Six Seasons

好久不见

2011-02-28T20:25:00.002+08:00

A seemingly forgotten space, finally picked up the drive to post something.

Very occupied with all sorts of itenary: mainly revolving around the new house reno, shopping for furniture and all sorts of household necessities, etc.

Pre-wedding shots done, and shall be ready by Apr. Not much prep for the wedding is done yet!!!!!

Still adjusting to my new job. Was happy that i have received good feedback from my pioneering batch of students in the institution for CP4016, the only examinable module which i am taking care of. Even though I know that i am definitely not a Nice Teacher in the eyes of the students -- i still recall they ever make certain remarks to me like:

"Cher, why you dun gif chance one? late one min oso cannot???"

"Cher, why you always in class so early one??? the class start at 8 you 745 alr reach????"

"Cher, y u so serious one??? smile more la...."

Even though they are not from the parent diploma i am teaching, but nonetheless they are an interesting group of pple whom have added fun colors to begin my teaching career in a new environment.

Tmr is their examination for the module, good luck to them =)

Nice songs to end this post!

末班车 --- 萧煌奇

The No.1 song in my pop chart for this month. Touching lyrics, superb singing, melancholic melody with the minor chords. will touch anyone who have experienced the feeling of parting from a loved one.

作词:马嵩惟作曲:李伟菘

空着手犹如你来的时候
紧皱的额头终於再没有苦痛
走得太累了眼皮难免会沉重
你没错是应该回家坐坐

鸣笛声悄悄地刺进耳朵
这一次挥手恐怕再没机会问候
最后一遍了换你躲进我双肘
像靠在曾爷我的天空

别说话泪水你别带走
镜子里的我已留下你轮廓上的笑容
别回眸末班车要开了
你不过先走深爱是让不舍离开的人好好走

鸣笛声悄悄地刺进耳朵
这一次挥手恐怕再没机会问候
最后一遍了换你躲进我双肘
像靠在曾爷我的天空

别说话泪水你别带走
镜子里的我已留下你轮廓上的笑容
别回眸末班车要开了
你不过先走深爱是让不舍离开的人好好走

别牵挂约好我们再见
散步的午后要像从前再挽着手叙旧
别逗留末班车要开了
路到了尽头回头是为永留心口的人好好走

胡夏 - 愛都是對的

Another very nice song in the recent months. heard this song by coincidence on a sat morning when i automatically woke up at 6+, and i happen to hear this song over radio. was immediately captivated by it in the first instance and i frantically went to my pc to search for the title and singer by a sentence in the lyrics "誰忘了那關於愛情的規則"

作词:易家扬作曲:马奕强

我要过多久才能好呢
有好多辛苦路得走
走到口渴眼泪乾了
人会领悟些什麽

回忆是记者
它会挖出不为人知的寂寞
每一个人的以前
住在心里像事后的孤儿

谁记得那给你心碎的前者
看着月光的河变成一片要命的沙漠
许多人都被骗还硬说太值得

爱都是对的
谁忘了那关於爱情的规则
多少两人漫步变成街上一个人哭着
被抛弃的纪念马路上漂流着
唉人都一样远离快乐

嘿往事重演又去爱了
好些对话是相似的
以前的我它在闹着
爱有好多下集呢

命运轮回着
爱的前身看着时间苦笑呢
浪费一生的想念
最后才懂什麽应该割舍

谁被爱选中做下一个

蕭閎仁-太自由

Fantastic musical arrangement of 'orchestra type' which is to my liking, unique 6/8 beat tempo. An excellent song to sing during ktv sessions!

作词:吕志杰作曲:萧闳仁

勇敢的背后是懦弱
狂欢了以后是落寞
爱情的结局是什r?

争吵的藉口那麽多
逃避到最后无处躲
我们不应该再沉默

学会太多说法
愈是逞强愈无法坚强
对於爱情的想像
蒙上灰了不再奢望

太自由我们都太自由
不是想取暖想占有就能够骗彼此说
争吵都过去了
不自由我们都不自由
为何时间都静止了我却仍怀念着你
那背叛的温柔

争吵的藉口那麽多
逃避到最后无处躲
我们不应该再沉默

别对自己说谎
愈是假装就愈是受伤
你在爱中逃亡
却走失了我好害怕

太自由我们都太自由
不是想取暖想占有就能够骗彼此说
争吵都过去了
不自由我们都不自由
为何时间都静止了我却仍怀念着你
背叛的温柔

到世界尽头别再打听我的下落
就算在你心中只剩一片荒漠
不后悔爱过痛过

太自由我们都太自由
不是想取暖想占有就能够骗彼此说
争吵都过去了
不自由我们都不自由
为何时间都静止了我却仍怀念着你
那背叛的温柔

羅志祥-拼甚麼

The 4th hit. The previous 3 are way better in terms of the melody. This one wins because of lyrics, something which is close to all of our hearts...."What are we working hard for" The mtv is also the most touching and meaningful among the 4. Working hard for family? loved ones? friends.

作词:姚若龙作曲:徐继宗

我在拼什麽在意什麽最多

人群走了灯光不再场地凌乱
太多情绪显得想喊想听很难
讽刺怀疑总是很酸一路纠缠
冷言冷语不看不管心却敏感
路灯擦亮午夜车窗像泪光闪闪
想要跟谁温暖的交谈却只有我和孤单
早上匆匆忙忙出门时好在有灯忘了关
向谁坚持等了整夜要给我陪伴
我在拼什麽在意什麽最多
为了什麽又累又寂寞
不怕别人误会了就怕最在乎的人也不想懂
有些时候我会做梦盼望回过头你在身后温柔看我
没有不快乐没有逼我做抉择懂我拼什麽懂我最宝贝你了

想要跟谁温暖的交谈却只有我和孤单
早上匆匆忙忙出门时好在有灯忘了关
向谁坚持等了整夜要给我陪伴
我在拼什麽在意什麽最多
为了什麽又累又寂寞不怕别人误会了
就怕最在乎的人也不想懂有些时候我会做梦
盼望回过头你在身后温柔看我
没有不快乐没有逼我做抉择懂我拼什麽
懂我最宝贝你了懂你让我多痛

Farewell "Like AGAIN..!"

2010-10-25T22:11:00.004+08:00

Well, blogging is already being branded as something 'old fashion' Somehow i do feel that.

Even though i do have a twitter account, but am still not actively using it. So for now, let me still have a quick one through this.

Am quoting what adik Kartini had posted on her fb:

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.

Here are the photos which we have taken on our farewell meals:

Vege meal with Raymond, Dennis, Loke Khee, Morgan, Christine, Ah Camb (i always introduce her to my trainees as our FLOOR MANAGER), Janet (aka 仙姐) and Doreen (aka 秀芳姐) at 8 immortals at Jurong Bird Park.

At Seoul Garden at Ngee Ann City....after like close to 10 years not patronizing the restaurant.

I was awaken by my dad who came in to my room to ask me to go and eat some fruits which were juz bought. He made this remark in mandarin:

这样累啊, 连凉都还没有冲, 袜子也还没有脱...

that was like at close to 2130. i juz dozed off on my bed in my office shirt, shorts and socks.....that's how tired i was.

Taking a second to say hello but forever to say goodbye -- 14 Jul 2006 - 30 Sep 2010

2010-09-30T22:21:00.001+08:00

Time really flies and my 4 years or 50 months or 1539 days of career in my PTSCPTC finally come to an end.

I still remembered on 14th July 2006, I was like a fresh greenhorn travelling to a ‘foreign’ and dirty Jurong Island to begin my employment as a Process Specialist. Spending my first day of employment with Dennis, Iibrahim, Henry and Mr Han Lok Fong when they oriented me to this new place and the impression up till now is still so fresh as if it only happened yesterday; From Teaching my pioneer batch of PET training from Ngee Ann Poly, growing and maturing to start to handle industry clients and then to the taking over from PTSCPTC and undergoing a transition to a much more challenging job scope.

I am exceptionally thankful to the excellent team I have worked with, the friendships built over the years, the knowledge imparted to me, the mentorships and guidance given to me by all of you in some way or another, and also not forgetting the development and growth opportunities PTS has given me over the past 2 over years. I will definitely remember and treasure all these intangible memories and moments: The durian parties; the lunch time 'scavaging', chats and laughter; the non stop complaining about our dear CITRIX; shifting offices and ‘fighting’ over the working desks; the overseas training assignments; dragon boating and bowling sessions; working in the plant under the hot sun, heavy rain and late nights and lastly how we have listened to each other, provided support and helped each other when we were faced with difficulties and hiccups along the way.

Every ending is a new beginning, I believe that we will definitely have a chance to cross path again in life. Thank you all once again for making my stay in PTSCPTC an extremely memorable and meaningful chapter in my life.

'Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave
footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.' ~Flavia Weedn,
Forever

Those were my 'last words' to my fellow colleagues. As I was walking around the facility for the last time and to bid goodbye to my colleagues, even though i knew that i will still be able to cross path again with many of them in the future due to the nature of my new job, but I really could not help it but to get emotional and all memories start to flow back into my mind, including former colleagues whom have left a foot print on this chapter of my life, and also how the place have changed, from its infrastructure to its management and finally the people. Afterall it's been more than 4 years and it's definitely not a short duration...Like what some of them said to me, I am sentimental person, in my own way, even though i don't look like one :). I was thankful that my emotions were still under control then :p

My Last Training assignment with PTS

2010-09-30T01:04:00.000+08:00

Yes, today is my last day of employment with my current employer, and now i can officially announce that to everyone. Because of my departure, the following has become my last training assignment. the meaningful part of this is that it was not done locally, but in Brunei, a 'god-forsaken' place. Spent 10 days there to prepare, teach and assess a group of their Control Room Operators. Somehow i felt that I'm like a fish being thrown back into the water, and being able to swim freely to do what i am originally passionate about, even though i still can boldly say that i do not dislike my managerial roles even until today.

A memorable shot with the Trainees, Seniors and Engineers from Brunei Shell Petroleum, and not forgetting my team mate, Abg Zaidi.

The coastline of Brunei...that's basically the leisure activities when we were in Brunei...

Brunei Billionth Barrel Monument

My room during the stay in Brunei. I wish my own room at home is of the same size and degree of comfort.

彼此

2010-08-22T10:45:00.003+08:00

The previous published song of mine was back in Apr 2009...

After 16 months. I finally got the drive to compose something new, and after 5 years of not using midi software for my composition, i finally did it again, after much relearning of the software which i have mostly forgotten about its features.

Perhaps it's because this song is my own baby, I like it. Even though it is still not a perfect production. Hope you like it too.

Try to decipher the meaning behind the song, apparently it has a superficial and also a hidden meaning behind it. Lets see who can decipher that.

Enjoy.

彼此

你就像大海那么沉静我就像微风轻轻飘盈
其实我们早已在爱海游行在一起寻觅爱的足迹
原来爱就像一件毛衣
心被呵护着一丝暖意
意境就像花开在一片草地用生命温暖这园地
女人心思细腻象海底针男人心就像海里的月光
家里布满幸福种子等你我开创
给彼此幸福美满的天堂
我们手牵手许下爱的承诺
一辈子都为对方守候
同一个星球现在只有你和我
走在属于你我的港口
完美的生活虽然不曾拥有
人生苦辣酸甜千百种
生命没蹉跎因为彼此在左右
旅程因你而不寂寞
途中就算我们曾埋怨过
口是心非是你我的动作
马不停蹄为彼此四处奔波我们都彼此经历过

王杰世界巡回演唱会-23oct2010

2010-07-27T10:07:00.001+08:00

The long wait finally is going to itenerise into a reality.

3 years ago, i did comment that if he's ever coming to SG to hold a concert, i'll surely support.

I am going to keep my promise as far as i can :)

Hope to hear the good songs which i reali like. Even though many of them may not be the top hits.

Now i'm adding 2 more songs into this top list, began to like them so much only during the recent months to be exact:

让我永远爱你-1988

爱得太多-1994

An easy decision?

2010-07-25T11:13:00.003+08:00

Was caught off guard when i received this phone call from xy yesterday while me and some of my team mates were slogging away in office on a sat.

shocked, puzzled and full of question marks in my head.

Until i linked up with other frens on the same evening, then i managed to get a clearer picture on what had happened.

It might be an easy one off decision (might not be so too though as it reali takes lotsa courage to do what he had done) for him probably. but i do feel for his parents and family, of which his sister is a pretty close fren of mine and xy.

He may be gone for good, but i can imagine the amount of grief that he has left behind, for his loved ones, which is for good as well.

Aberdeen Business Trip: 5 - 12 Jul 2010

2010-07-15T23:39:00.006+08:00

The trip to Aberdeen is indeed fulfilling. Was thankful of the opportunity to meet great colleagues from all over the world, knowing that the leadership team have great inspirations to want to make a difference. Learning the articulated mission, vision, market drivers, key customer valued propositions and detailed road map to lead the organization to the stipulated goals.

Even though the plane journey and jet lag were horrible, but the trip is worthwhile as a whole. Even though we only have 2 days for R&R.

Check out some of the pics taken:

we rented a car from Inverness to drive to Loch Ness area to visit the Urquhart castle. Din manage to catch the 'Loch Ness Monster' as depicted in the legend though.. it was nonetheless a new driving experience in a country with narrow roads, many bends, speed cameras, roundabouts in a manual vehicle

reali enjoyed this eating along the street experience. this restaurant is situated in the midway of nowhere on a road...and we decided to stop the vehicle there for lunch..the result was pleasantly surprising. with good food, nice scenary. i can foresee that if i were to do the same in Singapore, i would be sweating/ sticky/ breathing in smoky air, and also fearing of being knocked down by vehicle while eating...

scotland is this big and we manage to bump onto our colleague in Aberdeen at Fort Augustus!!!!

the last visit we managed to go to is the Edinburgh castle. great preservation of the old british architecture.

the rest of the photos can be viewed via the following link:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=181145&id=525175892&l=894c56005a

the weather is comfortably cooling, even though it's summer...temperature ranging from 15-19 degC. people there are generally nice. the drawback is that it is extremely stressful to do shopping there. by the time we finished sight seeing at close to 4pm, that leaves us only around 1.5 - 2 hrs to shop around, because it's their culture to close the shops at around 1730!!! i definitely dun haf the luxury to pick and choose.

how do we keep ourselves entertained on the weekend evenings??? below is the answer:

Germany vs Uruguay

Spain vs Holland

kinda of surprising for someone who dun usually watch soccer ya? but unfortunately, that's the best night entertainment...

Missed

2010-07-06T22:50:00.000+08:00

For the first time, i traveled to the Europe continent together with my colleague. The 13 hr flight was extremely tiring, and we definitely suffered from severe jet lag. Becos of the trip, i missed out on my commencement ceremony, which was held on 6 Jul.

managed to find the webcast video of the ceremony and it can be found in the following link:

http://www.nus.edu.sg/commencement/2010/webcast.php

i belong to the 6 July afternoon session.

To make up for the loss, i decided to retain the memories of me wearing the gown in studio pictures instead. check out 3 of the samples taken:

completed another milestone of my academic life. wats next???? PhD??? Forget it......

Visit to Brunei

2010-06-24T22:46:00.001+08:00

I have vanished for close to 2 months. obviously i am too busy with work.

Lots of human restructuring done, with no people come but 6 people go.

I have also taken the functions of 'training administration', printing and production once again :s

This will be a short post though.

The trip to Brunei was back in may actually. my feelings are that i simply envy the lives of the people there. they are really well taken care by the government. houses there of at least 5000 sq ft is a norm. each family owning at least 3 cars is nothing special there. the place is also peaceful. u can walk on the streets at night alone in the dark without feeling unsafe.

the apartment i stayed there is also impressive. it's a 8 bedroom apartment with full housing facilities. the only thing is that probably oil is really dirt cheap there that people there seem to have little sensitivity to the environment. i remembered that i actually off the air con and lights in my room everyday before i leave the apartment. apparently, when i returned back to the room, the air con and lights were turned on and left on by the room service! and apparently, it's a norm there for air con to be maintained at 16 deg C!

Belait river if i am not mistaken...the only place which i came that have elements of 'sight seeing'

seria town

market

Resting Place

2010-05-08T03:55:00.001+08:00

To all who are all curious to know the resting place of Dr Eric Kwek, here it is:

Choa Chu Kang Columbarium A 0107 #260

Another True Story...No anguish, but full of sadness -- con't

2010-04-16T23:18:00.002+08:00

This was taken from Shin Min Daily News, 新明日报 today....

The post which i wrote about the late Dr Kwek was originally meant to be a low profile one, little did i expect that many readers, in or out of Singapore read my post. My name was not even mentioned at all, yet Mrs Kwek managed to 'track me' down from her memory of the 2005 incident itself. Yes...she text me to 'declare' that she knew about my recent posting and part of its contents was quoted in the newspapers...Well, i take it as a compliment that my post has earned the 共鸣 of many people out there, who were well taken care by Dr Kwek all these years. People are full of praises of him...it reaffirms one thing in life: 虎死留皮，人死留名.

The last time my words were quoted in public media was back in 2007 when i wrote in to criticize about Mediacorp Drama series...

Another True Story...No anguish, but full of sadness

2010-04-08T23:28:00.007+08:00

I believed Yesterday's post would have made you mad...mad over that Woman....or many called her...Bitch.

But today's true story is one which has saddened me..

1995, i remembered i fell really sick...fever and with gastric pain...my mum then took me to the clinic which i had always patronized in Boon Lay...i was attended by this new doctor. who speaks extremely broken Chinese... he's Dr Eric Kwek, that was my first impression of him..

somehow he's quite 投缘 with my family, esp my mother...maybe he's a 师奶杀手 back then. Until 1997, if i am not mistaken..he opened his own clinic in Taman Jurong. From a low tide in his career to the point where his clinic started to prosper, becos of his day to day hard earned reputation. My mother, myself and my sisters never failed to patronize him when we were really sick...from service provider-customer, we gradually became friends, friends whom we can talk about all sorts of issues, sometimes even up to half hr consultations at times. When my mum passed away in 1999, he showed up at the wake to pay his last respects...looking back, as a doc, it's highly likely to face 'life and death' so frequently...how many docs actually bother or have the spare time to even attend the wake of a patient???

in 2005, i remembered on mar 25, my sisters brought me to a 24 hr clinic cos it was late at night and his clinic has closed...(we were left with no choice)... i collapsed at the clinic and had to be evacuated to NUH Accident and Emergency department in an ambulance....my sister called him up... probably it's pass 11pm (i was too sick to remember the exact timing). He turned up at the A&E just to visit me, i could hear him scolding the doctors who attended to me and he was telling them what to do because they have given me a wrong diagnosis. After i was well enough to stand and walk again on the same night (few hours after i was put on drip), my sister was instructed not to drive me home. instead we made our way to his clinic....yes..made our way to his clinic close to mid night. When all shops have closed. he went back to his clinic just for me....gave me 3 jabs so that i could recover within days.

The last time i saw him was close to Q3 2009 if i am not mistaken...

After that i was told he's on medical leave by his wife....when i asked about him, she said that he's recovering well.....

The last time we contacted was through sms when i was trying to get from him a medical report to submit to my HR....

Yesterday i called up his clinic again....to send my regards and to ask about his condition....that was the time when i was told the truth...by his clinic assistant...

Belinda: "the clinic has been sold"

Me: "what????? has Dr Kwek's condition worsened"

Belinda: "Yes"

Me: "i sort of know that he has contracted cancer (trying to sound her out)..... where is the cancer exactly???"

Belinda:"the tumor was in his heart....u know, it's impossible to remove the whole tumor by surgery..so they only managed to remove a portion of it and the rest had to be done by radiotherapy and chemotherapy...recently his condition has worsened and he gets really breathless really easily..and he is in the hospital...."

Me: "I really hope to pay him a visit.....but i'm worried that they may not want an outsider to be there..... and whether he allows me to pay him the visit"

Belinda:"i plan to visit him tmr after the clinic closes...i check for you. if we are going down and he's ok with you visiting him, i'll give you a call???"

Me:" sure! please do!! thanks"

The call did not come.....

I got this sms from my sister at 2258 hrs:

My sis: "Dr Kwek pass away liao..sad.." ---- news was from a distant relative of his who is my sis's fren

I am really sad to hear the news...and somewhat shocked...yes i expected that he might not pull through...cos it's the heart....where the tumor was... but i did not expect it to be so fast...

Dr Kwek...RIP

I will remember you...not just as a skillful doctor who managed to cure all my illnesses up to date in the shortest time possible.. I will also remember you as my friend, someone i known for 15 years...i will remember the moments when you stood up for me at the NUH A&E, i will remember how you always teased me as a 'chemical engineer' that it was ur second choice course just after medicine when u applied for uni back then, and his "ya lah...chemical engineer" when i try to reason out with him some simple medical theories ....i will remember the days when you'll always show me new gadgets which you bought for your clinic each time i consulted you because i fell sick and how excited you can get over them and busy explaining to me the theories and how good they are.....i will remember the days when there was once i fell really sick also (high fever) and you gave me 3 jabs, allowed me to rest in the spare room in your clinic until your clinic closes and even sent me back home after that.....i will remember the days when you teased me on my 'stupidity' for trying to use 青草油 to disinfect my abrasion wound which led to serious infection....i will not forget the days which you always get so excited when you talked about the musical pieces you are going to play on piano during your church events, showing me the IT gadgets to enhance your piano performance.....i will not forget the days which you will never fail to complain to me each time i patronized you, how tired you are, traveling here and there and how washed out you felt due to the lack of rest......

Finally, you get to rest....but unfortunately, this time round, when you closed your eyes, it's for good...................

he's only 46 years old this year....even though sometimes he talks like a boy, but deep down i know that he's truly a good doctor.......he's Dr Eric Kwek Soon Kiat. My sisters and I paid our last respects to him

有人说一次告别天上就会有克星又熄灭............<离人>

True Story -- Food for thought

2010-04-07T21:23:00.002+08:00

Yes, as of 7 Apr, i took my first MC for work year 2010. All begins with a sore throat yesterday morning...bought Lozenges but din help..and it worsened at noon..then took early off to see doc. nite time worse...woke up in the middle of the nite feeling feverish...at 5am...was convinced that i cannot go to work...

Set that aside...an astonishing news, but it's a true story which happened to someone i know:

A letter from a wife to her husband:

阿伟：当你看到信息的时候，我已经在去日本的路上了，很感谢你对我一直的关爱，但是我不属于你的国度，我要的你不能给我，你很好，真的很好，除了不能给我想要的东西以外，我一直呆在深圳是有原因的，其实回来之前我就听说日本很好，很多人去了都发了，我不甘现状，也想博一博，所以在那边的时候就已经开始在联系了，回来经常呆在深圳也是便于办证，对不起，请原谅我的自私，也许伤害了你，但人都是自私的，为了一己之私可以什么都做的，不要在留念我这种为了钱什么都做的人，为了钱我可以连我父母家人的劝告也不听，当初为了要留在新加坡才跟你在一起的，但是我发现新加坡那个地方不适合我，我的身体也不适应那里，还老是一些怪怪的东西在我身边发生，那个泰国师傅说我不适合在新加坡，所以。。。现在我为了钱一个人偷偷去日本，可以说是众叛亲离了，但我不后悔。

你是一个很好的老公，但苦于你没有钱，我也不能在等在跟你苦熬，我很现实，我需要钱这点你是知道的，我没有时间在这样耗下去，所以我选择离开，不要在找我也不要在想我，做过多的东西都是徒劳，我不会在回来了，你想想鱼本来是生活在水里你要是硬把它放在陆地它必死无疑，一个道理，就像我不能呆在新加坡一样。好好继续你的生活，找一个真正爱你的人，就当我是过眼云烟，一抹尘土。深埋了吧！最后跟你爸妈说一声，对不起了，她们错爱了。

the marriage lasted for about 1 year...

戏剧性的开始，也匆匆戏剧性的结束。

对男主角来说，女主角的离开是好还是坏?

perhaps the 3 songs below suits the current story, all by one same singer:

泳儿-原来爱情那么难
作词:王雅君
作曲:李志源

为什么爱会下起雨来
为什么我们越走越散
为什么笑有点不自然
为什么我的爱有点不安
眼泪排山倒海再抵挡不了伤害
我们的爱结束在这个夜晚
春夏冬暖多需要有你的陪伴
此刻我一个人习惯孤单
爱最痛的呼喊是不能够再重来
多年后我却牢牢记在脑海
幸福再来我依然会充满期待
找回爱最初的幸福港湾

为什么爱会下起雨来
为什么我们越走越散
为什么笑有点不自然
为什么我的爱有点不安
眼泪排山倒海再抵挡不了伤害
我们的爱结束在这个夜晚
春夏冬暖多需要有你的陪伴
此刻我一个人习惯孤单
爱最痛的呼喊是不能够再重来
多年后我却牢牢记在脑海
幸福再来我依然会充满期待
找回爱最初的幸福港湾

眼泪排山倒海再抵挡不了伤害
我们的爱结束在这个夜晚
快乐太难太心酸
我才发现了孤单
原来爱情真那么难
原来爱情那么难

歌手：泳儿
离开以后

时间的步伐太快
来不及数节拍
欺骗自己你还在
眼泪却想不开
转身以后你怎样离开
我该继续等待
还是一个人去习惯这孤单
离开以后我才懂得了如何去爱
爱就不该计较伤害
我在空气里抱紧你最后的温暖
抱不住对你的依赖
离开以后我才懂得了如何去爱
懂得你的那些无奈
我不相信爱可以说放就放得开
现在我才终于明白
假如你不曾走开
我不听从安排
是否还继续相爱
当这是场意外
舍不舍得都只能说再见

泳儿-天使的决定
作曲:林俊杰
作曲:王雅君

两颗耀眼的星
在同一座城市互相辉映

两颗遥远的心
彼此吸引却不敢靠近
但我直觉很肯定
从你眼里我感到熟悉
同时等待流星
同时怕许愿后失去
最后我勇敢的爱上你
当时应该很激动我爱你
三个字守成秘密
谢谢你给过我爱情
日记里总是天气晴
在我的心里总有个角落不让谁靠近
谢谢你比我先放弃
让我有心痛的权利
别说对不起因为我还爱你

我的手心曾被谁握得好紧
爱像个卫星搜寻谁的心
有时谁太贪心天使就决定没收爱情
谢谢你给过我爱情
日记里总是天气晴
在我的心里总有个角落不让谁靠近
谢谢你比我先放弃
让我有心痛的权利
别说对不起因为我还爱你
谢谢你给过我爱情
日记里总是天气晴
在我的心里总有个角落为你~~~
谢谢你比我先放弃
好让我有心痛的权利
别说对不起因为我还爱你
我不曾忘记我们的回~忆

District 10

2010-04-01T23:59:00.000+08:00

Met up with my cousin and her cousin, who happened to be my childhood fren as well as JC classmate on April Fools Day...

Her sms was: Bistro Wine bar: 10 Winstedt Rd, Bukit Timah Area...

Ya right...i really thought it was at Bukit Timah area..as in the row of restaurants near 6th Avenue....Until i checked out the web and was HORRIFIED to know that it is located near Bukit Timah Road..but it's towards the end of the road near to Bugis!! which means travelling there during peak hours is going to be a disaster --- jam...and it was quite bad...to think that i took nearly 1 hr to reach there from Jurong Island at the 7pm traffic conditions....

So i thought i was 'cheated' to go there...lol

But after the evening there, i thought that place is nonetheless quite a nice place to chill out though. Food there is quite good, for western food standard. it serves alcohol. check out the food the 3 of us ate, which includes 2 main courses and 1 side dish.. i myself, had half pine of Hoegarden to satisfy my alcohol craving.

Below is the link to the http://www.district10.com.sg/

NO MORE GREEN FOR 2010

2010-03-12T19:26:00.002+08:00

The most siong ICT up to date is finally over...

Stage 1 evaluation is tiring, and definitely physically and mentally challenging for ageing NSmen like us.

The whole company did well, as in achieved REDCON 1. My team surprisingly, achieved the best score within the platoon.

To me the result doesn't really matter. even though i am now badly "bruised" by:

1. mosquito bites at Lor Asrama and PLC,
2. rashes from the outfield training,
3. blue black bruises from all the proning and high kneeling in the vegetations in full battle order,
4. cold virus from the heat and drenching in the heavy rain;

these 'sufferings' eventually had a positive outcome to bond the 'band of brothers' closer together.

i recalled i overhead a conversation between the OC NSBRC and some of our guys regarding NSmen mentality and he quoted a statement from someone which i am not sure is it CGO or Brigade commander and somewhat i find it makes sense - it goes something like this:

"if on the first day of in-processing, you see the NSmen coming back without wanting to defer, these are the people who have gone through pains to plan their work schedule to accomodate the ICT. if they are willing to do that, you can be sure that they are going to commit in the ICT. u dun look at NSmen always so slack and always complaining that they dun wanna do this or dat or now they are all so unfit, during real training and assessment, how many people do you really see actually fall out from the mission or training? it's hardly any."

- well for that statement, i do find that it's somewhat true, but of course i have to agree that there are still some black horses around....

Next year's ICT is set from 7 - 18 Mar 2011 - - live firing and underslung sia.....

Putting the GREEN STUFF aside, it's time to tune my mind back to work on monday....

ICT : 1 - 12 Mar 2010

2010-03-07T13:17:00.003+08:00

Currently going thru the most siong and tiring ICT up to date..this is my 5th ICT.

6 day week. average of 5 hrs of sleep per day...even yesterday was a long day....only managed to book out at nearly 2330 hrs...30 mins more i will have to serve 'confinement' over sat nite in camp.

totally knocked out last nite. slept for nearly 11 hrs and woke up oni at 1100 hrs..

my hair is short now! cos i am a soldier for 2 weeks!

小虎队 -《蝴蝶飞呀》

2010-02-17T01:59:00.004+08:00

勾起了无限同年的回忆。19年了，想当年我才不过10岁，如今我竟然没忘记歌词的每字每句. 重看MV, 跟着旋律一同唱起来，不禁流露出感动，眼眶也不禁发热起来。

这首歌算是我最喜欢的小虎队歌曲。

蝴蝶飞呀-小虎队
(苏)海风在我耳边倾诉着老船长的梦想
(吴)白云越过那山岗目的在寻找它的家
(陈)小雨吵醒梦中的睡荷张开微笑的脸庞
(合)我把青春作个风筝往天上爬
(苏)贝壳爬上沙滩看一看世界又多么大
(吴)毛毛虫期待着明天有一双美丽的翅膀
(陈)小河躺在森林的怀抱唱着春天岁月的歌
(合)我把岁月慢慢编织一幅画
梦是蝴蝶的翅膀
年轻是飞翔的天堂
放开风筝和长线把爱画在岁月的脸上
心是成长的力量就像那蝴蝶的翅膀
迎着风声越高歌声越高亢
蝴蝶飞呀就像童年在风里跑
感觉年少和彩虹比海更远比天还要高
蝴蝶飞呀飞向未来的城堡
打开梦想的天窗让那成长更快更美好
(音乐演奏)
(苏)贝壳爬上沙滩看一看世界又多么大
(吴)毛毛虫期待着明天有一双美丽的翅膀
(陈)小河躺在森林的怀抱唱着春天岁月的歌
(合)我把岁月慢慢编织一幅画
梦是蝴蝶的翅膀
年轻是飞翔的天堂
放开风筝和长线把爱画在岁月的脸上
心是成长的力量就像那蝴蝶的翅膀
迎着风声越高歌声越高亢
蝴蝶飞呀就像童年在风里跑
感觉年少和彩虹比海更远比天还要高
蝴蝶飞呀飞向未来的城堡
打开梦想的天窗让那成长更快更美好
蝴蝶飞呀就像童年在风里跑
感觉年少和彩虹比海更远比天还要高
蝴蝶飞呀飞向未来的城堡
打开梦想的天窗让那成长更快更美好
蝴蝶飞呀就像童年在风里跑
打开梦想的天窗让那成长更快更美好
蝴蝶飞
蝴蝶飞
蝴蝶飞

Super Songs!!!

2010-02-13T19:12:00.002+08:00

Wanted to post these few songs long ago, finally remembered to do it.

玩文字游戏来哗众取宠, seems that many songs or quotations have been fabricated for such purposes.. Check out these 2 songs. Let's see how u feel abt them.

This one still sounds good though. though many times i still can't help but to burst into laughter when i sing it at ktv.

This one is horrible... meaningless lyrics...the song was written for the sake of the 'sound effects' who dare to challenge to sing this song at ktv????

This one has no relations with the previous 2, but this one is really a good song. after so many years, finally hear something from her which finally captures my attention once again... the previous one got to be 不只是朋友 close to 20 years ago. Fell in love with this song the first time i heard it over the radio, and it's easy to find the song from the voice of the singer. Nice melody and meaningful lyrics

Happy CNY!! 恭喜恭喜

Jumpa/ sampai bertemu lagi

2010-02-13T10:42:00.002+08:00

Yesterday marked the last day of Kak Roslina. Ended her full time career and embarking on another one, at home as a full time ibu rumah tangga - housewife.

All the best kak. and forget us not. and hope you bring along all fond memories from us :)

Big Shingz again

2010-02-07T11:59:00.000+08:00

Safe Sex with Ris Low from clicknetwork on Vimeo.

"Cutlery Drive"

2010-02-04T11:50:00.000+08:00

It's a good improvement for xy :) For the first time, she's more involved in whipping out a meal (not just washing and cutting), and also for the first time, i cooked pasta as well...

I would say that 90% of the credit for this meal goes to xy :) check out the stuff she prepared, though simple, but it's meaningful and tasty. The remaining 10% of the credit is mine, after her request for SOS to prepare the gravy for the veg, and after being splashed and scalded by the failed first attempt by herself.

It's a joy to know that people appreciate the little little things that they do, though it may seem minute. I bet she understands by now :)

Out of Point

2010-01-31T17:02:00.003+08:00

For the first time of my life, went with xy for a short cruise vacation. Ok for me, but i guess not so ok for her...probably becos, i guessed that i am better than her to make sure that i make the trip worth by attempting to maximize the usage of the entitled facilities :p

Check out some shots taken

That's the first one....taken soon after departure from Harborfront.. the cruise passed by Pulau Bukom, and also Jurong Island! Saw the blurry bright spots behind me?? We are not breaking the rules here... :p

That's the room which we stayed in for 2 nights.. Simple and cosy, but the disadvantage is that there's no window in the room at all...made me feel so confined in an enclosure, and on the 2nd morning, i was clueless about the time until i saw the time on my handphone.

Basically, going for a cruise is really a good time to go out to do 'nothing'. for xy, it's just waking up, watching tv, and waiting to eat..lol..nonetheless, the companionship is valuable. another bonus from the trip was the chance to see 黄舒俊 performing live on the cruise. i sort of pity him actually, from the fact that most of the audience went in with free tickets (becos they are the members of star cruise aka regular visitors). most of them either slept thru his performance (the ah gong and ah mas) or can't appreciate his songs cos they dun even know who he is. For us, the paying audience, we sort of enjoyed it, even though i was quite disappointed that he did not sing 未央歌 (even after i personally requested him to sing that), my all time favorite of his song.

Well, a simple, yet enjoyable get away, out of the point dot on the world map :).

Anyway, was out again yesterday and for the first time, i drove out of Singapore..lol

Of course closely guided and supervised, but still, i lost my way even when it was only a short journey to city square...lol. I would say that my driving skills was put to a test, which i passed and survived thru. but i had never drove so daringly before until yesterday. cos in JB, i was taught that u cannot drive gentlemanly. u muz be 'hiong2'!!! but yet not reckless.

Neway ktv is really cheap and good, and it was enjoyable ktving there. the songs there seemed to be newer and more updated than wat we have locally. Will definitely look forward to patronise there again in the near future :)

http://www.newaykb.com.my/main.php

ST wedding - Cheers

2010-01-17T11:59:00.003+08:00

One more buddy got married....

The gate crashing quest was kinda simple...comparatively with the rest of the ventures which i had gone thru... The sisters were generally 'kind hearted', the brothers this time round were more reserved, i should say more refined..lol ....so...i had to make myself LOUD..so that the whole thing doesn't become 'cold' and 'boring' but nonetheless, it was fun, meeting up with old old friends from primary school, JC and also not forgetting NS and also making new friends from the brothers and sisters.

Many were surprised to see me yesterday...many popped to ask "what has you got to do with ST???? cos i was not from the same secondary school, nor JC as him...until i told them that we are NS buddies :) and many of the brothers were also surprised by how each and everyone of us were linked by different networks which caused us to cross path today.

SINGAPORE IS REALLI SMALL...- CONCLUSION from YESTERDAY

Not again....kena arrowed to be the Emcee...I had seriously lost count....luckily my partner this time round is someone whom i know....during JC days, and ST's secondary school friend (small world again)..So it's less awkward. i recalled we (the JJC softball team) used to call her X^2 last time - her name initials. It was a good partnership last nite :) The nite was peaceful also...not much need to drink for the groom...everyone was 'well behaved'.

祝白头偕老

潘裕文- 近在眼前

2010-01-06T18:57:00.003+08:00

This singer certainly rocked my jukebox for the year of 2009. Released only 1.5 albums, about 15 songs, and i already have 8 in my jukebox. Below is the hit song of his newest album. So wanted to sing it at ktv if it's ktv version is ever released. I was touched by the lyrics.

潘裕文-近在眼前

作词:姚若龙作曲:李双飞

大楼很高捷运很快可是天很灰
城市堘面我寄居在边缘
想拿梦擦出火焰

脚步很忙渴望很烈可是路很远
有多疲惫一关灯才发觉
思念蜿蜒流过了胸前

远赴天涯找的幸福却近在眼前
你的宽容洗涤我累积的伤悲
守护我领悟什灱才是原点
碎裂过的人要从拥抱去缝合对爱的理解

放下从前找的未来却近在眼前
你的身旁才是会开花的世界
我告别闪耀却迷乱的一切
在风里回来温暖又让麻木的灵魂重燃感觉

考验很多改变很难可是梦很美
抬头想到你会陪我向前
就能奋不顾身的坚决

有了体会梦才能慢慢实现
有了陪伴小窗变蓝天
有了感动爱长成幸福的果园
有灯火能回头是多灱感谢的依恋

如今已荡然无存的xx

2010-01-02T15:52:00.005+08:00

Was delighted to know that he got new songs in the market.. He definitely bring me back to my childhood days when i used to like his songs...and probably the first song which caught my attention was the one right below.....

初恋
演唱:红孩儿

流过泪的年轻
初恋失恋的心
不知道你珍不珍惜
当白云走你的窗前说声保重
心里的信箱还要期待多久

爱唱歌的年纪
什么使你哭泣
谁的悲伤你不忍心
当眼泪敲醒昨夜的梦原来是雨
还以为你又来说good-byb
能不能再一次靠近我
听我慢慢诉说
心里多少伤心话
能不能再一次靠近我
一起走过从前在把青春说一遍
明天还要流浪
爱是我的方向
不管要去哪个海洋
当我们怀抱里的吉它都换了新弦
只有思念的歌唱不完

If my memory did not fail me, i was only primary 4 then... but i could already memorise the lyrics...ahem...even until today, when i tried to sing along with the music...i still managed to get all the lyrics right!!!!

from hudong.com:

“红孩儿”是台湾歌坛的一个演唱组合，由马国贤、张克帆、韩志杰、汤俊霈、张洛君、沈依智和王海轮等七位年青人组成。他们一出现便声势夺人，被视为“小虎队”的强劲对手，台湾广大年轻歌迷称誉他们为“年轻的英雄，火红的伙伴”。他们活泼热劲，新潮的歌路和现代的舞蹈，在台湾诸多青年歌唱组合中脱颖而出。第一张专辑大碟《亮出我的年轻护照》，一炮打响，在港台地区及日本都造成了不小的影响。“红孩儿”己声名在外，成为90年代年青人崇拜的偶像。

由于杰出的歌舞表演，“红孩儿”很快在歌坛上与“小虎队”并驾齐驱，成为竞争的有力对手。对于身为大哥哥的“小虎队”是一件今他们十分兴奋鼓舞的好事。“小虎队”屹立歌坛很久，但一直苦无实力相当的演唱组合与他们一较长短。如今“红孩儿”出山，终于使他们有了挑战的对手，互相竞争角逐更闹猛。

That was how he started his singing career...more than 20 years ago.

Even after he released his own album, i still quite like his songs, the two songs below are CLASSIC. I think they were released in 1995 and 1997 respectively.

张克帆-还记得我吗

我开始相信自己
是个害怕寂寞的男人

总爱泡上一杯咖啡
在回忆里慢慢地浮沉

但仔细想想过去
从来不曾如此地认真

像现在这样
怀念你的温柔眼神

而或许在你眼中
我是不会用心的男人

所以离开我的时候
没有留下任何的泪痕

有那么一点后悔
其实我也不会再否认

爱情故事
结局总是让人心疼

越来我越相信命运
注定要失去你
今夜的风太冷
多希望你能再温暖我的心

但你还记得我吗
不会什么你都忘了吧
那些曾说过的话
希望你还完整地放在你心上
但你还记得我吗
我们已付出太多代价
如果重新回头
你会再爱我吗

越来我越相信命运
注定要失去你
今夜的风太冷
多希望你能再温暖我的心
但你还记得我吗
不会什么你都忘了吧
那些曾说过的话
希望你还完整地放在你心上

但你还记得我吗
我们已付出太多代价
如果重新回头
你会再爱我吗

我开始相信自己
是个害怕寂寞的男人

总爱泡上一杯咖啡
在回忆里慢慢地浮沉

我从不知道自己
有个如此脆弱的灵魂

原来曾经我是爱你
爱得这样得深

原来曾经我是爱你
爱得这样得深

风的泪

没有你的音乐会
特别为你留个座位
闭上眼睛感觉
曾经被你爱的滋味
心里有一段时间
永远无法跨越昨天
我痛苦我看见
对你迷恋已没有终点

一旦爱就自私的可以
不能容许别人去疼你
感情怎能只有我继续
你留在何处忘了回去

风吹走我眼角的一滴泪
来不及闭上眼睛去挽回
往事再也追不回
心破碎再破碎
被爱是最美

风吹走我心中的一滴泪
再没有谁能让我去迷醉
如果我懂得拒绝
你存在的世界
何必在乎谁
吻你的嘴

That's how he look like now: a chinese phrase that fits the description:

昔日的俊朗，如今已荡然无存

唯一不变的，仍是他的天籁之音

when i heard the song from the radio, i know it's him....

張克帆 - 兩個世界

過了今晚再也留不住你
遲早要洗去我臉頰上的唇印
你和我約定到了明天
誰也不許再提起
你輕輕的留給我
這深深的回憶

甜言蜜語遲早都會說盡
再多真心擋不住黎明來臨
這段屬於黑夜的愛情
註定要蒸發陽光底
愛上了不該愛的人
連傷心都會來不及

兩個世界的代表作品
就是命運
我雖然很有勇氣但卻放不下自尊心

時鐘滴滴答答滴滴答答
我還盲目的擁抱你
希望把這一刻時間
永遠的鎖在黑夜裡

apparently there's still no mv for this song...but nonetheless there's a live version for viewing and listening.

99.99%

2010-01-01T15:44:00.000+08:00

On 22 Dec, i have unofficially ended my 2.5 years of studies with the WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY WANNABE once again.

my grades are definitely not fantastic, compared to all my fellow friends who were ex Eng graduates taking whatever Masters Course, and of course my friend who scored nothing but As and A+s up till now. But nonetheless, I am contented :)

Basically i am just waiting for the school to notify me that I have COMPLETED the course and of also the graduation arrangements.....lets hope that the WCU does not screw up once again and give me problems...So i am 99.99% that i will graduate

2010 is here. I am officially one step closer to reach another decade of my life...

It's time to start planning......career, and of course..........to settle down :)

活到100岁

2009-12-06T08:52:00.000+08:00

Another buddy of mine has officially stepped into the tomb of love.....on 6 Dec...

First time i attended a solemnization ceremony in a 90 metres sq HDB flat...lucky the number of people attending the ceremony is only about 30 as compared to the original designated 90.....if that was the case, everyone will have to be confined to 1 metre sq of area, all the way even to the bathroom, toilet and store room...lol....

perhaps the song below will be ideal in promoting marriage or to discourage singlehood...probably the nicest song i heard in his new album released weeks ago. check it out. i know the mtv plot sux..just focus on the song.

2 months

2009-12-05T08:23:00.000+08:00

Check out my cute nephew, who is 2 months old now....

i have a fatherly side of me too......:p

That's how he look when he was one month old...

Now he's 2 months old....

Doesn't seem like it rite??? i fed and 'burp' him, carried him to sleep, changed diapers for him.....

It's over...99%

2009-12-01T08:15:00.000+08:00

Dun be scared by the heading....i'm relieved......that i am pretty certain ..to 99% that i have completed my Masters Degree. Results will be out on 22Dec...Should be able to pass both....yes..2 Ds will be able to be sufficient to bring me through based on my calculations.

Hang On

2009-11-24T21:17:00.000+08:00

Final Lap...... the last burst of fire will commence tmr...Hang in there :)

Tugas di KL 21-24Oct, 4-7Nov

2009-11-08T20:51:00.005+08:00

Finally completed my two times 'mission' in KL....For work purpose. it was a fulfilling journey, with lotsa learning experiences, and of course, bearing in mind my assigned task. My knowledge of basic malay proved useful. think of it, if i were to stay in malaysia for a longer period of time, my malay will definitely improve to a large extent, since all chinese/canto drama shown there have malay subtitles.

Sad to say, none of the strangers i met on road, be it taxi driver/ hawkers managed to guess my nationality correctly, be it whether i speak in english or malay....

Traffic is horrible + terrible. ..that's the best description......

basically JA described the road as a 'moving carpark' during peak hours, which means that the vehicles seemed to be stationary and parked nicely on the road from far....becos the road is always jammed.....well, from what i noe is, becos the public transport network is quite bad apparently, thus the locals still prefer to drive around as many of the places in the city are still not easily accessible by public transport.

Check out the shots, all of them were took during my first trip:

i chose to eat simple these few days, first day i went to their typical halal food court, eating the BBQ stingray and Penang hokkien mee.... That's what the hawker said to me. btw, i tried to talk their accent to make sure that i can be understood:

Hawker: 你似哪里人（你是哪里人）??? (asking for my nationality -- she knows i am not a local)

Me: 你猜 la..

hawker: 不是泰国人就是印尼人......(i'm immuned to it alr.....she's not the only one who guessed that i am a Thai/ Indon....almost all (taxi drivers/ hawkers, etc) that talked about my nationality there made these guesses........)

Me:(pengz.....) 不是。。。。我是新加坡人.

Hawker: huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?????? 你是新加坡人???? 新加坡人酱黑的????? 我以为新加坡人都几好命wor....不是天天吹冷气, 不用晒太阳的meh???????

Me: (juz smiled at her...........) (thinking: hello, juz to let u know, i haf no air con at home........ i need to work under the sun..........)

But probably that's how Singaporeans are stereotyped........

2nd nite was.............well....fine....out with the 'Highness' ++ Twin towers + german restaurant. Totally European style and mainly patronized by foreigners..... My feedback was that the food aerved there is good...but, i'm not hopeful that if one could survived if it's opened in Singapore....The speed at which the food were served is simply TOO SLOW......waited like more than 30 mins for my order...luckily wasn't very hungry then...

Chose to go simple on the final nite again.......juz a plate of fried oyster and pumpkin cake...at this place called "Oyster king"

Ending off with a shot taken at the hotel.....basically very satisfied with the accomodation....as i think i'm quite easily contented as it contains all basic facilities and the room is quite big too, at only 235RM++ per nite.

It's really tiring there..imagine i only get around 5 hrs of sleep per day......when i'm back home i juz simply became lethargic....and slept for more than 12 hrs in total......

K-box Jurong Safra

2009-11-02T21:38:00.000+08:00

Well, what i can say is that it's the newest K-box outlet so far as of now...

the ambience is cool abd the sofa is still in good condition (not "corroded" and torn)

and that outlet has touch screen selection function + song recording...

We were quite surprised by the recording effect, apparently, there's no background noise as the sound input is directly from the microphone and system itself...check out this sample...

Supermaster - Supermaster

Enough is enuff

2009-11-01T22:03:00.000+08:00

Ris Low, u r really testing the patience of Singaporeans......

That's the last embarrasing video i will post about u....

I will rather watch PCK than to hear you 'BOOMZ' AND 'SHINGZ'

Reunion of the Ravagers

2009-10-12T00:45:00.000+08:00

It was a heart warming reunion session. Guys, Gals, Uncles, Aunties, Fathers and Mothers, with their children. All gathered at West Coast Park Field on 11 Oct, 9am. From the pioneers to the the young ones. That was a once in 5 years gathering. Think of it, i have not seen some of the old faces for more than 5 years. The gathering reali brings back fond memories of my days as a JJC softballer with all my team mates then.

If i was not mistaken, JJC Softball Team was started around 1985, counting backwards, the pioneering team of seniors should be in their 40s already, and most are already parents and are full grown (horizontally)...lol.

Hope to get the grp pics soon.

Check out some of the shots.

We belong to the younger generation of softballers. Desmond, the one in yellow (my batch 'grew up' with his scoldings 10 years ago...lol..)

Me in the catcher's shitting squat.

Enjoying my old days as an infielder

rusty shoulders, torn apart boots, aching arms.....but it's worthwhile. Thanks everyone for being there on sunday morning, had a great time meeting up wif familiar faces that gone thru the 2 years of my life as a JJC Ravager, been wif us thru the 9-5 weekend trainings under the hot sun, muddy JJC diamond days. Hope to meet up on similar events in the near future again :)

Welcome Nephew Caden

2009-10-02T15:42:00.000+08:00

Nephew Caden was born on 2 Oct 2009, 1542hrs.

Isn't him adorable?? i juz simply couldn't take my arms off him...lol.. Lucky i haf no phobia to carry new born babies...thanks for the trainings with my niece 6 years ago on 3 Oct 2003. Such coincidence. The birthdays of my nephew and niece is only 1-day apart in the Roman Calendar. While baby Caden chose to be born on the same birthday as me, as of the Lunar Calendar, 八月十四, the eve of the mooncake festival :) We are also born in the same hospital.

New National Treasure!!!!!

2009-09-25T19:09:00.004+08:00

OMG This AIR HEAD WON MISS SINGAPORE WORLD!!!!!! IS SHE REALI THE BEST SINGAPORE CAN OFFER?????

Ris Low
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ris Low is the newly crowned Miss Singapore World 2009. [1]

Low has been heavily criticised for her inability to speak proper English as well as her lack of intellect, when she appeared in a fashion interview. However, some people have tried to downplay the fracas by saying that most youths in Singapore, such as her, speak the same way. Ris Low's interview has sparked much discussion about the pressing issue of Singlish among Singaporeans, especially in youths these days. [2] [3]

Low is now quite certain that she is studying for a diploma in travel & tourism [4] and one in nursing at Singapore's Management Development Institute of Singapore [5].

There have been allegations on Singapore forums and websites that Low won the crown underhandedly and is undeserving of the title.[6][7] There have also been calls for Low to be stripped of her title as Miss Singapore World 2009. This is because of her poor command of English. This can be seen in her recent interview which her pronunciation caused resulted in her not making much sense such as leopard preens","studying STEEL", "that shouts me,BOOMZ", "bigini" and many more.[8][9]. Recently,The beauty queen was convicted of five charges of misappropriation, cheating using illegally obtained credit cards, and impersonating their users' identities.

10227

2009-09-19T11:28:00.006+08:00

To be precise, I am approximately 10227 days old as of 8 days ago.

I have lost count of how many weekends i need to wake up early...and this is the first saturday in dunno how many months that i actually can allow myself to '自然醒' and i can basically ROT at home simply to laze the whole day - the rainy weather adds to that.

I am thankful to my friends and loved ones for spending time with me to celebrate my 10227 days of my life. The company of the people is something which i truly value, and that's not something that can be quantified or acquired by monetory means. Here are some shots to retain the beautiful memories of this page of my life

With my NS buddies

With my dearest: even though it was confessed that the dishes were accomplished with the major assistance of her mum, i still appreciate the thoughts :)(so funny when i knew that her mum asked her to lie to me that everything is done by her alone...lol) hopefully nx year will be something done 100% authentically by herself. hehe.

Finally, the cheesecake feast at HN's place

Ending this post with a very nice song

烟花句-1993
欧丁玉张学友

(张)曾在某远处洒过伤心眼泪
还幸有你共一醉
是你跟我说让我清醒的句子
叫我不用为她再枉追

(欧)其实我对你所说的安慰话
全属试试看没根据
是这么数句在某天所听到的
可叫心事暂且告退

(张)梦似烟花心似水
来和去实也是虚
一切终须过去只好奋起面对
愁或闷亦似一醉

(合)梦似烟花心似水
来和去实也是虚
一切终须过去只好奋起面对
愁或闷亦似一醉

(欧)然后却到我心里多么困累
其实怕看见梦粉碎
幸有一个你又唱出烟花句子
叫我心内顿感有暖风吹

(张)谁没有试过哭笑悲欢散聚
途上碰上你是生趣
又再一次醉共唱出烟花句子
一切忧患是非快逝去

(合)共你举杯又重聚回头看
年月似水一切终须过去
烟花再闪下去
情共义在我心里

Inspirations for lyrics

2009-09-15T14:12:00.002+08:00

My lyrics creation 'juices' seemed to have malfunctioned nowadays......i have 2 pieces of melodies in my mind, for quite some time alr, somehow i juz have no inspirations to complete it with lyrics of my liking........

《马来西亚华语VS中国普通话》

2009-08-30T22:31:00.002+08:00

It has been long since i last posted something funny....well, maybe i can appreciate these languages, and as Singaporeans, dun be surprised that many of us somehow or another are guity of using those words!!!

一篇更新版本的《马来西亚华语VS中国普通话》

中国人：今晚你有空吗？我没空！
马来西亚华人：今晚你得不得空？我不得空！

中国人：饼干受潮了（le）…。
马来西亚华人：饼干'漏风'了（liao）…。

中国人：从上海去苏州要多少个小时？
马来西亚华人：从上海去苏州要几粒钟？

中国人：难道你不让他来吗？
马来西亚华人：你不给他来啊？

中国人：周杰伦不爱穿内裤。
马来西亚华人：周杰伦不喜欢穿底裤。

中国人：我一向都是这样的
马来西亚人：我一路来就是这样的啦

中国人：我的手机掉进沟渠了。
马来西亚华人：我的电话掉进龙沟了。

中国人：这样你不是很不值得吗？
马来西亚华人：酱你不是rugi到xiao？

中国人：你真是聪明！
马来西亚华人：你几pan nai 一下！(源自马来语pandai，聪明的意思)

中国人：你安静！
马来西亚华人：你diam la！(源自马来语diam，安静的意思)

中国人：我要去银行取款。
马来西亚华人：我要去银行'按钱'。

中国人：为什么？
马来西亚华人：做么？

中国人：你很强~
马来西亚华人：你几够力~

中国人：我很郁闷~~~
马来西亚华人：我很'显'（sien）leh~~~~（'显'比郁闷的境界更高）

中国人：你再说我就打你！
马来西亚华人：你再说我就hood你！（有点粗俗的）

中国人：你在说什么？
马来西亚华人：你讲sommok？

中国人：你不要令我丢脸~
马来西亚华人：你不要作我 sia suay~

中国人：你别乱来~
马来西亚华人：你表乱乱来~

中国人：你很无聊
马来西亚华人：你很废

中国人：XX你
马来西亚华人：Kanasai（意思是像大便一样，骂人的话）

中国人：迫切
马来西亚华人：bek chek

中国人：我们一起吃这碗面~
马来西亚华人：我们'公司'策这碗面~（源自马来语的kongsi，就是一起分享的意思）

中国人：我们结婚吧！
马来西亚华人：我们借'分'吧！（'婚'字受粤语影响，所以音不标准）

中国人：今天的天气很热~
马来西亚华人：今天的天气热到。。。。。。。。。。。。。。~~~~~~~（'到'字要拉长，然后没有下文了）

中国人：哇!
马来西亚华人：哇捞weh!!!!

中国人：我受不了他！
马来西亚华人：我behtahan他！

中国人：你要出席吗？
马来西亚人：你要表去的？

中国人：是这样吗？
马来西亚人：是酱的咩？

中国人：我想先用餐
马来西亚人：我要吃饭先

中国人：别这么说
马来西亚人：要咩？要酱讲咩？

中国人：糟了！
马来西亚人：够力料！

中国人：很漂亮
马来西亚人：很“靓” （受广东话影响）

中国人：你不观看电视节目吗？
马来西亚人：你不要看电视机啊？

中国人：这怎么行？
马来西亚人：酱哪里可以的？

中国人：没办法，我真的无法出席
马来西亚人：Bo Bian（福建话“没变”）！我真的去不到！

中国人：什么？！不是真的吧？
马来西亚人：Har？！你讲话啊？！

中国人：你搞糊涂了
马来西亚人：你醒料没有你？

中国人：你很大胆居然敢这么做
马来西亚人：你酱做不怕死哦？

中国人：你别乱说！
马来西亚人：吹水啦你！

中国人：你怎么样了？
马来西亚人：你OK吗？

中国人：不然呢？
马来西亚人：ah bo then??

中国人：对不起，可以再说一次吗?
马来西亚人 : harrrrrrrRRrrrRRRrrrrr?????????(声音调高）

中国人：本人甘拜下风~
马来西亚人 : 你赢料咯~

中国人：你不是在开玩笑吧？
马来西亚人：mai 笑啦~

中国人：对不起，我迟到了~
马来西亚人：paiseh,我来晚了~

中国人：我的刹车器坏了
马来西亚人：我的 blek 坏掉~~

中国人：我要吃快熟面
马来西亚人：我要吃Maggie 面 ( Maggie Mee 其实是一个牌子来的）

中国人：请问你是什么学历?
马来西亚人：你took书took几高?

中国人：这下糟了!!
马来西亚人：哄赶liao la!!

中国人：这么晚了怎么还没回家??
马来西亚人酱夜liao作么还不回家??

Beauty Queen Vs Airhead

2009-08-26T22:11:00.001+08:00

Miss Universe 2009 has just been crowned yesterday with powerhouse Venezuela winning the title twice in a row for the first time in Miss universe history...frankly i was a fan of beauty pageants as i do admire beauty with brains and poise which was demonstrated by the winners back in the 90s. but the way the competition format has changed removed my liking for the pageant and its recent year winners as i no longer see the outer and inner beauties like the previous winners. instead i seem to agree with certain comments on the net that Miss universe winners nowadays look like P_os_it_tes.

Check out these 2 beauty queens i truly respect from the bottom of my heart:

Now come to the turn off:

i was told my wk that the Miss Singapore World contestants this year are great turn offs, not because they are lack of mighty 'figures', but because they are a bunch of air heads, those that will give a loud echo when u hit its head with something.....

upon watching the videos, i can't help but to firstly, feel so pitiful about the contestants that they have disgraced themselves so much simply by their air head answers. i tot the $2 char kway teow at Newton circus and choosing RACIAL harmony day as a favorite festival back in 2005 are already bad enough....but the fact is: 一山还有一山高....to directly translate, it simply literally means that there's always a mountain that is higher than another....on the other hand, i can't help also to feel so ashamed for Singapore and to ask :"is that the best Singapore can offer??" "What will people think of Singapore if we have such people to represent the women of Singapore????" there could only be a few reasons:

1. singapore has no woman with both beauty and brains...
2. the contestants never did any homework or study past pageants...
3. in singapore, only unconfident air heads who are thirsty for RESPECT, ATTENTION, & RECOGNITION takes part in pageants....

Seeing is believing, check them out:

Nice New songs in market

2009-08-25T22:28:00.004+08:00

Not really new, this song is alr more than half a year, but each time i listen to this song in my car, i can't help but to want to sing along with it and to replay it for a few times.

Simple melody, not spectacular singing, but when everything piece together it juz simply seems to fall in place. perhaps thats the imperfections that makes the song perfect...sounds familiar????

It's definitely a 耐听 song

泳儿-离开以后

时间的步伐太快来不及数节拍

欺骗自己你还在眼泪却想不开

转身以后你怎样离开我该继续等待

还是一个人去习惯这孤单

离开以后我才懂得了如何去爱

爱就不该计较伤害

我在空气里抱紧你最后的温暖抱不自你的依赖

离开以后我才懂得了如何去爱懂得你的那些无奈

我不相信爱可以说放就放得开现在我才终于明白

假如你不曾走开我不听从安排

是否还继续相爱当这是场意外

转身以后你怎样离开我该继续等待

还是一个人去习惯这孤单

离开以后我才懂得了如何去爱爱就不该计较伤害

我在空气里抱紧你最后的温暖抱不自你的依赖

离开以后我才懂得了如何去爱懂得你的那些无奈

我不相信爱可以说放就放得开现在我才终于明白

舍不舍得都只能说再见

The P Warriors

2009-08-15T22:11:00.000+08:00

Dragon Boat for this year finally come to an end... Well, i tink the P warriors had met its goal in terms of the competition results as far as i am concerned... At least we did not finish last in the entire OPEN CATEGORY...lol. Next year will be better...if we are sending a team again.

Here are the shots:

After Dragon Boat, it's selling of training courses at SUNTEC again....one week later

National Day 09

2009-08-09T21:51:00.000+08:00

No Singapore flag, no Majulah Singapura, no national day parade and saying of national pledge....that's how I spent Singapore's 44th birthday.

But that does not mean i juz rot my day away:

That was the way we witness another pair of my great friends tying the knot. Knowing each other for more than 12 years, they are finally a married couple. Truly feel happy for them though. It was also a wonderful gathering of 4A1/CTSS/1997. I counted, 13 of us were there...out of the original class size of 43.

Check out the fotos

The solemn side of me is giving the bridegroom some serious advice?????

That's a mini reunion of our class, but with more new members, be it young or 'old' :), not forgetting one of the most impacting teacher in my life, Ms Magdelene Scully

Again, i've uploaded some old day pictures to put u to a test whether you can identify the same people in the above 2 shots

I found this shot which was taken with my 'lady fans' 6 years ago....lol

and finally this x years old foto taken back then with the guys back then...

the day ended with me rushing off to work on national day night......till the next day morning.

Weekend Activity - Jul - Aug 09

2009-07-25T15:22:00.002+08:00

I've more or less recovered from the illness bothering me few months back, just waiting for the residual symptoms to go off completely in the mean time.

Anyway, what has been occupying me for the past few saturday mornings is something new to me though. Yes....i am in the company Dragon Boat Team...sounds so ironical though....cos back in my uni days i used to have 'not so good' impression of the sport and dragon boaters, not becos i bear personal grudges against them, but it was some people in campus who just like to compare so much about the softball team to his dragon boat team, and frequently boasting how great the sport and his dragon boaters were. back then at YIH study room, there's also this particular spot/ seats/ tables which majority of the dragon boaters like to hog to. they would like to make themselves so prominent by ensuring that they wear their same dragon boat Team NUS jacket everyday.

anyway dat was in the past which dun reali bother me much.

recently i picked up this new sport with many fellow colleagues, trust me, most of us are completely new to the sport, including myself. and the team is really an interesting mix, with the 高矮肥瘦, and 男女老幼 combination. but boils down, it's another team sport, and also a physically demanding one. i do enjoy it though.

cos it's at kallang also, every week driving thru the familiar stretch of road to reach the water sports centre which pass by the kallang softball diamond brings back memories of my days back in the NUS softball team. somehow i will have the tendency to take a second look at the diamond each time i drive pass that area, trying to see which team is having training or matches there, and also trying to look for any familiar faces whom i know. maybe that's juz a side of me which tells me that i still misses the sport and the various kakis i've played the sport with for 10 over years i've spent playing the game competitively from secondary school, JC to Uni.

wanted to meet my sis/niece today becos i've not seen for more than a month already. but the reply received reali turned me off totally. it goes like this:

sometime around late noon:
"(my niece) is sleeping and (my sis) is too lazy to meet."

well, it takes 2 hands to clap. any form of relationship, be it friendship, relationship, kinship; its my belief that both parties need to put in their minimum effort to sustain the relationship. if everyone is ALWAYS lazy in their attitude towards their friends and loved ones, it simply shows how much they value your presence.

i reciprocated by simply can't be bothered to even want to fabricate an sms reply which is FOC.

it's a shame-----in my opinion....i condone, but obviously i dun agree with such behavior......

People should learn to give and take, not juz willingly or passively take , but lazy to give

Anyway put this aside.

i realised that i actually like this song alot, only after i started to include in my retro collection cd which i listened to in my car journeys.

经典回顾----陈艾湄

2009-06-28T23:15:00.001+08:00

have been rotting at home over the past weekend.....thanks to my non stop coughing which is giving me trouble and the powerful medicine which juz simply literally turns me into a lethargic 'zombie'. Michael Jackson died, due to suspected drug overdose (8)....i took 7 types of medication over the weekend.....who noes, i may suffer from the cardiac arrest anytime too....lol....

Have been listening to these lot of retro songs, which can't help but makes me feel so aged....

陈艾湄

does this name sound familiar to u in anyway???

believe that the answer will be no for the majority...

worth mentioning that she does have quite a couple of pretty nice duet songs back then in the early 1990s...yes, somehow i only know her popular duet songs, at least popular enough for me to know them as a kid back then and remember them as an adult currently after around 20 years. perhaps these titles may sound familiar to u again:

谁说我不在乎

男)一封不该来的信，你又何必介意
昨天的你，变得好模糊真叫人，捉不住
(女)捉不住的是你的心不是我太在乎
在她信中你对她好温柔你怎麽解释清楚
(合)为什麽感情变得好脆弱
(男)我不想感情介入，第三者 oh～no
(合)难道一生的承诺
(男)轻易在误解中错过(女)轻易在抉择中失落
(合)让心中难圆的梦伴随你我
(男)猜不透的，是你的心
(女)谁说我不在乎
(合)昨天的你，变得好模糊，难道只为了一封信
(合)昨天的你变得好模糊
(合)难道只为了一封信

谁说我不在乎shei shuo wo bu zai hu - 高明骏，陈艾楣

我悄悄地蒙上你的眼睛

演唱:高明骏陈艾湄

男)你悄悄地蒙上我的眼睛
要我猜猜你是谁
从mary到sunny和ivory
就是不喊你的名字
(女)我悄悄地蒙上你的眼睛
让你猜猜我是谁
从mary到sunny和ivory
却始终没有我的名字
(合)为什麽你的双手在颤抖
笑容凝结在你的眼中
难道你对我会所有改变
(女)我不再是你的唯一
(男)我只是故意再逗你

(女)我悄悄地蒙上你的眼睛
让你猜猜我是谁
从mary到sunny和ivory
却始终没有我的名字

(男)你悄悄地蒙上我的眼睛
要我猜猜你是谁
从mary到sunny和ivory
就是不喊你的名字
(女)我悄悄地蒙上你的眼睛
让你猜猜我是谁
从mary到sunny和ivory
却始终没有我的名字
(合)为什麽你的双手在颤抖
笑容凝结在你的眼中
难道你对我会所有改变
(女)我不再是你的唯一
(男)我只是故意再逗你
(女)我悄悄地蒙上你的眼睛
让你猜猜我是谁
(合)要知道我对你的感觉
究竟是眼睛里的你
(合)要知道我对你的感觉
究竟是眼睛里的你

wo qiao wiao de meng shang ni de yan jing - 高明骏，陈艾楣

我拥有你的心

wo yong you ni de xin - 陈艾楣 + 高明俊

and coincidentally, she sang these songs together with the 丛林男孩 --- forest boy if you wanna literally translate the description, 高明骏.

Hope these songs brings back some of your memories of the early 1990s pop

Non Stop Residue

2009-06-27T00:04:00.002+08:00

I wish i could be back in action fast.......missing the swimming pool, badminton courts, softball diamond......But all these will be impossible until i'm back on the road.......the road to recovery........

P.S...Am in the company Dragon Boat Team...lol....

东方之珠

2009-05-26T17:35:00.001+08:00

Finally had a well deserved overseas vacation almost 2 years after my previous one.

Spent 4 nights at the Oriental Pearl. The tour around the province was entirely by foot/MTR. Check out the places visited:

Both SG and HK are prosperous, crowded and densely populated cities. But the 4 nights stay there does give me some indications of some distinct differences btwn these 2 of the 4 "Little Dragons of Asia".

MTR system: Much more sophisticated than wat SG has. Many more confusing lines and interchanges. But the train frequencies definitely trash SG. Most of the time we dun need to wait for more than 3 mins for a train to arrive.

People: Ok...i believe the generally very loud/ rude people I've met are not the Hong Kongers

Air: I tink the air quality there is terrible...somehow i started coughing the moment i reach there...for the entire trip...once i'm back in SG, my cough stopped....

Food and fashion: generally i find the things there expensive, one plate of noodles typically cost around HK20 = SGD4...for fashion wise, people there are generally more trendy and people there seems to have better complexion than Singaporeans...I also dun see many fat/obese people around...

Night view: No fight...HK trash SG flat.

Weather: Less warm than SG at this point of time...but the rainy days were really a turn off...hindering our itenaries, especially to the sight seeing areas. The visit to Lantau Island was a flop too....cos of the rain. Cable car was wobbling badly...due to the strong winds...ended up getting giddy spells after that..

DIsneyLand

It's a place women and kids love to go....well, i don't hate going to that place...the rides and stuff were honestly generally meant for kids...but it does bring me back to my childhood days when i loved to watch Donald Duck, Chip & Dale cartoons. Luckily it wasn't raining when we were there.

Check out my poor drawing (you know..art is always a killer subject of mine)...Maybe u could figure out that I was drawing Minnie Mouse...but this Minnie mouse seemed to be having a bad runny nose, with badly swollen nose, and it looks exceptionally giddy...i added in the 'giddy' spells to depict the effect...lol..

The train service to Disneyland

Also visited places like:

庙街: I like this place actually...the night market does sell quite alot of things, and reminds me of SG's pasar malam.. somehow i feel that the place is very "authentic" HK street. people there give me good impression that they are warm and kind. nice food varieties with really huge portions....wasted quite alot...caught by surprise....

铜锣湾，东涌: reali shopping places, dun find anything special.

孙中山博物馆: No fight compared to the one I've been to in Taipei. The one in Taipei is simply much more better....But nonetheless, i still stayed around 3 hours there...

蓝桂芳: entire street with different kinds of pubs. Was initially trying to scout for one with canto/chinese live band performances in which we can patronize on the last night, but was dissapointed. In the end we end up going to their "Red Box" KTV. The song varieties there are much less compared to SG, but the cost is much cheaper...they open until 6am and u can sing for 6 hrs jus for the price of HK63 per head = SGD12. their sound system is also far better than SG, at least i dun get to hear deafening screams from the adjacent rooms. they got pretty good sound proofing facilities.

深水埗: Most dissapointing visit. Simply becos it closes so early at 7pm....so got no chance to visit this famous spot for wholesale of clothings... By the time we reached there at 8pm, it's a dead street..

黄大仙: Nothing special about the place. perhaps was too turned off by the rain when we were there. stayed less than 1 hr there...simply just pray and go that kind :s

In summary: HK is simply a place meant for 买东西,吃东西. It doesn't have many nice scenery places..and i can now fully comprehend why women shoppers love to visit this place so much juz to spend 2-3 days 血拼... the shopping centres are always congested, it was an eye opener when i went to SOGO to buy Wife biscuits....To make up for the loss time due to the non-stop rain, we ended up shopping and shopping and shopping.... i lost count of the number of clothings i've bought. bought shoes, jeans and many more.... burnt a big hole in my pocket...i tried to comfort myself by the fact that i oni did something similar 2 years ago when i went Taipei...

Spent a total of around $2000 over 4 nights, inclusive of air ticket, accommodation, transport, food, shopping!!!

The hotel we stayed at is good....cheap, clean, quiet, cosy, good location (2 mins walk from MTR)...even though the room is very small. Staff is friendly and helpful, even though the staff whom i asked for recommendations of nice pubs did not give a satisfactory answer... Will go back there again probably, if i were to go to HK again :)

Check out this hotel.

Typical DIM SUM breakfast...was quite pleased with the restaurant and food until i see a baby cockroach running around.....

Never knew that HK has a bank with such vulgar initials.....

Something good about HK too: it's a good place for me to practice my broken cantonese....lol...even though most of them can speak 普通话　 and English.....that's the point, got practice, then can improve :) no point always keeping to own comfort zone all the time.

Good to end with a song dedicated to Hong Kong and its heritage:

Family Shots

2009-05-20T16:27:00.003+08:00

My eldest sis finally got happily married on 22/4/09 and is now officially Mdm Koh. Was also pleasantly surprised that I'll be having a nephew soon too.

Lets hope that happiness will be with her for the rest of her life and they'll be blessed with happy and healthy children too :)

谢谢你让我爱你

2009-04-12T01:00:00.005+08:00

MORE THAN 1 YEAR!!!

I have not put any piece of my music compositions into a tangible piece.....

I was given the chance to rot today at home......simply refused to do any studying or work....i guess i need a break, seriously to recharge.....

Took out my guitar (with cobwebs already).... finally got the mood to play and record the entire song...which was supposed to be a birthday gift for XY 2 months ago..

Here it goes:

谢谢你让我爱你
词，曲，唱: Myself

我那尘封已久的心灵从不相信所谓的爱情

原来是因为我不曾动心

其实时间不会是距离让你我永远紧紧相系

因为我生命有了一个你

我那尘封已久的心灵不知不觉地被你占据

心房的钥匙交到你手心

每天总有许多的事情总是期待想说给你听

庆幸我生命有了一个你

如果我曾无心伤害你的心让你在夜里担心

在我的心中只有你不能没有你

也许你会认为我并不在意把你放逐到天际

此刻请你仔细聆听谢谢你让我爱你

哪怕容颜会随着年华老去庆幸有你如影随形

哪怕容颜会随着年华老去庆幸有你如影随行

I'm glad that i'm loved, and to have someone beside me and vice versa.

Even though this song doesn't have such catchy tunes as some of my previous works, but it's still something from within me :)

Enjoy the song.

Look forward to pen down more good songs :)

xie xie ni rang wo ai ni [tuned].mp3 -

NP2 - 2 Mar - 9 Apr 09: Almost Perfect Ending :)

2009-04-10T09:45:00.011+08:00

6 weeks come and go so swiftly again, and it's time to say Goodbye to my 7th complete batch of Polytechnic Trainees from Ngee Ann Polytechnic Group 2.

This group of Trainees, without fail, challenged some of my records in ITE/Poly Training once again........

I broke the record in the issuance of the number of reminder/ counseling forms for this batch....i counted: 17. With the first one on day 2......

I have to agree that this class is not the strongest in terms of academic aptitude i have taken all these while. But i was touched and surprised by their desire to want to do well. For the 1st time, i have students who come to me to request for additional remedial session on a weekend, and that many of them started to call their lecturers frantically after i agreed but requested for a LT as i need to use the projector. It was a pleasant surprise to find out that 27/28 turned up, and 25 of them turned up on time at LT77 before 9am (on a weekend!). Their efforts did pay off. When the ranking of the final exam marks were released, the class finished 1st on average scores (at a close shave) with the highest passing percentage. I see that as a major value-added performance :). With a student making an all time biggest jump in ranking from 135/182 in the mid term to 19/ 182 in the final term paper. That proven to me one point again, IT'S NOT THE APTITUDE BUT THE ATTITUDE THAT DETERMINES THE ALTITUDE!

For the 2nd time we implemented the min 50% for all components to pass the training, NP-2 was the only class this time round who managed to graduate with a PERFECT ENDING.....with everybody managed to obtain the Graduation Certificate on the same day.

The graduation ceremony was indeed a 'memorable' one. It reali puts our Emergency Response Preparedness to a test. Luckily it was 有惊无险. and the ceremony eventually did proceed.

Now check out the presents and treatment i've received from them on the Graduation Day....

Everyone "牺牲色相" juz to prepare for the present......

Even i myself, was not spared.....

To make this:

I tink they had a great time impersonating me.....

My PIERCING STARES when students yawned impolitely during class....

I seriously think i dun usually do this, as i usually point to pple using my thumb...unlike Mark who points with his fingers always shaking as if he got PARKINSONS.........lol..

"DON'T BE A KUKU" ; "WHACK YOU THEN U NOE"......has become my signature gestures and phrases among my students somehow......lol...

yes...they made it specially for me......

i reali dunno why they haf this impression that i love to patronize dragonfly.....if u searched my archive long enough, u would have known that i dun love to go there....simply becos of disgusting WILLIAM SCORPION.....when was the last time i went clubbing????????? i've lost count...honestly......juz look at them trying to feign the DRAGONFLY wings......lol

I always have a small group of students whom always make a name for themselves....this time there is no exception.....with the Red Bull Gang, which i call them....

I dun see them as bad natured students. i see myself during the 6 weeks to have to hold on to an "invisible cane" everyday on my hand to push them to move and to keep up with the standards. for the 1st 2 weeks, they were at my office almost everyday, not for consultations, but for counseling. for various reasons - like failing examinations, improper behavior and attire counselings, sleeping or using mobile phones during class, etc.

One of them was apparently constantly being counselled by me for improper body languages and behavior. Her behavior and looks reali reminded me of the Dowager of CN4/06 - ZJ... with the WHOLE WORLD OWE HER $$$$$$$ LOOK. On the last day i did tell her : you shld look more happy everyday.....lol......

I was glad that they did move, and I did see that they put in effort eventually -- forcing RED BULL down their throat everyday to make sure they stay awake and attentive during class, all turning up for the extra revision session on the weekend back in Ngee Ann. In fact all of them managed to pass the Final examination. one of them finished in the top 20% if i din remember wrongly.

From the way they behave on the last day, I believe that they know that my LOVE LETTERS, 'caning' and scoldings were for their own good. One of them actually thanked me for all the 'love' letters given to her all these while...I take it positively..lol.

Thanks NP-2, you have created another memorable chapter in my life. You will be remembered....just like how i remember all my 6 previous batches.

My Academic History

2009-04-05T18:50:00.010+08:00

Dunno y, my this group of students seemed to be reali keen to know my academic background.

So perhaps i should juz introduce myself more on that aspect.

Primary School: Corporation Primary School

The school crest bears the motto ‘Be Diligent and Helpful’, believing that diligent pupils know their work well and should always help those who need assistance.

The School Song

To the school with a passion to learn and live
Where our thoughts are evermore
Be proud of Corporation Primary School
To her we’ll always be true

Raise the banner of our motto
Be diligent and be helpful
Look up to our dear school
Whose aim we will uphold

I STILL REMEMBER THE MELODY AND THE LYRICS!!! SURPRISINGLY! AFTER I GRADUATED FROM THE SCHOOL FOR MORE THAN 15 YEARS!

That was the school compound which i spent 6 years of my primary school education in. Now it's already dilapidated and literally 人去楼空. Remember those great days which me, as a kid, with my other childhood friends were playing games like

"ABC" - some games which we had to jump platforms on stairways, which we find extremely enjoyable.

"zero point" - i used to be an expert in the game as it reali puts our 'jumping' skills to a test. i bet if i were to play this game at this age of mine, either my back will break or i will end up getting a slip disc....lol

"Pepsi Cola 123" - a kind of game which we need to step on our opponent's legs to eliminate them from the game and the team which managed to survive till the end will be declared the winner.

"AEIOU" - some kind of game which the "pasang" guy will shout the 5 letters and the opponents were not allowed to move after he turns back. after which he will try to distract you and once u started laughing or moving, u'll be eliminated.

"Catching" - i believe this game is familiar to everyone.

"crocodile" - team game somewhat similar to "catching", just that no one is allowed to place their feet on the ground...so all need to climb everywhere like monkeys....lol

"5 stones" - most shld be familiar with this game too...the unique part is that me, being a right hander, plays this game left handed. and not many were able to beat me in the game! lol....put ur horse come here to challenge me if you want...haha....

"Brick game" and the "rainbow band" - were the 'hot items' of my kiddy generation then that almost everyone will have in their hand...if you know what i'm talking about, we belong to the same generation....

Secondary School: Clementi Town Secondary School

The lost memorable school days of my life which played a great role to shape my present self today. Thanks to my teachers who have impacted me positively. The familiar classrooms which we spent 4 years in. The friendships and bonds built which remained strong even until today. It was a blessing, and i believe more, is fate, that i did not do well in my PSLE which landed me in CTSS to know my great buddies and of course, xy. It was complacency which caused my downfall for the PSLE, and it was thru that lesson which taught me the importance of humbility and consistent diligence in studies in order to achieve success. Being no.1 at a point of time does not mean that you are no.1 forever. Remember that.

Again, i still remember the melody of this school song. But, the melody and lyrics does make my hair stand, even after i have graduated from the school for more than 1o years. I shan't comment further.

College: Jurong Junior College

College Song

The road unwinds before us
And we must venture on
Towards the bright tomorrow
Which faith and hope enthrone.

We shall not stay nor linger
We shall not shrink nor fail
But hand in hand together
Strike out along the trail.

Chorus:
Head, heart and hand we offer
That none will fail the test
"Plus Ultra" leads us further
Until we are the best.

And on our backs the armour
Forged in our college days
And in our eyes the light of truth
This college sets ablaze.

Yes....I oso do remember the melody of this college song, and the meaning of Plus Ultra = this far and farther.....

Good 2 years spent in the college with great teachers, friends and nor forgetting my Softball Team mates. Thanks to all my teachers who have dedicated their teachings which enables my name to be engraved in the college walls forever. Not those kind of vandalised marks on walls by my students on what Ms L _ _ which they always disturbed me about....lol......

Varsity: National University of Singapore

That is not a school. To me, it's just a commercial entity. I have ranted about it more than enough..check out my 05 and 06 posts and u'll know more about this WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY wannabe. But to my gang of friends of ChBE CN4 06, u r the reason y i still have feelings for the university :), also the Softballers :)

松柏

2009-04-05T01:16:00.002+08:00

I believe some people, who are just like me, who loves Chinese retro of the 80s and 90s, will be keen on these 2 albums. No worries, these 绝版 series of cds are quite easily available at CD Rama outlets. I got these 2 discs from the Jurong Point branch.

Think of it, 松柏 brothers used to be my Idol when i was still in my lower primary days...lol...i recalled i first got to know them when i first heard their debut song 超越另一个自我， then their hit songs 留一片蓝天, to their gradual downfalls like 舞菌，and finally “Baby you should be dancing". I used to own these cassette tapes, which by now are all no where to be found.

Would like to share this in my opinion quite nice song, but not a hit then. Hope the lyrics are correct:

你是不是从来没有在乎过我

别人眼中的我好像很沉默

个性之中带着冷漠没有太多温柔

如果真的承认心中有感动

不要经过他们口中认识真正的我

再不再要求更多一样的你和我

其实谁不要被人了解被人接受

你是不是从来没有在乎过我

为什么都不懂你就想要离开我

我还是我从来没有失去温柔

毫无保留付出我所有

预约你的爱到永久

你是不是从来没有在乎过我ni shi bu shi cong lai mei you zai hu guo wo - song bai

超越另一个自我 -- their debut song

song bai - chao yue lin yi ge zi wo.mp3 - song bai

A Student's Sentiments

2009-04-04T15:05:00.002+08:00

Points to ponder:

In a class of 20 odd people, this student, by the name of Student X, has always been given more assignments by his teacher for the past year, as the teacher always claimed that he is someone with good calibre and wishes to expose him to much more challenges, compared to his other classmates. His teacher also told him that he knows that student X is very diligent, has been consistently doing well, and he is very likely to score high grades in the examination. Motivated by his teacher, Student X accepted the challenges, and he got to work doubly hard compared to his other classmates, as he got multiple extra curricular activities commitment which his teacher knows he need to juggle at the same time.

Every year, the students were being assessed by this teacher, who decides how many marks each of his students will get, and how the class will be streamed and banded for the nest year.

Ironically, in the examination, all students in the same class got the same number of marks and all were banded into the same class.

Conclusion:

Was Student X not intelligent enough compared to his peers?

Did Student X did so badly in the exams, until the point he was on par with everyone?

Was the teacher playing a prank on him all along?

Feel free to comment.

我吃得起苦 - I can endure hardship

2009-03-15T10:50:00.004+08:00

This song shall serve as a constant reminder that I need to remain strong and view all challenges that I am facing concurrently now and after as life lessons to turn me into a better person each day. My motivation and perseverance will remain as strong as my voice in the video clip.....lol.

歌曲：我吃得起苦

原唱：动力火车

走出去就有路寻见了就有福

拥有了一切都进了包袱思念是带不走的

天空疑云密布心中翻腾起伏

虽将飘摇前途仍模糊此地会是我衣锦还乡处

飘洋过海我吃得起苦相信天无绝人之路

现实有咒诅梦里有祝福有缘同舟风雨同渡

顶着烈日当空眼底有迷雾不能再让懦弱困住

日子多坎坷命运有变数只盼久旱逢甘露

重逢

2009-03-10T22:24:00.003+08:00

It's a good time for me to post some updates: Yes i fallen very sick...in the month of March again. Guessed month of march has always been very unlucky for me as for the past 7-8 years, I have always fallen very sick, by similar causes, and i always ended up making big scenes from the illnesses, unintentionally....

I have been trying to do some work at home during my rest periods, be it school work or office work, but the medicine is reali making me totally washed out...causing me to sleep for more than 12 - 15 hrs a day. Perhaps this relatively brainless job I'm doing right here, right now is more manageable by myself, for this moment.

Recall:

the 1st case was back in 2002. sometime in mid march, when i was still in the army.

Culprit: Char Siew Mee from Bedok Camp 2 canteen
Within 3 hours, the symptoms came, i was lying on my bed in camp, still recalled was on level 4 at HQ7SIB block. I din go for lunch as i told my buddies i wasn't feeling well and I continued to rest on my bed. Soon, My head started to spin, and i began to perspire heavily. my mind told myself i had to get up and call for help as my bunk was empty, however my body juz doesn't seem to respond. my body started to numb and i began to hyperventilate -- new term learnt from the incident. Until one of my PS (Ah Tham) happen to walk past my bunk. My mind was still alert. I tried to muffle to catch his notice. luckily he did. he tapped me but there wasn't much response. Immediately he called for help and the camp MO came with a group of medics (i tink). If i din remember wrongly, i was given drip immediately, and this one i was very sure, he instructed to send me to hospital. Imagine i got to be evacuated from level 4 to level 1 on a stretcher, and that the stretcher could not fit into a lift. My eyes were closed then, but i could still roughly recall the 4 people + 1 holding on to the drip whom evacuated me to level 1 on the stretcher by climbing down the stairs. i tink was Ah Lau, Raymond and Kenny plus some medics...dat was my 1st encounter at A&E....at CGH. My impression of A&E at CGH is quite good though, in terms of their services and professionalism... but not as though i want to be there always...though i was discharged from hospital on the same day, my sis brought me to Dr Quek aka my family doc whom my family have patronized since 1995; who gave me multiple jabs + medicine with 7 days of MC in total..

2nd case: Mar 25 2005
Culprit: Mac Spicy Double meal upsize from Beauty World Mac

Yes i do remember this date very clearly. It was a sunday and i taken the burger juz before i started my tutoring lesson. Similar symptoms came, with exceptions that it cames with gastric pain as well. within 5 hrs, i finished my tuition, then went suntec to meet my sis, then complained about my discomfort then she sent me back, after which i told her that i was reali unwell then she sent me to this shit doc at Blk 692 JW 24 hr clinic i tink. I collapsed at the clinic while waiting for the doc. then the nurses + doc then frantically attended to me (according to my sisters). the doc got so panicky when he tried to drip me but was only successful after the floor ended up in a pool of blood, and he called got his nurses to call the ambulance. this time rd i ended up at NUH A&E. It was a TERRIBLE experience there as the services provided was horrible. I tink i waited in agony for a period which i felt was like hours. Dr Quek came after my sis called him and it ended up in a lecturing session he gave to the young A&E docs who gave the wrong diagnosis. after which i was sent to his clinic again for the jabs and medicine which again, i got ard 1 week in total.

I got 1 other similar attack in 2007, which after being so seasoned to the symptoms, i managed to survive thru without much hoo ha.

but last sunday i wasn't so lucky:

date: 8 Mar
Culprit: Roast duck stall at JW , prime suspect, the sweet sauce or chilli sauce.
the lunch was taken ard 2pm+ after which i went swimming with KC. Felt very weak after the swim, initially thought i became so unfit juz because i have not exercised since my ippt in feb 09 during my in camp. but the giddy spells seemed to get worse, and i decided to head home after dessert with KC. Just before the turn into my flat, my intuition told me that i shld head for Dr Quek's clinic, which i believed was the right choice. i struggled to drive to his clinic, though was only a short journey of less than 2 km. while waiting for my turn to see him, i MERLIONED, and the amt was confirmed to be more than wat PEAR had thrown up on his birthday celebration last year . I seemed to have created a big hoo ha at the clinic at that instant, with other patients coming to help me up and give me tissue papers....lol..the doc commented that that was almost equivalent to around 2 kg of pukes....yucks...

seems so coincidental that all these happened in Mar right???

the same illness seemed to 重逢 at the same time of the years. lucky i was seasoned to the symptoms and i seemed to be recovering well as i knew the right things to do....

Anyway last month i reali watched a concert called 重逢 after the birthday celebration of my dearest XY.

木吉他合唱团 - i reali dun belong to the right generation as i reali do not know their songs...so quite a boring segment.

姜鄠 - his segment was disappointing. he went off tune quite a few times (pretty obvious) in his singing. and seeked for the audiences forgiveness by claiming that he has not been singing for many years....lol. he also din sing his best and most famous song 恋之憩, but 萍水相逢 brings back some good old memories of the 1980s though.

曾淑勤 - claimed to be sick, and i believed it was true from her voice that day. heard the almost forgotten 茉莉花的日子

洪劭轩 + 苏心荃 - a pretty powerful combination, esp 苏 , who still have such a powerful and nice voice even though the last time i reali remembered hearing him sing was back in 1991 when he took part in 斗歌竞艺 and i recalled singing him in SGH once before as he was a doc there i tink some time in 1999 when my mum was sick and warded there. his voice was comparable to 林志炫 in my opinion. 洪's segment was slightly disappointing as again, he did not sing his best and my fav songs of his...:p.

南方二重唱 - indisputably the best female voices of the evening.

弹唱人 ACAPELLA - i have no idea who they were initially, but their performances was full of surprises + entertaining and they sang well! esp when they imitated Thai accent English...lol

黄韵玲 - talented musician, and was quite surprised that she could sing pretty well though.

许美静 - flop start with lots of off tune notes when she started singing her 1st song, but she ended it well i tink, probably after she warmed up.

V Day

2009-02-17T10:59:00.002+08:00

Hi

It seems that I had vanished from the world over the past few weeks, but it's not true.

In reality, i was somehow searching for a breathing space.

Rushing and walking quickly at office seemed to be a normal practice for me.

reaching home late and treating my home merely as a hotel became a routine.

bring work home is no longer something surprising.

had been tied up with plant turnaround for 3 weeks in Jan. Yes, our small plant did a turnaround. or i shld say in layman terms, a major plant shutdown for maintenance. though not so major afterall, but it's still enough to keep us busy and on the ball.

CNY was only 2 days for me, from the 3rd day onwards basically it's back to the normal busy routine of working and schooling, even during the weekends, when i went back to help out to conduct ITE shift training.

1st week of Feb was ICT at Pasir Laba Camp. Had a great time meeting up with long lost army buddies and comrades. and to know that people can resort to hiding in fire hose reel cabinets when they are drunk just to escape further 'alcohol treatment'! lol. and that me, being 'drowned' by the $1.20 per can TIGER beer at the specs mess, went frantically searching and trying to call this lost comrade...lol. Had a great time riding motorbike too, though only for a short 2 hours. thats something i look forward to every year in an ICT when i do not have to worry that my hair will go messy or stinky after riding motor bike cos i am in green!
The saying still goes: "WEAR GREEN, CANNOT THINK" wearing army uniform seemed to give everyone a legitimate reason to become stupid. especially the NSFs. The way things are being done reali reminded me as an NSF almost 10 years ago...lol. rushing to wait and waiting to rush. also almost the whole company was activated to conduct search and rescue in the jungle, not for a casualty, but for a lost hand set (looks like a telephone) which was reported lost, but later returned by a kuku who apparently left that in his field pack. I hope i did not develop some profession syndrome, but somehow when the NS trainers started conducting their class, i can't help but feel how terrible they were in their lesson delivery....talk and talk and talk and talking to himself, no eye contact with students, poor and negative demonstrations, and teaching us how to use the HOR LE SI (give u death ,direct translation from hokkien) laptop --- yes we were trained to use and carry this device during war, which i see as a liability. the only part which i could feel that it's an asset will be during short range combat when i can use it as a weapon to knock out opponents due to its bulky and near 5 kg weight.

HOR LE SI sounds like a chinese name rite? so one more lesson, if u haf a daughter and ur surname is Hor (何), please NEVER, EVER NAME ur daughter 何丽诗!!! literally called HOR LEE SZE in hokkien!!!! but it seems and sounded perfectly alrite in chinese

The ITE students never failed to give us surprises for every batch, apparently i had to become involved in a case due to some reasons. Counselling the 3 ITE students for more than 1 hr given me some mixed feelings. Rather than feeling angry about their actions, which was reali not a glorious event, somehow i do pity or sympathize with alot of them though. sympathizing them for having to go thru more in life at a much younger age, and being less fortunate than many of their counterparts of their age. the strong inferior complex which some of them reali have, probably shaped by the cruel society and stereotyping on them. i do hope that they would treat every ordeal in life as a force to shape them into a stronger and better person for the future.

V day was reali a rush and I had to attend my uni classmate's wedding on that evening, but i managed to come up wif a small handmade gift :) and spend the eve well, I hope, till late mid night which overlapped to the actual day. I have uploaded the song which xy liked the most that night which i sang :). So i decided to share wif all.

time to sleep. a hectic day ahead.

Nitez, and hopefully i can finish writing my newest song soon!! coming a little bit day by day (for the lyrics i mean) and the melody has been done :)

PK天长地久之年度精华大战　:潘美辰、赵咏华

2009-01-13T20:57:00.009+08:00

Gone missing for the past month basically.

Reason: Was on OT for the past 2 weeks though.

last weekend was my well deserved break, and the highlight got to be the concert which i went together wif XY, featuring 潘美辰 and 赵咏华.

Once again, I am a loyal supporter of the 80,90s chinese pop. Falling under the 实力派 category, they were formerly pretty famous for their splendid singing skills.

Honestly, even though it was pretty obvious that the majority of the crowd were there to support 潘美辰, but i do feel prefer 赵咏华's portion of the concert. I was greatly touched by one song she sang, perhaps deep down inside i truly love that song. The song was released back in 1994 (if i did not remember wrongly). Which means i was still in secondary school.....15 years ago....

我们的故事赵咏华

我的朋友
都是我的爱人
曾陪我走过苦涩的青春

从一盏烛光
到无人的海洋
永远说不完是什么
让女孩变女人...
我们的话题
永远在梦里
从爱情到放逐自己
从不实际到最平凡的委屈

谁说我们的故事留在年少
你爱哭
他爱笑
都保存得那么好

曾经我们都活得那么骄傲
你固执
她怕老
谁和谁永远在争吵
谁说女人的友情永远比男人单薄
感谢天
感谢地
让我在生命中看到
最真实的微笑...

zhao yong hua - wo men de gu shi -

was pretty disappointed that she did not sing 相见太晚, another great song. Found its embedded mtv from youtube for your listening pleasure.

it would be even better if she had sang het debut song 越飞越高..

Though i haf to agree that 潘美辰 did try hard to put up a good performance that night, but i seriously disappointed by her performance. I bought the ticket to support them with the intention to listen to their great classic songs, but sad to say she only sang 3 songs of her own. The 男儿当自强 was a great turn off...i am not there to see her stunts and competency with meddling the metal rod....like monkey god..., the 挪威的森林 was a flop too....and i can't appreciate her 月亮代表我的心....i want to hear her songs!!! was hoping to hear 是你；拒绝融化的冰；谁教我是真的爱你； etc......but then, no chance..... The consolation was that i managed to hear 不要走不要走；我曾用心爱着你；我不在乎；你就是我唯一的爱; 我想有个家

Oh Gosh, dun u tink Jay Chow look like her????????

My favourite 潘美辰 song of all times: 我想有个家 (1989)

School started this week, back to the hectic schedule probably........sleeping before 11pm has become a routine, WHICH IS NOW!!!!!!

田劲--我真的用心爱着你

2008-12-16T23:37:00.002+08:00

One of an 'IDOL' caliber Singapore singer back in the early 90s. Kinda of missed some of his great songs which finally came to my ears when his best hits collection CD was released which I've bought a copy. The memories of my primary school days reali came back though...his thai style songs, and his sentimental songs reali made him famous then. Hope to see him appearing in some of those "Come Back" concerts. Some of his famous songs which I could recall are like 爱我不难，碎花如雨随风飞，就是要爱你，将真爱送走，让我潇洒地醉， etc, and also not forgetting this song which I truly like alot: 我真的用心爱着你...if i din remember, that was the hit song from his final album some time in 1993 or 1994 if my memory did not fail me. I am typing out its lyrics from my memory now, hope they are correct:

我真的用心爱着你 -- 田劲

当我决定要一生爱你偷偷收起狂野的心

虽然我一切都很努力依然是留不住你

你总是说我不懂得爱情这并不是让你离去的原因

或许这是个漂亮的借口你从来没有爱过我

我要如何如何对你说创痛的心已不能言语

藏在我胸口却未曾告诉你我真的用心爱着你

我要如何如何忘掉你创痛的心有太多记忆

藏在我眼中那闪烁的泪光我真的用心爱着你

Think of it, he should be in his 40s by now!!!!!!!!

Great music is to be shared. You may listen to the song here. but it's not downloadable, with copyright considerations.

wo zhen de yong xin ai zhe ni - 田劲tian jin

Names continued

2008-12-02T21:35:00.002+08:00

The previous post inevitably brought back some other memories of names of which were laughed lots at among us. I recall during my Uni days when we talked about this chinese by the name of 郭万龙 (Kok Wan Long), which simply means thousands of dragons. sounds like a masculine and POWERFUL name though.

There was one occasion when he was in US when he fell sick and needs to go and see a doc. As usual he registered his name and waited for his turn for consultation. When the nurse calls out his name, there was a sudden commotion about his identity and everyone was searching for this person, when he finally stood up and walked towards the consultation room, everyone, especially the women, was looking at him with awe and eyes wide.

Guess what did the nurse say?

Nurse: WAN LONG KOK (since the westerners like to call people by their given name followed by their surname), you may go in to see the Doctor.

You understand y the commotion????

Lesson Learnt: even if you dun intend to give your child a christian name, think twice too, before you give him/her a name, make sure it dun mean anything else bad in any language in any permutation.....which may result in him living in shame and embarassment for the rest of his/her life...

岁月的另一张脸-Another face of time

2008-11-26T21:52:00.003+08:00

岁月的另一张脸
词曲：梁文福

岁月有亘变的容颜
　名字也不断改变
昨天是无知
　今天是无奈
明天又是等待
真理有另一张脸
　也许是希望的碎片
迷惑归迷惑
　执着归执着
岁月依然岁月
　我依旧我
未来与过去千种万种风景交错
我是一种心情走过
有人一起走过
　几乎就走到过
却又忽然留下沉默的我
不快乐也不一定就是必须要难过
一伙人也不过笑着寂寞
偶尔也有人会说
　你已经很不错
其实从来没人明白过
偶尔也有人会说
　也不过随便说说
从来没人明白过

Exams are finally over for the time being. I am counting down each day to the completion of my Masters Course. Back to office was as hectic as usual, and probably i should be recharged from a long 'leave' from office. Was sort of overwhelmed by the amount of work ahead of us for the next year until 2010, as I was planning the schedule and allocation of our resources for the various tasks. I am doing my best to be optimistic about it and accepting and coming to terms with the situation, at least I should be thankful that the team should not be worried to lose any of the ricebowl in view of how tight we are at least for the next 2 yrs probably, and to look at it literally, it's looking at the other side of the coin, or the other face of time in its literal translation from mandarin to english, as posted in the lyrics.

The song is truly a good piece by the famous writer/ composer. I wish i could write like him though...lol, but quite impossible....I do appreciate the person who put up the video to make the effort to put in slideshows of the oldern days of Singapore in terms of demographics and architecture. Do enjoy the song and slideshow.

Now to something relaxing. The contents in the email forwarded to me by xy had almost caused me to choke on quite a few occasions. about why chinese should not adopt christian names. Just check out the contents that's how it goes:

Why Chinese shouldn't have Christian names?
?

Confusing Chinese Names

Caller : Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan (anyone)?

Operator : Yes, you can speak to me.

Caller :! No, I want to speak to Annie Wan (anyone)!

Operator : You are talking to someone! Who is this?

Caller : I'm Sam Wan (Someone). And I need to talk to Annie Wan (anyone)! It's urgent.

Operator : I know you are someone and you want to talk to anyone! But what's this urgent matter about?

Caller : Well... just tell my sister Annie Wan (anyone) that our brother Noel Wan (no one)has involved in an accident. Noel Wan (no one)got injured and now Noel Wan (no one) is being sent to the hospital. Right now, Avery Wan (everyone) is on his way to the hospital.

Operator : Look if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital, then the accident isn't an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I don't have time for this!

Caller : You are so rude! Who are you?

Operator : I'm Saw Lee (Sorry).

Caller : Yes! You should be sorry. Now give me your name!!!
======================================================
This is hilarious ...

Why Chinese shouldn't have Christian names:

Anne Chang => Dirty (Mandarin)
Anne Chin ! => Keep Quiet (Mandarin)
Faye Chen => Dusty (Mandarin)
Carl Cheng => Buttock (Hokkien)
Monica Cheng => Touching your buttocks (Hokkien)
Lucy Leow => You are dead (Hokkien)
Jane Tan => Frying eggs (Mandarin)
Suzie Leow => Lose till death (Hokkien)
Henry Mah => Hate your mum (Mandarin)
Corrine Tai => Poor fellow (Hokkien)
Paul Chan => Bankrupt (Mandarin)
Nelson Tan => Bird laying eggs (Mandarin)
Leslie Tong => Rubbish Bin (Mandarin)
Carmen Teng => Leg hair long (Hokkien)
Carmen Ang =>red leg hair
Connie Mah => Call your mother (Cantonese)
Danny See => Squeeze you to death (Hokkien)
Rosie Teng => Screws and nails (Hokkien)
Pete Tsai => Nose droppings (Hokkien)
Macy Koh => Never die before (Cantonese)

Of course ridiculing names has been a common activity since young, perhaps by almost everyone. i recall when I was an undergrad back in Uni, some of my classmates were like making fun of some surnames and the possible names which we believe no one will have such names:

1. when u haf a daughter and her surname is Tan, what must her name not be?

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1. Ise

2. Rambu

3. OrangU

Now probably u need to know some basic chinese and dialects to understand these:

If you have a son and his surname is 刘 and that he is a cantonese, what must his name not be?
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刘志辉.....sounds absolutely normal when u pronounce in mandarin, but definitely not when u try to pronounce it in cantonese， try it for urself. i don't wish to elaborate further...

Lastly, i really could not understand why in some countries there are people whose names r called 甘理良，吴茵静，杨伟，童心莲， and one of our singapore classic drama can name its main cast 赛认娘......and many many more.......

Ok..probably have to end here.....it's up to u to think about what those names mean....lol...i dunno anything......

Perhaps i should now go and take my LAZY NAP???????lol

My Buddy's Wedding 28 Sep 08

2008-10-27T22:29:00.000+08:00

Finally received the pictures of the wedding of my 13 year buddy and her beloved.

Here is a highlight of the event then:

The garang brothers and the bride groom to receive the bride

1st challenge: to sing a love song and to make sure the bride on the 9th storey can hear

Checking out the next "task"

"Star" Jump - Something that might be abit physically challenging, lucky din sprain out back...lol

The "sour" treatment - lemon

The 'bitter' treatment - baby bitter gourd juice

The worst of all -- 'spicy' treatment - chilli padi agar agar........pukes

The Brothers and Sisters and the Bride and Bride Groom

The Brothers and Sisters and the Bride and Bride Groom
The Brothers and Sisters and the Bride and Bride Groom -- supposed to act cute.....

Emcee again...........

YUM SENG!!!

WK & ML, PS & gf, YF & bf, me & XY :)

Formed by NUS "paikias" and others

from CTSS 4A1/1997

JJC 98S17

Do sincerely wish them happiness.

2 ships sailing in opposite directions

2008-10-20T22:09:00.004+08:00

Sounds like a long and meaningless phrase literally,

however, metaphorically, it's meaningful.

This phrase 1st struck me back in secondary school, when i was a student. If i am not mistaken, it was said to my class then by my form teacher. That it was fated for people in the class to meet. we were just like ships sailing in different directions, time and fate brought us together, and we meet and intercept each other at the same particular time of our life. though the times spent together was short, however events that happened during the common time created memories for the involved parties which could possibly last forever. after the short time frame spent together, we continued our life journey in different directions to move on to different phases of our life.

Doesn't dat sound familiar?

Doesn't dat happen to all of us humans at different times of our lives?

There is a Chinese idiom which fits the description so well:

萍水相逢

There is a Chinese song which was written more than 20 years ago dat fits this theme perfectly.

I shall attempt to translate this song into English for the benefit of many:

Title: 萍聚 (similar meaning as 萍水相逢)
Singer: 李翊君

别管以后将如何结束
no matter what may happen in the future
至少我们曾经相聚过
at least we have intercepted each others life before
不必费心地彼此约束
there is no need to restrain yourself or put up a false front
更不需要言语的承诺
nor make any verbal promises

只要我们曾经拥有过
so long as we have the common beautiful memories together
对你我来讲已经足够
to us, that's already sufficient
人的一生有许多回忆
we may have dissimilar beautiful memories in each of our mind
只愿你的追忆有个我
hopefully i would have a place in your mind when you indulge yourself in reminiscence of your memories

This song is simply classic, and i believed it would have been a popular graduation song back in the older days, perhaps 20 years ago.

Managed to find the mtv on you tube, perhaps it was filmed only years after the song was released. The singer looked less young in the mtv as compared to the album cover....lol

Enjoy the song and video

Back to studying and maybe work......

化装舞会 aka Fancy Dress

2008-10-19T10:13:00.003+08:00

Finally found this song online! This is classic!

Basically this is an oldie if i am not mistaken back in late 80s, when i was still a little boy and heard it over the radio via 95.8, and also the most famous song by the singer.

It's relaxing to hear her voice and this song. This song talks about a story similar to "Cinderella". The english translation of the song is "Fancy Dress". You could relate to that. Coming to dat reminds me of the fancy dress party i took part when i was only in primary one. i still remembered i played the role of a SHY sheep...hahaa. and the attire i was told to wear was a pair of pyjamas...which i neva wore before in my life, and my mum actually bought me a pair juz for the event. It was a dumb event though, and dat was the sole reason which actually caused me to remember it even till today. becos i simply cannot see the link between pyjamas and a sheep.......haha.

化妆舞会

作词：梁弘志作曲：梁弘志
演唱：于台烟

我带着面纱，和镶着假钻的头坠
参加这场期待已久的化装舞会
我知道这将是我，唯一的机会
与你熟悉却又陌生地相对
朋友们都说我长得平凡而无味
却从来没人注意到我的内在美
或许这是个流行带着面具的社会
而我也尝尽了被忽略的滋味
你终于温柔地走向我
赶走了灰姑娘的自卑
你一直温柔地拥着我
叫人寂莫忘了伤悲
任我旋转任我陶醉
啦－－－啦－－－
任我旋转任我陶醉
(朋友们都说我长得平凡而无味)
(却从来没人注意到我的内在美)
(或许这是个流行带着面具的社会)
(而我也尝尽了被忽略的滋味)
(别想那么多了好好享受这场舞会吧)
请别要求我揭开那美丽的虚伪
只怕看到你的眼里有淡淡的后悔
当音乐结束之后我将离开你
让我们都带着美好回忆而归
你终于温柔地走向我
赶走了灰姑娘的自卑
你一直温柔地拥着我
叫人几乎忘了伤悲
任我旋转任我陶醉
啦－－－啦－－－
你终于温柔地走向我
赶走了灰姑娘的自卑
你一直温柔地拥着我
叫人几乎忘了伤悲
嘿－－－嘿－－－

Listen to the song here

I actually woke up at 8am automatically this morning, because apparently the diligent side of me kept asking me to wake up and start to do my school assignment and project which is due at the end of this week!!! and which i totally had little energy to do as it is "Brainy intensive". and the consolation is that i did start and typed the report to the 4th page. Will continue to work hard and be stressed...

A Perfect Ending

2008-10-18T23:59:00.002+08:00

Was in office till 5pm today.

The supp paper was on and my students turned up for it.

Both managed to clear it, with a reasonably good ranking though. Think both were the top half.

Seeing them receiving their hard earned certificates from my hands was a feeling of accomplishment though. and knowing that deep down, they were delighted. This instance does show to me the importance of perseverance, that no matter wat setbacks we may encounter in life, we ought to do our very best to want to conquer it, to the very end. for their case, they succeeded. I believe the certificates will mean so much more to them as compared to majority of their fellow peers who breezed thru the module.

The brotherhood spirit was commendable too. I do feel that they are fortunate to have a friend who came all the way from home to juz to cheer them on today. Such friendship is definitely hard to come by, and they ought to treasure it.

I would say that my 6th batch of Poly training did come to a perfect ending eventually. That at least i would not see anyone repeating the same module next year, and having to retain in their school for 1 semester.

A Relaxing Weekend

2008-10-12T22:10:00.000+08:00

I finally got a well deserved break to recharge myself after months of hectic work.

Nothing special but juz simply a beach resort stay over at Pulau Bintan, Indonesia.

I would have to say that it's a good place for me to put what i've learnt into practice, and it seems that the locals could understand my kurang lancar Bahasa, which was a mini consolation. I do hold quite a good impression of Indonesians from this visit. Locals there are generally very polite, soft spoken, friendly and warm. It gives me a good reason y i should visit Indonesia again in the future.

Here are some of the pictures taken:

Video by NYP-2 Sep 08

2008-10-10T23:27:00.000+08:00

Glad that i managed to get the video up.

Thanks NYP-2 who took the effort to make this video, and i haf to admit that this was the 1st class to give me a video as a present.

Actually many times i broke into laughter while watching the video, after seeing how some people tried to impersonate me. Ahem. and my favourite 'irritating' gestures and words. It does remind me of myself as a student when i always did the same to my teachers then, and it never failed to cause my class mates then to burst into laughter. I dunno whether she had impacted my teaching style so much somehow and whenever i talk about how i teach my students to my secondary school classmates, they would always say that they felt a sense of "Deja Vu" and i was reali so like her in my approach towards my students...

Here it is, the video:

Heard something unpleasant from my cousin recently at the wake of my uncle's father in law, that my secondary school history teacher is down with cancer. Sincerely wish her well, though i was one of her 'favourite' student whom she kept scolding or marked down in her 2 years teaching me history back then, and finally seeing me getting an A1 in the subject. I haf to say that she did affect me to a certain extent, in the sense i learnt from her the importance and skill of 'answering to the question and relating an answer to the question' which probably allowed me to succeed and scored A+ in my 'arts' subjects like Sociology, Chinese History and Literature, and A for Human Resource Management which i studied in my varsity days. No one would ever expect an Engineering Student to score well for those subjects, especially for someone like me who used to score C5 for General Paper and in the Band C in my English Classes back during my JC days.

Work is getting more and more hectic. Hopefully new people will come and relief our busy schedules and dun play us out. I believe each and every persons presence and contribution will be valued and one would be idiotic to try to chase someone away, because the loss of one person will imply the shit eventually falls back to the left overs, US.

NYP-2: 1 Sep - 10 Oct 08

2008-10-10T22:35:00.008+08:00

Just when I thought ITE/Poly Training has become history for me, my 6th full batch of ITE/Poly Training had come to an end, in a twinkling of an eye.

These 6 weeks have been really hectic. from the fact that i need to really multi task to a great deal at office. There are certainly many memorable events or even reflections that i will remember.

1st day of training
perhaps this is the 1st time in history in my 2 year plus of student training that a student was reduced to tears right on her 1st day of training.

Honestly i was caught by a SHOCK then oso. Becos i did not even scold or raise my voice at the student.

Perhaps that was when i became the fear factor of the class, and i got the nicknames like 'piercing stares; intimidating voice"; etc. lol

Shift Work

I tink this is the 1st time i actually agreed to play games with my students during their shift work.

Still remembered it was on one occasion when i caught some students playing 'hang man' on the pantry white board during their meal time. I wasn't happy initially, but within seconds this idea struck my head and i decided to join them in the game.

Each time a question was set, they were made to guess technical terms, and each time the correct answer was given, the students were made to explain the concepts about the answer, and it reali turned into a mini final examination revision session. seems that the students enjoyed it though. and i was quoted by NYP-3's top student (who was in my shift team then) during her thank you speech when she received the Excellence Awards, that she would never forget TEIKOKU ROTARY GUARD.

Completed the 4-Poly tour
with the completion of NYP-2 Sep 08 batch of training, it marked the completion of my round tour of Poly training as i managed to teach the students from all 4 polytechnics..

There are reali very distinct differences among the different students from their respective polytechnics.

Anyway check out some of the class photos taken first before i continue:

No cameras allowed in the plant, so i guess the class gotta thank the person who stood juz before the door and having to tolerate the auto door keep on opening and closing juz to take a pic for us, since we cannot cross the boundary.

Check out some of the heart warming gifts i received from pple in the class. Number 23 has a special meaning wor....it simply means that the class has 23 students.

I also gotta mention about the video the class made for me. It was an earnest production, and it was heartwarming and touching. Thanks!

Most number of girls

well NYP-2 is the 1st time in which the girls form about 2/3 of the class, when usually that's the reverse. taking care of more girls, i would say it's more challenging. we haf to agree they lose out in the physical aspect in terms of strength and fitness. but i haf to say that this grp of girls are quite fun to be with.

Mixed feelings

Perhaps it's time to share about some seemingly less pleasant stuff.

On friday, my heart was pretty in a state of 'mixed' feelings.

Yes, many feel that i should be happy, from the fact NYP-2 created a record -- as in broke the best examination results in my history of conducting poly training. They beat the record set by TP1/May 2008 and there were 11 students from my class filling the top 20 positions in the final exam out of 120+ students. But it wasn't a perfect ending. because not all from my class managed to receive the graduation certificate then. Words can't describe my feelings, when the students actually broke down before me, and hearing voices appealing for help for them to clear the supp paper on saturday. It seems that I was the only person calling up my failures and i haf to admit that the move to make the phone call was terrible, and to be the person to break the news. But I simply can't juz sit back and claim that 'they are not my responsibility' to inform, to lend a helping hand, and to revise like some other people did. i feel sad for the whoever students, to have adored this wrong person who is only a seemingly Nice Person Wannabe.

I do hope that the not yet competent students in my class will be able to make it on saturday.

Next incident you may find it hard to believe it's happening among the poly students.
Though it's not the 1st time such things happened, but this time rd it is happening to me.

Perhaps my class reali did exceptionally well for the final exams, and that had caused the jealousy or even sour grapes among other people. It's inevitable that people will turn red-eyed by my class results. As a result, false accusations start to befall. I do hold a clear conscience towards what i am doing so i got nothing to fear, and i am thankful to have a group of righteous colleagues who hold strong faith in my personality, professionalism and dedication towards my job and my students. The rumours is not going to affect me, rather it simply reflect the level of personality and maturity those 'accusers' have, and it is a reaffirmation to my teammates and my boss of my capability and it is a recognition of the effort i put in to ensure i push my students to produce their best results which some of them may never thought they could achieve. Of course i would have to attribute my students success mainly due to their team work and helping spirit. I was impressed that they actually went back to school to form a study group to help out one another in their revision, and making efforts to make sure that the weaker students do not lag behind . They have a reason to do well.

One of my student actually made a ranking jump of more than 70 places, which says one point about them that: "if you want to do well, it is possible", though u may be some slacker or lag behind person back in school as compared to your fellow peers. it is a positive encouragement to my future students, if i were to take ITE/Poly training in the future again, which is not very likely due to my other job commitments.

I am extremely comforted to know that i actually made a difference to the lives of some of my students, and that i had left some positive foot marks in a short chapter of their lives. I do feel successful, like what Lupita Jones had said before, when you lend a helping hand, when you created a positive difference, you'll feel happy, and you are considered successful.

I have to say that my top student who achieved the Excellence Award got it at quite a close shave. Because the difference between my no1 and no2 is only 0.02 mark. That emphasize the importance of each single mark they could achieve in order to make a possible difference.

Since we started the Excellence Award back in May 07, my idea though, the competition in my class is always fierce and strong. If i could recall, the 6 top students in my classes up to date are as follows:

NP3 Sep 06: Arthur Tan
SP1 Feb 07: Yeo Tin Wei
TP7 May 08: Tang Chung Hang
SP2 Feb 08: Mohd Noor
TP1 May 08: Ivan Ng
NYP2 Sep 08: Wong Guan Qi

Seemed like I hold a favouritism to guys, but it's not true. in fact, for every batch, i had always pray that my 'new' top student would be a girl, but i always ended up in 'disappointment'. We shall see whether the list will get to continue.

Back to my work, and probably my school work...........

F1

2008-09-30T21:59:00.001+08:00

What can i say about this event?

Perhaps pple may find that i was extremely fortunate to be able to get a secure a seat for this event.

But i dun tink so

I attribute it to the wrong timing that i went for the event.

I chose to go on a friday after a reali HARD DAY'S work, and rushing all over the place simply to get there on time.

i ended up 'meditating' there, despite the loud and deafening noise...Luckily it wasn't a lecture, if not i would be laughed by my students........lol

I'm reminding myself that I'm FOREVER 25

2008-09-17T21:25:00.008+08:00

These few weeks of my life had been just as 'no life' as many of our current students have kept blogged about. Working beyond office hours seemed to have become a norm. Dark rings and tired look seemed to become my trademark.

However i do believe that i need to take a break at times, esp during this time frame when it's my birthday, that falls on the 'dooms' day that all Americans will remember.

Thanks to all people who offered their wishes and their heart warming gifts.

had 3 sessions, of which 2 of them ended up at the KTV....and the last one, i would say that it is the most heart warming one....i will retain the memories in my heart :) Thanks so much once again.

Check out some of the fotos taken:
My favourite food -- durian. Thats a pure D24 durian cake though. Check out the 'smashed' stains along the sides of the box. Just so happened that a flying cockroach which decided to land on XY's arms and scared her till she jumped and hopped. haha..

The raw oyster which i believed to have caused my stomach upset..

The heartwarming hand baked biscuits. Can u figure out that it's Doraemon design?

Attended the wedding dinner of YX on the lantern festival. Check out the 3 Virgoreans in the pic. Reali felt happy for her to be able to find a true love that lasted for 12 years, and perhaps forever, after she tied the knot.

Finally my army buddies whom i 同甘共苦 with...haha.

Before I lose my voice again

2008-08-30T23:31:00.001+08:00

This mth had been hectic, as usual...Esp with the commencement of the new school term and also my work schedule. Lotsa commitment for me, but it seems that i truly sacrificed a few. XY ever remarked that 48 hrs a day for me probably seemed insufficient. I need to make more effort to look and feel young ---- to combat the signs of ageing.

Gone were the days where July and August were supposed to be lull period at office, having lotsa time to prepare for upcoming training and attending of courses. It's a norm now for people to see me always on the 'run' - metaphorically. The jobs of 18 people now had to be done by 13. I was told that one of our security guard actually asked whether i was working on shift?? Probably becos of the fact that i had to trouble him to keep the gate open for me till 10pm that possibly disrupted his normal 'routines'...*winks*..

I tot TP1/May 08 will be my final batch of Pre employment training, apparently i was surprised that it wasn't. It's not that i am exceptionally capable that i had to be in the training, it's juz that i was sort of slotted in becos of no other alternatives by circumstances. I was thankful for my colleague who understood my plight and accomodated a great deal for me. Something meaningful for me after this batch would be that i would be able to complete a round tour to have taught students from all the 4 Polytechnic institutions which offered the Chemical Engineering/ Process diploma. Of course that is subjected to whether i would reali start to teach them from next week on wards.

Took 5 mins to do a personality test which could be found on this website to test what kind of person i am at the workplace, true anot? Maybe those whom i've together wif will noe:

My Type: ESTJ

Description:

ESTJ: "Administrator". Much in touch with the external environment. These are responsible mates and parents and are loyal to the workplace. They are realistic, down-to-earth, orderly, and love tradition. They often find themselves joining civic clubs! 13% of the total population.

September is going to be just as hectic. the 1st big hurdle is to clear my yearly IPPT..... No RT please!!

Got 3 weddings to attend --- burn big hole in pocket....

one for YX on 14/9- we have identical birth characters, the only difference is our gender...lol.

one for my cousin on 19/9. i still remember when i was young and couldn't speak much english then (in primary 1), i used to call him by 'brother' in english juz simply becos i dunno the correct vocab to use was cousin, of course i do know the correct chinese word.

One for my buddy WK on 28/9. I will reali assume the role of a 'brother' for him this time round. As a brother, shld i leave him to drown in alcohol or punishment by the 'sisters' on his wedding day???? lol...

Talking about the issue whereby i had not composed any song since Apr, actually i do haf 2 tunes in mind, for months already, but i juz simply haf no time to write lyrics for them....Anyone wans to do it for me??

Ending off with a song, by a Chinese Singer, chinese as in China. Though the music sounds abit China, but overall its still a pretty nice song. The title is called: 男人的眼泪 translation: Tears of men

Durian Season once more -- But wif the Omanese

2008-08-05T22:36:00.005+08:00

The yearly durian season has passed for the year, as usual, D24 and 猫山王 still continue to make me ecstatic and contented. The durian treat was extended to our Omanese friends who came to Singapore for their Professional Industrial Certification Assessment for 6 weeks. Of which they had already completed and had went back to their mother land, typically of 50 Deg C on average in the day. Durian is new and rare for many of them, and mixed comments were given by the Omanese who tried the King of Fruits. From very nice, to very smelly and taste and feels like SUPER GLUE --- "how can you all possibly eat SUPERGLUE????"

Undergone an Observation Techniques Training over the past 2 days, and i tink the most interesting aspect of this training is to undergo the 4 color personality test, of which how my perception of myself can differ from others perception of me. Here are the 4 color descriptions:

A deck of colored cards were distributed to everyone, and when someone feels the description on the colored card suits me, they will pass over the card to me to keep and vice versa. until each of us have 10 cards each.

Blue Personality: Analyzer/Organizer

A Blue personality uses its five physical senses to access information. An emotionally driven personality, you need to be liked and accepted. It is one of the "needs" that can cause apprehension in your personality. You are a polite, cooperative person who seeks to create conflict-free surroundings. You possess highly developed powers of observation. Family is important to you and you sometimes find yourself in the role of being a caretaker.

Tendencies
1. Orderliness
2. Conscientious
3. Disciplined
4. Precise
5. Thorough
6. Diplomatic with people
7. Analytical

Ideal situation
1. Being able to concentrate on detail
2. Opportunities to critique
3. Stable surroundings and procedures
4. Exact job description, expectations
5. Opportunities for "careful" planning
6. Sufficient time to do things right
7. Opportunities for reassurance from authority

Weaknesses
1. Indecisive (looking at all data)
2. Get bogged down in details
3. Rigid on the "how to's"
4. Avoids controversy
5. Low self esteem
6. Hesitant to try new things
7. Sensitive to criticism
8. Can be pessimistic

Needs others to provide
1. Quick decision making
2. Optimism
3. Help in persuading others

Personal growth area
1. Be more open with their feelings
2. Be more optimistic

Green Personality: Helper/Supporter

A strong Green individual lives in a world of intangibles where hopes, dreams and emotions are most important. You look at the big picture, are not detail oriented, and like to explore possibilities and alternative ways of doing things. You march to your own drummer and frequently find it difficult to get on the same wavelength as others. This often puts pressure on your relationships. You have a rich vivid imagination and thrive in an atmosphere that encourages the use of your creative abilities and talent. Your intuition is highly developed and you seem to be able to sense what others are feeling.

Tendencies
1. Supportive
2. Agreeable
3. Loyal
4. Self control
5. Consistent
6. Good listener
7. Opportunity to develop personal relationships

Ideal situation
1. Sincere appreciation by others
2. Minimal conflict between people
3. Security
4. Acknowledgement of work by others
5. Limited territory
6. Traditional procedures
7. Opportunity to develop personal relationships

Weaknesses
1. Resist change
2. Trouble making deadlines
3. Overly lenient with people
4. Procrastinates
5. Indecisive
6. Holds grudges
7. Overly possessive
8. Lacks initiative

Needs others to provide
1. Push to try new challenges
2. Help in solving difficult problems
3. Initiative and accepting change

Personal growth area
1. Facing confrontation and dealing with it
2. Moving at a faster pace and initiating

Red Personality: Leader/Promoter

A dominant Red score indicates life’s experiences must make sense to you. You are logical, practical and do not display emotions easily. Because of your desire for structure, you seek control of both your environment and people, and are sometimes seen by others as domineering. You are punctual and may become irritated if you think your time is being wasted. A natural leader, you are driven by the need for power and control. What stresses you is lack of organization and last minute changes.

Tendencies
1. Getting immediate results
2. Making quick decisions
3. Persistence
4. Solving problems
5. Taking charge
6. Looking self reliant
7. Accepting challenges

Ideal situation
1. New varied activities
2. Opportunity to really get things done
3. Continual challenges, multi-tasker
4. Difficult assignments
5. Freedom to act from their instinct
6. Control over the situations
7. Direct answers from others, no innuendoes

Weaknesses
1. Insensitivity towards others
2. Impatient
3. Overlook risks
4. Inflexibilty, demanding of others
5. Talks too much
6. Inattentive to details at times
7. Resenting of restrictions

Needs others to provide
1. Attention to routine tasks
2. Caution
3. Focus on details and facts

Personal growth area
1. Greater patience
2. Sensitivity to others' needs
3. Flexibility

Yellow Personality: Creator/Performer

Yellows are self-confident personalities who will challenge anything and everything; authority, rules and established ways of thinking. This tendency to question everything can create a strained atmosphere in both business and personal situations. You are interested in theories, abstractions, innovations and change. You are a conceptual deep thinker and enjoy getting "lost in your head" as a way of exploring new ideas and looking for innovative ways to make a difference. You are a true "out-of-the-box" visionary and adept at multi-tasking. Searching for the hidden meanings behind every day life gives you great pleasure.

Tendencies
1. Optimsm
2. Enthusiasm
3. Makes good impressions
4. Verbally articulate
5. Likes to help others
6. Creates entertaining climate

Ideal situation
1. Friendly warm environment
2. Freedom from control
3. Public recognition of ability
4. Opportunity to talk
5. Positive reinforcement
6. Enthusiastic response to ideas

Weaknesses
1. Following through
2. Overestimating results
3. Misjudging capabilities
4. Talks too much
5. Acts impulsively
6. Jumps to conclusions
7. Over commits
8. Acts first, thinks second

Needs others to provide
1. Follow through on details
2. Focus on tasks
3. Logical approach

Personal growth area
1. Time awareness
2. Objectivity in decision making

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Answer: (based on my memory) (Disclaimer -- do not assume it's 100% accurate)

Me
Blue: 10%
Green: 20%
Red: 50%
Yellow: 20%

Ms Lim JH
Dominant: Yellow

Lim LK
Dominant: Green

Syed A
Dominant: Red

N.Iib
Dominant: Yellow/ Green

Zai A
Dominant: nil (evenly distributed)

Tan HG
Dominant: Green

Tay EW
Dominant: Blue

When i tried this online version, i evaluate myself and these are the results:
Blue: 33.3%
Yellow: 22.2%
Green: 7.4%
Red: 37.0%

So that's how my perception of myself can differ from other people perception of me.

You may want to try the test yourself
http://www.blueharvest.net/temp/test/

More Changes

2008-07-23T20:10:00.004+08:00

Perhaps many of my ex students or even their frens are aware of my little world. I do believe that many are spreading rumours all over the place as to wat will happen to my workplace over the next few months. What I could say is that the training for them will still go on, but as of yesterday, we will be short of 2 more manpower for their training. which makes it a total number of 4 trainers who had resigned over the past 2 months. out of the 4, 3 of them are people whom i truly respected from the bottom of my heart for their seniority and experience.

I will remember the days whereby I would always frantically take his car every day early in the morning to office and asking questions from the preparation work for my lessons thruout the car journey during my pioneer batch of training.

I will also remember the days when i truly gained some experience and knowledge as to how to operate the plant thru his sincere guidance during my pioneer shift training as a duty shift leader with his ITE trainees.

Last but not least I will not forget the guidance and process knowledge both of u had provided me to become a confident trainer to my trainees and students, even though none of u were my assigned mentor on day One I joined. I still remembered who volunteered to be my mentor then....oops.

The Change

2008-07-21T22:41:00.003+08:00

Almost one month i have worked under this new company without any disruptions due to NS. The changes in my job scope were drastic, probably because I became someone's replacement at office. Feeling in dilemma whether to feel good or bad regarding the role i have assumed.

The future fate of ITE/Poly Training became a topic which bothers many of us currently. For myself, I am 90% sure that I would be taken out from the ITE/ Poly Training completely. Which means to say that I will not have a form class anymore. Maybe would juz help out in one/two lectures/ practicals as a back up manpower, or even juz to help out in weekend shifts to relief our own people workload as well as to minimize the disturbances to my normal work routines which I have been reminded by my own boss not to do night shift anymore..lol. but whether the ITE/Poly Training will continue in 2009, the answer could only be obtained at the end of this year.

One thing that we are quite sure or optimistic is that our place is going to change, to change to a profit making organization, we hope. Not like the previous years when the money loss per year is enormous. Probably the amount of money lost per year can be some amount that some people can never earn in their entire life.

The 4A1/97 BBQ at ECP on 19/7 was a flop. Not becos of lousy food, but due to lousy weather. In fact lotsa good food were prepared, but the rain came even before we could enjoy them. It has always been the fate of us to always gotta BBQ in the rain, but the weather had never been so unkind to the extent that the rain was heavy and accompanied by thunderstorm, which we had to play an Emergency Response Game to Evacuate the area.

The highlight every sunday is always badminton, of which I am looking forward to again this weekend. Maybe it's this sport that's causing me to lose weight again. I've lost 2 kg to weigh on 61kg now. But it seems that my weight has always been fluctuating unsteadily over the past few months to hover from 61 - 65...

Lastly, i do have many inspirations to write songs and melodies for now, but i always got no time to put time into tangible pieces, will find time to do so..:)

Final March Pass?

2008-07-01T22:32:00.004+08:00

Almost 3 weeks of staggered Reservist had finally come to an end. after we march out of the SAFTI MI Parade square and out processed from Dieppe Barracks.

2 color tones on the forehead, shoulder aches, back aches, rough feet soles, blisters along the feet and on the toes are physical markings left from this reservist.

No more ping gang under the hot sun continuously in the near future (i hope)

No more sleeping on the stadium benches or stairways in the near future.

No more involvement in parades (i truly hope so)

U tink we NSmen can lose weight from reservist? I seriously dun tink so. almost 2-3 days every week, we were 'pampered' with KFC. and lotsa high carbo, oily and fatty food. Perhaps the young and still growing NSFs will love those foods, and that they are unlikely to suffer from any 'detrimantal effects' from all the trans fats and carbo. But for us for can grow upward no more, the only way for expansion is sideways. So as NSmen, i look forward to less unhealthy food in the future ICTs :p honestly, i tink i wun be touching KFC at least for half a year....

Check out us, the 48 'lucky souls' who were selected into the marching contingent to represent the GUARDS formation out of 70+ candidates........:s

our location on the parade square is marked on the red rectangle. i dunno wats wrong wif me at the time of phototaking, but i was being labelled as the 'SAF owes me $$$$$' or totally 'buay song' look...hahhaa

also check us out in our entire formation (marching contingent + reserves + logistics and support) taken with the Chief Guards Officer.

Though having involved in the parade twice in my life before (the 1st one was back in 2001), and lotsa complaints, but nonetheless, the company with the fellow comrades will be memorable and definitely brings back memories of our 'exciting 2 years' of service with the Guards Formation during our active NSF days.

Will look forward to meet up wif u guys aka fellow comrades again, the next time will probably be next month "ta-ing" till we puke again! hahaha.

"Fond Sufferings"

2008-06-13T20:35:00.007+08:00

What will keep me busy for the next 2 weeks has got to be the 11 reservist days this year. No 'Chiong swa-ing', 'no ippt', but it's something i, or i shld say, we had done back in 2001 before. i.e. marching contingent for SAF DAY 2008.

This pic below was the picture taken back in 2001. they are none other than our own BRC troopers.
though wearing the same uniform, boots and the khaki beret, but the faces marching this year for the Guards Formation have changed. of course all of us have aged, many had started suffering from hair loss (common fate of ageing men), quite a number have expanded in size..lol. last but not least the number of people in the pic who are involved in this event had significantly reduced. from around 20 to only about 12 left. but nonetheless, each time we meet together always brings back fond memories of the past, jokes and crazy things we had done b4 which will be remembered by everyone for life. i reali hope to take a picture of the same people who are involved in the marching this year to compare the differences and to spot the faces seen on both pics. that'll be fun and amusing, i believe.

Ah toh (below) had always been our source of laughter and fun all over these years....seems that we always make fun of him and bullying him? no way. we all know that he's a nice guy to get along with, and definitely someone who is very true, righteous and honest. when we celebrated his birthday for him at Boon Lay market last month, we drank beer which we bought with my 'godma' Coco. after knowing that we were celebrating his birthday, she immediately offered to buy a cake for him, and she actually paid out of her own pocket..so nice rite??? but sad to say, the cake she bought was of green tea flavor, which reminds toh of his unglamourous past of desperately pissing into a 1.5L green tea bottle when we were in Thailand for army training back in Mar 2002. more over, instead of a "happy birthday" message on the cake, the message on the cake turned out to be "母亲快乐" which means 'happy mother
s day'. so we never failed to encounter funny and embarrassing moments when he's around.

Yesterday evening was a sinful feast of crabs again! check out the famous AMK crab bee hoon and butter sauce crabs!

Lastly, i've finally bought a new handphone, but it's not a happy event though. the phone's LCD gave way on the 3rd day after i bought the phone. the explanation for the damage was crappy. and i still had to pay to replace a new LCD...how unlucky can i get? and it seems that i've been over spending for the past few months.....

TP1 - 14 Apr - 23 May 08

2008-05-24T01:25:00.012+08:00

Yesterday marked the end of my 5th complete batch of ITE/Poly Training, with a fun filled graduation ceremony. My class is non other than TP1.

This batch, like any of my other previous batches, is definitely filled with memorable people and events. They had created history, in terms of their performance:

This batch produced the best results in their examinations in my entire history teaching ITE/ Poly students. With 5 students and 6 students filling the top 10 positions in their mid term and final term examinations respectively, and their performance were way above the 'national average' for both. That, for me is definitely something which was very hard to come by, from the very fact that TP is the only institution which grades the module on a pass/fail basis. The good results produced showed that many of the students truly and authentically want to do well, and put in the effort for the course. I was touched.

The students also set a record for the "Best Troubleshooting" Team during their shift work. With a record of 58 minutes to solve a relatively difficult troubleshooting scenario in a given time limit of 90 mins, with minimal help from us (they beat the technicians from ExxonMobil FLAT). Based on past history, the timing students usually took approximately 85 minutes to solve the problems with significant guidance from us. The teamwork and analytical skills demonstrated were impressive.

Taken on commencement of finale night shift: 8pm (All Still looked refreshed)

Taken at the end of their finale night shift (7am): 21 x shagged faces

Evidences of those culprits who 'tau-pokked' me....

forced to act cute---wat was i doing??

Recalled my "Charles Law Angels" and "3 Muskerteers" from NP3 and SP1? For this batch, I have 6 "Nosy Tissue Angels" Check out their pose, I can't help but to give a loud bursting laugh upon seeing dat pic. They are the 1st people whom i see to cover their noses with tissue paper to prevent their dear noses from sun burns during practical trainings....

Was very comforted to receive a hand made card once again. and also a Mickey Mouse Towel, because they remembered i told them my story that my towel was ever stolen by students....the contents in the card were bitter-sweet. Sweet from those people whom i successfully reached out to. bitter from the otherwise. i had long accepted the fact that i can never please everyone in my life, but to think that those people that i had gone after this batch never truly understand my intentions, and the person whom i spent the most time counselling went missing, in less than 15 minutes after the end of the ceremony. I don't expect anything of material value in return, There was not even a sincere word of 'good bye'. Perhaps to this student, the most important task to pass the course has been accomplished after i received the person's phone call one day before the ceremony, and thats all. I can't help but to feel that the bridge was torn down immediately after the person had crossed the river. I was truly disappointed.

Check out the final pics taken with the class

i am reali clueless how this idea came about from the students!

Good times had to come to an end. At this time of uncertainty, I reali haf no idea about the future of ITE/Poly training or even the fate of my workplace. Perhaps TP-1 may be my finale batch of Student training. Though physically, emotionally draining, and perhaps to some people, it may seem like a shit job to handle students since ITE/Poly training is 吃力不讨好. But it is only through the long time frame of training when u build the bond with your students and watch them grow and mature which provides the sense of accomplishment and joy from the job.

To TP-1: Wish you all successes in all your future challenges!

Octopus

2008-05-09T22:55:00.002+08:00

Check out the octopus like body of mine.......gross rite?

according to my bro in law who did dat for me, he claimed that the darker the mark, the more injured the part is. perhaps the red mark on my right shoulder was from my years playing softball...

My humble nest

2008-04-26T21:14:00.003+08:00

Yup, i had moved out of the going to en-bloc unit into this not so new unit about 1 week plus ago. On top of my hectic schedule, i was able to do the painting, and shifting of my own stuff, all by myself. of course there were times i worked on the room till late mid night, even on weekdays where i need to work the next day.

I am currently staying alone, temporarily, cos i need to mug and prepare for my exams. so i decided to go into this 'isolated' mode. i do enjoy the the peace, quietness and cleanliness i am having, at least for now. Though the room is small, at least it is my own personal space which i am doing my best to maximize its limited area.

my 1st spring mattress bed, and it's a storage bed which i could maximize its space underneath without exposure to dust. with my dear guitar and a mini side lamp beside so that i will not be lazy to switch off the lights and leave the lights on for the whole night whenever i doze off unknowingly :p

This glass storage almost brought me disaster. when i was fixing it for the 1st time, one piece of the glass suddenly exploded while i was aligning it. it was completely shattered and the glass bits actually flew more than 2 m radius! and my hands and legs got mini cuts all over....this cabinet is for me to keep all special stuff which have sentimental values to me.

My personal, and humble recognitions from secondary school, JC to Uni. Too bad my primary school did not give such stuff for us to keep then. U can imagine, the sch din even take a single class photo for us during my primary school days ....zzzzzzzz

of course not forgetting my each batch of students

and the reminder to me that i need to go back to my books! Hang in there! sem 2 will end on wed! i hope.........since this few mths had reali been too hectic. juz hope to clear this sem to meet the minimum requirements.

I took 15 mins to compose this entry......

夜深得好暗

2008-04-07T04:58:00.001+08:00

I'm back again!!! With my creative juices and inspirations flowing!!!! How can i possibly go to sleep even though it's 5am now when i have the sudden inspirations to compose a song!!!

This song is pretty meaningful, as it marks the 1st time i composed a song based on the lyrics my ex student gave to me. I expanded on it and put in the melody. This song is more towards the 'dark' theme. With the minor chords dominating the chorus. Seems like a new style of mine, do listen to it, and i do hope that the listeners like it.

夜深得好暗词：WENDY LIM, ME 曲:ME

Translation: E^bPlay: C Maj

夜深得好暗我才发现你的身影已远去

我的心情就像天空漆黑一片

夜深得好暗想起我们相识也是种缘份

你曾说过你会永远爱着我

夜深得好暗我还望着你那远去的身影

我的心痛只因有你，不再流泪

夜深得好暗我承认我无法让你快乐

你可知道我的心里却只有你

在这个没有星星的夜里爱情暂时喊停

我们如此靠近可是距离你的心就像岩石沉入海底

我承认我不想放弃你可你已经远去

不如就此分离好过彼此伤害自己

夜深得好暗我还望着你那远去的身影

我的眼泪你是否已视而不见

夜深得好暗你曾说过你会永远爱着我

我还在等待只为求一个结局

©]²`±o¦n·t - 许鸿威Listen to "夜深得好暗"

I believe that will be my last song b4 my exam ends. I will be going into a 闭关 mode to prepare for my exams and school work deadlines. Probably will drop by here once in a while, but less frequently, till 30th Apr. Once again, hope that you all like the song!

好友, 知己

2008-03-24T21:47:00.006+08:00

After nearly 6 mths of medication and seeing doc for countless times (i reali lost count) and taking MCs for dunno how many days, I'm finally back, standing, writing, loud and singing again....

I'm thankful that I finally have the mood and 'feelings' to write again. I'm not an emotionless person afterall though :)

After 2 years of 'childless days', I finally gave birth to my new 'child' after a 'pregnancy' of 30 mins. and groomed it into a tangible 'adult' piece in a 1 hr rush....lol... So i have officially 复出??? Hopefully my composing cells will continue to grow :)

好友，知己 (A Friend, A Soul Mate)

宁静的夜里只有我和你

听海浪的声音满天星空里

世界仿佛只有我和你

如果你愿意请让我靠近

我的不够聪明你的善解人意能够感应

也许曾经我的认真让你担心

忽略了你只是我不曾告诉你

我的心只有你快乐的时候我想告诉你

我是真的爱你你一言一语

我都想要用心去聆听

或许我不是你理想情人和完美的情侣

如果你愿意让我守护你

我愿做你的好友，知己

让我爱你

¦n¤Í,ª¾¤v -

你一直都在

2008-03-19T12:54:00.002+08:00

Last week was filled with bitter sweet events.

bitter becos one more colleague is leaving us. she has been a wonderful working partner and it's definitely another loss of our coy that she could not be retained. but feel glad for her that she is leaving for greater challenges and PAY.

sweet becos the evening when i met up wif my army buddies to celebrate Chris birthday was filled with non stop laughter. we were still as crazy as ever, and that they actually labelled that night as my 复出演唱会....direct translation meant that night was my 'return concert', from my loss of voice over the past month. I finally could sing something, reasonably....lol...though not 100% recovered, but i simply couldn't resist anymore..haha....

Will upload some of the fotos when blogger allows:

A very nice song to recommend. I was attracted by the simple yet soothing musical arrangement, harmonica accompaniment and of course the great singing. The title speaks for itself.

真情之夜

2008-03-07T20:18:00.004+08:00

It has been long since i last had such fun with alcohol....partly becos many frenz of my age had decided to quit alcohol, for many different types of reasons: like health reasons, cannot drive, etc. for me, the main reason was becos i had been sick and on medication for many months.

Felt fortunate to be remembered by students from TP7/ TP8 2007, and to be invited to their graduation chalet at NSRCC. They are a group of fun loving people as well! and of course they are an excellent "alcohol party". Initially, I could tell that the students from other classes were abit apprehensive about me (they still had the impression that i was very very fierce..lolz), until they saw the 'play hard' side of me, that they eventually opened up and we then began to haf lotsa fun. My Martell, Barcadi, and Chivas were gone within 2 hours, plus 2 bottles of Vodka by the students. The 5-10 session was filled with non stop laughter, the post alcohol session, when victims became drunk was filled with emotions and dramatic events. That confirmed the theory that people often 酒后吐真情, or maybe alcohol give people a chance to destress themselves. I did drink abit, cos they din reali manage to make me drink alot from the 5-10 table, and i was being pointed as the cause of the drunk party...hahha. Check out the pics taken:

BBQ

Mahjong among students: it seems that the photographer was drunk!!! So blur!

KTV

5-10 party: All still sober

From sober

To getting high and ready to puke

5-10 Finale

1 0n 1 5-10

Preparing the forfeit drink for the vanquished

To finally drunk

When is the nx alcohol party????????

I'm finally on the road to recovery and getting my voice back!!!!!! now is 70%

SP2 Feb 08

2008-02-29T23:48:00.006+08:00

It has always been my habit to create a picture with their names written, so that 10,20, or even 50 years down the i could still recall who they are.My 4th full batch of student training officially ended today. They are none other than Singapore Polytechnic Group 2 (SP2 as i always called them). I would say that this batch of training is truly very very memorable and special to me in the following ways:

It takes alot of fate for 2 persons to meet, and to know each other. i do believe that my class and I were fated to meet....., reali fated to meet. I did tell them that i was not their originally assigned form trainer 3 mths ago. My original assignment was to take ITE training for 10 weeks; It was due to some internal reshuffling of manpower that i was swapped to take SP2. Dunno whether to consider them unlucky or the other way round that they got me to teach them...lol. Considering the fact that i am labelled by the entire cohort to be the most unapproachable and the fiercest trainer once again and one student actually commented that i was their fear factor, while we were chatting casually on msn; and the phrases they used to impersonate me were again the famous "Whats so funny?? Why you laugh??? Why you yawn with sound... etc????"

This batch of students had also been unfortunate --- since they had never heard my true voice at all since the 1st day they step into our compound. As i was still down with my sinus cough, and also the voice loss after the chinese new year. So throughout their 6 weeks stay, they had never see the mic off my face, as i could only speak with the help of the mic.

I had also openly defied the doctor's orders to 'shut up' for 1 week in order for my voice to recover. perhaps i asked for it myself, till one fine day i reali totally lost my voice, and it was then i needed to ask my colleague to help me teach my class on that particular day. Even during the shift work week when i was ordered to 'shut up' by the doc again, I still had no choice but to continue working due to the shortage of manpower, as it would be so bad of me if i were to sabotage my fellow colleagues last minute to cover my duties for me. But it's a pity that the students gotta bear with my super sexy voice thruout their shift work, and many of them ended up having to become my personal parrots ---- to help me repeat what i said to the whole class.

I remembered my colleagues ever asked me whether it's worth it to hang on at the expense of my own health. I hesistated. I have to be honest that the aptitude of this group is less superior as compared to their seniors i took last year, that's why i had to make sure i personally 'push them harder'. At the end of the day, after knowing that they had done much relatively well in their final exams and that their hard work and diligence paid off, i was convinced that it's worth it.

Since i was unable to eat packed, heaty food then, i had to carry my big rice cooker at home on every shift day to boil my home cooked soup, ranging from water cress, winter melon, sweet corn to baby bittergourd pork rib soups. i was flattered that they found my soup fragrant, but too bad no student had the chance to taste them ---- lol, i would always do my signature 'satisfied from eating delicious food look' to 'khek' them, but it always ended up in lots of laughter though.

Perhaps that was the reason y they decided to give me a miso water cress soup recipe in the card they made for me. Million Thanks for the soft toy and the card made too! Check out the contents inside:

Thanks so much for the card and gifts one again, even though my eyesight was put to a tough test trying to figure out the wordings marked with the golden/ silver ink.

The graduation ceremony was overall a success, with brilliant performances put up by the students, of course the ceremony had the emotional moments too: colleagues were touched to tears, trainees shedding tears of joy, etc. I do feel extremely happy for the award winner who made it all the way from ITE to poly. She had displayed the correct determination and the attitude to succeed, and she definitely is an excellent example for all to follow -- to perservere and neva give up. I had a hard time deciding who to award the excellence award to. i had 3 candidates in mind, and each of them tops each of the 3 assessment criteria. eventually, the one with the highest overall score was chosen, and dramatically, the gap between their scores is less than 1%! So you could imagine how close their scores were.

I sincerely wish them all the best in their future endeavours and their final semester in school, and hopefully they will not forget the teachings and values i imparted to them......Here are some more of the class photos:

A9

2008-02-20T15:57:00.002+08:00

The title of this post describes my current state now. You'll soon find out y and wat it means.

This CNY is the worst CNY i had in my entire life so far.

Considering the fact that i had been sick since day 2 of CNY, which is already nearly 2 weeks, and i am still unwell.

The powerful influenza virus i've gotten then was believed to be spread from my dad....as he was the 1st person to get it, followed by myself, my sister, brother in law and niece....all down with fever on the 2nd day of cny. considering the fact that i had a flu vaccine half a year ago, and getting down with influenza still says how strong the virus was......

Apparently the virus + voice strain from work + sinus = complications, and i had almost completely lost my voice for the past few days.

i swear that i had not eaten a single 柑, and oni tried half a slice of 肉干 for the entire CNY.

I had unknowingly undergone a very successful weight lost regime as my last weight taken on sunday had indicated that i had lost 1 more kg over the past week, and in total i had lost 8 kg over the past 5 months and i weigh only 61 kg now, with a BMI of 20.6 ...so ladies....do you envy me???

I believed it was due to the jab i had yesterday that today i started to have a bit of voice back, but it's oni about 5% of my normal amplitude and capacity...hahahah. but compared to yesterday, when i reali had no voice for normal conversations, and i called myself an A9 -- translate to hokkien directly to get the literal meaning... The doc was thankful that i wasn't a smoker --- he commented that things would have been worse if i am one...

The feeling to fall sick for so long is terrible -- considering the medicine i had been taking had caused me to feel so lousy, lethargic that it affected my work and studies. the amount of money i spent on the medications had amounted to close to $300......

Nonetheless, i do see some positive side out of this time frame, that is to know that I am still loved -- by many people. herbal tea from xy, and strange herbs made by my dad (horrible taste and i dun even know wat they were), terrible herb by my aunt (horribly bitter with strong after taste that last for hours!!!!), organic food from the cleaners at office, honey from colleagues, and not forgetting comforting words from some students to sincerely want me to quickly get back into shape so that i could raise my voice at them once again.

I do want to get well asap. I miss singing along with my guitar, and at the ktv, also feeling energetic to play sports and to study. Hopefully after i 拜太岁 on monday, heaven will be kind to me and to all who need to listen to my voice that i can recover quickly and bless me with good health.

Will i get back my voice tmr? I will be going on shift for 4 days over the next 5 days......

P.S: PC still yet to be fixed back --- so angry with the supplier which delayed for more than 4 weeks already after promising to return after 3 weeks.... juz called them up today to scold them with my 5% voice....

Recommend to you all this nice Hokkien song, with subtitles. One of the sentence describes my plight now: 一字一句拢是托磨。。。lol

依恋

2008-02-01T17:40:00.000+08:00

Heard of an unpleasant thing over the past week, that one of our coursemate belonging to the same batch of Chem Eng NUS 2006 graduated had a relapse of lymphomia, a type of blood cancer which he was first diagnosed back in 2006. Though i had never been aquainted with him, and i actually haf little idea how he looked like, but i felt sympathetic towards his plight, and touched by the love his family had given him, and the support given by his friends in search of a suitable bone marrow donor. Unfortunately i was blatantly rejected by the NUH nurse when i called to want to register as a donor as i was still ill......from my chronic cough..in fact i juz went for an X-ray of the chest and face today in investigation for the actual reasons causing me to cough persistently since late Sep 07. Who knows i might be treating my friends CURRY CHICKEN, FRIED BEE HOON, & KONG BA BAO (扣肉包) very soon????? zzzzzzzzz......

I seriously think it's worthwhile posting this song here. The singer is none other than 蔡淳佳， the singer of 陪我看日出. Something about her is that we were both from the same secondary school, and i can't remember whether i've mentioned this before that we ever competed in the school's talentime back in 1994....when i was in secondary one when my voice haven even break. Of course i was trashed flat in the finals as she won everyone convincingly (if i won her i would haf also been a singer.....). Apparently after that she remembered me as the youngest boy in the talentime finals. Anyway i think after 14 years she would have forgotten this boyboy then already. But that's beside the point. I happened to listen this song for 3 times over the radio before i finally found out the title and singer of the song. Coincidently, all 3 times i heard the song were all during 3-4-5am dat kind of timing, i apparently woke up in the middle of the night by the melody, but i could hardly remember anything about the song as i was only 'half awake', until the 3rd time when i decided to get up from bed to record the melody on my phone so that i could source for the song online from the lyrics. Also when i told my friend that i oni heard this song over the radio during mid night, dat was his comment:

PS : "这就叫所谓的支持本地音乐"

Can u sense the sarcasm behind his words????

The song sounded like a lullaby, and maybe it's the timing when i was exposed to the song, i find it extremely soothing and pleasant. Though it's not a typical type of catchy song. the melody simple, very simple with little climax. but perhaps that's the good part of it.

歌曲名:依恋

歌手:蔡淳佳

依恋坐在我旁边厚厚的想念随月光蔓延

依恋跟在你身边看你的笑脸吻你的唇边

如果爱是坐秋千你就是我的原点

依恋是一叠昨天你给的抱歉多想没听见

依恋是一条天线只收到从前回忆的画面

没有你会怎么演那些你说的永远

依恋就让它依恋已经拥有过你一段时间

或许分开是一种所谓的成全

爱我会放在心里面有些事不会有期限

依恋是一条天线只收到从前回忆的画面

没有你会怎么演那些你说的永远

依恋就让它依恋已经拥有过你一段时间

或许分开是一种所谓的成全

爱我会放在心里面有些事不会有期限

依恋坐在我旁边厚厚的想念随月光蔓延

依恋跟在你身边看你的笑脸吻你的唇边

如果爱是坐秋千你就是我的原点

没有你会怎么演那些你说的永远

It was only a few moments ago when i found out that the song was of french origin! I think the original version is juz as good, even though i can't figure out a single bit of its lyrics. Check it out:

PS: PC, and handphone still down.

Down Time

2008-01-25T21:48:00.000+08:00

A bad news to share with everyone. My home PC is down...reali down.

It juz so happened so suddenly...after my night shift last thursday when i was playing some games in the morning, the pc juz blacked out. i din bother to take a 2nd notice and i went straight to sleep. oni to realise that it could not be restarted after i woke up. i suspected it was an easy problem ---- power supply failure. So i brought my pc to the nearby shop to comfirm my hypothesis. To my horror. the motherboard also was found to fail. Sending back to the sim lim dealer on the same day was a double blow. Not only the power supply had failed, my motherboard and hard disk were also shocked and all 3 equipment were confirmed to have failed. My home PC will only be back in service in a minimum of 2 more weeks....zzzzzzzzzzz....

If u realized, I can't possibly be at home now. I'm using the PC in school at the moment.

Sorry if i had created an impression that i had gone missing on the net, email or msn.

It's juz that these days without PC had given me the reason to reali try to recuperate from my CHRONIC cough. taking powerful medicine which cause me to doze off unknowingly every night shortly after i commenced some bedtime reading, and leaving the lights and radio on till 4-5am when i would then instinctively wake up to turn them off.....

If u happen to see me online on msn, pls bear with me if i did not reply your msg, as most probably i was not at my desk (esp for the past few days).

The only major consolation for the past week was the results of the release of the O level results yesterday. I was kinda surprised that my tuition boy did pretty well, i would say value added performance.

I still could recall the 1st conversation i had with his father back in May 06. That his son reali needed help in his studies as he did reali poorly for his mid year exam. I agreed to help and it was only during the 1st lesson we had that i found out that his results then were reali poor ---- he was the top student, ranking from below for his class then. His diligence and determination reali impressed me, and also gave me the push to reali want to impart all that i know to him. I taught him 2 subjects, Mathematics and Chemistry. It was a pity that he was forced to drop A Maths at the end of Sec 3. In fact my predictions for his grades for both subjects came true, though no distinctions (both B3), but considering the improvement he had made from day 1, I am very satisfied :) and i reali feel very happy for him that at least he qualified for a JC, which means to say that he persevered to qualify for one place in the top 20% of the national cohort. I advised him to further his studies in a polytechnic.

In fact, over the past years which i had been providing part time personal tutoring, i realized that unlike many of my friends or colleagues, who always had the chance to teach top notch and well to do students, I am always faced with the challenge to teach the really rock bottom students. Perhaps it's really fate, or i should say, my fate. Of course i am not god. I can't create miracles (as i reali couldn't salvage the grades of certain number of students which i had ever taught), but the most important this was that my conscience towards them are clear.

Now that the boy had graduated, but my teaching career had juz restarted. I am now teaching his sister. the same subjects, but starting from day 1, not after flunging her examinations. Let's hope that I could help bring someone to a greater height again!

It's life

2008-01-12T01:35:00.000+08:00

Students come and go, and i have experienced that for around 6-7 batches of students. This time round, it's 2 of my fellow colleagues who are leaving us, for greater horizons and moving on to greater challenges in their career. They have been wonderful colleagues and friends to be with, and it has always been enjoyable working with them. It's really a pity and rugi for the company to lose them. But i still sincerely wish them all the best for their future. Don't forget the great times we spent at the pantry, table tennis table, and of course disciplining students (how can we forget that)!!!

I finally have the time to transfer photos taken at office for the past few mths to my own thumbdrive and onto my own pc. Here are some precious shots, i believe

ITE/ Sept 07 batch graduation.

For the first time i was more involved in ITE training, not as a form trainer, but as a 'discipline master' (can't imagine that rite????). though rowdy and noisy at times, but this batch proved to be one of the best behaved batch, and also a memorable one. That's the irony behind. As teachers, we always hope to get the best and most well behaved class, but often these students are generally classified under the 'boring' category and will tend to be the least memorable, becos they had neva done anything to annoy u to 'allow u keep them in your deep memories'. it's usually thru non stop nagging and scolding, and also their sometimes 'unexpected behavior' that keeps them in ur memory for long. Finally i am very glad for their form trainers becos they had miraculously created a positive change to the lives of some of their students in juz short 10 weeks.

Our company parties always only revolved around having delivered or packed food. This time round, we had an extravagent durian and fruit feast as well!!! Butter durians at $15 per kg and super D24 durians at $12 per kg. All amount to $469 juz for the durians!!! But this price simply match the taste.

I tot this shot was well taken, until someone made a remark that: how cum ur boss looks as though he's having a stomachache???

The ONE AND ONLY UNBEATABLE BUTTER DURIAN

Super D24

It has been long since went to SAMY's curry. The meal was simply too filling for me to finish. Check out the shared orders:

Each of us oso have an individual portion: Not forgetting the favourite of all times after the whole meal:

School will be starting nx week. I gotta take the supposedly simpler modules becos i noe my working schedule for the 1st half of this yr, has already been fully packed.....reali fully packed. and i would be expected to take a form class in the midst of the exams this sem!!! But i noe:

TODAY'S ORDEAL IS TO SHAPE A STRONGER ME FOR TOMORROW!

Congrats

2007-12-30T18:12:00.001+08:00

For me, This year's festive season mark many events that are worth congratulating.

First of all, SW and JD had officially tied their knots on 23 Dec and became husband and wife after being together for 8 years.

My family had officially became the family of perfect eyesight, after my 2nd sis did her lasik one week before X mas. i was the 1st to perform the surgery back in jan this yr, followed by my eldest sis in feb, and lastly my 2nd sis.

X mas day was eventful and reali stomach filling. Each of us was to bring a type of food for everyone (potluck). Juz simply check out the varieties available:

The biggest event gotta be the wedding of Alex and Debbie at Furama Riverfront last night. I do feel very glad for him to be able to get himself a good wife and a true love, after several years. Again it was a great night reminiscing our army days years back, and not forgetting the highlight of the evening: ironically, the bridegroom did not get more drunk than one of our buddy, ah toh, as he wasn't the one to vomit, cum lay flat at the ballroom dat night. Below shows his transition from sober to so-drunk.

still pretty sober

so-drunk

treat for the bridegroom - 7 wonders of red wine/ beer/ tea/ softdrink combinations

Not forgetting to keep fit, badminton today was great too, esp the men-double matches. We seemed to get hooked to the game and we might be having one more session next week. :)

Lastly,

Happy Birthday to "Pear" on 31st Dec and Finally

Happy 2008 everyone!