Chomp Smoky Chomp

Met up wif my army buddies on friday, with the intention to celebrate MJ and KC birthday and eat dinner at Chomp Chomp Food Centre. But the fumes and smoke reali put us off, the crowd there had oso decreased our desire to dine there after awhile, so we decided to cross the road to another bigger, more ventilated, but less variety, lower quality food centre.


Was glad that most of my 'fresh grad' buddies are already employed, and Ah Toh decides to wear a Torn T shirt, 'revealing' his armpits to work :s
Felt like introducing this song, it's published in 1993, if i'm not mistaken....Among all the chinese duet songs that are sung by jacky cheung that i know of, I like this the most. Even though he has sung many many great duet songs, including 爱和承诺, and 你最珍贵, which somehow is still a very popular KTV song and i neva failed to hear it whenever i visit a pub....got quite sick of it due to the 疲劳轰炸.....

The song which i'm going to introduce is titled 似曾相识, probably the most ulu (least known) out of the many duets he had sang. Check it out...Basically, this song talks about a 'splitted' couple, meeting coincidentally on the streets years after the end of their relationship. Though they still recognizes each other, but the 'feeling' is no longer around, and they decided not to say 'hi' to each other...dats juz a very simple translation....i shld say u can only grasp the full picture if u listen to the song and read its lyrics carefully....

<似曾相识> 张学友+何如惠

似曾相识 一样温柔的眼眸
一样熟悉的脸庞 彷佛你回到身旁
似曾相识 一段迷离的过往
一点难忘的心伤 越过时光的阻挡

前尘往事犹如梦一场 云烟里聚散一些迷惘

凝望着你 而我的深情只有沉默
纵然回首我只能装做冷漠

怎能遗忘 但我的寂寞不是路过
陌生的你我只能差肩而过

似曾相识 偶然一张相似的脸庞
只有陌生眼光

Listen to the song here

Food Chain

It has been years since i last ate Escargots, or I should say, it has been years since i had my last meal at Jacks Place, all becos I no longer eat beef, hence unable to taste its specialty, black pepper steak, another more important reason was that I always thought that dining at Jacks Place was extravagant for a student. But on sat, i decided to give it a go, to dine at Jacks Place wif my sisters, of which we all enjoyed the meal.

I suddenly got the urge to want to find out more about how meat is produced. So i visited youtube. I forced myself to finish watching the videos bravely, to know how much cruelty these animals faced throughout their life cycle. I was also reminded of the rule of survival:"Those animal die to keep us alive, so the law of survival says that since they die for us, we must make sure they do not suffer when they die", but it seems that the concept of demand, supply, and revenue had drowned the minds of man......

I truly believe in karma..perhaps it was due to men terrible treatment to these animals that they are retaliating in terms of MAD COW DISEASE, BIRD FLU etc. To me, I would certainly think twice before deciding to throw any piece of meat away, becos by doing that, u have already wasted their lives into the garbage bin, and they have suffered their lives in vain, only to know that people waste their meat away. Be brave, face the reality, finish watching these videos.













I thank the producers of the videos for sharing them with the world.

近期欣赏的女歌手

No doubt there are many popular female singers in today's Mandarin pop scene, she is the only singer whom i reali admire in these recent years. She is 范玮琪. I shld not post her photo becos i believe they are copyrighted. But i've attached a link of her shot here, from sina.com. She is pretty and attractive, but I feel that her songs helped to beautify her even more. From 因为，to 他没有错, to 那些花儿, to 如果的事, 亲吻寂寞的旅人, and the recent 我们的纪念日，and 一个像夏天一个像秋天, her fellow fans can easily notice that these songs might not be as popular as 启程, 一比一, 可不可以不勇敢, 最初的梦想 etc. But i still love those songs than the conventional popular ones. Maybe my taste is pretty unique. Another thing good abt her is that she can sing live! dats one of the most impt quality i look for in a GOOD singer. i simply cannot tahan singers who lip sing. I feel that those singers who sing out of tune slightly but live are much better than those who get perfect pitching by lip singing....., at least they haf the courage to perform on stage live and i do admire them for that.

Suddenly had the mood to sing her song at home, and i 不自量力 recorded a song of hers here..but using my voice.....reali like this song alot and it's from her 1st album back in 2000 if i din get the year wrong.

因为 by 范玮琪

总在我家巷口和你分手
彷佛偶像剧一样
觉得我们就要发生些什么
总在回家时候不知所措
想再打电话给你
可是再见刚刚才说过
有一种想要拥抱你的冲动
想静静看着你的笑容
让你藏在怀中直到我每天的尽头

因为想一个人而寂寞
因为爱一个人而温柔
因为有一个梦而执着
因为等一个人而折磨
因为想一个人而解脱
因为爱一个人而宽容
因为有一个梦而放纵
因为等一个人而漂泊

因为想一个人而寂寞
因为爱一个人而温柔
像夜的朦拢你的深情难懂
我的世界因为你而不同
因为想一个人而解脱
因为爱一个人而宽容
像风的自由你的深情难留
你的背影是我最美丽的所有

This song got nice melody and lyrics and also lotsa falsetto which makes it hard to sing....

1st Aid

The 1st aid course has been an enjoyable break from work. Took many videos on the practical demostration, and i felt i wanna share 2 of them.


Video on CPR


Video on Ah Peh doing a negative demostration on a casualty recovery positioning

Biweekly Updates

I finally got the time and energy to do an update......Have been so busy wif work....even during weekends.....Work pace is picking up in the form of preparatory work for my pioneer batch of students from NYP/NP. Apart from topping up my theory knowledge, I oso need to make sure i'm competent in the practicals myself by the time the students arrive. I haf the time to update today simply becos i'm out of office these few days, for an occupational first aid course with 2 of my colleagues...


After I started working, I begin to appreciate my leisure hours more....This shot was taken a couple of weeks ago at East Coast Park. I was lying on my hammock, which was not washed after my reservist last mth. The sea breeze was comfortable and relaxing, but I do feel abit 'extravagant' to spend my precious weekends at the beach like dat (even though i wasn't there alone)

Relaxation at the beach

The past 1 week was a ringgit expension week....becos I was at JB on 3 different days....

8th Aug (National Day Eve): Company Dinner at Senimbong Seafood (Permas Jaya, JB)

It was only until I reached there when i realized that I had went there b4, 2 years ago on my sister's birthday. It's a seafood restaurant beside the sea, and Punggol was visible from there. After the dinner, we continued our 2nd round at the restaurant next to it, which sells nasi lemak.... and i would say that the standard is comparable to dat of Boon Lay's Power Nasi Lemak. Unfortunately, the photos which I've taken there vanished as my fone memory card was reformatted..

9th Aug (National Day): It was awkward for a singaporean to go overseas on its national day (according to mk), which i dun tink so....i went in to JB alone by bus, with the intention to quickly grab the contact lenses which i've ordered but yet to collect after 6 mths. But to my horror, when i reached the shop, I saw a signboard which says (rest every wednesday)....I almost fainted.....and to comfort myself and make sure that i do not make a waste trip....i bought a durian home from msia...and it's so big (3kg) that it took me 3 days to finish it....and the quality is excellent too!

13th Aug: Went in again (this time rd wif DragonG), to grab my contact lenses and to eat and shop. and i was shocked to know that the '3 girl' frens (actually 1 of them is an auntie) i've made at the optical shop were all sacked and replaced by 2 completely new guys...due to some reasons. We had a good lunch of 肉骨茶 Bak Kut Tay, and a dessert of D24 durian!!!, and it taste terrific...juz check out the thickness of the flesh below..Yumzzzzzzzz.

This shot was juz taken today at the St John Ctr where we took our 1st aid course...perhaps this is one good reason y I felt i made a right choice to work on JI...apart from teaching, i was oso given opportunities to go for courses like this, for example, 1st aid, chemical plant safety and hazards, fire fighting, or even further HYSYS. Abang Ibrahim (below) was the casulty wif 'amputated' fingers for me and LokeK( my colleague) to treat....

To compensate for not updating after so long, I'm putting up another song of mine...This is my 2nd baby composed in 2001....written juz a week after i managed to play the chords of a full, simple chinese song.....but i like this piece of work, and fortunately many of my frens whom have listened to it b4, like it too....and that's y i've decided to share it here. It's a sad love song, talking about a story of a couple, who have been together since their teenage days, but splitted years later, becos of changed personality in 1 party after they have grown up, and not being able to treasure the relationship. and how the victim of this song pulls himself thru and remain strong after the breakup. Again, the sound effect is lousy becos it was recorded long ago (about 4 years ago)

歌名：从今以后 (From now on)

词曲唱：myself

记得与你初次相遇 那年我们都只有十七

迷人的眼睛 动人的身影

已足够把我深深吸引

终于得到你的芳心 一切看来都那么美丽

直到我和你 开始有了距离

我似乎刚从梦中清醒

你说你还算年轻 思绪有点不够安定

对外界好奇的你 就这样 不辞而行

就从今天起 伤心事全忘记

绝望失望已成多余

如果还能重新再爱起 我还是决定放弃

让你了解爱的真谛

不管是天晴 或是刮风下雨

我仍还有再爱的权利

直到有天你学会去珍惜

也许有人会痴痴深爱着你

情愿守护着你

呵....你曾经让我倾心

也曾让我为你付出真情 呵

如今身在远方的你

是否知道有这样的结局 是因你

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