Where got slack lor!

I'm back! Today not so busy.. so ya. update a bit lah. hahaha! <- that was in the morning.. maybe it's a curse.. cos after that i really didn't have time for anything else... plus my com was sent to some upgrading and clearing of space... more than half a day without my pc = very little work done...

Spent time going through booklet stuff... which was really jialat cos in the end i have really a lot of things not done properly yet! and now.. i like have to do everything all over again. Sians.. So i like spent last 2-3hours pia-ing all the things and like only half done? damn pekchek. OT for 1h and still cannot finish. It's always friday which will be the busiest. Think monday have to pia pia pia... Rahhh... Damn worried now lah. what if i cannot finish?? But whatever lah. =x

Now sitting in mac with one of the fun-est grp of ppl.. although i'm not involved in whatever they are doing.. haha. but ya... need to relax a bit and laugh with them sometimes... and that reminds me that last week i met minhui and junsian too... Haha. Tgt with a few other to celebrate Daryl's bday.. at a quite nice place.. but we kinda spoil the ambience of the place lah... cos we too noisy. lol!

Anyway... i'm really like so no life now... so must really have some fun sometimes also. :) Like seriously... my life now is like work, erhu, gym and home. tsk tsk. need more life but need more time also.. HAHA!

Work Life. Meet with Friends. Erhu.

Haven't been able to update a lot lately. That's the problem with working. Haha! There are just tonnes of things to do and hundreds of places to go. Plus the com i'm using is really like ancient slow. so there's nothing much i can do with it as well.

So anyway, so many things have happened lately, i dun really know where to start. Just last week, i already went to 2 Outreach concerts. One at NTU and another at Singapore Turf Club. Different Experience totally. For ntu it was really relaxing for me. All i had to do was to put the season booklets and brochures on the table and that's it! Everything was cleared by the audience and so i had nothing to bring back. The only good thing was perhaps I get to watch the performance and I finally got to meet up with some friends over there. Ok.. actually it's only 1 friend whom i haven't seen for a long time. and that's Jon lau. Lol! Zhongming and xiaoqiang were there too. Plus we went dinner tgt with their some other friends and took train home with zhongming. The rest went back hall. Had loads of laughter with them. And joke of the day was...

Friend to jon: You and A share the same birthday.
Me: Wah... Did u see her sleeping beside you?
Jon: Never leh... too dark.
Me: You also very dark.. i think that's why she can't see you also.
Jon: No leh... I got smile. (meaning can see his teeth)
Me (think for a while and laugh): Eh... Wait.. When you were born, where got teeth?!?!
...

Crazy.

Then had a group tour on fri morning. Exhausted my whole morning, walked here and there to get things ready. Luckily our venue manager was ard and he really did a great job introducing the building and the orchestra to our guests. I didn't really have to do much except to follow them ard and guide them to the places. Got to relax a bit since I had to sit with them in the concert hall to watch the rehearsal. It's really nice to hear them praise the orchestra. Cos it's equal to praising CO as a whole. Haha! They all left with smiles on their faces and i'm really delighted to see such scenes. And i hope they will be back for more CO performances. :)

Sat was Mid-Autumn Fest and to a certain extend i was rather reluctant to work. Moreover, I've only started work for abt 8 weeks and I had to already work for 5 saturdays. (ok i of which i was the performer). But still. it's a bit sian. Like jiaqi had said.. You are going to the same place again this week??? Anyway, not for the following 2 weeks or so before the next major concert! Hee. :))) And a wedding is going to save me from one of the duties. Heh.

That was the first time i enter the racecourse. Heh. But no horses lor. So sad. Seriously a lot of audiences.. Like full maybe? But there were some lousy incidents which happened and i dun wish to say it lah. Like reflects damn badly on Singaporeans. And for one of it, damn bad example for her child as well. Oh man. dun remind me of it.

Talk abt something else... First lesson for erhu was not bad really. He's really a nice teacher. He pointed out my problems immediately. Some of the problems i know, but just dunno how to solve. Anyway he taught me back the basics again. Which i was really grateful. I need it to build up my techniques. So back to changing between inner & outer strings, left hand posture, changing of positions on the strings and vibrato. Esp. the left hand part. I always felt that I wasn't holding the proper way and my hands kept getting off the pole. And now i'm trying hard to change. :) Tmr is lesson again! Going intensive to use up the hours and to train proper for audition as well. Yay-ness!

Yup. Sleeping time! Nites.

Night before first lesson

Excited. But a bit nervous also lah. Didn't expect it to be so smooth an attempt.. Hee. But good lah. Now motivated to prac more. Haha! Tmr first lesson. Hopefully wun be too difficult. =X somemore i so funny. Didn't even ask how much he's charging for each lesson lor. -.- until now i still dunno. Haha!

Tired liao... Update again. So many happenings this week! :) nitex.

Dramatic Week

As the title already implies.. it's really been one dramatic week. hahaha.

The most dramatic thing which happened.. Let me ask a qns first.. How often does ur bag hook on to something while u were walking and u didn't know it even when there's a force? How often does ur earphone wire get hooked by someone else in the mrt? I am the suay one whose wire got pulled by someone's bag.

Tuesday, I was on my way home from work.. At raffles a lot of ppl alight.. so this lady (cant rmb her face but probably her bag. lol) was going to alight. Somehow, her bag caught my earpiece wire. I was playing my DS at that time but felt the pull immediately. But i had to put the stylus back first and then quickly tried to pull the wire back. But she didn't feel it lah!! So it didn't work, and my shuffle lose its grip from my bag and was hanging there. Then i pulled again and to my horror, the earpiece detached itself from the shuffle.. and my shuffle was sent flying! Landed on the floor. Just 1CM away from the gap. wah liao eh. got a shock outta my life. Then this person picked up the shuffle before i could.. and sent it out to some lady outside the train. I had to run out of the train to get it from the lady looking very blur with the shuffle in her hand. And then i ran back into the train. Like.. where got so drama one?!

As i was telling my sis this story... i realised that i should have pulled back her bag instead of the wire. But first instinct of cos is to grab my stuff first right. If really drop down the track.. Dunno can claim from who sia?

Then Thursday, i was planning to go gym after work. And i had everything ready. Near to knock off time. I realised i didn't bring the keys and lock to the locker. -.- Hais. Tried to get my sis to see if she's there or if she's going. But she didn't pick up. I didn't check the time lah. Turned out that she was in the previous class already. So i waited... and was thinking of other plans like going for a jog instead. Like i dunno panic what lah.. I was already in the train.. praying that she will call back soon. Luckily she called when i was at raffles place lah... Cos i was thinking if she nv call by the time i get to bugis.. i would just go home. Heng ah! So i still get to go to the class in the end. :)

Then today. Jiaqi's turn. HAHA!!! And she called my sis also. We really got the same blood flowing. hahaha! Somemore she was late lor. so she stuffed everything into my locker.. hahaha!

Ya.. other days... a lot of things at work lah. Dun wish to say anymore. Nites all! :)

Tmr is jogging day! Monday is Convocation day!! :)))

SYCO 2009 Last Chapter: Chamber Recital

SYCO Chamber Recital is over... Kinda happy.. kinda sad..

Happy becos we put up a good show... although first song was a bit screwed towards the end... The rest performed quite well ba. :) Didn't get to hear all the songs... sometimes downstairs and couldn't hear... sometimes busy chatting and camwhoring so not concentrating. haha! But i thought 锯大缸 was really good. They were really performing. not only musically.. also physically. cool! Glad that some pieces really turn out well... :) I thought 丝路驼铃 was not bad too... Haha. i was only in for 2 songs... so dun like that lah huh.. Heh.

After concert our usual LPS outing. Damn cool but a lot of ppl went home sia... Hais. It's really been long when all the LPS clique ppl have a session tgt. Should ask them come Wii again soon. I think they like also. lol! Our concert master's gossip nv left when we all gather.. it's so funny. Guo laoshi just like said out the name... Haha! But i think he is enjoying all these too ya? lol. He was so so funny throughout the whole concert cos he was thinking of how to ask for a photo. and we were all laughing at him lah. And he did make it. Haha. good for him then. See... I'm still a friend ok!

Hmm.. Anyway. Concert has ended... means SYCO is over for this year. So it's really kinda sad thing. When is the next time we will meet up, i also dunno. I really hope we have an outing soon man... What are the welfare ppl doing? Omg.. and desmond dared to ask me how come i nv give full marks for the committee this year. Tsk. Pls go do some reflection k. Lol!

But afterall... it's really still a good year in SY. Dunno if i'll be able to make it in next year... Hais. Have to start taking lessons soon if i really want to make it. =x But sometimes things just aren't what we expect. And i think next year i will go to erhu! YEAH! :) Ya. and that is if i can get in lah. cos afterall it is more difficult to get in erhu than gaohu (ironically). Haha!

Ok. Bye SYCO 2009 and everyone work hard for the coming audition! :)

Eh....

Busy busy... But a bit mundane too.... dunno what to type.. hahaha!

Had a nice dinner with han, kim and yuhui ytd. the rest couldn't make it... Really haven't meet up with them for some time. So a good time to catch up with them... Glad that yuhui gotten a perm job already... sounds good to me.. and the other 2 are enjoying their lives ba... haha! Good for them...

While i'm still slogging away in the company.. sians. lotsa things to do... tmr got a lot of things to do again!! Good luck to myself. haha.

How come i can't think of any happy stuff to blog abt?? :( Is life really so sad for me? Maybe i'm just tired. should go sleep liao... after i'm done with some installations.

Ah.. sorry for this senseless post. will update when there's something better to blog abt.

Some tips for Salmon

As a salmon lover... can't help but post this info which i saw in 我报. :)

料理三文玉Tips

• 三文鱼会吸收水分，不能用水洗，可用吸水餐巾将它擦干。
• 别把三文鱼直接放在砧板上，要用一张餐巾垫着，避免鱼肉受污染。
• 挪威三文鱼无需经过冷冻杀菌，即可当成Sashimi生吃。
• 放入零度雪柜中，可保存长达1个星期。
• 别把三文鱼煎至全熟，长时间和高温煎煮会破坏营养。
• 在鱼肉七分熟时，可把鱼片放在碟上，让鱼肉外部温度慢慢渗入，使内部鱼肉变熟。

Yup! :)
Feel like eating salmon. hahaha!

3 Concerts in a row

Really haven't been updating diligently lately ya. =x

Went for quite a few concerts lately... Haven't been to 1 for a long time too... and at 1 go.. i went to 3! Chengsan, SCO featuring New Oap Uk!, Hsinghai. Erm... of cos.. in terms of standard.. the other 2 cannot be compared to SCO lah... and surprisingly box office for hsinghai wasn't good. But i think overall they have a higher standard. But anyways... both are quite dominant of guess players... that's something really sad to say. plus for hsinghai some of the players' name were not in side the prog booklet at all. lol.

Gada Meilin and No. 2 Symphony were quite a disappointment for the 2 orchestras as their last piece of the concert. Was expecting more than what they played. No offence.. but ya. probably becos of the lack of practising tgt. It's really difficult lah... some ppl only go for the prac at the very last min before concert. that doesn't help in building up the orchestra. for hsinghai i can only say.. i'd rather those guest musicians watch the concert instead.

On the other hand... i'm really proud of our SYCO ppl. haha! All the soloists for chengsan and hsinghai are from sy lor... Yea. And i think they all played well!! :))) 雨后庭院 and 西双版纳 are really nice songs... and 喜 and 梁山随想 are both classics. They really did well lah. my sis says jingwen like no need to use much energy to blow suona. (although a few mistakes made) Yea... Joyce was very steady as usual. sheng mu like... omg(odness). haha! And minhui. dun need to say much lah. =x

Yea.. SCO concert.. Love the songs. nothing much to say... But Ku laoshi asked 你现在在做什么? and i like.. '我在这里上班'. haha! And he said he didn't see me at all.. Ya true.. cos he nv come up 5th floor. plus i nv go say 'hi'. i scared he dun rmb me. haha. The rest also take turns to ask if he rmb them -.- He like... 当然记得! Yea of cos... Saw him some days after the concert... and spoke to him a little. not bad. :)

I think next concert i would be working anyway... hahaha! can shun bian listen. This fri? hopefully i'm not in for this week's concert... =P Eh actually anything lah. got free tix for this fri lor. lol!

Random Bad Monday.

Definitely not the best of days.... Moreover a monday.

Stepped into the rather empty train, but all the seats were occupied already. cos i got in at the very last min. It's fine actually... cos the journey isn't really far. Just that, usually when i got into that train, i would have one and it's good for me to catch some sleep. Hee. Nvm abt that.

The first half hour of work was fine. maybe the day started to go wrong when GM forgot his access card in his car. haha. I opened the door for him and he went back to his car again to get his. Then the internet server went down after like 1h into work? Just like suddenly. Didn't know what the problem was. Apparently the whole office was affected lah. Then my com got so slow... i restarted the com. It updated itself and well. the whole Window got screwed. And it wasn't the internet's fault anymore. Had to think of ways to access to my documents and the internet after it's being fixed.

Happened that GM plugged something into his unit which caused the internet server to be down. oh well.. we can't scold him, can we? Lucky he's the one. It was only until ard 4pm that we got the internet connection back.

Then due to some miscommunication and some non-communication, i was left in the office till 1.30pm before i knew that my colleague has already gone for lunch without me. I'm supposed to go with 2 other colleagues (yy and yh) rather than the usual 2. I think it's just fate cos one of them isn't in office, and so i went down ard 1.20pm to find the other one. In the end she wasn't there too. So i guessed they already left. And i dunno why they already left cos i msged one of them to ask what time are we going. So in the end i went back to office in case the usual 2 haven't gone for lunch yet. (actually something was already telling me that i just had to go alone today). And ya. indeed. my usual lunch colleague (lj) came up from boxoffice, asked me if i had lunch, but said that she didn't have time. She said that yy and yh actually called up to look for me ard 1.15pm. I think i went to toilet and the call was diverted to S' phone. And she said 'no such person'. dots. so fine. i had to go on my own then. Later i saw the other usual lunch colleague (sr) already finished her dabao-ed food. Saw yy later and she said she didn't bring her phone. -.-

Subway-ed for both lunch and dinner. u say sian or not. luckily i haven't had subway for quite some time. i was refraining from eating it in case the sy ppl wanna eat there. and just as i had it today. i was asked to go there again. The only good thing for the day was i had my fav Polar sugar roll in the morning and Starbucks tgt with my lunch sandwich.

Oh ya.. and saw New Oap Uk! after i came back from dabao-ing subway for lunch. Chatted for a while and went back to work. After that was sian-ed again.

Luckily sy prac wasn't really bad. if not i will really be feeling damn bad after the day. and the 2nd time i went to subway i was with friends. sy ppl really nv leaves u. :) I dun want to leave them either. Time to start lessons again. but a bit of dilemma here. Don't know what i should do. hais.

Feel like sleeping the whole day. Dunno why. I thought i already had enough sleep ytd night but apparently not. And i should go sleep soon. Right after i finish this. Hais. have to face the music soon. Wed pls dun come and tmr com pls get well. i need it to be well. Nites and thanks for reading my rants.

New job. new life.

Haven't updated for a long time... Had a lot of things to do...

Started new work like 2 weeks ago... So far so good... but i know stress will be coming up. esp when boss is coming back next week. Office's been rather quiet without all the big bosses ard. But i guess this is really the last honeymoon period. Today Mr Quek asked if i like my new job. honestly. i didn't have an ans for him. Perhaps i haven't really feel the job yet. i dunno but it just feels weird working ard ppl whom i've known for quite some time. it could be an awkward feeling... Sometimes it's just better to start afresh.

Colleagues... can't say much abt them... Firstly. i do not know all of them yet. and well. they didn't even bother to know who am i. even just ppl ard me. Ha. But i felt quite happy today to have some colleagues from other dept talking to me.. and not really abt work. There are actually very nice ppl ard and some not-so-nice ppl ard. haha.

For my dept... i think my other 2 colleagues are also very very busy with all the upcoming concerts... that the first few days i was totally neglected and was left to do things on my own. Honestly... i have no idea what i was supposed to do... The gradually i got more things done.. and done properly. Today is like one of the most busy day i had since joining.

And i think it's too much for me to handle such a big project. one of the biggest. I was asked to do Season Booklet! Like.. what? And i have to start from scratch... cos there's isn't a protocol to follow. i have to see from the past what they did. and boss says that whatever the work schedule was like in the past was not sufficient. she wants details... one of my colleague has experience doing season booklet for once... and it was too slow. they want to push forward. And omg. it's really a nightmare. I can't believe that i am trusted with this task. But that's probably becos there are no other ppl in the dept already. But i'm also quite interested to know what could i come out with at the end of the day. it's really a test of my ability. A strong learning opportunity for me.

No, i dun think i'm planning to stay long in this company. Maybe unless i could try other dept. something i like to do... but i dun think so. It is not my dream to work here forever. i want to venture into other aspect of arts... not just CO. So ya.

I dunno when i will be looking for a new job... since this one is only temp. And i dun think they will convert me to perm. or at least not yet... and hopefully i already didn't screw up the season booklet. But i want to thank my friends and other colleagues/teachers who are giving me encouragement. :)

I ♥ Taiwan - Part 2

Shall continue with my Taiwan Trip post. HAHA. This is like so outdated already but whatever. still wanna blog abt it. :)

Day 4

Again.... 4 of us headed out first... 国父纪念馆 was our first stop. It's free to enter so we just head there ard 10am. Very big place... and we just missed their changing shift timing when we got there.But guards there are luckier... they are standing indoor instead. at least they are spared from direct sun.

Looked ard the museum inside... and took a few pictures with his statue. And collect some chops too. haha! like keep collecting chops.. later still got. =P

Then walked to Taipei 101. It's really like damn high class. Filled with branded goods only. Walked ard for a while... went to find the Page-one bookstore. Very big! but didn't get what dad wanted cos turned out to be not what we expected. So anyway we bought some keychains as gifts from there. nice but a bit more ex. haha!

Took their shuttle bus to the City Hall station to wait for the other 2. Very cold day. and i was wearing sleeveless top. wah. i nearly freeze in the wind. Finally they reached and we proceed to lunch! :) At Mr. J Restaurant. One of the meals we spent more money. But ok ba... I think we enjoyed ourselves taking photos here and there. I'm not a big fan of Mr. J.. so i already didn't take a lot. haha. Food is not bad and not very expensive for most of the dishes. If u are fan of Mr. J, go crazy over his posters, the ancient piano in The Secret and his merchandise. They say sometimes he does go there.

After that we went to 五分埔. It's really big. But becos it's really big, we got a bit confused after too many turns. And i was already very alert and direction wise. I think qin they all just lost their way and anyhow walk until they got to the meeting place lor. haha! Anyway selling mostly clothes.. but not all are cheap as well. Da-jie and i bought quite a few pieces of clothing.. must grab those sale item... sometimes will get very good bargain. :) And depending on the owner also lor. Some like super black face, so rude. I think we like shopped there for at least 2hours and still didn't cover the whole place lor.

So anyway next we proceeded to 饶河夜市. Shopped again! And find food to eat also lah... tried some different food and had 芒果冰 again! :) Nice nice nice. haha. and i forgot what else we ate le... Shopped till quite late cos we came across this wired gifts pushcart and all of them want to buy... so we waited there for the keychains to be done. (Ya.. that's the 饶河帅哥. haha!) By the time they are all done.. most of the other stalls closed liao.. and it was like past 1am. haha! So we took a photo with him before we left. He so nice lah... still help us call cab and ask the uncle give us 20% discount on cab fare. Good right!

Ya.. and that's the end of Day 4. We all decided to go out a bit later the next day.. since shops at 西门町 don't open so early anyway. :)

Day 5
Still... we went out first... To have our breakfast at 西門町. Breakfast at the Swing Cafe. Cool concept. Only thing each person has a minimum spending to fulfill. We shared this super BIG red tea. Like WOW! After that, we actually shopped at 西門町 for the whole day!! Bought a lot of things wor. Even though things are more expensive than the night markets, we still bought a lot. haha!

Lunch at the Toilet Restaurant. Wah! A bit hard to find, we have to ask a few ppl before we get to the right place. Concept was cool. Food was quite good actually and not really expensive. Only the dessert was so-so. A lot of Singaporeans go there, could see notes left behind by fellow Singaporeans in the bathtub (table). Took quite a lot of photos there too. (actually the only place at 西門町 which we took photos mainly). haha!

Then was shopping the whole day!!! Bought like a lot of things again. Necklaces as gifts and some for myself as well. The only cheaper things there actually.

When we finally decided to return to our hotel to put down all our things, it was already like late evening. We saw a 黑輪 stall and decided to buy some to try cos we have nv had it before! The stall owner is really nice too! We asked for recommendations and she said everything nice. -.- But in the end she got us the more popular ones. And even separated the soup from the food so that we can bring back to hotel to eat. :) And it turned out to be really nice food even though it's really like 路邊攤! Surprise surprise. haha.

Then we were still not so tired yet, so we went to 五分埔 again. Wanted to go 饒河夜市 again but there wasn't enough time. So we only shopped the first. Eventually everyone still got something from there even though we have been there already. haha!

Then returned to hotel to rest already!

Day 6
It's a day out again. One day tour to some further places.

野柳公園 was the first stop. Actually there wasn't really much inside. hahaha! lotsa sand and weathered stones/land ard. But the famous 女王頭 is still worth cos it's still under weathering conditions and it might be gone soon. the 'neck' of the figure is getting thinner and thinner. They are thinking that we visit next year, it wouldn't be there any more. Wow! Power of nature.

Then we were brought to 平溪 to 放天燈. Shared 2 天燈s, wrote our wishes according to the category and release it to the sky one by one. Like COOL! (To think of it now, the wishes on work didn't really come true within the year - edited on 1 Jan 2010). It was a fun process. We ran into another group of Singaporeans there as well. And a couple actually wanted to take photo with us and our 天燈! haha. Coincidentally, we came across the real steam train head there. The ppl there told us that the train head only operate twice per year! We are really lucky. So there were A LOT of photographers there, waiting for the train to come by. It's really quite an exciting moment. Really cool. :)

Too bad they have closed 十分瀑布 cos of some court case on the ownership of the waterfall. I would really like to see it!

So we proceeded to 九份老街. I like the place. Though it rained halfway, the whole walk-through was good! We had the famous fishball soup for lunch. Cheap and good! Shopped all the way to the top. The rain caused the mountain area to fog after the rain. So cooling. :) Again. Bought some things here and there. Mostly food. 花生酥 was really good! First recommendation if u are going there! Another good food is 賴阿婆芋圓. Even i dun really like 紅豆湯. The whole dessert is just great!

Our walk took so long that we missed the opening hours of 金瓜石. But our guide didn't tell us as well. So anyway he brought us ard the mountain area to take pictures. Nice scenery really. The sky, sea and greens. I love. :)

Then to 基隆夜市. We didn't stay there for long cos mostly were seafood and we didn't want to eat. We only got some stuff from there and decided that we should return to 士林夜市 on our last night. Haha. So the guide drove us back and dropped us at 士林. Time to eat and shop again! Last min shopping!

Cabbed back to hotel. Not very late cos need to pack bag anyway. Xuyin and Yuyan only slept for a while cos they had to leave so early for their flight.

Day 7
Our last half day there! Actually didn't do much. Can't rmb what we had in the morning, i think it was some bread. haha! Then shopped at the 台北站 cos that's where we stayed and the nearest of all. And there's actually quite a bit to shop at the underground street. Bought more shoes. lol! And nothing much lah cos our luggage also full liao lor. lol!

Had our last 青蛙下蛋 before we return to hotel to checkout and go to the airport. Turned out we were quite early... And i got another 2 gifts for my girls. Haha! Somemore i no money liao have to borrow from da-jie. LOL! =x

Touched down ard midnight and er-jie came to fetch us. Qin so drama lah, her family didn't know she coming back sia... So i accompany her and help her carry her stuff up to her house since her brother didn't response and didn't come down. Turned out they all went to sleep liao! LOL! her brother still say he thought qin coming back the next day. haha! Damn funny. But luckily we sent her home if not i think she cham. Haha!

I ♥ Taiwan - Part 1

After having all the hard time planning and praying.. we finally embark on this exciting 7days6nights trip to Taipei from 16may to 22 may! :)

Day 1
Nothing much cos most of the day already spent on the plane and the car to our hotel... by the time we got to the hotel... it's already abt 5pm! So we rest for a while and decide our first stop.. it was 华西街夜市... cos it was near to our hotel.. but it turned to be there isn't much... It is more known for its speciality soups.. Snake and whatever u can find!! So we took a walk.. had some dessert (we haven't had dinner. haha) and we went off to somewhere else..

We stopped outside 龙山寺 to take some pictures... their temple very high tech one lor... outside got electronic belt of words running across the the main gate! and apparently after the whole trip.. we know that it was not the only one... and yet there are none like that in sg lor... hahaha! we like damn sua ku. lol. Then bought some bread from 85C cafe...
The very high tech temple with words scrolling across the main gate..

Then we decided to go to 士林夜市! Yeah! :))) First thing we got there... 鸡排!!! haha! Really a lot of ppl queuing up for it lor. But it really fast too... and dun need to worry cannot get it. sure can one. haha. then went to eat 棺材板. interesting concept. haha. it's actually just bread. fried can cut the top out... put in some ingredients and cover back. (like coffin). so ya.. i think that's how it got its name. and tried 芦荟柠檬 too.. nice and cooling.

After that... we went to shopping street... walk walk walk.... and we managed to catch the last train back to our hotel lor. haha! Didn't really buy much for the first day. But i already got myself a bag then.. Hee.

Went back to hotel.. bathe and slept. Tired liao.

Day 2
Qin's 2 other friends didn't want to wake up early.. so the 4 of us set out on our own first. :)

Went to 忠烈祠. it's a place to commemorate the soldiers who died in the wars and such. And the main attraction there was the guards changing shift 'ceremony'. It's very cool. They marched to to the center.. and 'played' with their rifle. now i understand why there's always ppl performing this kinda thing on taiwan tv. so they do have a job that requires them to do so. Anyways. Ya. cool. But then when they are in position already. Very kelian. Cannot move at all for 1h. and the gun position is like also have to be still... under the hot sun for some of them! so we actually saw their ppl helping the guard to wipe sweat and sprinkle water on their faces.

忠烈祠 almost time for the shift change... ppl are gathering ard to watch... a lot of procedure before the shift is completely taken over.

So after that.. we went on to the next destination - 故宫博物院. it is like one of the best museums in the world! And true enough it's really amazing. like so many things!!! totally shocked at the size of it. Spent quite a while to finish walking ard the whole place and collecting the chops. haha!


Like palace like that lor. very Big and nice!

Then we wanted to go 阳明山... but due to some weird taxi driver... we kinda got cheated and ended up nv go to wherever place we wanted to go. but fine. Nvm. luckily the cab fare wasn't expensive. or rather we didn't want to pay so much cos it wasn't our fault in the first place. but whatever it is. we carried on to the next destination - 淡水!! :)

淡水老街 has quite a lot of things to shop for too. we meet up with the other 2 there. We separated up for the shopping after eating the tall tall jumbo ice-cream. hee. after that took the ferry to 渔人码头. woah... nice view esp at night.. nice bridge. haha! went up to 情人桥 and took quite a no. of photos.. some quite stupid/funny. haha!


Us and 情人橋 just before we left the place. very nice view of the bridge at night. :)

Then we decided to go back to 士林夜市 again. haha! :) But the 3 nurses bought so many things (mostly snacks for colleagues and friends) that they had to go back hotel to put things before coming out again. So da-jie and i went to eat and shop first. Hee. This time bought more things. Shoes! got nice and comfortable shoes... should have bought more colours man. haha! cos like quite easily wear off. esp. wore by me. hee. Food we tried: 蚝煎, 卤肉饭，泡泡茶. and i can't rmb already. =P And we also saw the police raid the place... so the vendors in the middle of the road just kept their things quickly and went to the side to wait. after that still went back to their respective spots. haha. funny.

Ya.. that marks the 2nd day... we went back slightly later... but not very late cos we had to catch the train early next morning. still.. had to catch a cab back to hotel cos no more mrt. not very ex thou. :)



Day 3
Catch a train to 花莲 at 7am. Wah... really tiring.. all of us were catching some sleep on the train... while ah qin had her evil thoughts to take sleeping pictures of us. dots. notti girl. Anyway... the train took 3hours to reach hualien. so it's really... very long and tiring trip. we ate the Dunkin' Donuts we bought the day before at 淡水 for breakfast. Yum. :)

When we reached there.. we were greeted by our guide Mr. Loo. Err... ok. he's Mr. (young) Loo. hahaha! Erm... i actually can't rmb his name already. hahaha. memory failing me. =x So anyway the guide is really nice.. Thanks to qin's friend for giving us the contact.. and thank goodness we made the decision to go to 花莲! it was really a very fun day. Even though we like walked a lot. and gotten a lot of sunlight too. haha!


Sea and Sky is love. :)

Yup. went to 太鲁阁... which is like a national park... consisting of many attractions... 清水断崖，砂卡砀步道，九曲洞，燕子口，白杨步道. Every single one has their own values to the trip. Like 九曲洞，we actually have to wear safety helmet to walk through the whole path... why? Cos the cave sometimes has falling rocks and well... apparently someone from China Mainland got hit on the head by the rocks. erm. ya. Very suay person. That's was only starting of this year or something like that. well.. they didn't open up their tourism to Taiwan long ago right. so can agar the timing. And so everyone has to wear the helmet for safety reason lor. And we look so funny like at a construction site. haha!

Then the deemed most fun one was 白杨步道... which leads us to 水帘洞. Damn fun. Although had to walk like quite a dist before reaching... it was all worth it. Not sure if anyone else were as crazy as us to go in twice. Once or twice also all wet already. might as well right? haha! Yea... so as good as it is... we were all drenched by the end of the day. And tired too. But shiok to get the water pounding on ur head and back like massage. hahaha. hydro-massage.. Heh.


Think this was the first time we went in.. Not SO wet yet. but wet liao lah.


Just before we get on the car to leave the place... Tired but contented. :)))

National Day 09

National Day is just over and yup. Kinda enjoyed it. :)

Cycling in the morning with some NUSCO ppl - Eric, Sanmin, Yuhui, Hweeling + bf and Zhenqiang. We really thought they wanna cycle to Sun Plaza sia... But in the end was Sun Plaza PARK lah.. dotx right. lol. And ya.. that's in tampines. lol. It took us almost 2 hours to get to the destination from Kembangan. Quite good a cycle.. but weather was not quite the best condition? cos too humid and sun shining with its utmost effort near to noon. tsk tsk. and no sun block. -.-

But still the whole thing was quite fun esp if u see the 2 guys cycle across the other ppl's path dangerously. luckily i was in front. haha. when we reached the park.. it was ard 12.45pm.. Returned the bike and walked to TM. Waited for suyi and yihui to come from their cycling. haha. wenxiang came to find us for lunch.. at KFC. oh man.. all exercise gone. lol!

After that decided to come over for a little Wii game... i went to borrow 2 more controllers from Horng. Er ya.. i just called her house and ask if i can borrow. lol! quite funny lah. =P Anyway.. took some videos and will upload when i have the time. :)

After they left, we Wii-ed for a while more before NDP starts. Yea. it was good lah really. although watching there live was better... we get to see the faces more clearly on the tv. haha!

And yup. that's for national day! Happy holidays everyone! Still got 1 more day holiday mah. :)

Ambition . Dream

Hmm.. the posting format screwed again. -.- What's wrong with everything online lately.. fb was also screwed... sian-ed.

So now my fb status is like 'Living a 今天不知明天事 live now'.. which is SO true... other than going to the gym tmr in the evening. i have no idea what else i would be doing. probably wake up late, eat, watch tv, sleep and blah blah. What a life.

Got a call today from SCO.. saying they need part time before some re-organisation i think. And that she will get the HR to call me. Apparently i dunno when that call will come. i hope it does. and i dunno when i will start. but i think quite soon. So free time is limited. And i should like enjoy as much as i could now.

Somehow.. through this period of job-searching, i thought a lot. One of the interviewers asked me what is my dream and what do i hope to achieve. and i think i had something in my mind already. 2 parts to this dream... 1. i want to be the artiste manager of a grp. 2. i want to travel ard the world. SO my dream is to lead a touring musical or theatre production or a music group. just that. how am i going to achieve that? When in the first place, there isn't any chance available in the local market?

There are a few places i feel that i must travel to and have a look myself.
1. Niagara Fall
2. Tibet
3. Grand Canyon
4. London
5. Prague
6. Broadway
7. Or actually the whole of Europe and
8. The rest of China i have yet to visit.

Yup. So i'll have to work hard from now on. And i really hope that the career path will be clearer soon.

Cousins' day out!

Finally posting is back to normal.. can upload photos liao.. hee.


One of our attempt to get the jumping pose.. Heh. From left: my er-jie, ah ping jie-jie, ah shan, jiaqi and me. Da-jie was the photographer...

One day out with the cousins... Only females... haha! Why? anyway these are my maternal side cousins.. out of all the cousins... there are only 3 males... and ya.. 7 females... we didn't ask the 2 youngest of the lot cos they are pretty young as compared to us.. and they are usually quite anti-social towards us... they are siblings: 1 male, 1 female. So that's 1 male off... Then jiaxun didn't come back for this hol... so that's another male off... so obviously the only male left would not want to join us right. haha! he's brother of yiping and yishan. So that's left with the 6 of us... and it's great that we could all come out tgt!! :)))

We had a range of activities man. First, lunch was Sushi Tei @ Paragon. I was kinda late cos of some things to get after sy prac that day. But still, lunch was good and it was Da-jie's treat. :D Had garlic rice, salmon sashimi, golden roll, chawamushi, umaki, soft-shell crab, and hmm.. can't rmb all! haha. =x But was really good lah. :)

Then went over to Cine to see movie timings. Wanted to give in to watch Ice-age 3. But no timing!! Hey, it's a weekend leh. only got 1 show? maybe cos air-ed for quite long already lah. so we stick to our original plan to watch Harry Potter- HBP. OMG. it's like one of the most meaningless HP series to watch. The book was much nicer thou might not be the nicest book. Missed so many impt details and kinda changed the story a bit as well. i dunno. not my favourite of cos. and halfway through it was really kinda boring, i slept a little. lol. can't rmb which part. And we had dessert before the movie cos there was still time. SNOW ICE!! It's damn good. at Heeren's B1. Yea. :) OH! Movie was yiping jiejie's treat. :D I forgot who paid for the desserts. haha.

After movie, dinner time liao. HAHA! Proceeded to Suntec cos planning to go for a drink after that. Dinner at Soup Restaurant. I think er-jie paid for dinner. :D Fulfilling dinner. :) Had reddish and ribs soup, the signature Samsui Ginger Chicken, Kangkong, Tofu prawn. Yeah.. only can rmb these. =x

After which, went on to Polaner for a drink. Just sat there to talk.. Really like market like that. lol. I think yiping jiejie paid for the drinks. :D Anyway dear jiaqi was penniless... haha! So anyway. we parted for home after that. Reached home like almost 12am or slightly after ba. Hee.

I think we should go out more often.. HAHA! Next time we meet should be to celebrate shan's 21st bday~ :) Hmm.. haven't think of what to buy for her yet. have to do it soon. less than 2 weeks to her bday. hee.

PS: i didn't spend a cent in this outing. thanks to the older sisters. :) A blessing of having older sisters... yiping jiejie is same age as er-jie. hee.

SYCO goes crazy. (causal)

The layout for posting a bit weird weird de.. Cannot post pictures too. Just when i feel like it.. Haha!

Time really passes very fast huh.. Only the last performance left for SYCO this year. Moreover not everyone performing. :( I just realised that SY is like the CO i've stayed longest in.. Ok. For now it's the same as pri school. 5years.. Sec sch was only 4, and jc was only 2. CC was on and off. Thou also for a long time.. But not a permanent member for long ever since left sec sch. I'm like just part time in mco and nusco.

SYCO is really different. Most of us are not of the same age. And ya.. Most of the time i'm the oldest among them and the youngest either 16 or 17. But everyone just talk and play tgt. And without fail. We know what we are going to do after every practice and performance. Like going for supper most of the time at Lau Pat Sat after the annual concert. It's so standard that we did it every year.. Only once we went to the HK Cafe which we also frequent on other occasions like Beautiful Sunday. I can safely say one of the joyful grp to be with.

Crazy stuff we did when tgt.. Includes forming our SYCO Choir. Haha. Ytd was one of the craziest time where the whole bunch of us sang national songs all the way from botanical gardens bukit timah gate to the tanglin gate! From the influence of the songs we performed ytd. Heh. But it was fun yea? :) And not to forget the past composition (not-really) of our LPS song. haha. and the singing of Zheng He. lol.

And to back track a bit.. There's like a lot of us swarm into LPS after SYF presentation last thurs.. The place became so black. Haha! But it was really fun.. Becos of the increase of ppl joining us for such activities.. We had to join 6 tables to accommodate all of us! Quite kua zhang lah.. But filled ok. Lol.

Could see everyone was damn happy abt the performance that day.. Esp. Gls. I'm happy for him and for ourselves.. Despite all the lousy stuff we presented during prac before that. It's a relief that we did it on the perf itself. And glad we did too.. Cos everyone was so stress to perform side by side to the Gwh schools. It's just so difficult to outshine anyone. Dunno if we did. But i felt it a success no matter what. :) One unforgettable night i know.

Ok.. Back to present.. First time perf at botanical gardens.. New experience i say.. Not much time for preparation and i'm not really prepared for all the songs really. But yea. I'm glad we did it.. Good to see that there are quite a good no. of audiences. Makes me want to go there picnic as well. Lol. Hmm.. Xiangle performed with us as well. Glad that he could.. But also kinda worried at the same time.. Hope he's still ok after all the songs. And hope all these doesn't worsen his case. My same words.. Nothing is more impt than health Xiangle.. U can do the rest when u recover. Must take care k? And of cos we are all here to support u... Even we can't do anything physically to help u... We support u mentally.. Dun forget u have a lot of friends and family who care. :)

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We went to Shokudo.. and this was taken before we left... our grp really grew much bigger as compared to the past. A good thing.. but also means harder to move everyone and notice everyone. haha! but still... it was really enjoyable. And we sang a birthday song for jessly like out of nowhere. haha. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSLY!! :) Some ppl missing in action. tsk tsk.. dunno where they went, nv join us. But! coincidentally we had the exactly same no. of ppl as the dinner at Hotpot Culture the other day. interesting yea.
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So now.. We are left with Chamber Recital on 19 Sept and we are done for this year... But it means sy for this year will end every soon. Hmm.. Only playing for first and last song.. The rest are solos with a few accompaniment or sectional songs. There's like early bird discount now! $6 per tix. So ask ur friends go buy now! Hee.

Hmm.. Going to sleep le.. Update again soon.. Still having some post-concert syndrome. This is bad. Some photos uploaded at fb. Check them out. :) nites.

Rehearsal, out to play.

Had a rather interesting day with the SY ppl... one of the first time we had like 17ppl out tgt... it's kinda a hazard.. haha. but we managed to do it sia.. hahaha. it's kinda crazy cos we went from SCH to Esplanade... back to SCH and went to Marina Sq again. lol.

First time to Hotpot Culture and it's really not bad.. had a real good time... eating, laughing, playing and whatever not... but then a bit overeat. haha. damn full after that. but fondue and ice cream was really good. heee... Beef not that good though... i think we ate our fill ya? hee. A bit ex but ya.. i also think we should go eat Kuishin Bo the next time.. it's like my all-time fav buffet... just that it's like double the price of the buffet we had just now. lol!

In the end we started playing 终极密码 and i'm quite lucky to only ganna once... which was hotdog plus chocolate fondue... it tasted a bit weird.. but at least that's the only thing i had... while u know.. the rest had like fishballs, beef, chicken, mushroom and whatever they can find in the pot... together with chocolate!! a bit crazy... and i think our table (consisting of joel, jojo, junhe, minhui and i) is really like the noisiest among all... like laughing all the way??!! the rest were like asking why we kept on laughing... and we really laugh until i feel damn bad... like going to puke.. but i didn't lah... it's really bad for health. haha!!

Then after that went to arcade... actually was really tired liao... but then since we are so full already... need to release some energy... i dun really fancy arcade but it's really fun to see friends play some interesting games sometimes... like Para para?? lol. funny. hee. they know what i'm talking abt. videos?? bleahs.

Anyway... back to serious stuff... it will be really hoping that we will do better for the wed prac and the actual performance... today was really disappointing.. and i thought i saw mr quek holding on to his chest area when exerting too much force.. and it's really pain to see that.. sighs. didn't get to hear any other schools... but supposedly they should be much better given more time and more flexibility in prac times... all the more we should be more serious and more hardworking than what we are doing now.. right?

And for a dear friend.. i'm really sad to know it.. i didn't have the courage to actually ask... partly perhaps i dun want to believe the truth... dun want to believe that such things will happen to ppl ard me... moreover such a good and nice friend... and partly i know that i might not be able to control myself if i hear abt it with my own ears... i could only really hope that he will recover soon.. and back to performing with us too!

Anyway.. just for these 2 ppl.. i believe we have the motivation to do well for our upcoming performances... good luck to myself too! still not confident for some parts. or rather... still not prepared for some parts.. and well... dun really have time to prac as well... ahh... need to do well definitely!! :)

Syyy... Jiayou!! :)))

a small laugh...

In the toilet at a mall....

女孩: 你在做什么?
妈妈没回答.
女孩: (敲着门) 你现在做什么? 是在小还是在拿toilet paper擦屁股？
妈妈：...
女孩:(又问一次) 你在做什么?
妈妈: 我现在要打人! 人家在听音乐 (商场的音乐). 不要吵!

....

小孩很妙, 妈妈也不差. haha! I was 偷笑-ing when i heard that... and the child really like 不耻下问.. impressed. but no wonder the mum was a bit pissed. but i think she find it a bit funny too. just didn't show. that's all. =P

Really Random. Food-Parade-Game.

Oh man... i realised i really haven't updated for a long time... upload on some random happenings ba.. haha...

First of all.. i think a lot will be interested in this....


Kinder Happy Hippo! HAHA. So cute right! Yuhui got it from her Europe trip... says there's like really a lot of varieties in their Kinder series there... too bad we only have like so few of the collection. But i haven't try it yet... so dunno how it taste... Hehe. Waiting for more Kinder to come to Sg! :)


This picture is taken during the NDP Combined Rehearsal 3. Was kinda lucky to get a shot of the Heart-shaped ones. Fireworks just come and go... so yea.. Anyway.. they have a fantastic show this year. Though you still see Sang Nila Utama story... but they tried to put it in a more cheezy way. well... stay at home to watch the show/parade on National Day. it will be crowded outside anyway. haha!


Lastly!! That's the first time i got 1000coins from the Daily Lottery in Pet Society!! :))) Was damn happy... hahaha! Hope i will get it again some time... Hee.. but i know not so lucky de lah. Haha. at least not soon? played for so many months liao and get once only leh! TSK.

Anyway.. update more soon... when i have the time at home.. cos got photos want to post. :)

Sums up for June

Ya... if u dunno why i dun have the time to update. this might do... haha!
I had a damn happening June this year.. it's like i'm having june holidays with the schooling kids too. haha! But well.. all these happened when i still have to work 9am to 6pm during weekdays. haha. i'm amazed i could do so much!

List of activities:
1 - 5 June: SYCO Rehearsals at night
6 June: SYCO concert!!! :)
7 June: Picnic @ Marina Barrage with my Beloveds
7 June: Late Night Steamboat session @ Kenny's with Minhui, Jessly, Junhe and Jojo.
8 June: NYCO Chalet BBQ @ East Coast (Fun but sad that i didn't get to go night cycling with them)
10 June: SYCO Post-concert Reception and Eskibar!
11 June: Dinner with Royal Family @ Bakerzin
12 June: Pretty eventful.. there's another post on this.
- Lunch Treat from Colleagues @ Secret Recipe
- SCO Concert (Jazz with Chris Brucbeck)
- Xing Wang HK Cafe with SYCO peeps after concert
13 June: Lunch out with Family @ Sushi Tei
13 June: Overnight Wii with SYCO peeps (not all of them stayed lah)
14 June: Wii Party with NUSCO peeps
15 June: Wii till late with Sylvia and Yushi
16 June: Dinner with Emily, William and Minghao @ Ichiban Boshi
17 June: Dinner with dearest cousin Jiaqi @ Kim Gary HK Cafe
21 & 24 June: Out to get pressies for dear friends
22 June: Steamboat dinner (at supper time) @ Kenny's again. (more ppl this time)
25 June: Dean's 21st Birthday Party @ Vienna
26 June: Overnight Changkat Chalet @ Downtown East
28 June: BBQ session with the Beloveds @ Horng's. :)

A fulfilling june i think. Even though it can be really tiring sometimes... i'm really happy to see my friends! Some really long time nv see already. so worth it lor. :) Now only lack pri school friends, sec 1&2 gang, and LASALLE buddies. Supposed to meet last week. but didn't come true cos of last min crop up stuff. Really wanna meet up soon. i miss our bitching sessions during projects hahaha!

Yup. u see... rest of the time i'm either at home or at work lah. hahaha! That explains. right? Hee. Cya next time and i'm already working hard on blogging abt the rest of the stuff. Be patient! :)

U may want to check out below for the new posts... cos already saved them as drafts. just that haven't finished typing. hee. Yea. all on 15 june. =x