1. whatsonwhen
2. when and where to see fireworks
3. a cup of milk providing info on countdown to 2011 and mrt train service on new year eve
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
do not litter
had a great weekend last week catching up with my cousins. havent seen some of them for a long long time. took quite a number of photographs and they are all up on fb. in short, 25th & 26th dec = good food + gifts + laughter. totally awesome.
attended a seminar last wed while in camp. it's about delivering service excellence. learnt a little about face-to-face and also telephone comunication. it's quite common that most of us actually cant handle sudden difficult situation. so what was touched on by the speaker was using methods like empathetic listening and service language to handle such situation. this is certainly something useful and applicable to everyone in the later part of life when we have stepped in the working world.
booked out this afternoon. there's a bmtc gala event thingy tmr. it's at the universal studios singapore and the best thing is that we dont have to pay! haha. so excited about tmr. it will be a whole day of fun! as for friday, the last day of 2010, i'm still not sure where to go. hahaha. i'm looking forward to the the start of a brand new year, 2011. was reading 'hard at work for countdown'. one party, yet so much effort in planning and organising. however, there is something else that's not mentioned which i believe it should be reminded to all. DO NOT LITTER. below is a picture of the lianhezaobao on 27thdec. the title of the article says something like 'orchard road turned into a rubbish dump after party'. utterly disgusted to see those partygoers hehehaha and have their fun already and then just left the rubbish as 'presents' for the poor cleaners who have to clear everything throughout the night. penalty for litterbugs. so please, dont just leave your rubbish behind after partying.
attended a seminar last wed while in camp. it's about delivering service excellence. learnt a little about face-to-face and also telephone comunication. it's quite common that most of us actually cant handle sudden difficult situation. so what was touched on by the speaker was using methods like empathetic listening and service language to handle such situation. this is certainly something useful and applicable to everyone in the later part of life when we have stepped in the working world.
booked out this afternoon. there's a bmtc gala event thingy tmr. it's at the universal studios singapore and the best thing is that we dont have to pay! haha. so excited about tmr. it will be a whole day of fun! as for friday, the last day of 2010, i'm still not sure where to go. hahaha. i'm looking forward to the the start of a brand new year, 2011. was reading 'hard at work for countdown'. one party, yet so much effort in planning and organising. however, there is something else that's not mentioned which i believe it should be reminded to all. DO NOT LITTER. below is a picture of the lianhezaobao on 27thdec. the title of the article says something like 'orchard road turned into a rubbish dump after party'. utterly disgusted to see those partygoers hehehaha and have their fun already and then just left the rubbish as 'presents' for the poor cleaners who have to clear everything throughout the night. penalty for litterbugs. so please, dont just leave your rubbish behind after partying.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
SANTA
HOHOHO. merry christmas to all! actually, i'm feeling quite bored and so i edited my photo using paint. hehe. went to northpoint to shop for christmas gift yesterday afternoon. something embarrassing and funny happened when i was on the escalator. like some funny scene in anime. i shant talk about it here. hahaha.
have been looking forward to the weekend as i have 2 family gatherings. will be going to the fish farm later in the late morning. there's a gift exchange session. fun siol. havent been to the fish farm for a looooooooooong time. hopefully i'll get to drive the lorry for the 1st time. the last time i drove a vehicle with manual transmission is the time i took my driving test. wont be surprised if the lorry stall when i'm driving. hehe. the gathering on 26th with my maternal relatives will be somewhere in bukit timah. shall have to google the area as he has just moved house recently. alright. off to my bed now.
Friday, December 24, 2010
something to think about
this was posted some time ago in one of the entries and the answer will be revealed today.
try this. we were playing this during fieldcamp and some couldnt see the pattern while some took slightly longer to see it. if...
1+1=3 (two = 3 letters)
4+1=4 (five = 4 letters)
1+3=4 (four = 4 letters)
5+1=3 (six = 3 letters)
2-2=4 (zero = 4 letters)
8-2=3 (six = 3 letters)
6-4=3
11-6=4
3.3=4
3.4=6
2.5=3
3.5=7
what is 5-2? the answer is 5. i guess you should have understood by looking at the few examples i have explained.
try this. we were playing this during fieldcamp and some couldnt see the pattern while some took slightly longer to see it. if...
1+1=3 (two = 3 letters)
4+1=4 (five = 4 letters)
1+3=4 (four = 4 letters)
5+1=3 (six = 3 letters)
2-2=4 (zero = 4 letters)
8-2=3 (six = 3 letters)
6-4=3
11-6=4
3.3=4
3.4=6
2.5=3
3.5=7
what is 5-2? the answer is 5. i guess you should have understood by looking at the few examples i have explained.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
你不知道的事 - 王力宏
蝴蝶眨几次眼睛 才学会飞行
夜空洒满了星星 但几颗会落地
我飞行 但你坠落之际
很靠近 还听见呼吸
对不起 我却没捉紧你
你不知道我为什么离开你
我坚持不能说放任你哭泣
你的泪滴像 倾盆大雨
碎了满地 在心里清晰
你不知道我为什么狠下心
盘旋在你看不见的高空里
多的是 你不知道的事
蝴蝶眨几次眼睛 才学会飞行
夜空洒满了星星 但几颗会落地
我飞行 但你坠落之际
很靠近 还听见呼吸
对不起 我却没捉紧你
你不知道我为什么离开你
我坚持不能说放任你哭泣
你的泪滴像 倾盆大雨
碎了满地 在心里清晰
你不知道我为什么狠下心
盘旋在你看不见的高空里
多的是 你不知道的事
我飞行 但你坠落之际
你不知道我为什么离开你
我坚持不能说放任你哭泣
你的泪滴像 倾盆大雨
碎了满地 在心里清晰
你不知道我为什么狠下心
盘旋在你看不见的高空里
多的是 你不知道的事
夜空洒满了星星 但几颗会落地
我飞行 但你坠落之际
很靠近 还听见呼吸
对不起 我却没捉紧你
你不知道我为什么离开你
我坚持不能说放任你哭泣
你的泪滴像 倾盆大雨
碎了满地 在心里清晰
你不知道我为什么狠下心
盘旋在你看不见的高空里
多的是 你不知道的事
蝴蝶眨几次眼睛 才学会飞行
夜空洒满了星星 但几颗会落地
我飞行 但你坠落之际
很靠近 还听见呼吸
对不起 我却没捉紧你
你不知道我为什么离开你
我坚持不能说放任你哭泣
你的泪滴像 倾盆大雨
碎了满地 在心里清晰
你不知道我为什么狠下心
盘旋在你看不见的高空里
多的是 你不知道的事
我飞行 但你坠落之际
你不知道我为什么离开你
我坚持不能说放任你哭泣
你的泪滴像 倾盆大雨
碎了满地 在心里清晰
你不知道我为什么狠下心
盘旋在你看不见的高空里
多的是 你不知道的事
Saturday, December 18, 2010
:D
before i start, i would like to thank my pa, ronald lee and chen zhong for what they have done. it's the small things which they did made me feel really happy last week and i'm fortunate to have them around. thus, this blog post is dedicated to the 3 of them and many of the nice people around me.
i got into a minor incident last sat when driving. accidentally 'scratched' my dad's car against an electricity box on the wall of michael's house. it's more like came in contact with the box rather than scratch. some white marks were left on the sidedoor. i was shocked by then and of course, super worried too. by the time i reached home, it was aroudn 3+am. my dad woke up and i told him about the incident. he seemed ok and asked me to go sleep 1st. however, i couldnt sleep at all la. when he was about to leave house for work at about 5+am, i came out from my room, wanting to go down to the carpark with him to show him the white marks and explain what exactly happened. again, he asked me to go sleep. i did sleep a little until he called later in the morning. he said something like '不用担心. 那些白白的痕迹我polish一下就不见了啦. ok? (dont worry. those white markings will be gone if i polish a bit. ok?) '. i heaved a sigh of relief uponing hearing this. i guess he knew that i was more worried than him about the incident and couldnt sleep and so he called to assure that it's not of a big problem. so nice of him to make a call back to me uh. last monday night before leaving house, he still asked if i want to drive to saf ferry terminal and encouraged me to drive despite of the small mistake i made on sat. i still thought he will not let me drive. in the end, i didnt drive la as i'm still a bit scared. hahaha.
ronald lee is my cousin. he's now a recruit going through his BMT phase. he had his fieldcamp 2 weeks ago. normally, parents will be given a letter with an envolope. it's for them to pen down words of encouragement so that the letter can be give to the recruit during their toughest part of the BMT phase, which is the fieldcamp. having received the letter, the recruits might be given time for them to write back to their loved ones and surprisingly, i was one of the loved ones. i didnt expect that ronald would wrote a letter to me. it was written on 9th dec, during his fieldcamp. although it's a simple letter with a bit of camo patches, i was super happy when i received it. really glad to know that my cousin still think of me during the tough time and that he's doing good. yes, a few more weeks to your graduation parade and i'll be there to watch you pass out from BMT. however, there's something else i looking forward to too, which is breakfast @ chongpang tmr morning with you. yeah.
mah chen zhong, aka 'mah' and that's how we usually call him. it's kind of rude to call someone just by his surname uh, but chen zhong is someone who's easy going and doesnt mind people calling him by his surname (anyway, i'll try to change and call you chen zhong). haha. chen zhong booked in one night (last tuesday night if i'm not wrong) and placed a photo of me on my bed near the pillow. i was already sleeping by then. i woke up only when my face came in contact with the photo. in the dark, i held the photo up and tried to see who's in it. it turned out to be a photo of me taken by chen zhong with some writings on the other side, like a christmas card. very sweet of him to take the effort to make something like this. thank you chen zhong! looking forward to the cycling session with you and zahir on mon!
i got into a minor incident last sat when driving. accidentally 'scratched' my dad's car against an electricity box on the wall of michael's house. it's more like came in contact with the box rather than scratch. some white marks were left on the sidedoor. i was shocked by then and of course, super worried too. by the time i reached home, it was aroudn 3+am. my dad woke up and i told him about the incident. he seemed ok and asked me to go sleep 1st. however, i couldnt sleep at all la. when he was about to leave house for work at about 5+am, i came out from my room, wanting to go down to the carpark with him to show him the white marks and explain what exactly happened. again, he asked me to go sleep. i did sleep a little until he called later in the morning. he said something like '不用担心. 那些白白的痕迹我polish一下就不见了啦. ok? (dont worry. those white markings will be gone if i polish a bit. ok?) '. i heaved a sigh of relief uponing hearing this. i guess he knew that i was more worried than him about the incident and couldnt sleep and so he called to assure that it's not of a big problem. so nice of him to make a call back to me uh. last monday night before leaving house, he still asked if i want to drive to saf ferry terminal and encouraged me to drive despite of the small mistake i made on sat. i still thought he will not let me drive. in the end, i didnt drive la as i'm still a bit scared. hahaha.
ronald lee is my cousin. he's now a recruit going through his BMT phase. he had his fieldcamp 2 weeks ago. normally, parents will be given a letter with an envolope. it's for them to pen down words of encouragement so that the letter can be give to the recruit during their toughest part of the BMT phase, which is the fieldcamp. having received the letter, the recruits might be given time for them to write back to their loved ones and surprisingly, i was one of the loved ones. i didnt expect that ronald would wrote a letter to me. it was written on 9th dec, during his fieldcamp. although it's a simple letter with a bit of camo patches, i was super happy when i received it. really glad to know that my cousin still think of me during the tough time and that he's doing good. yes, a few more weeks to your graduation parade and i'll be there to watch you pass out from BMT. however, there's something else i looking forward to too, which is breakfast @ chongpang tmr morning with you. yeah.
mah chen zhong, aka 'mah' and that's how we usually call him. it's kind of rude to call someone just by his surname uh, but chen zhong is someone who's easy going and doesnt mind people calling him by his surname (anyway, i'll try to change and call you chen zhong). haha. chen zhong booked in one night (last tuesday night if i'm not wrong) and placed a photo of me on my bed near the pillow. i was already sleeping by then. i woke up only when my face came in contact with the photo. in the dark, i held the photo up and tried to see who's in it. it turned out to be a photo of me taken by chen zhong with some writings on the other side, like a christmas card. very sweet of him to take the effort to make something like this. thank you chen zhong! looking forward to the cycling session with you and zahir on mon!
Monday, December 6, 2010
42.195km?
the big day started when i woke up at 0220h on sun morning. lejun came over for breakfast. dad then drove us to yishun stadium where the chartered bus pick-up point was. the bus driver went 2 rounds around orchard and didnt know where to drop us. the bus uncle stopped only when some of those sitting at the front requested the driver to stop. queued up for a while to deposit our bags. started the run at about 0524h. dazzling christmas lights in Orchard Road plus the many christmas trees. cool siol. we started quite slow. about 7+ mins per km.
long 18km along east coast park, from the 12th km onwards until 30th km mark. super boring. drank water for the 1st time at the 18th km mark. lost sight of lejun at about 20th or 21st km u-turn point. he lagged behind due to muscle strain i guess. ran alone for a while until zhiyi called me from behind. last time i saw him was during army half marathon. this time finally got the chance to talk to him. we walked and chatted at the same time. met several familiar faces at the event too. michael koh, jia da, jonathan chung, jun liang, WO chandran, vince...
started running again when i was about out from the park. the weather was super hot when i was at the stretch along marina bay golf course and across marina reservior. not much shelter. went past marina barrage and marina bay sands too. the 36+, 37th km to 38th km was a killer. the long upslope along East Coast Parkway killed almost everyone. we were all walking. hahaha. i was super tired already la, then this upslope popped out. walked until the top and slowly jogged down again. 40km onwards i still slowly jogging, cant run fast. experienced tightness in my calves whenever i tried to speed up for the last part. passed the finish line when the gun time was 6h 19m. total time i took for the marathon is 5h 55m. slightly slower than last year's timings.
collected the finisher items (a medal and a finisher tee) and sat down to rest for a while. asked one of the volunteers where to collect my bags. she answered, 'it's at the F1 pit. just walk down along the stretch of toilet...' i just replied an 'orh. thanks!' i thought about it again and realised that the F1 pit is quite far away from padang, probably 1 to 2 km away! they should have set the baggage collection point nearer lo. organisation of this year's marathon wasnt as good as last year. a lot of people walking to the F1 pit to collect their bags were complaining (click here to see what some of them have to say). alright. well done, runners. we are finishers of 44.195km (42.195km for the marathon + 2km to collect bags from F1 pit)!
long 18km along east coast park, from the 12th km onwards until 30th km mark. super boring. drank water for the 1st time at the 18th km mark. lost sight of lejun at about 20th or 21st km u-turn point. he lagged behind due to muscle strain i guess. ran alone for a while until zhiyi called me from behind. last time i saw him was during army half marathon. this time finally got the chance to talk to him. we walked and chatted at the same time. met several familiar faces at the event too. michael koh, jia da, jonathan chung, jun liang, WO chandran, vince...
started running again when i was about out from the park. the weather was super hot when i was at the stretch along marina bay golf course and across marina reservior. not much shelter. went past marina barrage and marina bay sands too. the 36+, 37th km to 38th km was a killer. the long upslope along East Coast Parkway killed almost everyone. we were all walking. hahaha. i was super tired already la, then this upslope popped out. walked until the top and slowly jogged down again. 40km onwards i still slowly jogging, cant run fast. experienced tightness in my calves whenever i tried to speed up for the last part. passed the finish line when the gun time was 6h 19m. total time i took for the marathon is 5h 55m. slightly slower than last year's timings.
collected the finisher items (a medal and a finisher tee) and sat down to rest for a while. asked one of the volunteers where to collect my bags. she answered, 'it's at the F1 pit. just walk down along the stretch of toilet...' i just replied an 'orh. thanks!' i thought about it again and realised that the F1 pit is quite far away from padang, probably 1 to 2 km away! they should have set the baggage collection point nearer lo. organisation of this year's marathon wasnt as good as last year. a lot of people walking to the F1 pit to collect their bags were complaining (click here to see what some of them have to say). alright. well done, runners. we are finishers of 44.195km (42.195km for the marathon + 2km to collect bags from F1 pit)!
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
Oh her eyes, her eyes
Make the stars look like they’re not shining
Her hair, her hair
Falls perfectly without her trying
She’s so beautiful
And I tell her every day
Yeah I know, I know
When I compliment her
She wont believe me
And it's so, it's so
Sad to think she don’t see what I see
But every time she asks me do I look okay
I say
When I see your face
There’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
Cause girl you’re amazing
Just the way you are
Her lips, her lips
I could kiss them all day if she’d let me
Her laugh, her laugh
She hates but I think it's so sexy
She’s so beautiful
And I tell her every day
Oh you know, you know, you know
I'd never ask you to change
If perfect is what you’re searching for
Then just stay the same
So don’t even bother asking
If you look okay
You know I say
When I see your face
There’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
Cause girl you’re amazing
Just the way you are
The way you are
The way you are
Girl you’re amazing
Just the way you are
When I see your face
There’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
Cause girl you’re amazing
Just the way you are
Oh her eyes, her eyes
Make the stars look like they’re not shining
Her hair, her hair
Falls perfectly without her trying
She’s so beautiful
And I tell her every day
Yeah I know, I know
When I compliment her
She wont believe me
And it's so, it's so
Sad to think she don’t see what I see
But every time she asks me do I look okay
I say
When I see your face
There’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
Cause girl you’re amazing
Just the way you are
Her lips, her lips
I could kiss them all day if she’d let me
Her laugh, her laugh
She hates but I think it's so sexy
She’s so beautiful
And I tell her every day
Oh you know, you know, you know
I'd never ask you to change
If perfect is what you’re searching for
Then just stay the same
So don’t even bother asking
If you look okay
You know I say
When I see your face
There’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
Cause girl you’re amazing
Just the way you are
The way you are
The way you are
Girl you’re amazing
Just the way you are
When I see your face
There’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
Cause girl you’re amazing
Just the way you are
051210, the big day
my 3rd and also the last fieldcamp for the 04/10 batch of recruits was finally over! it rained almost every day last week. things didnt go very smoothly though. i dont understand why some people just like to find faults in others and publicise them. horrible people. slept at the urban ops area on thursday night. was looking at the many many stars and thinking about the past 1½ years. emo siol. left only about 2 more months to ORD and i'm still feeling a bit lost. haiya.
tmr is the standchart marathon lo. the weather is a little gloomy now uh. please rain as heavy as possible today and hopefully the weather for tmr will be good. haha. tonight i'll be sleeping super early at 8pm. have to wake up at about 2++am later to take the chartered bus @ 3-3.30am to orchard road as this year's full marathon start point is there. half marrathon's start point is along sentosa gateway and the half marathoners will be running around sentosa as part of their race route! 1st time sentosa is part of the race route. haha. good weather tmr pleaseeee.
try this. we were playing this during fieldcamp and some couldnt see the pattern while some took slightly longer to see it. if...
1+1=3
4+1=4
1+3=4
5+1=3
2-2=4
8-2=3
6-4=3
11-6=4
3.3=4
3.4=6
2.5=3
3.5=7
what is 5-2? have fun. answer will be revealed on christmas eve.
tmr is the standchart marathon lo. the weather is a little gloomy now uh. please rain as heavy as possible today and hopefully the weather for tmr will be good. haha. tonight i'll be sleeping super early at 8pm. have to wake up at about 2++am later to take the chartered bus @ 3-3.30am to orchard road as this year's full marathon start point is there. half marrathon's start point is along sentosa gateway and the half marathoners will be running around sentosa as part of their race route! 1st time sentosa is part of the race route. haha. good weather tmr pleaseeee.
try this. we were playing this during fieldcamp and some couldnt see the pattern while some took slightly longer to see it. if...
1+1=3
4+1=4
1+3=4
5+1=3
2-2=4
8-2=3
6-4=3
11-6=4
3.3=4
3.4=6
2.5=3
3.5=7
what is 5-2? have fun. answer will be revealed on christmas eve.