~Hey..~

Watch this!


just thought i should share. hmmmm. maybe i should update abit but considering i've just been slacking theres nth much to update eh? hmmm last night i dreamed I won a golden ticket! rofl. oh and the wafflescrumptious whatever bar was pretty good too. hahaha.

erh... so yea. life has been pretty colorless lately. Not that i dont like it. Colorless is good. At least it means theres no trouble. heh.

~ Dreams ~

nah. not gonna blog bout my aspirations and what not. Just that recently i keep having weird/quirky dreams. Cant remember all only remember 2. haha

First one erh i became Sito from makansutra. hahaha. And i was just going around eating all the super delicious food and giving the "wah this is shiok" kind of commments. Strangely all the nice food stalls found side by side at the market below my place. haha.

Second one was last night. I found myself stuck in a vampire-holocaust. Everyone is huddled in this dim safehouse. But the situation was totally comedic. Because there were people who thought they got bitten so they went around biting people and you end up with alot of fakes who dont know their true identity. and the real vampires got all confused cos they dont know who is on whose side anymore.

ok yea. dam freaking weird dreams. haha.

~ Another post! ~

haha. k just wanted to show something from the outing at Ma Maison with FG. Cos i tink it's super cute.


Haha. Its the mascot for Ma Maison's own house wine. Can you make sense of it? its a wolf in sheep's clothing! LOL. Totally no link to wine. Red or white. lol. But it does make the wine label stand out from the others with grape pictures. haha. Gives the wine a very "fun" feel. Something you'll drink to at parties. Not those 20 yrs open one bottle kind. hehe. I just thought this was very cute and clever.

Lotsa unique little things at Ma Maison. The food is not GREAT but still quite nice. It's really the atmosphere. Very cosy and fun dining experience. Should try when you get the chance. Nice place to bring ur other half. haha. Or if ur alone like me, just go by urself. Not as nice but still quite nice. hahaha.

~ Clearance ~

Ok... time to get that emo post out of the way. haha. No, its not that i have been so emo that i didn have time to blog. Just doing other stuff. haha.

Hmmm. so i celebrated my bday with FG and GESS gang. waha.

My birthday presents!



bottom left: National Geographic camera bag from gess guys.
bottom right: Crumpler 6 million dollar home(camera bag) from FG.
Black box behind: Dry cabinet for storing camera and stuff, from myself.
Top: Canon EOS jacket from FG.

haha. hmmmm yea both groups of my friends gave me similar things mainly due to the recent acquisition of a $1000+ investment on my part. haha, thanks guys! love the new bags. and yea it doesnt hurt to have more bags =)


The NG bag is rather big and spacious as i can fit in my camera and lens into the insert and still have space for other stuff like notes pencil case. Can see from the picture, as i went out today. Theres even a slot for laptop, but since i have not laptop, so i used it to put my file. *hint hint* hahaha.

Really like the rugged feel of the NG bag and how well protected my stuff is inside. haha. The shape of this bag makes it feel like the old black hayrer bag that i used in jc till recently(im gonna retire it liao), so i didn need to get use to carrying this bag at all and it felt really good.



The 6 Million dollar home.
Haha. crumpler always had funny names for their bags. But their quality and not to mention trendy design/colors are always top notch. Which is why i guess its so popular. Which is also why i never got myself one. =p Seems like the only product that is seen more on the streets than the crumpler bag is the levis jeans. Which i incidentally didn get for myself as well. haha.

Nevertheless, I LOVE THIS BAG. It's smaller than the NG bag, so I cant really put A4 sized stuff in there. But im glad there is a size diff, so i can choose the bag depending on the situation. wahaha. What i used to do was to bring out the free canon bag along with whatever other bag i had. or sometimes i would stuff the canon bag into my hayrer/zinc bag and use it like a padded insert. That made the outer bag extremely fat. haha. This bag has a rather sporty feel to it, which i guess is a trait seen on most crumplers. Which makes it nice when i am bringing the camera along during active outings.

Like the other morning when i jogged to Henderson Waves to catch the sunrise!






View of Henderson Waves


And i couldn resist doing this...



=D wahaha. have more photos from Henderson Waves. Go check it out on my facebook acc if you're interested. =)

Next...


Canon EOS jacket.
Erh... haha i dont know what to say bout this. lol. Can go fishing already. (no pun intended) haha. In SG if you pull out a DSLR, you attract alot of attention already. I mean yea its getting more and more common but it still attracts alot of attention especially when ppl hear the shutter sound or if one uses a flash. Well this jacket kind of solves this problem in a very warped sense. haha. Cos now, ppl dont stare at you when you pull out the big black camera. They stare at you BEFORE you pull out the camera. hahaha. I appreciate the thought guys but im still trying to make sense of how When i'm gonna wear this. haha. maybe i'll wear it to sch just for kicks XD

Dry cabinet:
hmmm... not a very exciting present for myself aint it. hahaha. Not fun or anything but i guess its time i invested in something that can protect my gear properly. Since i got a little bit of extra allowance for my bday, i figured its a form of protection which i owed to my camera and lenses. So yea dry cabinet so that i can store my gear in a safe environment and have no worries bout mould or fungus growing on it. =]
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Wow. I totally screwed up my big final project for 2D this sem which subsequently screwed up my review. My 2D teacher is not the very forgiving sort when she sees mistakes so i figured i'd prolly get a D at best. Surprisingly, she gave me a B! wow. I dont know isit due to the fact that I redid alot of my work which she found unsatisfactory at first or she was just cutting me some slack cos I told her my gramps passed away. Either ways, im gonna finish up and touch up whatever work i need during this hols. This hols is defintely not gonna be wasted just on playing and fun.

On another note, fared gave me a D for drawing. I was really expecting the opposite for this as well. Cos Fared is really quite an easy going kinda guy. So this combined with the 2D grade made me quad-check my grades. haha. I was kind of pleased with my improvement in drawing over the past sem and jeremy gave me a B for drawing fundamentals as well. So i really didn see this one coming, much like the 2D grade. haha. Guess i really have some bucking up to do huh. Especially in terms of sketchbook work. got a B for 3D. So current grades are B B B D. Hmmm... still quite far from ideal. I SHALL WORK HARDER!

Oh yea, have pics of my bday outings with both grps on my facebook as well do check it out. JLPT is this weekend! OH NOS! My friend lent me a book containing the 2004 JLPT4 paper and answers. OMG THERES KATAKANA AND KANJI! k la basic kanji that can be inferred. haha. But still! OMG! Gonna study more tonight and tml then pass the book to another friend tml night. haha. At least JLPT 4 is totally mcq based so I wont have to worry bout not knowing how to write a word... lol.

~ Wahh. ~

Sometimes when life(or death) gives you a message it's so in your face that it's hard to ignore.

*Yesterday was my 21st birthday.

*I made a wish that my family and friends would be blessed with good health.

*My grandfather died at night.

Wow. I'd be an idiot not to be getting the message eh? haha. Guess good health(and immortality) was too much to ask for. I should have just wished for a BMW or Merc.
Or maybe i shouldn have said out my wish. =s

~ Happy 21st Bday To Myself! ~

Waha it's 11.37 on my com clock currently. In less than ½ an hrs time my 21st birthday will be over. Thanks for all the birthday wishes guys.

Hmmm... Didn do much for my birthday today. Everyone's busy mugging for exams and I'm busy with my review work too. In fact I only went out today to get stuff to do my 2D work.

On the way back i decided to treat myself to smth so i bought a tub of haagen daaz rum n raisin. wahaha. Didn turn out as heavenly as i thought it would though. lol. Still, im almost through with the tub. can see bottom already.

After dinner, my family sat round the table with a cake my mom got for me and they sang songs, i blew out the candles. haha. i do have some shots but im lazy to upload. and most of the shots are quite dark with only me inside... lol

Didn really make a wish for anything in particular. i didn even close my eyes to wish it, haha.

(in chinese)
"blow out the candles!"

*i proceed to blow the candles*

just as i am about to blow

"make a wish!"

haha. so yea it was really last min and stuff but yea still made a wish. am i not suppose to say it? lol. haha. nvm la. Just wish that all my friends and family are kept healthy and if possible immortal.

ok, i just added in the last part but hey, can always update the wish one right. nowadays technology so up.

so yea thanks again to everyone for the birthday wishes! I guess that includes daniel for his pseudo birthday wish of: "YAY! EXAMS ARE OVER!" Got sms counted liao la. haha.

Haha. Really nice to just hear from you guys. Some of whom I have not been in contact with for quite some time... hmmmm. Thanks everyone who remembered my birthday or got facebook/friendster to remember for you. =D

~ Drawing Assessment Tml! ~

And i am still blogging... hahaha. K la, cos i already finished most part of my work so i think i deserve a lil break =p

Anyways... dunoe who will read this but im gonna do a bday wishlist! haha. Cos i have had the experience of buying presents for ALOT of people before. I know it is dam diff if dun even know where to start looking. so yea, i know this makes it sound like i am expecting presents. well kinda. LOL. Anyway these are just some ROUGH IDEAS. haha.

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The following items/wishes are listed in terms of monetary value for easier referencing and should not be interpreted in any way to equate to it's actual value in general.

external flash unit for canon DSLR
msgr/sling bag that can hold camera and other stuffs
manfrotto tripod
dry cabinet
Ukulele autographed by frens
58mm polarising filter for canon lens
custom birthday card
spend my bday wimme on the 24th!

Some of the things you might not have even heard of before. haha. but yea like i said this is just a rough idea. Im not saying this is all you can get me and as you can see the cheapest option might not be the easiest to obtain. Just please, no watches? =D hope this helps.

~ haha. ~

omg. lol. well at least its not somewhere dam far away along the ECP like i heard from the stories. haha. so kinda heng. lol. but still... haha. go my sis's sec sch for jlpt. lol. dammit why cant gess offer jap 3rd lang.

~ Oh Noes! ~

omg! princess ning ning is sick again! lol. i reeaaally should stay away from that peanut butter and chocolate combo kinda thing. haha. same thing again. sore throat then lead into flu and now i tink bit of fever. urgh.

erhhh today had oral test at jcs! omg! haha. it went pretty well... but one question i misinterpreted. =x

くだものわなにがいちばんすきですか？
I　Didn know what kudamono was. infact i thought it was kudamo no omg la so i just anyhow guess and interpret. =x

わたしわともだちがいちばんすきです。

OMG!　I think the examiners must have been trying so hard not to L.O.L la! arghhhh.. so paiseh cannnn... =x


tml is the written test and wednesday is the listening. I've got other work to do from Lasalle and im down with flu. omg...

Erm... my graphics card fizzed out the day before. which kind of died at the right time. cos graphics card spoil more or less = can do work but cannot play game. hahaha. right now i really need to do work and don't play games. nonetheless i took it down to my unc's place to get it fixed. wont be replacing one since its still under warranty.

Urghhh nth much to blog abt already. haha. oh! my bday is coming up! how exciting!! can it get when it's on a monday and all your friends are having exams... hahaha.

それじゃ。またね！

~ Nice Song ~

Haha. Sbeen awhile since i did a "nice song" post. so here you go. Think this song carries some meaning and the beat is really quite unique. ala mR az style.



hope you like that song. =]

~ URGH ~

I realised its been awhile since i last blogged an entry. I've been kinda busy recently with assignments and projects to rush. Which resulted in many late nights.
This coupled with that jar of peanut butter i bought the other day brought about my current situation. Im sick. urgh. Sore throat's gone by yesterday evening but im down with a cold. Think theres fever to top it off as well. funny i was just advising someone to drink more water the other day so as not to fall sick. I end up being the sick one. Oh, my sis was down with cold before that so i tink i might have caught it from her. haha. didn go for jap lesson just now and suppose to go jamming today but also ended up having to cancel. Which is kinda dissapointing since shaun will be flying back by this coming sat.

anyways i've been celebrating birthdays every weekend for the past few weeks. Which kinda adds on to the workload thing since bday usually takes up one whole day in some way or another. Sometimes its 2 bdays in one weekend. lol.


Celebrated with lott.


Went to li rong's chalet/bbq


Then to alvin's at timbre@Mt Sophia

Yeseterday's was lee yen but i have yet to upload the pictures. waha.

I realise im not giving very insightful details bout all the bdays but feeling rather tired to type out the whole thing. maybe another day... LOL.

anyways the rest of the pictures can be found on my facebook if you wanna see em. yep.

so thats about it for now. Actually there are some interesting stuff to blog bout but really quite tired now. hmmmm.

~ Huge Update ~

Firstly, my mom's fine and out of hospital already. She had her op last thurs evening so i was going to the hospital everyday except for monday. erhhh... she discharged by tuesday. quite surprising cos her op was a pretty major op and she got discharged in less than a week.

heres the thing. after we got into the car, mom started quarreling with my dad. -_- over what? over which way he should have turned which was supposedly the shorter route. -_- dont understand why they have to be so insistent on these kind of thing. i mean like, its just a turn what, not life and death. Does it really matter who is right and who is wrong?

so anyway, that kinda explains why i didn update for so long. hmmmmm.

some pictures from shang wei's bday celebration and the airport shots when we send him off.

so like i mentioned before we performed abit at his party. and i sang a couple of songs.



Heres a closeup of shang wei


group shot


shangwei got caked


and bob got himself drunk


Alot of them were balloon fighting the whole night...


On to the airport photos...

grp shot




Heres a nice gif i made of 2 shots continuously. Cant resize the gif so its quite big. (Actually i can but its a real pain)



Godwin and another guy, Andre wore almost the same outfit! how cool is that!

hahahahaha

And we got him a farewell gift!




Cant tell what it is? Watch the video!


wahahaha! nice rite...

Erh... I skipped my jap lesson on sunday and went to a jap festival at the Waseda Shibuya High School. Quite cool. Those guys are dam friendly.





Im not in ANY of the following pics cos basically i was the one behind the cam the whole time. haha

Went to their haunted house. I must say they really did put in LOTS of effort in doing up the place. And they really try their best to freak ppl out. One guy was breathing right beside my ear. haha. But then they still manage to be polite at the same time. Jap ghost only scare you visually. They dont do the arm from below grab your leg kinda thing. They made a point strictly not to touch anyone. oh but we did touch this cute teddy bear of a girl ghost though. haha. They are so polite that they will "show you the way" like ushers showing ppl into their seats if you get stuck at a point and dont know what to do. which made it kinda funny. I almost wanted to "get infected" at the end but the thing ended before i knew it so... no time to get infected. Or else it wud have been a blast. haha.





No pix of the inside cos i didn bring my camera in. =p but jap girls seem to look cuter in ghost mode. or maybe they just like to send their cute girls to become ghosts. haha.

Then we went for some food!


looks like those econ noodles you eat for breakfast right? haha. but its quite diff la.

More pics.




They took a photo with pikachu!


Went to another booth and played those mini festival games.

















And we got 1 balloon each from the games!(except for ricky)

Mine's the yellow one! heh.

So thats it. will be going for jap lesson this sunday. have some catching up to do, ON TOP of the original catching up that i already had to do. hahaha. Too many pics in this update so i don't feel like typing too much already. heh.

~ Minor Update ~

Wow. Just came back from shang's party. quite a blast. haha. i sang 2 songs in a little gig that we did. =p didn sing well though. lol. It was also my first experience with my SLR at events. Learnt a thing or two bout my cam. hmmmm. Events are really diff from scenery. Cos once you miss the shot thats it. The shots don't wait for you like scenery and still-life do. Very dynamic environment but i think i'll get better with more tries. heh.

Quite a busy weekend. 2 birthdays, so gotta rush some work. INFACT, im gonna go do some work now. So i'll give a more detailed update few days later. Maybe when we send shang wei off on wednesday ba. Hmmmm... but mom's admitting to SGH on wednesday as well... so i'll have to see how. Now... ARHH!! Assignments!

~ Can I Have A C for Chao Kuan? ~

ok its really like 3 days late but what the heck i'll blog this in anyways. Since i REALLY wanted to blog this back then. heh.

Thursday was project presentation day. The most part of our project was still not done by wednesday. COULD have been done one week ago but all the while we were waiting for the input from another member. That was the most crucial part and we waited one whole week. Then by monday, cindy and i decided it was too late and that we could not go on waiting anymore. Cos by monday yi shi was not in sch and was still unconatactable. So i did the measurements in photoshop and printed out on artcard on monday night and cindy finished the base by tuesday night.

So we agreed to meet up early on wednesday morning (which was conveniently a free day) to finish the project. Yi shi said she had some medical appointment at gleneagles? so ok, i told her to call us as soon as her appt was over and prolly go down to the sch as well.

but we didn hear from her the whole day. We worked from morning till afternoon till evening without hearing from yi shi at all! Finally, cindy got an sms from yi shi...

"hey can you send me the photos of the work online?"

WOW. never hear from you the whole day and you have the cheek to come and ask for photos. WIN LIAO LOR. we were so pissed la. Even other grps also came to ask wheres our third member. And they thought it was pretty unfair too. Basically the whole dam thing was finished between me and cindy. Well ok, yi shi did make half of the base by tuesday but it wasn exactly balanced? and its still just half of what she was suppose to have came up with.

i worked till 10+ 11pm on wednesday night before i went home. Ate my dinner, and continued working till 4.30 in the morning. Woke up at 7+ to go to sch to continue working on the thing again. So you can tell, i was pretty pissed when i was doing the things at home.

anyways heres a pic of what i did.



Supposed to be some toy model. I just bullshitted about how its a "baby's hanging mobile", that it "appeals to the visual aspect" whatever that means, and that the centre piece can spin given the right wind conditions(i've been told but i've not verified myself)

The base frame was what i was talking about earlier which was not suppose to be my part of the project. hah. The frame on top of the curve is formed entirely by individual 2x2x2 cm cubes. So YES it was HELL to stick those things together. And after so much work when you find that they wont hold up, it seriously just makes you dam sian. The middle horizontal beams were originally not there but were added due to a very unfortunate collapse. hah.

So that was how i spent my free day! haha. Quite happy that many people actually found my work interesting. Even during the making process i have had people come up to me and "wow. this looks really good! keep it up man!" kinda thing. haha. guess that really kept me going. heh. ALthough the end product was pretty messy cos we didn have alot of time to make sure everything's stuck in a neat manner... But after the presentation and everything was over, there was a HUGE sense of satisfaction in me. haha. I rewarded myself with a nice meal followed by going home. To sleep from 6pm to 9am next morning. hahaha. That felt REALLY good.

So thats it for this. I tink this is one experience i will remember for awhile... heh.

~ Where's Ma Base! ~

arhhhhh. Don't you just hate it when certain elements of a project grp keep delaying the submission of their part of the proj. ESPECIALLY when its the most fundamental part where everything else is gonna be built base on it. ESPECIALLY when that particular element was suppose to finish our independent week a.k.a Free but not too free week and now is already the one day into curriculum proper.

Admittedly nobody gave any reminders or what but do you really get reminders for you to finish work when you eventually work in the corporate world? Guess sometimes when you wanna get things done you just have to do it yourself.

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On another note. "All I Want For Christmas Is You" just popped into my head just now and Im suddenly in a kind of Christmasy mood after i listened to the song from Youtube.

~ YAY ~

Haha. Why am i so happy? hmmm... cos of this!



=D

Just got it with lots of "freebies" at Comex. Its a 450D. And THIS TIME, there wasn anyone standing around me trying to claim ownership to the camera which I just bought. hahaha.


Thinking of extending my warranty by 2 yrs though. hehe.

~ WTF. My printer knows! ~

Haha. Im actually quite shocked. I was printing something out on my printer. Halfway through the 2nd copy it suddenly stopped printing. Its happened before but i didn bother to check why it happes as it usually just continues with the printing after awhile.

This time curiosity got the better of me. So i went to see the printing tab...
"waiting for previous page to dry"

WTF. IT KNOWS!


hahaha. ok erm. On to the other item. Ricky's bday celebration! haha. We went to vivo to eat. Walked around and chose sushi tei.

Was waiting for ros to arrive as she was late. So we ordered some "finger food"




UMAKI! its nice. egg with eel.

Heres a shot of ricky with the food.

When ros arrived we agreed on ordering 2 Sumo Chankos. The very hearty steamboat meal which sumo wrestlers eat to gain bulk. (8 of us)



Here we are cooking the chanko. Wow. I look pretty serious. haha


After dinner we decided to go for some dessert and ended up in Ben&Jerry's.

Guess what we ordered. lol.


VERMONSTER!!! WAHAHA.

Heres another shot of it.


Lol. 20 scoops of ice-cream. HUGE portions of brownies and whatever toppings they could find. Bananas. Whipped cream. I mean it was literally the bucket full. haha. The staff there were as excited about the vermonster as the rest of us. I mean how many times does one get to do a vermonster during one's career at Ben&Jerry's.

So yea. We even had to recount our number of scoops a few times when we were choosing flavours. Waha.

8 heroes ventured into the unknown in search of the fabled Vermonster. It wasn your everyday hunt. This was the hunt for the elusive, mother of all Merlionsters. But our young heroes had no idea what they were getting themselves into...

Then, it appeared. The mythical beast stormed into the clearing. Chilling our heroes down to their very bones with its Vermonian Frost Aura. "Attack!" Our heroes shouted.



With their weapons our heroes worked feverishly trying to dent the tough brownie-topping hide of the Vermonster.

Finally, they managed to pierce through to the flesh. Much Vermonster blood was spilled...


However, the Vermonster was just too huge for our heroes to defeat. In the midst of chaos and despair, a young knight stood up and fought against the odds.



Finally he was able to deal the killing blow...


With a mighty groan, the (knight rushed to the toilet) Vermonster fell, never to rise again. Its carcass was left on the battlefield



And people looted the carcass for whatever usable/rare/unique/elite items they could find.


And they fashioned their loot into more useful objects.


In the end, to commemorate the day, people created a monument out of the vermonster carcass.



And they celebrated!




What a glorious day it was. WAHAHAHA.

The "monument" was actually signed by the 4 girls/lady staff who worked there. We got ricky to ask them to sign. hahaha.

What an action packed adventure eh? Maybe i should consider making movies or writing books. lol.