x'mas fun

well... x'mas week was pretty much fun this year... i had parties on fri, sat, sun.. 3 days of continuous partying...

Fri was x'mas day and the first ever dragonboat x'mas party for the 06 batch ... almost everybody turned up though we were missing a few 'arhats' and girlfriends.. well.. i hope that over time... the girlfriends will also know each other better and then we can have more of this kind of stuff in future for other occasions besides x'mas as well.

attendance for the nite ...

Thanks for making the point of coming even if you were late..

arhat pose

the galfrens.. the ladies who's been waiting for us, supporting us

thanks to boon and leslie for majority of the planning and everyone else who helped a lil here and there thereafters...

my parents were happy to host the thing... saying that we are a fun bunch of people.. noisy and happy.. and helpful to stay back and help up. they also say 'that tall tall one with the earrings ' was rather responsible to stay back and clean up.. (snicker ... hahaha). My parents were also impressed with charmaine's potato salad... keep bugging me to ask both leslie and charmaine how to do it.. my dad and mom.. the copy ninjas promptly converted the bunch of potatoes we have at home into a copy of her potato salad without the bacon bits... after a fair bit of discussion over coffee on the morning of boxing day.

sat was my aunt's party for the family.. been a while since my maternal family met up... and also a while since i saw my nephews and niece.. haha.. it was kinda funny when my cousin came and promptly made fun of my younger female cousins and my sister by introducing his son that they were their aunties.. drawing some sibei sian faces..

my dad's idea of a log 'cake' .... log pork. he's grinning from ear to ear... for having trick two kids into thinking it is some chocolate roll/ cake this x'mas.

'san duo hua' .. my mom, big aunt, and small aunt..

haha.. brought the wii for the kids.. (my nephews and nieces). kinda surprised that my female cousins dunno what wii was initially..

my cousin's son.. cute boy.. he offered me his milo just so i have 'enough energy and win' for him in the raving rabbids game and he will take the initiative to ask for help when he isn't coping well.. . think my cousin brought him up well.

Sunday was for my paternal family ... celebrating the annual x'mas at my grandma's place... nothing special really happened though it was nice seeing my cousin yolanda back from perth.. The highlight of the day instead was on the morning's brunch at Spruce. Finally ... one of the few sundays without a training... without hesitation, me and joko decided to head to this place at tanglin after being denied an earlier visit cos of my ns mobilisation a few weeks ago.. (hence the rant)

Spruce!

the interiors..

it is a rather small establishment.. like some old barracks retrofitted into a restaurant... it's rather cosy nonetheless.. and it isn't too cold inside ... just nice..

the exteriors from inside..

its a sheltered balcony with fans, its almost like inside minus the air con.

Big brekkie, eggs benny and the damn nice banana pancakes!!

it's my first time having poached eggs as well for the fun of it..

anyway.. i have rush to the harbour-front now.. heading off to batam for a getaway with the lawn bowlers for the annual yr end gathering..

a rather haphazard update but a

happy new year and a belated x'mas to all of you.. !

Jingle times...

YAY! the time waster interim is done. finally.. i can move on to something more pressing.. but fun...

now on, i have to quickly develop the shank, ankle component for yun li before we can send for fabrication.

x'mas!

PIMP db in 2 days time. .. i'm finally in the mood to look forward to it.

i need to set up my x'mas tree.. and i hope i dun dread the process of it as i stretch my arms and legs...

Mr Peh been doing a mighty fine job .. and i'm now reeling from the v crunches... my (f)abs hurt alot.

My blister got worse after land training on monday too.. its stupid of me to try to run. now i have a blister in a blister...

thanks to joko.. its nice and clean now..

daddy tan was too lazy to set it up, so i have to tell him to lug it out and i set it up myself.

things to do today (besides fyp)

collect chairs from my small aunt and mebbe collect more from charmaine too..

set up xmas tree

clean up house,

get sis to clean up her room and stun her table

go back hall and pick up my whiteboard?

take picture for my resume?

buy pressies

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I see you

the army should look into a lightweight high range, low noise Naruto type radio communicators just like Jakescully's over here..

flying in the sky can talk to alien gf and brother in the jungle,

friend in helicopter,

Stealing away some moments from my interim report that doesn't seem to be finishing despite my daily efforts..

I just caught Avatar last nite with Joko... it was great! I wonder how much this movie was scaled back seeing that James Cameron did reduced Titantic from a initial i think 4 hr film to a final 3 hr film.. The storyline is rather refreshing though not entirely new and unexpected as how a person's moral compass fueled by love and attachment will always lead them to triumph over those blinded with power and greed. Once again the movies has brought more insights to how high tech future computers can be ... think of those itouch kind of projector screens.. like minority report, iron man .. Also once again Mech warrior inspired units were presented as the future mechanized tanks for the jungle...

also, its kinda funny for me to see the mother of all alien movies, sigourney weaver in another alien movie.. i think her casting has to do with her Aliens background

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mmm..

some interesting thoughts about my cip for ren ci today too..

When leaders of such organisations fall and mishandle funds, the organisation are affected the greatest, the dependents will also suffer as people turn away from it.

as i approach a couple of people today for donations, most of them were kind enough to drop a dime or more but i've got this lady today who once hearing that this donation was for ren ci, she just went 'oh .. then no..' and stomped away and one couple decided to discuss with me about the organisation's previous head's misdeeds. Best of all, i've got one uncle who just went 'ARRUGH!' when he saw Ren Ci imprinted on the tin can..

mmm..

if you wanna do good, you better be good.

else all the good people you take care

will suffer.

dear mojo jojo

writer's block

3OH!3

starstrukk ft katy perry

tik tok

tiktok by Kei$ha

Finally, Army week has passed.. ICT... recall manning...

pardon for the rant... i never seem to like the army... even though there are times where i enjoyed certain activities like the int planning work but there will always be some crap that comes along that spoils it all...just like what my branch mate Jonathan will say ... "Murphy will indent shit for you", taking a poke at Murphy's law

Luckily for me.. Sunday's recall was rather quick... once everybody reached, we were able to get S2 to clear us.. though.. it could have

been muchearlier if Dexiang woke up earlier from chionging at butterfac the night before... haha.. it was funny that it was him who sent a

'motivational sms' the day before to make the event a 'chop chop' once activated... to report to camp immediately once getting the call and getting s2 to clear us.. I'm looking forward to my free meal but i wonder if i will have time for it..

time realli flies.. it's been close to 5 years since coming out of ns and tian'en is gonna get married

next november .. and because of mr spidey wong.. i may have to be converted into the vehicle commander..

sians.... I rather take over G's role as the scout monitoring specialist ... Anyway, hope by the next ict, we would be able to 'acquire' fattie back

into our unit...

haiz.

back from ict.. back to FYP.

interrim report draft by wed, hand up by fri.

meeting on wed,

meeting 2 on thurs.

idiots

the person who planned my recall/ mobilisation today should be shot in the head.

i hate this feeling and i hate playing this bloody guessing game. can't they just activate when they say they were supposed to. like yesterday?

worse week ever.

sometimes i wonder if its just me and my luck. but my experiences with the army only makes me wanna curse and swear at them even more... go range.. happily thought can get marksman.. hit all the targets.. but can still fail cos the bloody ipets system fail. not just me... but the whole entire company was robbed of their money. CO included.

dirt beckons

i finally finished my exams today...

my last paper felt simple, there was just a tinge of dissatisfaction because i could remember some of the easy parts, lost out on those marks which isn't good...

anyway, my exams didn't feel like it has ended...

straight after school and buying my printer ink, i came home and started packing my bag for reservice and typed my cover letter and resume... all the way till 11pm.

i think i should try to read more story books this hols... Joko was laughing away at my Engrish as i try to craft something pleasant for my resume.

6 more days to go before my schedule turns much kinder on me...

for now.. its bedtime...

990 parkas

In a few hours time, i will be sitting for my 2nd last paper... The last paper being my year 4 specialisation module, Biomaterials, will be on next Monday. Most of my friends have already finished their papers, some of which have already gone off for their holidays...

i can't really complain for because of this elaborate plan of having a few days between papers, i am able to have ample study time to make the best out of it and try to score for my papers. So far they 'feel' quite good. not like that shitty feeling during yr 1 and 2 where i would pray that i will be contend with a pass...

but we shall see... i anin't a v good student and i am always a lil forgetful here and there..careless once in a while.

The following's the list of stuff that awaits me after this paper...

Immediately after tomorrow's paper..

1)Shop @ Uniqlo ... the megastore at 313 is now open... both me and joko are eyeing their 9.90 parkas...

2)Check out the game store at orchard central for extra wii controllers, the new super mario game, new rabbids game, mario party 8 and most probably a fourth game... a car racing game.. for the upcoming Db PIMP event, Batam trip with the lawn bowlers and maybe for my auntie's party.. Major $$$...

3)Arrange resume

Over the weekend

4) Study for last paper

5) pack for ICT

6) draft out interim report to write out during my ICT (which happens to be immediately after my paper on monday...)

After ICT

7) Rush out fyp interrim report. Send to mentor, then send to prof.

8) get back at my fyp.

9) get back my fitness

10)plan sem 2 timetable

11)full time prep for PIMP

12)prep for batam trip

and the list goes on... i'm gonna be awfully busy...

Studying at home have been really good... peace and quiet and i don't have to worry about the usual chores. My dad's been cooking alot these days. Today alone.. he made muffins and practiced grilling pork. Last weekend, he cooked miso tonkatsu ramen and cooked the swedish meatballs i bought from ikea. I know Joko's been happy. haha..