My name is Dave Ming Chang

Damn.. i need a copy of this dvd.. couldn't find it at the citylink HMV the other day.. i think i need to go to the one at Heeren to purchase it. I've always liked Bollywood films.. the action films, especially the low budget ones... some of the fight scenes look cock and are damn funny.. while the dances and sing - along parts are damn classic.. the dances are always well choregraphed and the music is always upbeat and heart lifting....

Lagaan.. is in a class of its own.. Though i didnt manage to finish watchin the movie last thursday during last week's From Hollywood to Bollywood lesson.. i believe it's gonna stay in my mind for a very long time.

Anyway, weekly update.. Last friday, i just had my annual Insinyur movie and supper hop. It seems to get better each year as this year we covered more food places and watched a nice movie as well.. we watched Eddie Murphy's Meet Dave.. its damn hilarious.. from the time we sat down in the movie, we started laughing non stop... especially one part where he searched for the most popular name in the world and ended up with a chinese name "ming chang" when he's obviously a black. haha.

This year before the movie, we had a bbq instead of going to Glutton's bay at Esplanade.. i think its not a bad idea though we can't really finish most of the food we bbqed..

After the movie.. we went off to Geylang for tou jiang and you tiao.. Nice sia.. after which we went to Bukit Timah's Al Aleem.. (typo .. lol) its the malay prata shop opposite Bukit Timah Shopping Centre.. Last stop.. we headed for Tiong Bahru's Food Centre.. By the last stop, most of other OGs are already half asleep.. mine instead was a crazy bunch of fellas who woke up all the auntie and uncles who were busy setting up store at the food centre.. haha.. we spent half of the time playing 'Dinosaur' or another version of heart attack we adopted from Mind's cafe.. lol..

Ms Xue Shuang and Yu Juan enjoyin their you tiaos and soya bean...

its 6am in the morning and Minds cafe's already open for business?

To keep myself awake, i had a little something at every pit stop.. lol.. felt kinda bloated at the end of the whole supper hop as i head back home from Ang Mo Kio at the end of it for a quick shower before going for my team's annual dragonboat experience row.

participants and seniors

as usual.. me in the canoe, photographer

(this year with Alex helping me & thanks JX for helping with the other camera and pictures)

This year's experience wasn't as good last year'.. the turnout itself wasn't very good already.. alot of people came just for the experience itself and not because they wanted to join the team. Perhaps it was due to the fact that we didn't get a good spot at the CCA fair conducted last week... we were 'relegated' this year to the rear of the whole fair.. behind all the shops and other ccas like the religious societies.. urgh. I heard we were initially allocated a small square table's worth of space.. wah lau. how to set up booth man like dat. Thankfully we played punk and used the study benches and shift out of our lot.. otherwise i dun think anybody could find us at the fair. (we were behind 'Pretty Tuff''s booth this year again.. and if we didnt shift out, you won't see our set up behind the long queue of girls signing up for the Pretty Tuff programmes).

However, i guess this year we managed to draw more potential girls to join the team. That's a good thing as we need more dedicated and stronger girls to help boost the team's strength. We also managed to reach out to more foreigners this time. Interesting.

Hope for our subsequent land trainings, more willing students will turn up.

To end off, here's something funny that Derrick sent us today online during a major talk cock session on msn...