RSAF Open House & Nationals 2008!

Man in Uniform, Yummilicious! Lol…

Went for the RSAF open house on Saturday, in the late afternoon. Met with the rain at about 3-5pm, was kinda worried that the airshow would be cancelled, but luckily it wasn't.

After which, we went around to see the models of the planes available (after majority of the crowd has dispersed), and asked for quite a number of 'last chance' to see the interior of the different planes!



Anyway, the number of pictures taken totally exhausted my 2 day old Canon Ixus 860is! =) Yeah! New Camera! Cam whore!

I realized that weight gain is actually not such a bad thing after all in certain aspects. With my extra weight, I went on to the next weight category for the 35TH NATIONAL PESTA SUKAN TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008.





Compare and contrast! With my new weight, I got Bronze immediately! Lol…

And a bronze was exactly what I got! I fought, and lost… -_-''' Both my opponent and I had too heavy legs, and were too tired, didn’t manage to score any points on either party. But due to the simple fact that she kept charging in, and was more aggressive, she won. Oh well…

When can I get my Gold Medal? I wanna retire! Lol… Nvm, shall work hard at next year's competition!

Maid Service

Yet another interesting advert that I saw on http://www.share-accomodation.sg/:



Don’t you think it's kind of looking for a maid? And furthermore, this 'maid' still have to pay to stay with the 'owner'! Lol...

Blood Donation?

Was just chatting with my dear Han the other day, and her's a print screen of our conversation:



It would totally sound wrong should one with an overactive imagination should chance upon it while at my laptop with its very stubborn spacebar. Lol!

We were actually just talking about something very simple: Blood Donation. For more information: http://www.hsa.gov.sg/publish/hsaportal/en/health_services/blood_donation.html

We're now looking for a blood drive to donate blood (Just simply to lazy to travel to HSA). Anyone know of any that's going to happen soon?

Wet Wet Weekend

It's been a wet wet weekend thus far, great for sleeping in and not doing anything much! And that's exactly what I've been doing, due to the mad drinking session on Friday and Sat... Thanks to Herbert and Kenneth!

Friday was supposed to be a rest day, but was invited to FHM's Threesome Party by Herbet in the afternoon, and since I've not met him in such a long time, I just tagged along! Meeting place was at Liang Court, whereby I saw an interesting shop:



Big Sign eh? Lol... Anyway, the FHM Party wasn't that much of a fun, though I met some friends there. Hung out at FashionBar after the show as Bert's friends are heading over to MOS that night too. See Pre and post drinks picture:

Snuggled in the coach for the whole of Staurday. Still had the sour taste of alcohol in my mouth when I awoke, hence the downing of water and binging of Bak-kwa, something that usually worked... Lol! Unfortunately, it didn't, not as well. Hence, the falling back into the couch to doze, movie watch and repeat the cycle.

Till the very last half hour, I dragged myself out of the couch to ready myself for Kennth's Birthday Celebrations. It was held at Sketches at Robertson Quay, and here's the only group photo that the camera managed to capture before being low on battery (yet again).

Good Service from Ezlink Singapore!

I'm impressed with the Ezlink Singapore's service!

As a person who has a pretty high standard of service, it is definitely not easy to impress me!
I've submitted a query with regard to auto topup of the ezlink card on Ezlink Singapore website, asking whether it was possible to preset the topup amount to S$100 instead of S$50 when the value of the card hits negative value.

About 2 minutes after I've hit the submit button, a representative from Ezlink Singapore called me on my mobile with regard to my query. Other than informing me that it is not possible, the representative told me the reason behind the limitation, as well as informing that should I wish to topup to the desired amount, I am able to do so at any of the topup machines and do so via Cash or NETS payment.

This kind of service makes me very happy, as I do not have to wait for the whole day before getting my query answered.

Great Job, Ezlink Singapore!

Song Title

Anyone know the name of the song in the following video?

If you do, do let me know! =) Thanks!

Food and Friends

Friday: Met up with Valerie (ie-ie-ie-ie) for the first time ever since she left the company end of last month.

Had wanted to head over to Popeye's at Singapore Flyer to have the dinner, but as we were feeling too lazy, we decided to hunt for dinner around the City Hall area instead. (Read: Raffles City / Suntec / Marina Square).

Decided on Tomo Fine Dining as our dinner place. Nope, we didn't have 5 course fine dining meal that cost a bomb. It was instead a Japanese restaurant whereby we enjoyed the food and the atmosphere.





How can there not be any desserts when girls meet? =) Chocz Chocolate Fondue... Yummy!



Saturday was a funny day. Neon (my poly group of group leaders for freshmen Orientation), were supposed to meet at East Coast to go for some outdoor activites, namely blading, cycling etc. Meeting time was at 3pm.

As it started raining at about 2.30, Han, our beloved organiser, called up whoever that has confirmed the attendance on Facebook just to find out that majority of them are still at home due to the rain, save for one. We couldn't find Kaisheng, as his phone batt was flat. 0_o

So the poor organizer had to cab down with Yisheng (who is normally the most punctual guy to turn up for any meetups) in order to find him at the appointed meeting place. However, there was no sign of KS anywhere!!

According to Daniel, KS went to the meeting place, but doubled back to his god-mother's place as his batt was flat.. =S

Oh well, we ended up having dinner at Kenny Rogers at Suntec instead. I would say that it's a pretty good turnout: abt 10 of us! And of course, having fun and laughter throughout the dinner was just as entertaining, and here are our 2 main entertainers:







Attendance Call: ChangYong, Zaini, Yisheng, Kaisheng, Connie, Han, Eunice, Joanne (Gatecrasher!), and missing from the group shot, Ivan (ok, he's in the pic above) & gf.


Our dear friend who went to charge mobile phone, and did not SWITCH THE PHONE ON while charging! Grrr...


Anyway, Kenny Rogers at Suntec has bookshelves whereby they place real books over there for the customers to read! There's Chicken Soup for the Soul, Lonely Planet, Encyclopedias, Kid's Books, and many more!

PS: In case you were wondering, I did turn up, just that I went to Parkway Parade at 4 instead! LOL...

Change of Service Provider...

I want to change Service Provider!!

I'm with Singtel now, and I want to change to StarHub!

Reason? Very simple, SingTel is not giving me the service that can keep it at the top of the telco war. I've started to have problems with them the very last time I lost my phone, which would be around Mar08, I think.

With quite a number of problems that I faced with the replacement SIM card, which includes but not limited to:

• Non SMS Sending (I can send an SMS in the morning at 9am and the message is still in out outbox at 6pm)
• Lagging SMS Receiving (People sent SMS to me at 11am, and I only receive the message at 2pm)
• Weak/Lack of reception (I've tried with O2, Nokia phones. No reception)
• Auto restarting of the mobile phone (Have checked, not the mobile phone problem)

After calling the SingTel Customer Care hotline many times to feedback the problem, finally one CSO that I spoke to said, "Think the batch of SIM cards that we gave for the replacement SIM card was faulty". And guess what? He asked me to head down to any of their shops to get a replacement SIM card. There was no apologies, no damage control etc etc etc.

That irritated me. But this is not all. Upon contract expiry, all they offered was either: Getting a new phone at a cheaper price or $4 off monthly bill for 24 months. *Note: Both comes with a 2 year contract.

So, a customer of 10 years is only worth $96. Oh well, in that case, I might as well switch over to M1 or StarHub.

M1 has 35% discount when one has 4 lines under the subscriber name.
StarHub? They've got this Choose Freedom program, whereby you choose your Terms and Conditions to jump ship over to join StarHub. Furthermore, there's points accumulation to change for vouchers etc.

Since I'll not be signing for so many lines, StarHub is obviously my choice, and of course, the fact that M1's bills irritate the hell out of me does not help it much either.

Of course, I'd have made my Bid for Freedom already. Today's the day whereby I'll know if I get to switch over to StarHub on my terms, which are as follows:





But one funny thing is... I placed the bid after 14Jul08, while over at the results page it was stated that I would know of the outcome on the 14Jul08... Does it mean that StarHub can turn back the clock?!?

I smell with my nose...

I smell Mooncakes!

I smell the gua zi that is used for mooncakes!

Now I feel like eating Mooncakes! Just the mooncake that is available at my neighbourhood bakery!

At Work @ 7am?

Saw this very interesting ad in my work mail the other day, here you go:



Cool eh? Interesting Gimmick. =)

Dark Eye-ringed Bee?

Another weekend of great fun and lack of sleep!

Not that I'm complaining, but that means that I've got cut down my weekday socializing, for at least 2 weeks in order to rest and look well rested!

Friday, attended an Emerald hill group event: Absolutely Black held at Dbl O with Rayson. Saw a lot of old old friends there, friends that are active in the night entertainment scene (that sounds so sleazy), had total fun! Best thing is, I was home slightly after midnight! I can't believe it! =P

Saturday, Michelle's Party! Headed back to Dbl O again, drank and danced the night away. Evidence? See what happened to my boots:





I guess that if we'd been there longer I'll be shorter? Cos I would have danced my legs away! =D

Sunday: Kaisheng's birthday! And know what, he sent a formal invitation over! I think he got it printed at the printers, u know? Together with a map, shuttle bus directions on how to get over there.



Of course, being a chalet, and one of the fellow gamblers, we mahjong-ed till wee hours in the morning. With only 1 hour of sleep, I headed back to office. Can't believe that I survived Monday. =P

What we got him as a present? Portable mahjong set! Comes complete with a ‘table’ and tile support (just like Scrabble)! Very nice, so much so that it makes me want to get a set for myself too!

Spells, Anyone?

I am so hooked onto this song! Mercy By Duffy



Especially this part of the song:

I don't know what this is
but you got me good
just like you knew you would

I don't know what you do
but you do it well
I'm under your spell

Spellcaster, I absolutely love!

Give me someone that would make me 茶不思饭不想！

Fantastic Weekend!

How was your weekend?

Mine was fantastic! A totally carefree weekend, no stress, no worries, no inhibitions!

On Sat, met up with Darling to go shopping at Far East. Just 3 shops, and the damage done was simply great! A total loot of 1 coat, 3 shoes, 2 tops, 5 dresses caused my wallet to be lighter by the hundreds! =) Thank goodness I did not shop during the GSS period, otherwise, 后果不堪设想 .

We followed up with a trip down to the National Arts Museum as there were performances there as part of the Night Festival 2008. As the National Arts Museum was open during the period of time, and free entry, I might like to add, we headed in, took lotsa pictures as possible. Or rather, as many pictures as my camera batt could support. =P Too bad I did not charge up the battery before leaving the place, hence the battery did not last THAT long.

Here're some of the items from the Museum that were on display (pictures taken by Darling):

















What we saw at the Night Festival:













Caught an open air screening of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was the classic version, not the one that was acted by Johnny Depp. Each version has its own merits, but what I simply love about this is it's atmosphere! =) Watching old films with fun loving people, in a open air cinema whereby they would have to change the film reels.

After which, there was a play of lights on the building. Here's one of them. To see more, visit:
http://keropokman.blogspot.com/2008/07/national-museum-of-singapore-oh-how.html
http://keropokman.blogspot.com/2008/07/national-museum-of-singapore-changes.html
http://keropokman.blogspot.com/2008/07/national-museum-of-singapore-transforms.html



On Sunday, was supposed to be down for the Nationals Competition weigh-in at National Training Centre at 2pm. Met Luke to pick Val at her place, during the journey which Luke was reminded that the verification documentations for some of our fighters were still with him.

In short, taxi uncle drove us from: Bedok - Telok Kurau - Bedok - Whampo (Val & myself only had to pay $4.50 each!) haha.. =P

As there was no training that evening, met up with Del. Went to the Seventh Storey Hotel @ Bugis just to simply look at the man-operated lift! It's so damn cool, and the uncle is so friendly and cute! =P Chilled out at Intercontinental Hotel, followed by 2 movies (Art of the Devil 3 & X-Files: I Want to Believe) and Zouk!

3 things I did that I've never before so far that I've lived: Going to a Hotel just to look at a particular feature (it had usually been food or drinks), 2 consecutive movies in the Cinemas on a weekend, as well as Zouking on a Sunday night! Just for Paul Van Dyke, who spins good! =) I can believe that I stayed till 3am, but I can't believe that I did get up in time for work, and am still at normal energy level!

If only every weekend is like that… *dreams*

ABBA Mia!

I was out with a friend just the other day, and we happened to be talking about musicals etc.

And just yesterday, Mich was asking if there's any new upcoming musicals coming up ever since we caught We Will Rock You (which did totally rock btw) quite some time back.

Of course, I went over to Sistic website and saw… ABBA MIA! =)




Oldies rulez~ Had wanted to get the restricted view tics which were actually not really totally restricted (yeah, we tend to save wherever possible), but unfortunately, they were sold out for Circle 1. Decided then to go for Category 2 tic. We were lucky to get 2 seats in Circle 1. Here're our seats:



With only 3 shows being performed, it would be a pretty great thing to watch ya?

Ask! for God's Sake!

I am irritated. Oh God, yes! I'm absolutely Irritated!

Instead of hiding behind your manager's pants, why not just come out and ask for the reasoning for what I'm asking to be done?

Would you rather people return things back to you in their original condition or slightly modified?

If you're telling me slightly modified which would make my life better, I'd say Thank You and mean it.

But if you're going to give it to me in a manner whereby I can get things done but with MUCH inconvenience, of course I would ask for you to return it back to me in the original condition!

And if you don't understand why, just ASK!

And if you don't understand after explanation, save the both of us from much unhappiness and simply move the damn thing! It does make things much easier!

Revamped Downtown East

Have you been to the revamped Downtown East?

I was there, the very evening that Daniel had his wedding solemnization. (Yes, I know, twice a day!)

Skipped training, went dinner with Francis. I think we're both pretty sua-ku, as we seem to be both very astonished by the changes that were there!

Here're 2 of the changes, can you guess what they are?





Yes, a in-door Cadbury Ferris Wheel and the entrance to the bowling alley (which looks like a time zone)!

If only the Ferris wheel is, just like the commercial, made up of chocolate...

wouldn't it be nice if the world was Cadbury?
wouldn't it be nice?

And here we are, travelling through time... =P

Fight for it!

Not everyone has a happy ending
Not everyone gets what the want
Not everyone has what they need
Not everyone can have respect
Some people have 2 fight all their lives 2 get a small portion of any of these

Saw this on one of the posts on Facebook. Does it apply to you?

Do you fight for what you want? Or are you those Anything can do kinda of person?

To fight or not to fight? If fight, how much should you fight for?

The Ultimate Mambo Jambo Dance-Off @ Zouk

Totally low, that's my energy level now.

Went for Zouk/StarHub/Sony Ericson's Mambo Jumbo Dance off last night, and I totally enjoyed myself!

Was there with my fav clubbing partner Michelle, who brought along Yupei, who's a bubbly, and totally adorable girl. In fact, she reminds me of JC!

I know that I have not been to Zouk on a Wednesday night for a long while when I asked Mich to go to the Citibank free entry queue as I was only able to sign in 1 guest. Thinking back, I cant believe that I asked her to go queue for free entry on a Wednesday night, which is also Ladies Night! OMG!

Anyway, we were lucky that we were there pretty early, as the entrance to Zouk was very packed once the dance off started (I think sardines in a tin has more space than them). Songs that were played, got me wanting to move along with it. Of course, the host, Hossan Leong was very entertaining as usual, engaging the crowd and making everything oh so lively.

Interesting to see the 5 different groups to pit their skills against each other, and I must say, the winner does deserve to win! Their dance moves, I like... haha! =) And the winning group, whose name IS quite a mouthful, has such cute guys! =P

I'm sure there will be a video uploaded somewhere for this. I'll post a link once I get it! =)

Oh yes, I collected my new Zouk membership. I prefer the previous version though, whereas both Mich and Yupei prefer the newer version.

I can't wait for the end of July/early August, for Mich's birthday celebration! Let's go drink, drank, and be drunk! Whoot!

Alphabet Soup?

One would think that PAP, being the leading party in Singapore politics, would have enough moolah to upkeep its premises.

Unfortunately, that is not what I've seen, and what you are going to see:



Hmmm.. Did the educators try to make alphabet soup with the missing letters?

Yet to be Fulfilled Holidays - For 2008/09

I'm going on Holidays! Whoot!

Lets see:
Jul08-Batam
Dec08-Langkawi (I can't wait for this!)
Apr09-Macau (I can't wait for this either!)

Why so many holidays?

Batam: A friend who wants a short getaway, the sand, sea and the sun. Prices wise, not too sure, as we have yet to book anything. But one thing's for sure, we'll be heading out of Singapore 19/20Jul! Total Damage: S$XYZ?

Langkawi: I saw a promo on its website, a sea village package for 3D2N that costs only RM1,100! and 3rd person only pays RM180! That translates to 3D2N for 3pax on a water village lagoon with a private balcony to be only RM1,280 (S$178/pax at a exchange rate of 2.4)! Cheap cheap! Furthermore, Airtics from KL to Langkawi approx S$100 both ways. So all we have to do is to find bus to KL! Total Damage (if bus to KL costs s$50): S$320!

Macau: Airasia has a promo (or rather, had, since the promo was only valid till 06Jul08), whereby flights from JB, KL to Macau were only going at RM$5! After taxes and everything, S$150! another cheap cheap deal! And what we have to do is just simply to travel to JB to get such a good deal! Hotel wise, not settled yet though, cos there're no hotels that can give any indication of their pricing for half a year later! =P Total Damage (excluding Hotel & Coach/Bus to JB): S$150!

Anyway, I still have got the following places that I want to go:

• Desaru <- to go with Batam friend
• Phuket/Bintan <- To go with yet another friend
• Genting <- And yet another friend (minimum, just that I have yet to find a gambler like me to go with) =(
• To be decided <- Friends cum ex-colleagues, to be decided on both when and where! haha! =P

Anybody want to bring me to anywhere else?

1st July 2008

First July... Officially the first day of the new financial year, the day/week whereby one will see a lot of resignation letters...

First thing my boss asked when he saw me this morning: "Where's your letter?"

"You want my letter, I'll give it to you."

"No need to serve notice period also can, go immediately."

Wow... What a rare opportunity! But unfortunately, my sense of responsibility compels me to stay (as if)! Haha! =P

Anyway, met up with 3 ex colleagues for K-ing on Sunday in the Chinatown area (which meant that I went back to office, yes I did). Here're the photos that showed how much fun we had, even though we were given a room right at the back of the kitchen! (Which translates to a very small room, by the way...) =P

Take 1...

As normal as can be....

As sparstic as can be....

As adorable as can be....

As sad as can be....

As foolish as can be...