Char Pa Lang Post

The 3 big's gathered in one hearty/ artery colggin mouth full :P Prawn Mee, Char Kway Tiao and Oyster Omelette ! Anyways, the following post are a mixture of last weeks life as well as saturdays outing (hence the post name -_-)
NDP rehearsals as seen from the Esplanade ! I noticed 3 of the 4 apache's had the 4.5 million dollar radar dome on top of the rotor blades.
Then it was to Mezza 9 for LONG ISLAND ICED lemon TEA (or what I normally call Iced Lemon Tea)

The week was ... SEX ! hahas... actually mostly friday lar. Met peanut at border's before heading over to National Museum to watch Breakfast at Tiffany's !! The show i was DYING to watch since i first heard Andy Williams version of moon river 2 years ago. [another Legends of the Fall...]

Ok, I SWEAR i did not see that sign on the steps hehehehe... or maybe, i did ! Was not in my normal Tshirt and jeans today, cause I had to do Solution Selling Call today. But it was ALL worth it... the night without sleep, the rush to Hong Leong Building to photocopy the sales contracts and the 1 hour+ search on the net to find for a suitable Soda dispensing tap !Then it was to BUCKIE's !!!! For a nice cuppa CM, the way i like it served too. Nice thing that peanut actually remembered how i like my CM served ;)
Then it was down to museum for Breakfast at Tiffany's ! We actually went to the old SJI (SAM) and like freaking did not know where the Banyan tree was hahas.... tired asking the receptionist at SAM, but she wasn't really of much help ...... lucky there was some kind of a crowd over at the national museum, which drew us to the right place. The show was really good, the first 30 or so minutes was actually not that nice, I guess I was getting adjusted to the 1960's method of talking, to the awesome environment around me and to ignoring the occassional fags who decided to stand up or to walk past the screen.... But after that, I began to understand the plot more, it is actaully quite a nice movie, I had no regrets watching it (pablo , you really missed a GREAT show man hahas... not to rub it in :D )

The show ended at 10pm or so, and we made our way to PS for dinner. Then to home... I took the 143 back from behind taka, against my better judgement... (i normally took it infront of Tangs, but i was abit shag liao, plus the night before did not slp, then on the bus, i ignored another sign, i realised i was heading towards novena, which is again in the opposite direction of where I am meant to be... but i ignored that and continued to sleep... till i reached Toa Pa Yoh interchange.... hahas... took the train all the way to clementi MRT then walked a HELL long road back home (im the kind that will rather walk thru hell then spend $5 on cab fair, rather starve to death than eat alone... u get the picture)Ya, becasue of that, I missed the last bus from clementi MRT and had to take a nice leisurely stroll back to my house..... im sure u can estimate the distance that i walked (red line)...
On the way home, at the bus stop opposite west coast wet market, i chanced upon this guy who was on his way home too :P hahas... its amazing what small details you notice when you are alone.

Another attempt at making pasta .. ! Minced pork and curly pasta in chives cream sauce.

This picture is quite significant to TB17, I feel compelled to post it :P We were basically sorting out all the 500+ survey forms we conducted ! We were actually so into the task that we initially sat on the floor outside the admin office to do it which was like totally unglam/embarrassing. The admin staff had to "chase" us off the ground and bring us into a room. One of the many think/thin times we spent together which we or atleast I will remember. Recently, CEO posted how TB17 was the best class in 3 years of NP studies. I actaully thought that somehow, TB17 is one of the most "on/havoc" (in a good way) class in my 3 years. Was it the BBQ? Was at Fish and Co? Perhaps at Essential Brews? or maybe at the sports day event? or simply because of the many many many hours we had to spend together doign projects in our sub groups.

How foolish I felt, being angry over not getting into TB16 during the self time table selections last semester. Now to think about it, it was actually the biggest blessing in disguise, and if given the choice again, I would no doubt have chosen 17 in a heart beat. It just sad that we will only spend one semester together, but I guess like the saying goes, all things must come to an end. Just hope that TB17 ends, but the friendships don't.

... cute basta*d :P

Ok! So its finally the weekend again ! Was actually working on adding elements, so as you can see, the top part states freehomepages...... which is my hosting website, apparently the picture it was supposed to host is not appearing....................

Today was more or less (ATLEAST I HOPE) the last private driving lesson. Can 6 private lessons do me a great deal of improvement ???? Well, we'll see on monday :P Fridays for me, are the best and yet worst... trainings are really irritating, cause its on a friday, and you wanna go out, but because I now have to be there to handle payment or to look after the young ones, I can no longer pon friday meets ... today was the worst ..

CORNY NUTFUL CHOC CHIP PIE !!!
Arghhhh ! Today was soooo frustrating... went to Cedans at 6pm, to find noone there, then at 630 liddat, CW arrived. This makes it one guy ..... we decided that we would then leave at 8pm SHARP. low and behold, at 740pm JUST as CW was about to fire off his last few rounds, 2 pistol shooters saunter in.... (thnx seb... I thought you were my friend... :P). One of these young punks even had the nerve to blame me for loosing their way... "how come you guys call is cedans, its HTNS wad, becasue of tt we lost our way".
Then that really put me on top of the world liao sia... but NOOOO, that was not enough, heaven decided to deal me another ace.... at 840pm, 2 rifle shooters entered.... [thnx man.. now i cant leave will 940pm..] And so, thats how I spent my "WONDERFUL, cornily nutfulishously chocolatey chip pie" of a TGIF .. hahas. I guess sometimes you goto go beyond the call of duty.

BUSY!!! Very busy week indeed.... I would have posted more often/earlier, but my attempts were constantly thwarted by "That something X'tra" ..... meaning project works ...... Guess I can't complain too much, it could have been worse, like I could have many projects AND a suck thumb group... (im referring to one of my NON CORE modules here....) So i can be considered lucky to have a great/ retarded/ energetic//// team for the Integrated projects.

So, summing up my eggciting week !!

The cam which I won on ebay (and which I blew most of my monthly allowance on.... assuming that a certain telco would have paid me earlier....) finally arrived from Germany, after 1year+ of eyeing it !!! Field testing on Kodak B&W begins.

Went to Woodlands Civic Centre/ Woodlands National Library to interview the sales managressss, I managed to charm 2hours of her time from her :P She was very reciprocative to the interview, and even gave me added information. I now know the world of insurance agents a lil more. The SM report, I thought was just crap... well, Im just glad that that is done and over with... 4 weeks more to my freedom from studying for the next 2years+ ...

Followed dad to NTUC at bukit timah plaza for our usual (more or less) usual grocery shopping....... and I found this bottle of "Things" :D hahas. I shalt say no more ! One of the many perks to why i enjoy grocery shopping, get to see new releases, people and weird stuff.

I actually visited Gelare TWICE this week.. ok, so maybe I wasn't ENTIRELY busy, just that whenever I thought of blogging, something comes up. The first, on saturday, was with dad. We shared a big ass (or rather small by Kens standards) waffle with 2 scoops of cream. The waitress was laughing at me when I reasoned that I did not want whip cream cause it was fattening, and there I was requesting for a large waffle with 2 scoops of ice cream, adding whip cream or not no longer meant much of a diff hahas... anyway, we shared the guilty platter, so it wasn't that bad in the end.

Say what you like, buy guys will be guys hahas, and one trait we commonly share is messy eating :D If you(female) don't see that in your guy friend, he is either trying to impress you, OR you guys just arn't close enough for him to reveal his true colours :P [my excuse for being rude to my friends - "we so close liao, still talk what manners, don't need lar"]

My second Gelare waffer in a week, this time was with fren at Ho Lang V, and I got the whole piece to meselves ! Yum yum.

This week was also Napfa week... the most dreaded test I ever took in my life.... dreaded casue of the embarrassment of not being able to meet up to the physical expectations the nation set for me.... I did however beat my 2.4 personal best, becasue I actaully did put in effort this time, so I guess that is what Im most proud of :P .. NVM ! After POP ... after I spend my "THAT SOMETHING X'TRA" time in NS BMT, I swear never again to become unfit ! I will serve my nation with honour and glory ! Anyways, I "celebrated" my failure with syd at JP :P hahas.... [and thanx ar peanut.. encourage me go KFC family feast.. so much for being my fitness instructor ! hahas.]

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Was telling JH that day, how every collector has his/her "monster" / ultimate goal (lambo for car collectors, villa for property collectors/ 10carat diamond for jewel collectors/ ghandi's unwashed underpants for history collectors :P etc.) for me, my ULTIMATE [though may not be that ultmiate for some lar..... since they already have it..... buggers...] is the Leica M7 ! This is the camera before the digitized M8, frankly I cannot say if its gonna be the last of Leica's film cameras.. but I guess not. Well, I was contented with the M6 (Jennifer used it in the movie Blood Diamonds !) or the M3 or 4, but JH had to show me this ... hahas. I calculated, at $600 per month OIAP china,if I don't eat or drink anything OR BUY ANYTHING for that matter, for the entire stint at OIAP, I just maybe able to buy it...... so Im guessing thats a no deal... till I get a little older. Well, it doesn't hurt to dream :P After all, the Rollei35 started out as a dream 1 +2 years ago, and now its fulfilled !

today was .... SINFUL !!!! ARGHHHHH....

Lunch at Fish&Co with class to celeb pablo's BDae, then after that to Kim Tian road there to have kopi and kaya guyu WITH 2 eggs.... AND THEN to Queens for Pizza and satay for Sec2E 200~ gathering ... Tmr go gym must run from sun up till sun down again ! hahas......
The wallet and budget POKcha liao lar .. hiazzzzz...

Then at about 3+ ar, cannot really remember, after we finished meeting for lunch, when all was about to head home (including myself), I remembered that I had to fix a problem on my phone... hahas freaking ditched pablo at the last minute on the MRT carriage to go back to WheelLock place to Nokia Care, only to realise that my phone problem(which was having to delete the 1300+sms) could actaully be fixed by just Marking ALL, and then deleting .... lucky I din wait for 40mins like an idiot sia hahaha....

That was about 4pm liao.... started calling up people after that, to see if anyone could "waste" the next 2 hours of their lives with me, but I don't really know why lar, but it seems that WHENEVER Ive got lots of free time on my hands, other people just don't ... :P

Called like freaking 3 people and all had either gone home, got school, or "xiao ar, go home lar so much time ....."

So I ventured to sit at WheelLock place one of the seats to do a sudoku puzzle ... like SERIOUS sia... the puzzle really stated "Are You Bored" freaking answered my call... After reaching a roadlock in the puzzle, my mind began to wonder, then I remembered SJH had just gone home, so I decided to give my luck a try, and this time, there was finally someone to meet and waste time eith me !! hahas... so that was how i ended up at Kim TIan till about 630 liddat, then head down to Queens for the class gathering...

So fast sia.. slowly one by one all got driving or biking license liao ... haiz I just wanna get mine soon... apparently, samK is in the same ditch as I am hahas... seeing all the people was really nostalgic... "xiang dang nian" when we were so young. . then soon its gonna be uni liao, then married etc. etc.... time really passes fast ..

This is some WEIRD shit man ... hahas this is the Minox digital classic (Leica), its got both the Leica and Minox name on it cause Leica acquired it ! Minox btw, is a brand famous for making subminiature cameras !! It takes the shape of a Leica M3 and has a 1mp resolution (the 4.0 has 4mp). I guess I thought its just kinda cool looking, but enough of that crap hahas. Was at Buckie's recently, to try out their new Azuki Fruppacino, much against a friends advice .... I'm sad to say, that though I HONTONI support Starbucks, I'm gonna have to give them a D for this creation ... coffee was just too over powering, leaving only a VERY subtle hint of red beans, meaning, I had to freaking actively taste the drink and analyse it in my tongue before actually detecting the red bean flavour... my advice to yall, If you really want red bean, try out TCC's Azuki Freeze. That one will really knock you out ! AND its healthy too.
Went down to little India for dinner with my parents.... at this place called The Banana Leaf. The Mango Lassi btw.... I still can't forget that taste.. each hearty gulp BURSTING with flavours !!! But talk about palying with food :P hahas. Me and daddy decided to eat out meals real Indian style, without fork and spoons ! I got back in touch with nature ??? hahas... was my first at eating without cutlery ... atleast my first doing it outside (And I'm the kind DIE DIE will use fork and spoon if got chance, even to eat noodles or porridge etc.)

After dinner, I headed down to Timber ..... the place was disappointing (sorry man...) but seriously, I did not expect the place to be open aired.. and if I remember correctly, the seats can't even lean back sia.... stood at the entrance for a minute, then left, so we (dad and myself) decided to go Jazz@South WHICH was infinately more comfortable. The band, Varga Duo was playing last night, and we had good time long long. Got to try my first Barcadi 151 with ginger ale, it doesn't taste as potent as I have heard it would, but I guess thats what make it all the more potent.. before you know it, you tho liao.... I was ok after drinker a rocks glass on rocks, but I guess another 2 or 3 more and I would probably have gone all wild and hot :P and the Jug of Heineken which I had did not really help either hahas :P had a great time nonetheless, great food, great music but SUCKY prices... together, father and son downed 80bux worth of drinks that night ....

TGIF I LOVE YOU !!!!!!!

FINALLY ... TGIF is here ... haiz..

The week has kinda been retarded but in a sense "fun". Slept at like after 3am for 4 of the 5 days this week, once of which was at 5am.. hahas. But well, thats just the way it is.

Got back MRSH test too, and I had not flunked as I had expected to..... that was indeed a relief, thnx to SOMEONE who informed me that Lee had said more than half of the population failed.... RIGHT AFTER my recovery from dengue :P hahas. So we were like freaking worried lar, living in anxiety [or atleast I was] for the last 2 weeks +

Managed to get my emo movie done too, and presented it in WISP class, which would have been perfect if not for one small mistake, I used the term UN instead of League of Nations .... and some ass had to make a big hooha out of it .... lucky my info was correct, just the misuse of terminology. On the whole, the presentation went well, of course the punk who refused to do up "its" part in the ppt. presentation tried to BS "its" way through, and ended up getting shot down by the teacher, much to our delight, though I guess that will nonetheless do some small colleteral damage to the team effort. Seeing the teacher shooting down "its" claims as statements one by one and getting "it" confused was nonetheless FOR ME.. a priceless moment :P It was like justice had been done for all the trouble "it" had caused me and the team...

MCOMM was also on its way to completion, infact it was finally completed, thanks to the great efforts of AL,ST and SL, I swear ... without these people, combined with the pressure from the WISP team, there would more or less be no reason for me whatsoever to continue school.... (Uni and ADs would be the reasons tho :P) these guys were really the water for my flames. hahas . I feel kinda guilty, cause my part for the report was flawed, which caused abit of a pileup on our teams schedule :P

And so, without further ado !!! The 4 baskets from TB17 presents to you our printed ad for our product - Organic Beer :P

Special thnx to photoshop CS 2 and SL for the logo, and the other 2 members for your constructive feedbacks (KH for his) and the team also who helped do the other parts of the report while I dalied away on CS2. Apparently, working on those 6 rolls of films did teach me some new CS2 skills which I applied in this case (see peanut, ... it wasn't a waste of time :P hahas)

Gezond btw, is Dutch for healthy [given that asia pacific breweries is a combination of Singaporean and Dutch company, F&N and Heineken, we chose this name. "Healthy" beer just wouldn't cut it, and wouldn't look trendy and match our branding strategies.] <-- BTW, this part I was not smart enough to put in the main report...... we actaully missed out this explanation...

BTW, the WISP emo movie can be seen below. Its about 6mb + so wait for it to load if you wanna catch it :P Was initially banging on the Titanice Never and Absolution song, but it was too short, had to change it to 300's Now we are Free !! WHICH MEANT resyncing all the scenes and also adding in animations and words here and there - but from the teachers facial expression whilst watching it ..... all the time I spent was well worth it!!!

And yes ! MOH:Airborne Team has FINALLY released a release date for Airborne, and what perfect timing too... just after my finals and before OIAP !!!

After 2 years I finally get the chance to own a Rollei 35 !! Made in SG ... (I was hoping to get the one which was made in the Vaterland) guess when I have a better income I'll collect that one :P

Ok so....
the project groups been staying back for projects on a daily basis, we like freaking ended at 9pm today .. haahs
Naturally, we saw our true colours :P working together for so long on so many days... and I tend to burst out in oil on my face when stressed.....
Today was using the logic part of the brains, creating the Creative Brief and Report writing, I feel kinda paiseh cause my part more or less caused the group to slow down.... dumbass product positioning and branding strategy..... Not bad lar ide say this group. We all like lax and shit at the beginning of the meets, but we are ultimately all willing to stay back late to do and to help one another out.

Ah ok,
I completed my "EMO" WISP Holocaust video, let my group members and SJH preview, everyone seems to think that the words move too fast and the show not emo enough, more of a history lesson. hahas anyways, hope they enjoy it tomoroow when I show it in class :P

AHHH... just freaking can't wait for the beach CG outs this weekend and for this weekend to come.... also, 10days before my rollei arrives :P