2008-06-29

Get Smart + Wii

Went out with campmates to Plaza Singapura on a beautiful Thrusday afternoon to have a very beautiful lunch.

Since no one drives, we had to take MRT there. (Now ever since I learnt how to drive, taking public transport is like hassle, especially when it's time consuming)

The list of people attended the outing
1. Me
2. Edwin
3. Jia Yun
4. Jason
5. Yat Kan (神秘客)

Had Peg-Leg set at Long John Silver. As usual la... It's chicken meal lai de.

After which we went to the arcade at the MRT station to see how formidable Edwin and Jia Yun are in their Initial D4 battles. They were so cheapstake in the sense that they squeezed out the max possible for every credit. Walao eh~ Nvm... Poor NSF

They jio-ed me to start the Initial D4. $5 for a licence is not a problem, the problem lies with how much you going to spend for the coming up training to gain the items, reputation. It's a lot lor! Haiz, still considering.

Test drove a bit, using Edwin's car (forgotten what's the model liao) on the easiest track available. I found that the steering wheel is super light without the feedback. Not used to it la. Aren't the steering wheel supposed to have more resistance to move when car is at high speeds?

For the movie, I found it as super crappy + funny. I loved 2 scenes especially: the subdue kissing part and the pants torn apart part. Super funny la! And Max (not the dog Max lol) his voice is also hilarious as well. The moment I heard him speaking, I would have the tendency to laugh liao. Overall, it's like superhero movie like that lor. LOL

Actually, we wanted to watch the Japanese '10 promises to my dog'. But others said must wait for them so that the whole lot of us can watch together. Ok lor, we tried to accommodate them.

Next day, we have our newest member coming - the Nintendo Wii! All thanks to Joseph! I wouldn't mind staying as long as I can play the Wii. The wii is super addictive for me lor. The whole day I was playing it.

For those who want to own the Wii, very simple. Just pay up and you have a portion share of the wii liao lor! Those who don't pay up shall not have their Mii stored inside, not even touch the wii!

I think for the first day, me, Edwin and SK were the greatest user. Followed by Timothy, Shi Hao, Joseph and Te Pang. SK and Timothy formed up tennis team, me and Edwin a team and lastly Te Pang and Shi Hao a team. Three teams compete in tennis the Best out of 5 game mode. Me and Edwin team considered not too bad, given that we thrashed 5 times consecutively. LOL! Te Pang and Shi Hao performed the worst. LOL!

Bowling wise, I held the highest record for the first day - 174. SK claimed he's pro at bowling, but he only got 149. Wahaha! My aim is to hit at least 200 points for bowling. Wish me luck!

For Mario Kart, Joseph is super cunning. Walao eh, always the first to complete the race. =.=

During OD, I found Wei Hao also picking up Cantonese dialect. He thinks that Cantonese speaking people when they speak mandarin is super sexy. We exchanged each other with what we've learnt. I realised that Wei Hao is good at listening but vocab and speaking wise is weak. For me, I'm worse than Wei Hao at listening but vocab and speaking is way better. Vincent is the best liao la...

A lot of people find that I have the Malaysian accent, aka 联邦腔. But I don't find it lei. My Chinese quite good one de lei... Perhaps it's the '' word I keep using which makes them feels that I have the accent ba. I have no problem when writing.

I believe in the saying, quoted from the 麻坡的华语 video:
There's no standardisation for any language, only localisation of the language.
语言没有标准性,只有地方性。

If you speak cantonese in Hong Kong or KL or Ipoh, nobody is going to condemn you that you're not speaking the standard language because everyone is speaking that! There's nothing wrong with Malaysian accent, I do admit it's funny, but it makes you stand out from the rest lor. Singaporeans just don't get used to it.

Then Wei Hao keep correcting my English... The word 'Sony' and 'odour'. He said every OD with me he must correct my English. OMG~ But I couldn't help it. Don't know how I got a B3 for O levels.

2008-06-26

当听到人赞美时别太高兴~

当有人说你英俊=英国的细菌
不错=不是你的错
天使=天上的狗屎
偶像=呕吐的对象~
有气质=爱喝汽水又有神经质
你有机会当总统=总务处的垃圾桶

可怜下~

2008-06-24

Birthday Treat

Got to know there's a celebration by our chitty-chatty Nicky on the 23 June @ Temasek Club.

The previous time when Nicky, Geraint and Wei Long wanted to treat me for lunch as so-called birthday treat, I turned them down. Hehe! In the end, what exchanged was a even more high class treat sia! Haha!

Was pondering throughout that day whether to drive there or to take the free shuttle bus to Clementi MRT then take MRT to Buona Vista? Since I get to leave a little bit earlier, I just went home and borrow the car lor!

Asked Yun Zhen and Shi Hao whether they want to go. They replied no and don't know respectively. SK a bit interested, but in the end disappeared to nowhere. And to my upmost disappointment, Edwin went to agree to do OD! Haiz... Never mind la, still had 6 people going.

Namely,
1. Nicky (the organiser)
2. Wei Long
3. Geraint
4. Leon
5. Choo
6. Me (the 'birthday boy')

Reached the bus stop outside the MOE to pick the remaining 5 men up. Heng ah, most of them were small-sized, if not, either Nicky or Leon have to go into the boot. LOL!

Nicky was shitty when he gave the wrong direction with his super powerful English! Haven't reach the junction then just say go straight la! No need to say turn left at next turn! Obviously my English is very low level de mah. The whole world knows this liao.

They wanted to pay $7.21 because they saw the clock displayed '7:21'. LOL! I don't mind you all paying up for the petrol and the taxi driver's wages! Haha

We had chinese meal as dinner first, before we proceeded to have our activites. The restaurant was quite high class (later you'll know why). There the waiter even helped to cut up the omelette or what the waiter called it as 'chinese pizza'. =.=

The first dish was omelette. Tasty, but it would be better if prawns were added to it.
The 2nd dish was creamy prawns. This dish was the most expensive of all @ $56. It was simply delicious!
The 3rd dish was fried chicken. Very original type.
The last dish was kang-kong veggie. Also not bad.
Overall, I would rate this meal as 4/5. $138 expensive eh!

We chatted almost everything as we ate along, but most of the stuff were related to our workplace, especially the people there. Choo just spent $1000 on his new CPU! Ahhhh~ Everybody is changing their computers now! Yet, I'm still using Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 9734 desktop, 7.5 years old already. But it was a very trustworthy computer with original CPU parts still working perfectly fine. I will touch more on my computer in the next post.

They still can't forget the joke on the radio transmitter:

Why is it hot? Oh, because it's freshly from the oven.

Yeah, they keep insisting me as the birthday boy to have the dishes first. But to me everybody's the same la. Cincai la, then I helped to distribute to them. LOL... Where to find such a nice guy??? LOL

Nicky received the receipt and was shocked to see his rank as MAJ (RET). What the hell~ Everybody was laughing at this. LOL

After the chinese tea, we then moved on to have our activites. Had 2 options to choose from, pool or karaoke. Of course I chose the latter la! Haha! Nicky went to book the biggest rooms around, both pool and karaoke.

For the pool room, it was big and has 2 tables to it. I don't know how big it was (see photo to judge), but the bigger one has a heater to heat up the wood so as to protect the wood (quoted from Leon). LOL~ I think it's nicer than the K pool we're having all way long la!

For the karaoke room, only me, Choo and Leon were interested in singing. But the room was super big, it has a projector to project the display on the OHP screen! I think the room can accomodate at least 10-12 people easily. 4 mics were available, 2 corded and 2 cordless.

For song collection wise, I found it quite updated liao. The system was easy to use, Choo spent the whole session still don't know how to use the system. Lousy sia!

Choo and me chose all chinese songs to sing and Leon chose english ones. Leon was super high la! First time seeing him so high. LOL! Choo and me were so fancinated by the big karaoke room.

Halfway through, this Nicky was super cheeky that he disturbed the singing. Stupid dumbass la! In the end, he and Leon sang don't know what english songs. Both of them high till max! The pool lasted for 1.5 hours and karaoke lasted for 2 hours.

Just when we were impressed by the good facilities there, we were a bit disappointed by the male restroom. It was super small with only 3 urinals and a sink. What the hell again la~ What if someone wanted to shit?

Nicky told us that the Boy-Girl was having good time at the mahjong room la. I never knew his hobby was mahjong...

The best part was we didn't have to pay a single cent! Booking of pool and karaoke rooms also free. Good sia! Thank you Nicky!

We left the place at around 11pm. With Wei Long alighted at Buona Vista MRT; Leon alighted at "Cyber Cafe"; Dominic alighted outside Yun Zhen house there; Choo alighted at Bukit Batok MRT. Over at Toh Yi there, Leon called and said MSGT haven't leave. After which, a very dramatic event happened. Shan't tell here. What the hell?! Reached home at 12am. Couldn't imagine if I take public transport. =.= Tired lei!

Good news! 4 July, there would be another outing. Yay!


拍一张全景照,但看不到Choo!点击放大至原尺寸。
Had a panorama shot, but can't see Choo! Click on it to have original 100% view.


再试一次,这次就看不到Geraint!哎呀,鱼与熊掌,不能兼得咯。点击放大至原尺寸。
Tired again, this time I can't see Geraint! Haiz, cannot have two things together. Click on it to have original 100% view.


周杰伦 「彩虹」
'Rainbow' by Jay Chou


性感咧~!还不给我抓到!呕...
Sexy leh~! Caught you red-handed! Disgusting...


K厢房真的是够大,我第一次都被吓到哭了。哈哈!
The Karaoke room was really big, I was shocked at the first time that I cried liao. LOL


Leon大展歌喉。背景的那一叠册子就是点歌密码咯!
Leon showing his singing talent. Behind him in the background was a stack of booklet which shows the code for each song lor!


这个瓜几爱动一下,所以拍到若隐若现酱咯。哈哈!
This fellow loves to move, so I shooted him until 'can see cannot see' like that lor. Haha!




Choo认真翻查歌曲,不懂在找「榕树下」还是「我只在乎你」??哈哈!
Choo seriously browsing for songs, don't know he's looking for 'below tree' or 'I only bother you' (sorry for my bad translation lol)?? Haha!


超大的撞球桌,够大了吧?还要加热给木料保暖。
Super big pool table, big eh? And it has a heater to keep the wood warm.


高级的享受
High class enjoyment

2008-06-22

Surprises, surprises and more surprises

Haiz... I'm so disappointed in Nicky. Shan't talk more on him.

Surprise 1: Never knew that the biscuits or "heong beng" I bought from Teluk Intan were so popular. Almost all 36 were finished on the first day. Nobody has complained about them, so I suppose it's a good thing ba!

Surprise 2: Jansen have this good idea of having ORD trip, just for those ORD between Oct and Dec. Trip to Malaysia la! I think he got influenced by me because I just came back from Perak state and shared with him the nice place and nice food there. That's the power of peer influence!

Surprise 3: There're worms in the curry puffs! I only got to know it after I already ate one le! The most disgusting thing is that you knew it when you saw only half-body of the worms!

Surprise 4: Yun Zhen failed his driving test. Ironically, he said parking is very easy at the start of the month, driving the Honda Fit somemore. But the truth is he failed at vertical parking. Not because of skill, but I think he never 拜神 on that day ba~ Unlucky day for him. Confirm pass on 2nd try la!

Surprise 5: I got to drive the 6166 to camp yesterday! I had never expect this!

Surprise 6: Yun Zhen's father don't allow him to drive his WISH around. Then what's the point of learning driving lei?

Surprise 7: Saw Zi Long at the OCBC bus stop before I boarded 198. Wondered what he was doing here till he told me that he was looking for handphones.

Surprise 8: Yin Boon progressed very smoothly and very fast for her class 3A. She passed her Final Theory just 1 attempt yesterday. Look forward when she drives us around ba!

Outing 1
Went out with Chee Chuan on Thursday 19 June 2008 to pass some local delights to him and the same time gave him a chance to treat me for birthday present. Had chicken chop and 'German' hotdog (realised I don't know how to spell SAW-SAGE) as what Chee Chuan call it. Overall, I found it quite average only.

After which, Chee Chuan bought another 15 sotong rings from the don't know whatever British takeaway chain stall. Although they don't look nice, but the taste was rather good. At first I thought they were onion rings. But will get sick of it quite easily.

Outing 2
Then today went out again, for the my 4-01 clique dinner. Had dinner at Jurong Point's Swensens with Yin Boon, Sharon, Jesslyn and Huai'an. I had Chicken Baked Rice ($11.50). As usual, it is Swensen's all time favourite. I find western food quite average only, eat here eat there also the same. I still prefer chinese food lo.

Ya, I know I very low class. Without adding the 'please' word. Keep repeating 'more more more'... Too used to the kopitiam style of calling liao.

Yin Boon and Sharon bought me a nice looking birthday card. What I want to 'diao' was that the Kbox offer is on again! LOL =.= This time round there's no closing date. But the only T&C is that it must be on a weekday.

Yup, they still know me very well. I haven't say out the lame part and they knew it beforehand liao. LOL... Huai'an still 'praise' me for being so skilful at 'souring' people. No choice la, some people must wake up their ideas. LOL!

Wanted to have earthquake but they like so full like that. There goes the chance of tasting the mega ice-cream.

JP's KPools closed down liao. Don't know why, but most likely the business not good lo. In the end went to see what's on the cinema screens, but not to our liking. So in the end, everybody went home after the dinner.

Me, YB and Sharon walked home. Jesslyn took bus and Huai'an walked home too. As we walked, the overseas trip thingy pop up again. This happened almost 2 years ago, when we agreed to go Malaysia one day by ourselves. Now, we are more ambitious, we want to go beyond Malaysia, maybe Hong Kong or Taiwan.

2008-06-21

Crazy Comment

Was surfing some forums and this threadstarter asked if we have the habit of writing a blog.

Then one of the forumers replied this:

写blog=暴露狂
看blog=偷窥狂。。

一个喜欢露
一个喜欢看


都是疯狂的人类行为~~

2008-06-19

Cat puts Japan rail firm on track

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7421259.stm

Tama on duty at Kishi station
Tickets please! - Tama works nine to five and takes Sundays off

A loss-making Japanese railway company is back on track thanks to the popularity of a stray cat.

Wearing a black cap and posing for photos with passengers, Tama is credited with boosting Wakayama Electric Railway's revenue by 10%.

The firm had to axe all staff at Kishi station in western Japan two years ago.

But Tama stuck by her post and was rewarded with promotion to station manager. The pet mascot even has her own office, a former ticket booth.

The feline, who was born and raised at the station in the city of Kinokawa, Wakayama prefecture, is living proof of the Japanese belief that cats are good luck.

Map

"She never complains, even though passengers touch her all over the place. She is an amazing cat. She has patience and charisma. She is the perfect station master," said Yoshiko Yamaki, a spokeswoman for the rail company.

The nine-year-old - who receives cat food in lieu of a salary - won national stardom last year when the firm formally appointed her as "station master".

Since then passengers have been gradually returning, recently rising 10% to about 2.1 million a year.

The cat has spawned a range of popular merchandise, including a picture book called: "Diary of Tama, the Station Master."

2008-06-17

生日快乐 Happy Birthday

今日是我的生日,祝自己生日快乐
不懂做莫会酱,近年觉得生日只不过是一个普通日子而已
以前儿时还会超期待这一天的到来
现在渐渐没有那种感觉了

原本还以为可以招兵买马,大家一起出门玩
结果,自己在家玩电脑
可怜到

但还是有人以不同管道向我祝贺
谢谢他们
每个人欠我一份礼物了
哇哈哈哈!!!

今天更是双喜临门
因为我最喜欢用的Firefox将推出第三代!
比上两代更快更稳更安全亦更简便
那些比我更hiao的Firefox粉丝更是把这一天当作Download Day
就是要在这一天(24小时内)募集最多人下载安装Firefox
以打破世界纪录
我都已承诺在美国时间6月17日(即新加坡的6月18日)
下载Firefox啦!


Today is my birthday, so Happy Birthday to me first.
Don't why this happens, recently have been feeling that birthday is just another normal day only.
In the past, when I'm a child, I used to look forward my birthday.
Over the years, the feeling gradually fade away.

I thought I could gather some friends to go out and play.
But in the end, I end up playing the computer all day long.
Haiz...

But still, people sent me greetings through different ways.
I say a big "Thank You" to you all
Each of you now owe me a present liao
wahahaha!!!

Today can be considered as double happiness day.
Because the 3rd generation of my favourite Firefox is going to be released today!
It's faster, safer, more stable and more user friendly than the previous 2 generations firefox.
It's supporters are more 'hiao' than me, they going to fix today as Download Day.
Meaning to get as many downloaders as possible to download firefox 3.0 within 24 hours to set the world record.
Of course, I join in the fun - pledged that I would download on the 17 June (US time), i.e. 18 June (SG time).

祝贺名单:
Greetings senders:

SMS/Thru SMS
Peng Guan, 慧婷 (Petaling Jaya, M'sia), Sin Yi, Chee Wee, Geraint, 妙华 (Langkap, M'sia), 小姨 (Johor Baru, M'sia), Sharon, 薇婷 (Pulau Pinang, M'sia), Jesslyn, Shi Hao, Huai'an, Jordan, 秀水(Kuantan, Malaysia)

经即时通/Thru MSN
Edwin, Yong Sheng, Yun Zhen, 俊豪(Ampang, M'sia), Jeysthur, Bay, 婉琳 (Johor Baru, M'sia)

经邮寄
/Thru snail mail
薇婷 (Pulau Pinang, M'sia)

经电话/Thru phone
教主

经部落格/Thru blog
Sharon, Chee Chuan



生日蛋糕,简单就是美咯

十个不为人知的秘密 Ten secrets

都是‘雪人’害的咯
去年8月24日在她部落格登出这个小游戏
游戏规则:列出玩家或者是‘受害者’的十个私人秘密出来
之后登在自己的部落格里
之后再举6个名出来,不准‘报复’那个害你的人!

我到现在才完成它,因为不是有很多秘密下。
随便啦,配合她一下


It all caused by 'snowman'.
She showed this little game in her blog on the 24 Aug 2007.
Game rule: List out 10 personal secrets of the player and then publish in the blog
And then list out 6 other names, cannot throw back!

Till now then I finish the game, 'cause not many secrets mah...
Cincai la... just to accompany her to play this game.

1 小时候有这个想法:起床后不刷牙就吃东西吃不出味道来。所以起床后必定刷牙。
Must brush teeth whenever I wake up, if not I can't taste the food I eat. As in the food is tasteless.

2 小时候,表哥曾经跟我讲不好用手指指向月亮。不然月亮会下来敲我的头,误信为真。
When I was young, my cousin told me don't ever point at the moon. If not the moon will come down and beat me up and I believed that.

3 从华文老师那荣获‘最佳字体’非正式奖项。那时念小三。
When I was in primary 3, I was presented with an "unofficial" certificate from my chinese subject teacher certifying that my handwriting was too outstanding.

4 有看产品标签与规格多过看产品的习惯。
Always have the habit to read product label & specifications rather than the product itself.

5 喜欢坐车去吹风,不是嗅烟。
Like to sit in car and travel around.

6 第一次唱K是9岁。歌曲是林隆璇与周慧敏合唱的「流言」。
First karaoke session when 9 years old.

7 超喜欢吃榴莲。不懂做莫人家讲很臭,但我觉得很香,果王这个称号是实至名归的。
Super love durians. Don't know why people criticise it being very 'smelly', but I find it very fragrant. Live up to the reputation as 'King of the fruit'.

8 从小到大都想着出国旅游。哪位贵人能赞助我叻?
Have been dreaming of going overseas for holidays. Who's kind enough to sponsor me leh?

9 我的华文比英文强很多!
My Chinese is a lot more stronger than my English!

10 平日起身一定要吃早餐加一杯热饮,不然整个人不舒服酱。
On normal days, must have breakfast plus a hot drink, otherwise I would feel uncomfortable.

6位幸运中奖者!
6 lucky winners!

1. Bay
2. Chee Chuan
3. Yi Da
4. Peng Guan
5. James
6. Yin Boon

你们有没有看到是你们家的事,我已经摆脱这个负担料!
Whether or not you know you tio liao is your home business, I'm already out of this game!

芙蓉人不能不知‧芙蓉花一日3色

Taken from Malaysian's Sinchew Daily. Though I've been to Seremban a lot of times, but I don't know how it got its chinese nickname as a 花城. This kind of flower is especially unique as it has a lifespan of only 1 day and during this 1 day, it can change colours 3 times! With the sequence of white colour in the morning first followed by pink at noon and finally red in the afternoon.

http://mykampung.sinchew.com.my/node/35369?tid=16

早上:纯白

中午:粉红

下午:红


森美蘭 2008-06-16 15:24

身為芙蓉人,你對芙蓉花的認識有多少?住在花城,你又清楚花城美譽的來歷嗎?

芙蓉花的特點,是在一天內轉換三種顏色,而且具有藥效功能,可是,如今在芙蓉已經很難找到芙蓉花了。

在早期,華人新村內隨處都可見到芙蓉花,非常普遍,不過,據說是人們發現芙蓉花的葉子易惹蟲蛀,就逐漸減少栽種芙蓉,日復一日,今天要找到芙蓉花已經很困難。

星洲日報到處尋找之下,最後才在芙蓉、晏斗和文丁找到芙蓉花,並苦候一天拍下芙蓉花變色的過程,讓芙蓉人更了解芙蓉花。

生命週期只有1天

不說你不知,芙蓉花的生命週期只有短短1天,可是,芙蓉花一日三色的奇異特征,卻讓它短暫的生命充滿意義。

早晨,芙蓉花是潔白的,中午則逐漸轉為淡粉紅色,傍晚快要凋謝時又轉為紅色。

芙蓉花之所以能夠“變色”,主要是花朵中含有的花青素,在光合作用下不斷變換成份的結果。

早上白色猶如純潔少女,中午粉紅猶如青春女郎,下午紅色就如艷麗少婦,讓芙蓉花更添獨特品味。

芙蓉廣栽花樹
“花城”美譽遠播

芙蓉名稱的來歷,許多人都知道,比較可信的說法是從當年的舊稱雙溪烏絨(Sungai Ujong)的“Ujong”一字演變而成。

“花城”美譽又是從何而來?

根據老一輩說,早在70年代末期,芙蓉市議會為了美化和綠化市容,開始在芙蓉市內各角落廣種花草樹木,尤其是在各主要街道中央分界堤安置大花盆,栽種各類花卉。

除了栽種花卉,市議會也在路邊廣種青龍木,一到了開花季節,青龍木的黃花到處飄送,非常美麗。

市議會的努力使到整個芙蓉市區頓時綠意盎然,鮮花盛開,處處洋溢花香,久而久之,開始有人把芙蓉稱為花城,花城從此得名。

"Motivational" Posters

What I found funny over at HWZ forums:
Click on the images for 100% view.