal for fifty plus.
What's yr take? worth the money?

I've been SLACKING SERIOUSLY for the past 2weeks. Waking up at 12pm EVERYDAY to catch transformers animated on channel okto then going back to sleep at 3plus, wake up 6,dinner, then a short nap before nyonya. I'm such a letdown. ARGH!

WELL, NEW YEAR comes with New New YEAR RESOLUTIONS. I haven planned any yet. I don have this habit. Dont EVEN have time to study, wan to plan New Year resolutions! But in any case, some of you can share some ideas with me.
I shall start first,

#1 Sleep less and Study more(thanks Cecilia for her contribution)

#2 Save up 5k (I need to insert an amount ya see)

#3 Keep fit by exercising regularly and take up sports(diving)

#4 Appreciate my family and friends

#5 Say YES more often

#6 Wake up by 9am on normal days(I seriously doubt this)

#7 Acquire more skills and read more

#8 Pick up cooking

#9 Speak up more(less stoic) and be more patient with people

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Anymore great ideas?
Or any bad habits yall wan me to kick?

Looking back and concluding the year, It has been a pretty good year.(June onwards)
An eventful year which I've made lots of meaningful+wonderful frens, foster bonds with people I never thought I'd. Found a group of nice people(CFA17=)) , took part in numerous activities and sports(odac Xtreme, Berkelah,waterpolo), got to know odac people better and grew closer to my frens compared to last year.That includes BFF, Cecilia,WP, Minglong,weixiong and some of the Barneys. Manage to maintain and recover some lost secondary school frens.(Eh Xian, we need to improve leh). Conquered 3/4 Mt kinabalu, Got a new phone, Started working at Starbucks. Attended Insurance talk, real estate talk, ACCA talk, tried to learn french, tried to learn trading. Not to mention the races I taken part in and those I've helped to organise, such as the Amazing race for Asian Youth Festival. I've also added another class of license to my driving license and started playing badminton again.

How about you? What've u accomplished this year? =)

HAve A HAPPY NEW YEAR!! (After christmas sales already started!)

Ps: I really need to start studying. =)


Its finally back from hospital but I'm not quite pleased about what happened. What happened was, I left lappy there for almost 2weeks. And all the person did was the one key recovery to reformat the C drive. Something which I could have done myself. I feel super unsure about the lappy right now. Like bringing it to the doctor but the doctor didn't do anything to it. And I was summoned while I went up to collect my laptop!! Super lots of time wasted and money wasted also. Can u imagine 2 weeks without going online?

NO YOU CANT!?!??!

Anyway, We had our secondary school gathering on Christmas Eve At Xuan's house where we had a feast. Hams, Turkey, spaghetti, pastas, chicken wings and jellies plus mahjong. I didn't eat much there as my family had a turkey to ourselves before that as well!

Went Crystal Jade steamboat at Holland Village last night with Minghui,Manda,Alan,Sox,Van,her bf,Cheesiang and Raymond. And boy! I must say the money spent there was well worth! Lean pork, Lean beef, varieties of mushrooms, fishballs, sotong balls, dumplings, cuttlefish,Baos, fresh prawns and not to mention, Free flows of Xiao Long Baos!! We had 2 soup bases, The pork soup and the spicy soup which turned Sox's lips into Angelina Jolie's lips. Can you imagine how spicy the soup was?! Dessert available was red bean pastry(taste like potong icecream), crystal jelly and beancurd. The environment was clean and quiet(We were the biggest group there). They even provide new plates for change when yr plates are dirty! How SWEET!! BEst thing was, it only costed us 21.18 each.On a sunday night. I'd recommend this place if you need a budget gathering with your frens.
4stars/5stars.


Bash was a blast! Not cos the event itself was good, but cos the company was great! Bumped into heaps of friends in the club who were having as much fun and we hung out together on the dance floor. Fun and nice people. I love my friends!

Social nite happened last night, where we had steamboat dinner at YMCA. I was looking so much forward to the WII that was up for grabs in the lucky draw!! Dammit.
Didnt win anything in the end!!! Games were held and prizes won. I think they forgot to give out the best dress award. LOL I kinda think its time to clear our A&E guys.. ComE oN!

Went nearby to play card games in the end. Good call not to join the rest for the KTV session which were called off in the end. We then start playing texas poker with forfeits like plucking hairs off and biting people. HAHA! IT was FUN ok. Night ended at prata house when ALan sent everyone home as usual =)

PS: Alan, please brush up your card distribution and bridge! haha
And I really enjoyed bash that night with the companions of the night. Dancing and Drinking. Thanks guys! AnD babes!


Right now, at this very moment as i'm typing this line, there are mosquitoes flying around my legs, under my desk, waiting for their chance to strike. I hate it. Is it only my area, or are u guys affected as well. Think its due to the rainy/monsoon season. Wait, thinking about it, whose invading whose area now, considering that mosquitoes already exist in the times of dinosaurs. Hmmmm...
As some of you know, I'm a sceptical person. And I think lowly of human-beings. I tried to think back and reason why I'm like this.

And this is what I can remember.

When I was in primary 2, there was a book fair in my school. Not sure if its like that now but in the past, the school would arrange for bookstore/retailers to come to sch, to sell books at cheaper price to the students as we did not really have access to books other than our own library. POPULAR wasnt as popular yet.
Those were the days where Mr kiasu and TinTin comics were really really popular.

So back to the book fair. There was this primary 6 guy reading 'mr kiasu' in his rugged shirt in one corner. He looked like he wanted the book badly and that was really the case. He expressed how much he wanted that book but he had no money. So i lent him $8++ to buy it.Out of my OWN PRIVATE savings.
Hey Come on, $8 was a freaking big deal ok? BAck In those days where a bowl of noodles only costed 50cents. He agreed to repay me in 2weeks.

I didn't manage to see him for the next few weeks cos we were in different sessions. And when I finally did.Guessed what he replied when I asked for my money.


'who are you?' he replied in front of his frens.


I was awfully taken aback. Dumbfounded. Striken with fear and disappointment. HOw did this pitiful person turn into this villain I'm looking at right now? How could he said what he said? And of course I didn't manage to get my money back.

BAck in those days, scams were rampant. Security and safety were not taken for granted like today. Of course there were other conman cases that people around me encountered or I personally went thru to make me who I am today. It'd be a long paragraph if I have to tell you my life story, So let's not go there.

Sometimes, I wished people were like me. In terms of thinking, our moral values and behaviour. I figured that the world'd be a better place if it was only full of me. I could communicate better with myself and I know what I want. This world would be PERFECT. Yet I cant help but be afraid that theres a chance that I might be acting like a self-centred bastard, imposing my views and thinking on others. I then asked myself, Why should my character be the dominant one? What if someone else wants me to be like him? What if someone else thinks he's more superior and what if he really is? Should I be like him? I guessed the world wouldnt be as much fun if the whole world is only full of one person and clones of one person.
One world one person one character.

The truth is we do not live alone.We need to step out of our comfort zones at times.
The challenge is to go out there and handle people who is different from you.
To build bridges which link us to other people instead of high walls around us.
Which one will u build? Bridges or Walls?

Wait, Am I imposing my views on introverts to make frens?


I'm quite packed with activities during this festive season.

Lots of thing running thru my mind like xiao niang re, POA, crashing the msm lesson I missed, uol bash, cci social night, my sec sch gathering, payments to make and lots of other things! There were issues I had wanted to blog about but I just cant seemed to remember them!

Staring at the blogspot template, not knowing what to blog is just so annoying. Annoyed at my poor memory!

ps: Not in a super good mood this few days!


Was away over the weekend for extreme challenge.
LOTS of feedback for the race which i've told the concerned people. It wasnt really a complain or anything. Just something I'm seeing from my point of view. But they arnt really open to the idea of feedback.
The race wasnt really spectacular nor extreme. Ok thats enough.Don really wanna get me started on this.

On a more cheerful note, Bff and Cecilia are back! WOO HOO~!


I could remember the avid runner I once used to be. I would jog in the hot noon, under the merciless sun when I'm free. I'd jog when I feel frustrated or troubled. I would jog to build my stamina so that I wont be a burden to the badminton team. The recently ended stand chart marathon is the topic today. Lots of SIm people went for the run. It reminds me of how I once loved running Long D. I'd run in front of the pack in my Specialist training course. I'd come in one of the first few so I could cheer other people on.

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not those borned runner where running or super stamina genes came along with me when I was borned. Unlike those kenyan runner or Indians who were borned with exceptional stamina. I had to train myself to accustom to the run. I loved hearing myself breathing loudly to myself, panting hard with sweat soaked shirt.

I wondered where had all those determination and spirit gone. I remembered how I stopped running. First it was cos of my injured knee. Then it was cos when I learnt from animal planet that everytime the Lion hunts, leopard runs, cheetah sprints, it reduces their life spans significantly. They would died of fatigue and heat exhaustion. They need to rest under the shade after hunt. which they have to capture their prey withihn the first few attempts.

This reminds me of how recent cases of NS men passing out/away after heat exhaustion and fatigue. It suggested to me that a heart has limited number of pumps. That it would stopped pumping after a certain number of pumps. Just like a machine. (dono how true this is). And thats how nsmen passed or faint during their runs. (I supposed) Judging from what animal planet says, the same principles applies to us right? We're animals too arnt we? I told this to galvin and ken, where they laugh it off, sneering and jokingly saying that 'bolt' may die young due to over running.

I wont rule that out. I mean, who knows? Or maybe these are just excuses for the lazy me? But like it or not, I still have to train for the IPPT coming up. I need to clear it early and not wait til May when my window is closing, when my exams are approaching.


An exhausting day as usual as I toiled til morning 330am. IT was a super busy day at starbucks due to the event outside ps. Some rock concert performance which led to never ending queue at the POS register. Bumped into some friends today when they visited starbucks. Jiamin, Mag, Kingston.Pleasant surprises!

It was only when I met Jiamin that I remembered that BFF was flying off that day! I was so busy and exhausted that i forgot to sms her! Still, that's no excuse.
So this post is dedicated to BFF. MAybe No sms, But she can read this when she flys back! HAve FUN in Taiwan BFF!!


Almost forgot about this.

I supposed it'd be inappropriate for me to post her picture.

Please, let us hold our hands together and have a minute of silence for
Miss Lo Hoei Yen who had passed on in Mumbai.

Our sincere condolences. May you rest in peace.


"HAppy AIds day!" (sounds weird)

Caught 'Life transformer' earlier on before 'Little Nyonya'.
'Life transformer' is a show on channel 8, every monday, 8pm. It's a show on how the Hosts, Christopher Lee and Quan yifeng, with a group of volunteers going around Singapore, saving the soul, transforming the lives of people living in poverty.
They'd rearrange their apartments which looked like slumps before that, before painting them.

The town council would then arrange jobs, schools or technical skill learning for them. Despite its attempt to show that Singaporeans are caring, full of love and stuff. The show practically reflects how people are living in slumps, despite the advanced and well-off society we're in these days.
It's unbelivable how these things are happening around us, yet we don't realised. How pathetic. People living in misery, pondering when is the money for their next meal coming while youngsters party their lives away. And What's amazing is how they go unnoticed in such a small land overflowing with 4.48million population .

This is not the first time I'm watching the show. For the second time, I felt disgusted after the show. Not by the poor conditions of their HDB units, not by the amount of cockroaches eggs in their house or how dirty their toilets are. But by people . The grassroot leaders, district MP, GRC seriously need to be more proactive in their approach in running their estates/areas. As such, I've run a search on the missions of Town council.

'Each town council has the duty to explain to its residents how it invests its funds, what is its philosophy, what are the risks it takes ' (as quoted from Minister Mah)

Does your town council explain this to you?

I encountered people from town council or self proclaimed HDB representatives/contractors a few times annually. Not to collect feedbacks, or to have meetings on how we can improve neighbourhood watch, crime prevention in the vicinity. But, to remove my flower pots along the corridor. Thats what they do. Beautify the environment. Repaint HDB over and over again. Plantations along highway to make Singapore look presentable.The clean and green image to improve our eyesights and to promote/market our motherland. As such, they probably forgot all about Human relations. Living in HDB has already reduced our interactions with our neighbours compared to living in kampong. Thus we have been reduced to gardening, talking to our plants. And now, they wan to remove my plants, claiming they're in the way.

Thats how unfeeling the society is nowadays for we have all been trained like robots, with productivity, efficiency, rationality our only goals. After all, it was the goal set by MM Lee years ago after realising human resource is our only resource. Human Talents is our source of wealth. Mass labour resource attracts foreign investment. And hence, campaigns like 'speak good english' came pouring.

Today, We've positioned ourselves in a pole position in terms of services, business taxes compared to neighbouring countries, convenience of foreign investments to pour in, friendliness in setting up business in terms of 'red tapes' and not to mention our world class airline industry.
Sometimes, It makes me wonder if we've become a factory. A global factory production, producing human talents, services and innovative ideas. Attracting foreign talents, grooming them and then return them back to their countries to help their own motherland. We've been trained like robots, clones, pursuing wealth, productivity, academic and recognition. We do not know how to enjoy/reward ourselves other than weekend movies, occasional pools, shopping around town and of cos the boy gal relationship to keep our mind preoccupied. We do not slow down, to look at the environment around us, or to appreciate the people around us.

The 'kiasu' culture instilled in us is so strong, that we have no choice to follow it since we can't change it. We bury ourselves in piles of books/work til the day we die. I wondered if we could alter this behaviour of our nation and focus more on emphasizing the well-being of our people.
Of course, that is not for me to say.

BAck to the show.

I was complaining about how not proactive the leaders of our districts are. Do we really need to depend on shows to dig out people who are drowning in poverty before we can lend them a hand, give them a job? The poor people were fined due to late payment of PUB bills. The concerned authorities ever concerned why are they not paying up? Or are they jus busy processing the paperwork for late payments? How unfeeling is that? We are not machines afterall. Do we really need to apply for needy funds as indicatior of low income beings? Do the elderly know the procedures about doing so? And mind you, despite the baby bonus, increaded maternity leaves and all sort of incentives to help increase the country populations, producing new youth of tomorrow, we're still a nation with substantial ageing population.

During today's show, the sympathetic crew gave the poor family a gift in an envelope. Allowance(I believe). It seems really nice. But how much are they making out of the show? What about the commercials aired? Is the production going out to charity? Of all the money they're making, how much are they really donating to the family in need? This bring us to the labour theory of value. Abstrating the surplus out of the proletariat simply because they do not know the value of their labour.

As usual, I have to say that I am critical and sceptical. After being sceptical about the show. I have to be critical. About myself. I can sit here, and type and bitch til the cow comes home but nothing will change unless I start with myself. Rather than sitting here,typing, buming around, watchin TV, I need to get out there and do something meaningful. A volunteer or something. I want to make an impact on this society. I dowanna die as an insignificant being.
The society/world need to know I once existed before the day comes.

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