today was a busy sunday for me! din have time to rest at all.

ok, back from duty at 8.30am and went to take a nap from 10 till 12. then went to photocopy some chem papers for my tutee and gave her tuition till 4.30pm! wow, was quite proud of myself that i was able to retain the skills taught for relative velocity in sec 4! haha anyway, that was 1 of my strongest topics. and then went to meet swee keat for dinner at ajisen after passing maths notes to chang fang. haha!

and i bought mooncakes! 4 of them from bangawan solo! 20% discount after using my posb card! ahha~ so i saved $6. yeah! credit cards are really useful!

was chatting with weidi about our taiwan trip this year with sam and tallie! so, we'll be making our way down to chan brothers to book tix le! hope there're lots of perks for citibank card cos it's the official card for chan brothers. well and we'll be researching taiwan on the same day. and i have come up with this exercise regime. so after i return from japan, i'll keep exercising be4 going to taiwan on the 29th till 3rd dec perhaps cos we'll go there and gorge ourselves! sinful! all the exotic food! i'm so excited! will also want to get some nice winter wear from there for my overseas studies next year.

and i guess will be booking my family trip with dad on this coming fri! hehe! so exciting sia! ahha~ A tiring yet exciting week ahead!

hMm! been a really bad day. think my current pc is trying to push all bo liao things to me and isn't sincere in helping me. was very very furious initially, even if i tried recollecting lama's teachings, i still let anger got the better over me. but come to think of it, she's my benefactor, help me to build up my tolerance threshold. i guess cos of the incessant duties (cos & lifeguard) that i've been receiving, adding on to the disgusting interpersonal relationships that i have to handle, i am totally worn out. really... i dun like putting on a smile in front of 1 when i know she has been talking behind my back. and i feel so sorry for her, cos whatever she said, i would know. i have my sources man. and i just wanna tell her this, don't you find it weird when 2 batches of spec that u have 'led' have been dissatisfied with you? i can just say, humans are imperfect, but flaws can be removed, and your character can be improved. Mine too, actually.

anyway! i won't let this issue affect my life. you're gonna go soon and i'm gonna ord soon. so, shall think of the stuff after ORD. trips! finally, finished booking my SQ air tickets! will do e check in 2 days be4! weee! and i met weiliang online today and he's most likely to go to imperial too! we're both under DSTA. and i'll be going with him then! so fun sia! all the OBS, overseas studies and europe tour with hiM! and some other dsta dudes. really looking forward to it! we knew each other when we went for firefly 2nd round interview, and coincidentally we were in the same group! and we rated each other as the most trustworthy frens in this elimination survey at the end of the day~ haha! cos we can clique! he's now an officer in the same camp as me! haha~ yeah~ really look forward to OBS next year with him and others and also IMPERIAL here we come! hahahaa!

Alright, so after toady's call. I have 1 more duty again. and this week will be so 'multi faceted'. have various kinds of duty. RS on tues and thurs, DS on wed, COS on Sat and life guard from tues to fri. freaking 'exciting' and irritating. I guess someone isn't doing his job properly, yes. I'm referring to the ops spec who always give last minute notification for lifeguard duty and will catch u off guard. (maybe i shouldn't speculate about this issue, cos it may not be his fault? since the organisation is infamous for its inefficiency). but, being irresponsible in not claiming the taxi fare for us was untolerable when OC has given the instruction to ask you to claim it back for us. never mind, i shall not bug myself with such puny, trivial stuff and shall treat u as helping me improve my tolerance threshold. thanks pal!

ok, since minyan keep bugging me to blog. i shall blog about today's outing. before that, i shall announce! I HAVE LOST MY VOICE! it's now a husky sexy 1. argH! and it's really irritating.

ok, went for jap lesson first then met yuexin, minyan, jiayin, ming jit, hui min, hui zhi and esmond for dinner at billy bombers! walked around marina square with yuexin and minyan be4 meeting the rest and I had the sudden craving for laksa then! yeah, i must have 1 bowl tml perhaps! alright, and in the end landed in the food court taking bo liao pics to pass time.


haha! fat~! too bo liao le!


the 3 of us~

ok, meeting them up was always fun la~ and yuPz, we will be having a christmas party on the 25th Dec! cool rite~ same as last year! wee!


with hui min


taken by a camera, much betta rite!


8 of us!

and, have finally decided with weidi, sam and nic that we'll fly at the end of nov to taiwan for 5 or 6 days! so many good things coming along the way!

well, today is the 2nd saturday when I'm free to go out with my frens! hee, went to give tuition in the morning at simei~ taught my tuitee physics today. i'm teaching my tutee a bit of physics, bio, maths and mainly pure chem. It was quite embarrassing initially cos i prepared chem and not physics but i was lucky to be able to recollect quickly on the spot! so it still went well and smoothly. and i realised i like teaching and don't mind even the tuition hours are stretched a little.

and i met yuexin and ah yin first for kbox at dynasty at dhoby ghaut. and yeah sang quite a lot with a lousy throat! argH! kun quan! you passed the bacteria to me~ haha did duty with sickly him on thursday and now, i'm suffering from cough! ok, after that we met ks for dinner at cartel at PS. and i had saint louis pork ribs, i kinda like it but find it a tad too sweet. argh~ and we had half priced cakes after 9pm! cheapskate us~ and we played truth and truth for the whole dinner.


yupZ~ the 3 of us at dynastY~


ah yin and xin mei~


ks and I!


Us again~

I always look forward to such an outing with these 3 ppl. cos i feel i can express myself freely, need not hide behind a facade. It's really shuang. and life isn't getting any better though it's near ORD. I always find it a pity that my platoon specs have drifted greatly apart after so many seperate incidents. And now we kinda lack communication and will try hard (or maybe naturally) not to interfere in each other's matters.

It's really a pity that some small incidents can actually cause so much unhappiness in all of us, and forming cliques. I was initially so hopeful of my platoon specs cos i have firmly believed that we can always stay as the closest specs in the company. but looking at the situation now, i'm proved wrong. why must all these unhappy stuff happen at the end of my NS trail? why can't i just ORD happily with these bunch of colleagues?

But maybe I should look at things from another perspective; that these events luckily took place just be4 our ORD and not way before, cos working relations would have been more strained and much more problems would have occurred. Or maybe just take this as another part of life, embrace such problems as challenges to my tolerence threshold. that, i would not feel so sad.

Listening to a sad song now, and it makes me think of the past, my bmt life when everybody is there to support each other. hai, and the closest ppl in my camp now are not my dearest specs. they're ppl like samuel, weidi and nicholas. and maybe tallie... no wonder, many say that frens should not work with each other cos our differences may cause us to drift apart.

On a lighter note, I at least still have friends who are dears to me. =) people whom i enthusiastically would want to meet~! =)

yeah~! and finally met up with this bunch of funky BMT mates! well, 7 of us altogether. Ding hao, kiwi, lip yong, han qun, yuan shao, cheng hyork and I! yeah~ and we went to swissotel merchant court for a dinner buffet. It was TOTALLY sinfuL! haha! I thought it was $27++ initially, cos i remembered seeing this price when I passed by there with weidi, sam and ryu. but it turned out to be $38++!


kiwi and chyork~! slurrrp!


yuan shao, hq, me and ding hao~

and added up to $45! ahah! what an exorbitant dinner~ oh my, so sorry to my frens! haha, got conned by me. felt a little guilty. but they didn't scold me la~ haha! ok, the dinner was a really good 1, with a fine spread of food; ranging from peranakan food to chi food, to lots of seafood, to my fav japanese food, to durians, cakes, fondue! u name it they have it!

and i met my neighbour there! such a coincidence. and we also spotted moses lim! he's a chef there, so we took a photo with him as a remembrance. cool right~ oh, and what we basically did during the dinner was talking about our japan trip! i was explaining to them how are we gonna navigate the whole tokyO! well, i'm really confident in exploring tokyo this time round! cos i'm quite confident in conversing le! haha~ BUT my sense of direction is poor. but i think it'll be really fun to use a map to find our way! cool and exciting!


moses lim and us! he's a chef there!


A pretty photo~

Hope we can meet up in Sept for a Kbox sessioN! yeah, the remaining 2 sat august is booked liao! 1 with ks, ah yin and yuexin and the last doing DUTY! haha! alright, 3 more months to our ORD triP! wee!

and so... NDP has finally come to an end. The 3 months of hardwork has finally paid off as a near perfect show was put up. The boisterous and encouraging spectators rewarded us with thunderous applause. It's truly gratifying.


That's samuel, lip yong and sir! haha~ he always give this funny face.


now, i'm in it!

The atmosphere was really good yesterday just that a few technical glitches occurred. the fire curtain was wrongly activated and the sound system was a little messed up during green city. though it was a tad disappointing initially, the show has to go on~ and it's the last few moments that we have to make it memorable for the audience since what's done couldn't be undone. the only way is to make the last part a bang~ and we did it as the pretty and spectacular fireworks nv failed to wow the spectators and the emo finale song 'will you' (the slower rendition) succeeded in stirring patriotic emotions in the spectators. It's the first time I've seen so many ppl singing the national anthem. and i guess, we deserve a pat on our backs.


nic, lip yong and I!


My OC and I. haha my boss since i'm his PA~


lip yong, alvin and I~

In retrospect, These 3 months have been really busy, filled with ups and downs. Time that we had sacrificed whiche could otherwise be used to meet up friends is an agony sometimes. But it's all worth the cause! Looking at yesterday's result can completely prove my point. Indeed, the chinese adage "tai xia shi nian gong, tai shang yi fen zhong".


That's weidi's cousin, weijie and I


adorable amin with us~


tallie with us~ so many HCnians!


Finally, wen chee and I! haha~ it's great to see so many HC frens in charge of the various parts of the performance!

hi, minasan. watashi wa eric tan desu. Ima wa guntai ni imasu. shuumi wa suiei to badminton wo suru koto desu. suiei wa ichiban suki na shuumi desu. douzo yoroshiku, onegaishimasu. yeap~ and this was how I introduced myself today to the new class-- Pre-advance 2! yeah~! It was quite a different learning environment from PA1 where most people are still wobbly with their particles and patterns. PA2 serves as a more holistic training to my conversation and listening. Was initially afraid that I'll be lousier, and thus a little stressed. however, got quite relaxed after having a few conversations in class as we're of about the same standard. nevertheless, there are always new things to learn from them too! alright~ so motivated to continue improve my jap!

well well, so after my lesson, I went suntec to meet weidi and samuel for dinner and to visit the travel fairs! and guess who i saw in the same cabin as me~! pamela, my angel cum senior class senior! i didn't approach her initially as i was sure if that person was her. and when i went up to the control station, we met again! and she frantically waved to me, which added on to my affirmation. and i feel that this is really fate! I could have lost the chance of talking to this senior for 1 year 8 months, but I still met her in the end! we last met in jan 2006, 1 day before my enlistment. still remember that vividly! ahha~ and we chatted while i walked her to suntec to meet her cousin since i was earlY! haha~ so many things to chat under the sun. like her exchange program in canada and my approaching-ord life! maybe one of these days, should just meet up with her! and she's still my demure, pretty angel.

ok~ and met weidi and samuel for the travel fair! since, it's free and easy, we just have to compare the prices offered by the different agencies. well, and chan brothers appears to have the upper hand. anyway~ my dad has applied a citibank sup card for me, so perhaps can use this card for rebates and discounts at chan brothers! yeah, and shawn (tallie) will be joining us!

alright, so i have my nov and dec packed! 1st to tokyo with bmt frens from 14th to 22nd, then italy and swiss with parents, then taiwan with HCnians. haha! crazily packed, and i shall earn lots of money starting for next year january!