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Sunday, April 29, 2007




Nice sleeepy Sunday=)





Managed to catch some floorball at Valhall before sleeping the whole day away=)







And looks like therell be more rooms to draw and play around with:P haha.....wooh!

I need to study sumthg soon...=S as in start..on anything!


Title and registration

~Death cab for a cutee~




4/29/2007 11:35:00 PM


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Another Birthday surprise...This time for Hanfeng=)







































4/29/2007 02:08:00 AM


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Saturday, April 28, 2007




TGIF!!


Such a looong and tiring week....totally shagged!

Today was a good end to the looong week=) Day started out unpromising....with early morning slow traffic and a long video on communication skills. But lunch break after that was fantastic=) We ended up driving to east coast road and having the famous prawn mee!=) After which some of us went back to lynette's house see her dogs and play mahjong. (lynette, if ur reading this..pls send the foto=))
The afternoon was LOOOONG and dreary tho....with close to 4 HOURS of walking and standing. In fact, history taking with patients offered a nice reprieve from close-to-back-breaking-periods of standing listening to doctors banter incessantly. Standing still is worse than walking=S And i hope doctors/tutors read this...please! if u intend to talk for close to 45 min at one shot, DON'T do it standing (especially when you have a wall to lean on to and we dont/daren't out of respect) I think basic communication skills wld have allowed u to pick up NON-VERBAL CUES like pple shuffling their feet and others almost dozing off. We are not discounting the content of your words..but how can u expect pple to really listen to you at 3 in the afternoon, along a hot corridor, after walking around....while standing for 45 minutes. Get a room or sit down somewhere to discuss?
Fortunately, after that, it was onto secret recipe to celebrate Hon's bday...with the rj floorball pple=) Seriously funny gang! (sadly, no floorball due to some unexpected situations..sorry to those who went down=S)
















In all a pretty nice week=)

Think i shld sleep soon...long day tmr too.

And i think my cam is getting old and has received far too many knocks and bumps...the fotos are getting blurrier and blurrier=S



4/28/2007 12:55:00 AM


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Friday, April 27, 2007




Signal Fire---Snow Patrol

Theme Song for Spiderman 3....a very sweet video=)



4/27/2007 02:03:00 AM


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Happy Birthday Honlyn!
Ok....first 2 fotos are of the guys in my cg learnin how to scrub.....the surgically clean way=P



And here are the fotos of hon's preparation and party......=)







































Hope you had a wonderful bday surprise=) May u have many more beautiful years ahead!=)





4/27/2007 12:21:00 AM


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Tuesday, April 24, 2007




Happy Birthday Zhihan=)









Long long day! ran ALL over Singapore to get SOO many things. got books, shopped for my 2 pants...and some stuff=P



4/24/2007 11:35:00 PM


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Monday, April 23, 2007




Important decisions in life....


Like a letter to become a Singapore citizen has arrived.....among other stuff.
(anyone with feedback/opinions on citizenship...can share ur valuable insights? esp those who converted=))


Life is always complicated....

I guess blogs can be misleading if u only show certain stuff. Like how cousins, uncles, aunts and old friends have preconceived notions abt certain stuff aft readin/seein the fotos...but yeah, i guess words of wisdoms from elders are good....u must enjoy wad ur doing=) Anw, this blog is more abt stuff tt are done in groups or openly known=P No private life here=P nor any "hmmm" stuff.....go figure wad "hmmm" means....

Alrdy kinda a big step as it is to trust closer frens with certain secrets and sides of u in the hope that they'll keep it safe.....so nope, nothing personal on www=P


4/23/2007 10:57:00 PM


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Happy Birthday Chiara=)







Well, first day of skl started today.... woke up at 6 just to hear some pretty useless nonsense..sigh! followed by tons of really standard briefings and stuff. Briefings by NUH was even more redundant. Spent abt a total of 15 min for both med and surgical briefings.
Drove to town and stoned for some nice chit chat in my car=P and bily bombers after tt....Super stuffed...
Then went over to lynettes house to see OT and Chocolate...who are quite big and cute=) though they are seriously full of shit!
was to sleepy to take any fotos...tho i brought my cam.


4/23/2007 10:33:00 PM


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Sunday, April 22, 2007




Happy Birthday Chiara=)





























Finally went shopping and bought my leather shoes=) trusty hush puppies=P


Came home to yet another birthday party for my sis..o.O..but this time, it was with her frens.







4/22/2007 11:56:00 PM


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Happy Birthday ZHIHAN!!!=)

















































Have a wonderful and blessed year ahead! Thanks for being such a great n caring friend to all of us=)


And my toenail is still a deep purple from yesterday's floorball....hmmm...hope it doesn fall off!=S






4/22/2007 01:37:00 AM


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Friday, April 20, 2007




Happy Birthday Christine=)

Felt bad for coming home late...so i decided i shall be a "nice" brother and fufill some of her requests=P

Interesting past 2 days.....ran so many errands. And had interesting conversations with pple. Realised tt i SUCK at small talk. Most of the time, i wld rather sit and stone than to engage in chit chat with pple or friends. Ill only talk abt stuff tt go beyond "superficial"..not tt i dont like to join in or sumthg..but my lousy brain can't recall anything interesting for me to chip in...so i got nothing to say? As in, i enjoy the company, and do tons of stupid random shit...but yeah...haha....ok..nvm..

All the best to all those who had vivas! take care..all of you have done ur best...do take a nice break this weekend=)

Drive home with renji brought back memories of how terrible my class was, as primary skl kids....but yet, somehow, that neighbourhood skl brought up different kinds of kids into a totally varied collage of adults now. We gave our teachers headaches (amongst other things, like flying desks)...and were seriously kids from hell, but we sure had a lot of fun. All i wish for now, when i think back, is that some of these teachers know that they have impacted our lives in a big way---moulding our lives and leaving big imprints in our minds. Well, so here's a tribute to my primary school teachers of the graduating batch of st. stephens 1997 (i think). Teachers like mr chiam, the old (60+++) fatherly chinese teacher who always carried a cane wherever he went and personally coached our table tennis team...he kept telling us to grow up to be someone. (we've faithfully met up as a class to visit him at his hse every yr aft he retired, during cny, til sec skl) Mrs Jones who OPENED our minds to words such as sex. To mr ali, miss zhang (yes ...the current pe/chinese teacher of rgs....we were her first coaching job here in singapore i think....she cld barely speak english then=P), mr aljunied (who went on to coach ri too) and mr stephen....for coaching the track team and literally bringing us up=P. Art teachers who actually taught art (not the retarded art sessions in most primary skls now which get taken up by other lessons such as math or science).....and random discipline masters (such as mr thompson) who would shout over the mic during assembly claiming to come from the police/army/gangs....and be more than ready to deal with our parents abt issues pertaining to "manhandling" us, hooligans. Miss Nah, the math (or is it sci?) teacher who wld yank our collar like some rag doll when we were naughty to get our attention. Mr and MRs Raquizah who SERIOUSLY taught us english from scratch! And the chinese teacher, mrs Boey, who had quite a bad odour and limped...who we hated then and realli gave her a hard time.....she never gave up. Respect!

Haha...you should have seen our disciplinary methods. for example, one of them would be of us lining up outside the staff room with our arms outstretched....palms facing down....and they would put books on our outstretched hands for the whole of recess...(we cldnt drop the books, and with our hands faciing down, we cldnt do anything unless someone took it off)....sometimes, the discipline master or respective teacher wld come out of the staff room and place a mug on our books while they talk to us. In a way, they always made (or tried to make) us see wad we were doin wrong.

Life was simple (in a warped way) then...and somehow all these yrs of keeping in contact with some of my primary skl mates..i realised tt they are much simpler, honest and wad u see is wad u get. And the lives some of them are living... some are like a reality check while others are a breath of fresh air. I was like one of 4 to make it to ri from my primary skl. (super culture shock man...thot it was some sort of resort! plus it was weird coming from a primary skl of kids who act more than talk...into a gep class of pple who talk more than act). Most of us aspired to go to SJI (i actually put tt as my first choice!) while the rest went on to st. pats and continued their legacy of throwing down tables and chairs from the hall after exams.

My respect goes out to all teachers now.....especially teachers who are going thru all those moments of heartpain, cough, illness, frustration, disillusion and thots of giving up. THANK YOU FOR CARING! For all it's worth, the dysfunctional batch of st stephens respect each and every one of you=)

I think i shld do a short stint of teaching at my old primary skl to see if the kids there have changed. Heh.

ok....random crap tt have no relevance to my life now.....but are nice to put down into words since there's time to burn before the yr 2 hols end=P

Anyway, short talk with Mrs Lee has made me consider/think abt helping out in project lokun. Everybody do a small bit and support the neurokit and postcards!


4/20/2007 11:12:00 PM


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Thursday, April 19, 2007




Please call me=(

Viva results are out tmr. If i do get it, please call me=S

(Dont call me in the morning for any other weird reason like to wake me up or even worse, try to prank me....not funny. Ill kill you)

otherwise....THANK YOU=)


4/19/2007 02:49:00 AM


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Wednesday, April 18, 2007






It's done=)










And i finally went shopping and bought 2 long sleeve shirts=) first bike lessons tmr...hope im a fast learner! n tt i dont fall or crash into sumthg:P


4/18/2007 11:58:00 PM


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.....shld be done by tmr...


collecting the cut glass tmr=)


4/18/2007 02:49:00 AM


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Day at the ZOO=)



sadly the ben and jerry's at the zoo wasnt free=S
after which floorball with vj pple was pretty ok...exercise is never a bad thing=P
tired tho..heh..somehow dint feel like runnin much:P


4/18/2007 01:15:00 AM


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Tuesday, April 17, 2007




"I wake up every morning and i piss excellence.."



"Is that a catch phrase or....epilepsy"

Seriously one of the movies u have to catch in a group....ull laugh ur head off. shall sleep early and TRY to wake up early tmr =S


4/17/2007 12:40:00 AM


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Monday, April 16, 2007




Perpetually-non-sticky-post-its-that-keep-getting-lost

Since i have such a terrible memory......as in i noe wad i wanna do...but i forget things i need to do to get it done..sigh.

SO in my bid to remember the info for my next project...which i aim/hope to complete in one day cuz of time constraints...im gonna type everything online....

measurements....:

length: 270cm
double socket to wall: 24cm
mirror to wall:76/77cm
bed to telephone: 95
bed to bend: 117cm
bed to 2nd bend: 135cm
bed to mirror: 194cm

height: 25, 50.3cm
socket ht: 34cm

Stuff to prepare/get:

main table frame from ikea
legs (2 pairs or 3 pairs?)
wooden strips (art friends?)
industrial glue (for wood)
nails (at home)
varnish or spraypaint (black? hardware store.....along upper changi?)
tape liner thingey (FIND!)
sandpaper (somewhere at home)
pebbles (not impt....)
glass (from geylang get there by 5! itll take abt one day for machine cut!)

leg protectors.
felt

Other stuff:

repair phone
check sentosa!
call phi phi


4/16/2007 04:18:00 AM


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Sunday, April 15, 2007




Happy Birthday Girl=)


















sigh....how redundant and retarded. I think the driving centres should SERIOUSLY RE-evaluate the purpose of their COMPULSORY 4 theory lessons. They made us go back for close to 7 hours just to do past year theory test questions?! anyway, after tt and mass, it was alrdy 2 plus....AND i TOTALLY FORGOT MY SEC 4 CLASS GATHERING!!! $%^&*^&*

i specifically wrote it down on my calender ...clearly...but somehow i forgot! BUT thinking back...with dinner in the evening, i dont think i cld have had any other choice but to give the sec 4 class gathering a miss. sigh..... i just hope theres another one soon

ended up goin to ikea for awhile....but bought nothing..just lookin for ideas...


4/15/2007 11:59:00 PM


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Riding theory lessons are quite retarded.....

well, went to video ezy and borrowed tons of movies:P which was good:) stoning in my room watchin movie aft movie=)


4/15/2007 04:08:00 AM


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Saturday, April 14, 2007




Floorball and The Reaping....


Woke up with grand intentions of doing a lot of stuff....but lazed around the house eating lunch and watching tv:P
But still a good day, cuz managed to drag mysellf out for some florrball in rj, and a movie after tt---the reaping, which wasnt bad=)


anw, the new rj has its character now=) different from the old one...but wasnt as cold and empty as when we first visited it.....it looks like pple "belong" there now=P just like how we belong to the ghim moh rj.


anw, fetched my sis from skl...cuz she had council camp. THAT brought back tons of memories=) the weird whistles.. "yes ccic!" falling in and reporting strength, buddy time...etc.
And it was cuz of our batch, tts why every single batch aft tt had a screwed up twenty-sumthg shirt Apparently, according to seniors, its supposed to be twenty-three on top...and an upside down eerht-ytnewt. so tt when we look down on our own shirt we can see it ourselves. And not just a mere reflection. But well, from our batch onwards it became a reflection..heh.
Guess tts our batch's legacy for u.=P


4/14/2007 02:04:00 AM


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Friday, April 13, 2007




In time?:P



ktm 200...though i think this wld make my parents realli unhappy with "this reckless piece of danger"...so this is out for now.


And since im dreaming, let's just go straight for the paperino vespa...only about a 100 made in the world....other than tt...i think a vintage vespa wld be realli sweet:)


Both of which can be ridden with a class 2B:P heh...but i noe for a fact tt i wld have to save for anything tt comes in only 2 wheels=S


4/13/2007 03:38:00 AM


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Nice sloooow day=)




Phantom of the opera...=) A great musical with REALLY FANTASTIC SETS!









Plus....I'm on my way to getting my bike license=) wooh...lessons soon! Think ill start next week=)



And...i may actually start learning golf=) courtesy of miss chiara chong=)


4/13/2007 12:22:00 AM


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Wednesday, April 11, 2007




It's finally over..=)



I really hope its REALLY over......



Finally..things to do...now tt year 2 is over (hopefully):

-Get my bike licence..
-Find a weird shelf/table thing-ey
-Find out abt patentships...and how to apply for one...

Read all my storybooks=)

And may i go SOMEWHERE! ANYWHERE!=)


4/11/2007 10:59:00 PM


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Tuesday, April 03, 2007




Because i was bored...

happened to bump into huilin's blog=P




4/03/2007 04:47:00 AM


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Monday, April 02, 2007




Happy Birthday Aaron=)

Was kinda expecting a prank since u held it on april first=P nice place...and nice food too=) You've grown into a great guy=P somehow doesn seem like i've known u since sec 2=P quite long.





























SOMEONE STOP TIME!!! finals in one week's time....=S...=S...=(


4/02/2007 02:03:00 AM


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