Thursday, June 25, 2009 @ do you know what's worth fighting for?
apart for the last part which gave me a headache and made me wonder when the movie's about to end (note: it's over 2 hrs long), this show's worth a watch! the moment where optimus prime transformed we just went WOAH! and of course.. bumblebee is so cute as usual hah!
and hannah montana yesterday. yup not bad a movie if not for the poor quality online :( gonna download her songs soon. DO THE HOEDOWN!
Saturday, April 04, 2009 @ omg?
3 weeks to examS? how come this sem flies so fast?
i have been eating alot this week.. i think i overspent my allowance on food food and more food hurhur. sinful sinful. some of the specs met up on tuesday in megabites for a great lunch.. we had our combo set plus we shared meat lovers pizza YUMS =) think we are going to do so next week.
anyway the purpose of this post is to tell my brother how much i missed him! 1 week without my bro felt so weird.. no one to kajiao me, no one for me to kajiao, no one to fight with me, no one to play guitar with me. the whole house was so quiet and sian. glad he came back from obs. he looked so chaota la.. reminded me of my obs days hurhur. missed that place!
1 more test left.. ocean ocean.. and then it's good friday! looking forward to it (=
i have been eating alot this week.. i think i overspent my allowance on food food and more food hurhur. sinful sinful. some of the specs met up on tuesday in megabites for a great lunch.. we had our combo set plus we shared meat lovers pizza YUMS =) think we are going to do so next week.
anyway the purpose of this post is to tell my brother how much i missed him! 1 week without my bro felt so weird.. no one to kajiao me, no one for me to kajiao, no one to fight with me, no one to play guitar with me. the whole house was so quiet and sian. glad he came back from obs. he looked so chaota la.. reminded me of my obs days hurhur. missed that place!
1 more test left.. ocean ocean.. and then it's good friday! looking forward to it (=
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 @ come talk beauty!
it's a bit overdue but who cares anyway.
and well whether it is a success or not i am simply happy and relieved that's 1st event is finally over! in fact this event went pretty much smoothly with little hiccups (except perhaps at the beginning and at the end where there was quite a lot of questions asked during the QnA session). at least 1 major event down, 5 more to go before we step down! =)
it's the 2nd day of chinese new year. nothing much i guess, basically the same as previous years. except that once you hit the big 21, the adults consider you as an adult, and then you start to engage in adult activities. that's not very bad i think, considering that i get to hear more gossips pertaining to my family. today i had like 2 hrs of story-listening session at my 大姑's house. apparently the ramblings have not ended. will probably listen to it with my cousins again next year. and i guess by that time there will be even more stories to hear.. haha!
school's starting tmr. and i feel like typing "it's times like this that i totally regret putting a free day and squeezing my 6 mods into the other 4 days. " all over again. OH I JUST DID. DAMN! i wonder why do i have to keep going back to school when it's my free day. sighs.
and well whether it is a success or not i am simply happy and relieved that
it's the 2nd day of chinese new year. nothing much i guess, basically the same as previous years. except that once you hit the big 21, the adults consider you as an adult, and then you start to engage in adult activities. that's not very bad i think, considering that i get to hear more gossips pertaining to my family. today i had like 2 hrs of story-listening session at my 大姑's house. apparently the ramblings have not ended. will probably listen to it with my cousins again next year. and i guess by that time there will be even more stories to hear.. haha!
school's starting tmr. and i feel like typing "it's times like this that i totally regret putting a free day and squeezing my 6 mods into the other 4 days. " all over again. OH I JUST DID. DAMN! i wonder why do i have to keep going back to school when it's my free day. sighs.
Thursday, January 01, 2009 @ 300th post!
welcome to 2009. i certainly hope that this will be a good year ahead, though the reports say that the economic slowdown is going to be continue. oh mannnn
anyway, spent the last day of 2008 shopping with cj. we went alot of places and shopped for quite a while. around 6 hrs i think. from bugis to penisular plaza to funan then to marina square. i think the most rewarding area will be bugis. i got 3 tops and 2 shorts! at least i have something decent to wear to school soon.
after shopping went to meet up with parents and had steamboat for dinner as part of mom's bday celebrations. this is the 2nd time eating steamboat in 4 days, the 1st being 64's gathering at yimin's house where we had stemboat also with gtan! anyway, steamboat was good. it's at goldenmile there. abit ex.. 40 bucks for 4 pple, but it's worth the price! the food's good (:
so, 2009 is here. my bro's going school tmr, which means that i have the entire laptop to myself from tmr onwards until i start school too. haha gonna watch the shows that i couldnt watch in the hols cus my bro is around! harold and kumar here i come :D
oh ya there's bidding. bidding sucks!
anyway, spent the last day of 2008 shopping with cj. we went alot of places and shopped for quite a while. around 6 hrs i think. from bugis to penisular plaza to funan then to marina square. i think the most rewarding area will be bugis. i got 3 tops and 2 shorts! at least i have something decent to wear to school soon.
after shopping went to meet up with parents and had steamboat for dinner as part of mom's bday celebrations. this is the 2nd time eating steamboat in 4 days, the 1st being 64's gathering at yimin's house where we had stemboat also with gtan! anyway, steamboat was good. it's at goldenmile there. abit ex.. 40 bucks for 4 pple, but it's worth the price! the food's good (:
so, 2009 is here. my bro's going school tmr, which means that i have the entire laptop to myself from tmr onwards until i start school too. haha gonna watch the shows that i couldnt watch in the hols cus my bro is around! harold and kumar here i come :D
oh ya there's bidding. bidding sucks!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 299th post
I have somehow managed to make my end-of-year post the 299th one. How apt it is. Then I can celebrate 2009 with my 300th post for this blog! Hur hur.
In retrospect, 2008 seems to be easily summarised by one word: 乱. Be it in the social, economic or political aspects, this year is simply nothing but a mess. I doubt there is need to elaborate more; we can simply summarise the events that happened as "3F crisis": food, fuel and financial. To add on, we should not forget all the disasters that happened: cyclone in Myanmar, earthquake in Sichuan (the same time that Chelsea lost to Man Utd in Champions League), and so on. Not that there isn’t really anything good to remember this year, such as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the 2 cheena pandas that went to Muzha zoo in Taiwan (and I am cursing as I am typing this, because these 2 pandas should have moved to Taiwan 1 year ago so that I could have visited them during my ORD trip blahblah) and I got my GST offset package and all. But after thinking for so long, these are the few things that are worth mentioning about, unless you guys can enlighten me further. So I can simply say that this year is basically a pretty bad one and may 2009 be a better year. I mean it.
Sidetrack: during yesterday’s meet-up session, wong mentioned that it felt as though we just ORD not long ago. Time flies; it has certainly been a while (over a year in fact) since we stepped out of camp with our pink IC. Post-NS life has been nothing but work for me. I was exposed to 2 companies during my 6-month holiday, each being pretty renowned in its own area. Come to think of it, although time passed by very quickly, it seemed as though it was forever when I was working. I have decided that working life sucks and it felt really good when I ended work at June, although I would say that during these 6 months, I really learnt a lot of soft-skills that I probably wouldn’t have learnt elsewhere. And getting exposed to those office-politics probably wasn’t a totally bad thing, it just reminds you that one always have to be careful and tactful whenever something is done, so as not to offend the other party. I am glad that I have remembered this by heart and even during my university life now, I am applying what I have learnt while I was working as a temp staff.
Working in Recruit Express was no doubt an experience for me. Having able to work in a competitive and fast-paced environment, I was glad to be able to survive for the 3 months that I was there. The staffs are nice and friendly, and I am grateful towards my mentor Liz, who was there to assist and guide me whenever I met obstacles along the way. In addition, I have made a lot of friends with fellow temp staff and we are still meeting up after every one of us has left the company for our further studies. I am glad that everyone is alive and kicking well. Of course, credits go to my working buddy CJ; it’s really fate that we are able to work together in a corporate world after working together in HQ coy for 1 year plus.
I also gained insight through working in SMRT, though working there was pretty much a chore. Working as a temp staff but covering a perm position was certainly not easy; the amount of stress level was high and having a perm staff as your employee was definitely weird. But I still managed to survive working there for 4 months and I am glad I did as I really learnt what it is like to be a HR executive after going through various recruitment drives and handling post recruitment issues like salary issues, promotion, and resignation and termination cases. I still vaguely remember one incident that some drivers were repatriated on the day that they were terminated due to undesirable behaviour (sorry but I can’t reveal too much, it’s private and confidential). It was just so... dramatic and I could still remember my boss saying “it’s part of the job. You have to be cold-hearted sometimes and be rational.”
School started in August, and between June and then I had 2 orientation camps and I am glad I went for it, cause I made new friends with my OG (quote: zee(: says: you made new friends. XD) MAFIA and CONAN! And lots of other new friends as I joined different sub-committees in Science Club. School has been fun and interesting so far and sometimes stressful and tiring too, especially during labs and projects. But I am not complaining because I feel that I have made the right choice so far by majoring in Chemistry. The December holidays have been great so far, I completed a marathon, caught up with friends, went Malaysia, bought a new phone, highlighted by hair… changes (for the better?) and now that the hols are ending soon, it’s time to recharge and gear up for the coming semester!
Also, this year marked by 21st year in this world. It’s supposed to be a very significant year where you are supposed to have more freedom and such, but for me it’s nothing much I guess. Expect for more burdens ad more responsibilities, and probably higher expectations too especially I am the eldest son of the family and the eldest grandson for my maternal side and now that I am 21 I am expected to be able to do more things blahblah. But it’s ok, I am still handling it well, not that stressful at all. Being 21 means that friends around you turn 21 too, this meant lots of 21st-birthday parties to attend. Apart from parties there were lots of outings and meet up sessions; with my JC classmates, sec 4 classmates, army mates and also my RE temps. Busy busy busy! And I seriously spent A LOT this year as compared to the previous 20 years of my life. This is scary; I ought to spend less next year and start saving money.
This year has been nothing but eventful (good and bad, probably more bad events) but I am glad 2008’s coming to an end. I am gonna say what I am going to say last year, may 2009 be a better year for me, in terms of my work and studies and I also wish for better health for my family and friends.
Happy 2009! (in advance lah, still got 20 odd hours and I am going shopping later! WOO FINALLY)
In retrospect, 2008 seems to be easily summarised by one word: 乱. Be it in the social, economic or political aspects, this year is simply nothing but a mess. I doubt there is need to elaborate more; we can simply summarise the events that happened as "3F crisis": food, fuel and financial. To add on, we should not forget all the disasters that happened: cyclone in Myanmar, earthquake in Sichuan (the same time that Chelsea lost to Man Utd in Champions League), and so on. Not that there isn’t really anything good to remember this year, such as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the 2 cheena pandas that went to Muzha zoo in Taiwan (and I am cursing as I am typing this, because these 2 pandas should have moved to Taiwan 1 year ago so that I could have visited them during my ORD trip blahblah) and I got my GST offset package and all. But after thinking for so long, these are the few things that are worth mentioning about, unless you guys can enlighten me further. So I can simply say that this year is basically a pretty bad one and may 2009 be a better year. I mean it.
Sidetrack: during yesterday’s meet-up session, wong mentioned that it felt as though we just ORD not long ago. Time flies; it has certainly been a while (over a year in fact) since we stepped out of camp with our pink IC. Post-NS life has been nothing but work for me. I was exposed to 2 companies during my 6-month holiday, each being pretty renowned in its own area. Come to think of it, although time passed by very quickly, it seemed as though it was forever when I was working. I have decided that working life sucks and it felt really good when I ended work at June, although I would say that during these 6 months, I really learnt a lot of soft-skills that I probably wouldn’t have learnt elsewhere. And getting exposed to those office-politics probably wasn’t a totally bad thing, it just reminds you that one always have to be careful and tactful whenever something is done, so as not to offend the other party. I am glad that I have remembered this by heart and even during my university life now, I am applying what I have learnt while I was working as a temp staff.
Working in Recruit Express was no doubt an experience for me. Having able to work in a competitive and fast-paced environment, I was glad to be able to survive for the 3 months that I was there. The staffs are nice and friendly, and I am grateful towards my mentor Liz, who was there to assist and guide me whenever I met obstacles along the way. In addition, I have made a lot of friends with fellow temp staff and we are still meeting up after every one of us has left the company for our further studies. I am glad that everyone is alive and kicking well. Of course, credits go to my working buddy CJ; it’s really fate that we are able to work together in a corporate world after working together in HQ coy for 1 year plus.
I also gained insight through working in SMRT, though working there was pretty much a chore. Working as a temp staff but covering a perm position was certainly not easy; the amount of stress level was high and having a perm staff as your employee was definitely weird. But I still managed to survive working there for 4 months and I am glad I did as I really learnt what it is like to be a HR executive after going through various recruitment drives and handling post recruitment issues like salary issues, promotion, and resignation and termination cases. I still vaguely remember one incident that some drivers were repatriated on the day that they were terminated due to undesirable behaviour (sorry but I can’t reveal too much, it’s private and confidential). It was just so... dramatic and I could still remember my boss saying “it’s part of the job. You have to be cold-hearted sometimes and be rational.”
School started in August, and between June and then I had 2 orientation camps and I am glad I went for it, cause I made new friends with my OG (quote: zee(: says: you made new friends. XD) MAFIA and CONAN! And lots of other new friends as I joined different sub-committees in Science Club. School has been fun and interesting so far and sometimes stressful and tiring too, especially during labs and projects. But I am not complaining because I feel that I have made the right choice so far by majoring in Chemistry. The December holidays have been great so far, I completed a marathon, caught up with friends, went Malaysia, bought a new phone, highlighted by hair… changes (for the better?) and now that the hols are ending soon, it’s time to recharge and gear up for the coming semester!
Also, this year marked by 21st year in this world. It’s supposed to be a very significant year where you are supposed to have more freedom and such, but for me it’s nothing much I guess. Expect for more burdens ad more responsibilities, and probably higher expectations too especially I am the eldest son of the family and the eldest grandson for my maternal side and now that I am 21 I am expected to be able to do more things blahblah. But it’s ok, I am still handling it well, not that stressful at all. Being 21 means that friends around you turn 21 too, this meant lots of 21st-birthday parties to attend. Apart from parties there were lots of outings and meet up sessions; with my JC classmates, sec 4 classmates, army mates and also my RE temps. Busy busy busy! And I seriously spent A LOT this year as compared to the previous 20 years of my life. This is scary; I ought to spend less next year and start saving money.
This year has been nothing but eventful (good and bad, probably more bad events) but I am glad 2008’s coming to an end. I am gonna say what I am going to say last year, may 2009 be a better year for me, in terms of my work and studies and I also wish for better health for my family and friends.
Happy 2009! (in advance lah, still got 20 odd hours and I am going shopping later! WOO FINALLY)
Labels: family, friends, fun, university, work
Friday, December 26, 2008 @ i swear that
I will never ever drink coffee at 10.30pm again, unless i decide to go crazy and mug overnight for exams. Sheesh just one cup and it was enough to last me until 3am. Even after wahjong session at 2am i still couldnt sleep.. Had been tossing and turning on bed for quite a while. And i had such weird dreams!
This christmas was a boring one. The only 'memorable' incident that happened was cycling at fast coast, which wasn't really exact that memorable.. Just that immediately after we returned our bikes it started raining. So much for the weather..
2nd day of christmas was just as boring as well. So boring that i dun even know what to blog about, except that it rained the whole day again.
On a sidenote, my family visited sembawang shopping centre last night. Omg, first shopping centre without macs and kfc. And most of the shops are not open yet. But the giant there seems promising, probably will visit it another day.. Perhaps during feb..
Omg this is such a boring post. I shall continue watching my show.
[update]
there is seriously something wrong with cors i tell you! all the information is pertaining to sem 1, and SSS is missing! OMG, they better fix the system soon. otherwise we cant even bid!
[/update]
This christmas was a boring one. The only 'memorable' incident that happened was cycling at fast coast, which wasn't really exact that memorable.. Just that immediately after we returned our bikes it started raining. So much for the weather..
2nd day of christmas was just as boring as well. So boring that i dun even know what to blog about, except that it rained the whole day again.
On a sidenote, my family visited sembawang shopping centre last night. Omg, first shopping centre without macs and kfc. And most of the shops are not open yet. But the giant there seems promising, probably will visit it another day.. Perhaps during feb..
Omg this is such a boring post. I shall continue watching my show.
[update]
there is seriously something wrong with cors i tell you! all the information is pertaining to sem 1, and SSS is missing! OMG, they better fix the system soon. otherwise we cant even bid!
[/update]
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 @ where's my malaysian durians?!?
desaru trip was quite an experience. and a getaway for me from all the hectic workload. although it was just a short 2d1n trip, it came at the right time.
highlight of day 1: fruit farm! i managed to go up close to the veggies that i only managed to see at the markets and supermarts. never did i know that mangosteens go on trees -.- oh no i am a suagu. super suagu in fact. let the photos do the talking!
this is known as breadfruit. apparently it provides a good source to carbo and malays have used it to substitute potatoes in curry. the next alternative to rice?
highlight of day 1: fruit farm! i managed to go up close to the veggies that i only managed to see at the markets and supermarts. never did i know that mangosteens go on trees -.- oh no i am a suagu. super suagu in fact. let the photos do the talking!
the fruit farm.. selamat datang malaysia!
see? mangosteens go on trees
this is known as breadfruit. apparently it provides a good source to carbo and malays have used it to substitute potatoes in curry. the next alternative to rice?
spot the durian..
i want tongkat ali..
the brinjal
soursop. can you see it?
we went to check in at a beach resort. the facilities sucked. the heater wasnt working. but what hte heck, it was only for 2d1n. spent my dinner at some island eating good seafood :) and while the rest went to watch fireflies at night, our family decided to head back to the hotel and chill. played mahjong while watching channel U. yes.. they have channel u in the hotel. and apparently alot of malaysians watch sg channels.. cool.
a shot that i took of the beach early in the morning. i particularly like this photo. the sea is so clear and blue and you can see the sun's rays.
highlight of day 2: alligator farm. apparently they have alot of alligators. this is their so-called famous 135-yr-old alligator. apparently it seems like a fossil. lol
headed back to SG and reached mainlain at around 4. rushed and went for the co concert in the end. the concert was below expectations seriously. i expected better from the school that won honours for 2 consecutive syfs. but good job to songsim. and happy birthday to you if you see it.