Been weeks since I've moved into this new place.

Still hasen overcame the fact that I'm walking a longer distance to the MRT now, I took bus to work instead. But still had to walk about 600 m to my workplace and pretty strange to know there isn't any direct buses. Had to cross over traffic lights or sometimes an overhead bridge, over a few small dirty streets. You can't help it but smelt certain strange stench (urine, spit...?) and rubbish from bin centres along some dark void decks of the HDB blocks nearby. Been trying out the best detour to avoid these stench.

On a Wednesday morning, I woke up tired as usual and put on my new lucky covered shoes bought from Sole Lovers. It originally costs $70++ but with a special discount, i managed to buy it for only $17.90! Well, it was one of the last pairs left and that's the reason for the good offer.

Putting on my new heels, I pranced into the bus-stop and happened to see a rather lanky-looking fellow waiting for the bus too. The bus-stop near my place was relatively less crowded as buses usually came frequently but this pretty handsome fellow was acting rather fidgety and stretching his neck consistently to spot whether his bus was coming. Wearing a trendy shirt and cute black hair, he looked a bit like Wong Lee Hom, I can say, in his Bausch and Lomb commercial.






Then this cute guy spitted on the floor....


Gross!!!


Hmm, so never judge a book by its cover.




I never had poor health since I've stayed in the old place, I got hit by a flu bug recently in office. I'm still having it and despite seeing the doctor, I felt worse. Hopefully to recover by next Fri.

And did I mention that I was going to Bintan next week? I won the bid for our company owned villa in Bintan. It is really a very big bungalow with a private swimming pool and buggy!! Qing mentioned she wanted very much to try out the buggy, wondered if you need a license to drive one? Anticipated but trying not to pin my hopes too high, the ferry tickets are sooo.... expensive!!!! $59 plus return. Blame the US for spoiling the oil market now everyone's affected....

I shall update more next time as I have to catch 5 seasons of Sex and the City and try to recover from my flu as soon as possible.

Had compiled a report on my Shanghai trip, purely for academic purpose.

Why are you acting like a child?
And with those immature thoughts?
You want me to commit and yet you don't?
This is not fair, have you ever thought of the things you did and you didn't?
I need some breathing space, please leave me alone for a while, thank you.

kok keng been complaining that I've not been putting any attention on him so I shall put in something here for him.


Last look from the old place from here~

Just moved into my late grandma's house last Sat, handed over to the crazy landlord the other day, and got back my deposit. Just wondered if she had tried using my electricity and water to clean up the place as the cut-off date is supposed to be the next day~ Anyway, thanks to kok keng and his brothers' help in lending us the pick-up, and helping to move. Sis, bro-in-law and bro's gf helped out too.

The new place is a little small, as compared to the previous one.


new place kind of messy because just moved in


the previous flat




Breezy view from here with shade from the angsana tree in front of my bedroom. Tiong Bahru is a pretty mature estate, you get to see big trees such as angsana, rain trees that provides ample shade. One disadvantage is such trees tend to drop alot of leaves and choked the drains, causing mosquitoes breeding. Talking about drains, there is a big canal in front of my flat too.



I kind of missed the shouting from the regular satay man shouted "Weiii~~~" under the flats. Instead, there is an otah man selling quietly along the pedestrian pavement.

Got 2 free tickets for "Sex and the City" and Evonne and I watched it. Overall was pretty good, but I felt it was like a big-scaled fashion runway with glamorous clothes, killer high-heels, hairdo, makeup. Trust me, you will never see Sarah Jessica Parker wearing the same clothes the next minute, except for the wedding gown (by Vivienne Westwood). Acting wise, I sensed the acting was only from Miranda and her husband, Steve when he confessed he was cheating on her. And he really looked pathetic like a drug addict. The others... neh.... quite superficial and perhaps some comic relief from Samantha and Charlotte had made me chuckled a bit (making a sushi dinner and drinking water from Mexico had caused her sick stomach).

Some pretty nice quotes learnt.

Big: "Should I get you a diamond?"
Carrie: "No, just get me a really BIGGgg closet... "

and he did!!

Miranda: "She is 3 years old and she doesn't know about sex, I am 40 and I don't know about sex either."

Miranda: "The only 2 choices for women, witch and sexy kitten"

Samantha: "You know me, I don't believe in marriage.. except botox, it works everytime."

I've moved house again~

This time round to my late grandma's place. My uncle and auntie will be occupying the Master bedroom while me and bro will be using the common rooms.

The place is fully furnished with wardrobes so we won't be getting anymore furniture. Moving house is always a headache especially if you could not get a right vehicle. Was lucky to get KK involved where he called his brothers for help. Sis and bro-in-law helped out too, Bro's gf also.

Study Trip in Shanghai


Click on pic to see more pics!!!!

Or refer to these : Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5 and 6.

Should have worked harder...

GSS

Saw "RED" everywhere!!! The GSS is back and with outrageous discounts. The more credit cards you have, the more undesirable credit card bills you get once you get the "slashing" going on.

I was amazed by the sales going on, really!!! And coincidentally, the announcement of the Pedra Branca ownership, launch of the Draft Master Plan 2008 and GSS hit on the same day, 23 May is indeed a popular day to start things going. Guoqing wants us to meet at Orchard Road that day after work and after dinner, the 3 hours of window-shopping is really not enough for you to browse around.

There has been one item which I want to purchase, that is the the Brazilian brand IPANEMA sandals by supermodel turned designer , Gisele Bundchen.

http://www.ipanemagiselebundchen.com.br/

Such sandals however were not on discounted prices, considering $33.90 for a pair of sandals was too pricey, I was waiting for the price to drop down in the GSS. However, it din happen!

Shall look out for these sandals in the wholesale market in Shanghai, yah? I pretty much liked the blue one with white base. =)

yep, a 29th belated birthday at my place.
* click picture to see more photos!

Finished my exams, dun really feel good about the papers, but heck it.. as long as they are over, I'm moving on to the the 4th Year! (hopefully). Guoqing will be back from his Taiwan training on 8 May (he has been away for almost 1 month) just in time to celebrate my birthday on 9th!

The revision weeks provided me ample rest and time for me to relax. I've never have the privileges to truly enjoy myself during the semester where it's just rushing for assignments, projects and presentations the whole time. I could even recall sleeping for just 4-5 hours a day! Truly glad that I took the revision week to catch more sleep, shopping, surfing the net and even to a spa.

I managed to finish 8 dvds of Korean drama, "The Legend" by heartthrob Bae Yong Jun aka "Yong Sama". What captivated me the most in the series were the music composed by Joe Hisaishi,久石 譲, a well-renowned Japanese composer for "Princess Mononke" and "Spirited Away". The music sends chills down your spine as you watch the series.... especially the war scenes.


With flute version


Here's another...with a choir.


So far for the Korean drama fever, I've got myself a made-in-Korea phone too! (LG KS20) Not rich la, I've thought over it myself that I should get a new HP to avoid those calls from my crazy landlord who has been bugging me again to sign what stupid formal letter to show the plaintiff. Been trying to avoid her since.



Here's some of the photos taken so far from this hp. Embedded is a 2 mega-pixel camera.


NUS - School of Design and Environment

OMG............. I'm turning 29 soon....

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Evangelion fans definitely can't miss this movie..sit back and relax while enjoying this clip...



Heard there is a part 2, 3 and final coming out... and the ground breaking rumors of "Eva06", which we'd not even seen Eva04 and 05.

Watch the Evangelion 2.0 Preview here.

break time~

Yah, 1 week no class. But still got to rush for projects.

Got a disturbing message from someone over msn... it just gave me a webby.
Anyway, you can't trust the internet nowadays, too many malicious softwares going around.
I keyed in the address and it directed me to this page.


click on it to enlarge

I believe it is another stupid trojan that makes you curious over who blocked you in msn.... I mean what's the big deal to find out whether who blocked you.

I din key in my msn account of course, I'm not stupid to fall into this trap.

Anyway, it'd been a busy week. Finished printing pamphlets for the improvement works and issued to the CCs to distribute to the residents. So if you are a Siglap resident, you'd be getting a copy of pamphlet soon. Ain't that easy to get these things done as you got to talk to a lot of different parties. Hope everything runs smoothly after the launch of the project.

I'll be glad to put up the pamphlet next time, it was designed by our in-house architect. Well, standard so-so la.
Here's the link anyway, it'd be up here temporary for 1 mth before it will be taken down.
http://www.ura.gov.sg/publications/eip_pamphlet.pdf

Picture of the Day





Hope you are not expecting the unexpected... =)

We all knew Edison Chen is a bad boy and he is proud of being notorious. However, we are surprised that he had the habit of taking down his love-making scenes with his one-night affairs and ex-girlfriends. After looking at the first series of photos, I was not doubting that they are fakes however they (Gillian and Edison) had denied they were photo-shopped.

I thought it could be quite normal to take a few pictures or two, however this lucky bastard took a whole series, from fully clothed to none... and a few seductive poses and full frontal exposure. I had been wondering what had been his real intention of taking them down and storing inside his laptop.

1) Was it just pure fun and collection?
2) Or it was a malicious act to keep them so he could use them to sell to the media in future when he was no longer famous?

I have this feeling that Edison was a pimp... hmm .. not sure if you agree with me after seeing so many photos of those works from him, don't ask me where I've found them, just google for yourself. He was currently dating Albert Yeung's (head of EEG and manager of The Twins and Joey Yung among others) niece, Vincy Yueng.

Smelt a rat somewhere?

By the way, Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Enough!

The old washing machine broke down and got replaced by even an older one.

Such thing can only be done by my landlady. To save cost in replacing a new one, she managed to get a better price by buying a 2nd-hand semi-auto one from the repairman recently. She even had the cheek to ask me and my bro to help carry for her up to 4th storey as she can't find any helpers. We rejected her of course to help carry and lastly she managed to find a relative's maid to help out.

She got us an older version of what we used in the old days. Semi-auto washing type where you fill up water in one side and you carry over the washed clothes the other side to tumble-dry. I thought such washing machines can only be found in Africa.

I feel she is going to carry all her money to her grave when she dies.

Well, that's not all. She passed us a detailed instruction manual in teaching us how to use the washing machine.

I think she really eat full full, no shit to pass out to type such manual.


Her lawyer just sent me a letter to document that I've submitted to her client my evidence of not in house and a statement that I did not pass the housekeys to anyway. She even told me that the plaintiff aren't giving up in the case, thus it may drag on. She even warned me not to talk to anyone who came to ask us questions.

Wished to get out of here and from this crazy woman as soon as possible. I hope some guys would go after her to make her busy enough to stop doing those bo liao stuff.

Ohaiyo!!!!

Haven thought of any new year resolutions. Felt they are always so far away. Been a busy month... my Grandma passed away and we held the wake and the ceremony, Xmas eve dinner, new year celebrations... and catching crabs at Changi Boardwalk!! Lots of events happened in the Dec of 07.


Here's some photos to tell more stories...

Remembered that MC King passed away few days earlier where they found some strange structure on his cremated bones? Well they looked something like this:



They were on my Grandma's cremated bones too, right on the skull. In Sanskrit, it is called shariras. It was meant to be sacred and rare, usually found on the bones of the monks. Believe it or not, up to you. =)

Ok, less of the gossip...

Went to Changi Boardwalk again! This time round to catch crabs!!


Never knew such big ones existed there!!!

The unfortunate crab was being caught by my cousin and cooked in XO Bee hoon soup... we ate it all. It was simply delicious.



Me and KK joined a group of friends for Xmas eve dinner at Masala Art@Peninsula Plaza.
For a change, we tried Northern Indian food, the spread was not much, but it was a good try. Atmosphere and service were good also.

I'll be starting school next Monday, time to get busy again!

Very Siong Semester.....

Picture of the Day






My Grandma, 79 is now in SGH ICU. She has been unconscious since last night. I remembered I've last talked to her yesterday whether she had eaten and she asked what date it was on that day.

But NOW what I can see you is you are lying on the cold bed with machines around you and you are breathing in only the life-support.

Sorry Grandma, I've been naughty. Hasen been a good grand- daughter.
If I could turn back time,

1) I will come every weekend to visit you often
2) I will buy you lots of your favourite fruits which your failed teeth could bite on
3) I will talk to you, help you to pat on your back while you are trying hard to breathe better
4) I will help to massage your weak legs

This is a HORROR movie.

It doesn't contain gore or bloody scenes, but the thought of it made you felt sick and feeling betrayed. A young Polish girl by the name of Mariola was cheated by her boyfriend and was sold to the Marfia in Berlin as prostitute. It was a very very depressed movie and it made you cringed at the beginning of the movie till the end hoping she would find a way out in a stranger country.

The horror part was when she was being raped by those bastards (well only gestures of it made you sick in the stomach), she was locked in the flat for almost 2 days. She tried escaping from the windows and screaming at the top of her lungs but there was no one to help her because it was a vacant building. She even tried jumping down from the high floors, thinking she could escape in that way, but the level was too high for her. Either she were to break her legs or die and never to see her grandma in Poland ever. There was no food in the fridge, only water from the miserable tap.... or there was a piece of moulded bread and yes, she ate it because she was so hungry and wanted to gain the energy to run away. There were chances where she could run away, but she felt kind of indebted to one of the mafia guys who took care of her when she was bullied/beaten/sick.

I find German films (well Poland was next to Germany, does it count?) pretty depressing.... Well, thanks to Hitler and his tortures on the Jews. Prostitutions and human trafficking not only happened in 3rd World Countries but even in rich European continents. This film was just one of the stories. Somehow, it was compared to an earlier Russian movie "Lilya 4-Ever" which portrayed child prostitution in the Soviet Union. These are films which made you watch what you do not want to really see and feeling unbearably painful indeed.

Piece of Me

You want a piece of me? I'll give you two.

Haven been a smooth month. Firstly, the landlady had been secretly trying to sell her flat to some buyer and got caught in a law case. It's a long story anyway, she has been bothering me lately to help settle her issue. She wanted me to be witness in court that I did not receive any cheque and option to purchase from the buyer where the buyer sent over the very 2nd day we moved in. The recipient was my uncle who had been in th house helping out with the cleaning and both my brother and I were in office during the daytime. Blindly, he signed the receipt not understanding what the contents were and got us in pretty deep trouble. And when the parcel was passed back to the landlady, she found only a photocopy of the cheque inside, not a real cheque.

Anyway, that part was settled and I've explained to the landlady. And I gave her a piece of my mind that she was indeed unethical to be selling her flat considering we had just moved in. Her dishonestly had got herself into trouble, not us!!! However, the writ of summons (by the buyer) was against use, using us a the scapegoat of the deal to claim damages mentioned "Tenant" so she had consulted her lawyer that that proving us (tenant) was not around at the moment would help to close the issue.

It was pretty hard to believe in her again, I've seen the summons, and yes, it did mention abt us. The problem was she kept pestering us and reiterating the issue all over again over the phone when I was working... blar blar... and I just wished I had not rented the flat in the first place. In the begining, I did not think it was a good deal, the flat was old and some services were not in proper condition. And she kept mentioning that she trusted us we were good people, not any people who could bring "ah gao", "ah niao" into the house to party.... Come on, people need a life!!! We are good people, but we are not stupid people. I did not know what she meant in this sentence, probably she was just trying to play safe by warning us again not to sublet the flat to other people or have any visitors to come into the place which was in the agreement.

Just wish to get over this and start off again in another perspective.

Another thing is about a project group member who did nothing except to tell others of what to do. Getting so pissed off by his attitude and he was the type who kept things by himself, not wanting to discuss to bring out his ideas. Shall think twice when grouping with him next time.

Well, that's it.

My dear boy is in Australia now, missed him greatly. :-(