Had an interesting chat with my counsellor today. He taught me lots of interesting ways to avoid doing work which is not under my job scope. I guess its either I continue to be a good man and help out or just push everything to everyone in charge. Oh well... He also advised me on how to keep myself warm in Korea. How nice of him =) My counsellor rocks man!! I enjoy talking to him because he really makes me think alot and also tries to make me think of solutions for my problems with him prompting here and there! He thinks in depth and provide very good solutions to my problems and I just can't thank him enough! woots!! He says he will continue to guide me till my grandma's first death anniversary. Shall see how things go after that.

Anyway, went to buy my BBQ stuff with ernest and paul just now. My image in public is totally spoilt man. I was talking so loudly and excitingly at the super market and it is really very embarassing come to think of it... wahahahaha... oh well... Its definitely fun. Miss those times where the committee members would go out and shop for stuff together. Hopefully the BBQ this sat would be a successful one! Can't wait man!!!!

Another week has past and I'm one week closer to my Korea trip!!! woohoo!! This week has past extremely fast indeed. My cousins flew off to Austrailia last Friday and they are already back in Singapore now! So fast! Soon it would be my turn.

Anyway, I went to Bugis with my other cousins (fantastic 4 grp) on wednesday to shop for clothes. It was quite a fruitful one because I bought a polo tee and a pair of jeans =). Anyway, we had our lunch at Seould Garden and as usual, our gluttony has gotten the better of us and we stayed at the restaurant for 3 whole hours. Its kind of our personalities and goal in life... "TO CONQUER ALL BUFFETS IN THE WORLD!" (Or in Singapore for that matter...) We were always the last to leave buffets or we will stay at the restaurant till our stomachs scream for help. How interesting!

While we were having lunch there, we met several perculiar bunch of people. The first was a group of tourists came into the restaurant for lunch. They would queue up in extremely straight lines to get their food and drinks (not that it is wrong...) and will push people away (with force) if someone tries to get near the drink counter... -.-" Then, they are very particular in their seating arrangement. 6 people surrounded a table instead of the usual 4 even though there are 2 perfectly empty seats on the table beside them. Hmmmm... oh well...

The next group of people is a bunch of girls from this particular secondary school. I suspect that they are from a choir since they were holding original choir scores! Anyway, these large group of girls would crowd around the ice cream corner, preventing people from getting near it. Its like a human wall I tell you... In the words of sephiroth V1.05/Porcupine fish, "I feel so threatened"... We were just so intimidated. And they were quite inconsiderate too as they did not close the ice cream freezer thingy after they left. Tsk tsk tsk... Want all the ice cream to melt... Drop ice cream all over the place too... Tsk tsk tsk...

Alright, the last group of people is this group of 4 who stayed at Seoul garden for like half an hour only? Its like paying, money to come into the restaurant to have a drink and a bowl of ice cream and that's it. So interesting.

Oh well... I guess I should not complain so much. Why should I even care if they are like that? I can't control them and I have no right to tell them what to do... So yea... Just some interesting things I saw... muahahaha... The power of seating in a restaurant for 3 whole hours!

And since I forgot to change the battery in my digi cam, we manage to take only 1 photo before the thing shuts off. Darn, our cam whoring opportunity was diminished just like that. Anyway. here's the one miserable photo we took...

We were actually practicing how to self-take photos so that we won't have a difficult time in Korea! =)

Went out with the two girls today again to shop shop shop. However, this time, it is more of window shopping than actual shopping because the we have not mend the hole in our pockets created last Saturday. Muahaha... So we are still kinda broke. We had our lunch at Fish & Co today though. Quite a nice place for fish and chips! We had a small talk about the times we had when my grandmother were still around, the stuff we did at my grandmother's place and all. Kinda miss those times. I especially regret not joining my cousins in looking after my grandmother over the weekends at her place. It was really funny listening to the crazy stuff they do when they stayed over at my grandma's place and my grandma's reactions towards the stuff they did. Oh well... I guess we will have keep all these good times and memories in our hearts as we move on with our lives.

Anyway, we went around shopping for shampoo and shower gel to bring overseas since the girls will be leaving this Friday to the land down under. Since we were on a extremely tight budget, we went to carrefour to search for our stuff. Then, we made our way to the Mc Cafe at Marina Square. As we were resting our legs, our dear Lyn was trying to see if the cotton buds were drop out if she overturns the container. And this is what happened...

So malu!!! Luckily we manage to salvage all the cotton buds (all except 1 where the cotton came off the stick =X.. we threw that away) . And its still clean and usable!! Woots! So we made our way to esplanade to get ourselves out of the malu incident.

Along the way, we were possessed by the camwhore spirit. So we begin taking pictures along the walkway to satisfy our need for self-praise.

Then, we went to the Esplanade rooftop to see the river view and stuff. I find that place quite relaxing. The cool breeze caressing your face and the wonderful semi-beautiful river view with the tall buildings as a backdrop. How nice...

Stayed there for quite some time, taking artistic pictures and self-obsessed photos. We tried to practice how we should take photos when the girls go to Aussie while I go to Korea since we promised each other that we will leave a space in the picture so that we can superimpose our faces in. The result...

And yea... many people were looking at us because we were rather crazy when taking those photos... haha... How interesting... Tried squeezing the merlion and crushing the highway too! But we failed... Oh well... Shall try the next time.

On our way back to Marina square, we saw this art exhibit. Its quite interesting as all the animal paintings and figurines have a lion's mane in it. As we walk towards the beginning of the exhibition, we came across this phrase...

Cute right? "A temper of mine kills... Fire hose reel" haha... What an interesting day today... Especially when i didn't receive any calls from office at all!! It's all God's blessing! =)

Alright... Today has been quite an "exciting" day as I am on leave!!! Everything went so well for me man (except for problems at camp).

In the morning, as soon as I stepped on the train platform, my train arrived. And everytime I need to change a train, the train will be right there waiting for me. At ICA building, the moment I stepped in the waiting area, its my turn to change my passport photo. My journey home was so smooth that it only took me 1 and a half hours to get my passport photo changed (travelling time and shopping time at Compass point included). So cool! Then, when I was feeling so troubled over the items which have been made but not ready for collection until someone wants to do something which could cost the company, the company told me that the cards were ready. And when I went down to collect something for diarrheo man, I found the place so quickly that both my mother and I were so amazed since we don't even have an inkling on how to get there. So cool!! Its all God's blessings man! =)

Oh well, my day was kind of flooded with phone calls from camp regarding some things which I shan't say nor complain about (have complained enough already...). All I can say is "GOD WILL PUNISH YOU MAN!" *Tries to regain composure* Ya... So that's that.

I bought Princess Hours DVD yesterday at Compass point (Sharing money with my dear Cousin... hehe) and I've spent my day watching it. You might think that I would have completed 5 episodes of the show by now since I'm on leave but nooooooooo... God so forbid that I only completed watching 2 because I was interrupted by phone calls from camp. So I just forget about it and went digging for old photos of my family. Hehe... and I've realised that my cousins and I were so so so so so so so so so so CUTE when we were young!!! OH MY GOSH!!! Its the cheek pinching kinda feeling lar! Can't stand it man... So here are a few of the photos...

This pic was taken 10 years ago! We look so CUTE!!! (at the same time, geeky with our shorts pulled up so high... wah liew... what were we thinking!) And 10 years later, we will be flying away to some other country together!! So cool!!

This was taken with my brother in bangkok! So cute hor? my brother has long arms... haha...

My brother and I with my mi mi yan... hehehehehe...

Matching shirts!!! I am like part of their family man... woots!

Lastly, a photo of me! When I just moved to where I am living now. 3 years old only!!!

Alright... That's all for now... I'm enjoying all the funny photos I've dug out this afternoon! Will scan more interesting ones into my com!!

Mai dong xi chi dong xi mai dong xi chi dong xi...

Went shopping with my cousins yesterday. Interesting outing it was. I manage to get my very own jacket to keep me warm in Korea!!! The perfect one... woots! So happy!! I've burnt a big hole in my pocket though. Spent about $180 on food and clothes yesterday. Can really feel the hole in my pocket now (more than half my salary[or allowance, so they call it...]) Oh well... need to scrimp and save for the rest of this month now.

Anyway, it was a really embarassing day yesterday. Everywhere my cousins and I went, people will laugh at us (make us look so sua gu... wah liew...) Firstly, we went to Cathay Cineleisure to buy tickets for Material Girls. At the counter, the girl laughed at us for being indecisive on where to sit. Also, we were laughing at her because we didn't know she was actually waiting for us to pay her. (She looks as if she is busy doing something to accept my money ok!) sigh... We went to Cafe Cartel for lunch after the movie. At the restaurant, the waitress was made confused by us because we were standing around our table since the girls can't decide which side to sit on... -.-
After lunch, we went around window shopping/shopping for clothes. Whichever store we entered, the salesperson will march towards us asking us if we need help. Even when we say we don't, they lingered around us (as if we want to steal their stuff... *roll eyes*). But then again, I guess its because we dropped quite a lot of things along the way and my cousin went round trying most of the stuff there. haha... But, why can't we try on the stuff there if we were interested in buying? =p When we went to Imperial Palace (whateva the name is lar...) at Marina Square for dinner, the waiteresses and managers there can't be bothered to serve us (either they were too busy serving the adults standing behind us or ate too much glass as we grew up) and we were really pissed about it. We then went to Secret Recipe for our dessert (cheesecake... yummilicious!). The waiter was trying very hard not to laugh at us because he had to snatch the menu away from my cousin.

So we practically became clowns wherever we went yesterday. How nice... -.- But its really fun and funny lar... Can't stand it.. .woots! we rock! Alright, will be on leave this coming tuesday and wednesday. Will have to go and change my passport photo on tuesday if not I will not be able to go Korea and film my own Korean Drama... (so exciting!!!!)

I've finally attended life activity after so many weeks of marshall duty and what not. My physical fitness has definitely dropped a lot after I've passed IPPT. Bad bad bad... Oh well, shall try to train more whenever possible. My whole body is aching here and there now since I have not been exercising for sooooooo long. Terrible terrible. I'll be doing marshall duty tomorrow again......... Anyway, I've learnt how to play DOTA in camp this week but I am super duper lousy in it (I'm never good at this kind of games you know...). Although I have been playing at home from time to time but yea, I'm still lousy at it. ha! So yea... Shall train whenever possible? =X
I've been in a rather cranky mood since Saturday because I am super duper tired. I don't even know why I am tired.... I've been sleeping (using my precious power of sleeping unknowingly...) everywhere I go. How irritating! And I woke up early today, thinking that there is choir practice at Montfort. But when I reached Montfort, I was told that practice was cancelled. Then I met the teacher in charge on the way to the staff room and to my horror, I found out there will not be practice on any of the days I have taken leave! How am I suppose to help them if they have such a blur president who give me wrong info? The practice schedule is even on the consent form lar! Haiyo... Bad bad bad... Haiz...

The A levels have officially begun and my friends are very nervous about it. Have been helping Chase with his Biology but don't know if he is confident about his Bio paper tomorrow. Sigh... So fast so fast. Its their turn now to sit for the A levels. One year has passed in a blink of an eye. I just can't wait for my turn to ORD. Sometimes it feels as if December 07 will come very soon but then again, it is definitely very very far away. I have not even served 1 year of NS.. boohoohoo... Wonder what will life be like after all my friends ORD-ed. Sigh...

Anyway, my aunts and cousins came over yesterday to view photos of my mother's China trip and my aunt's nepal trip. Both China and Nepal have very very beautiful scenaries!! Got Mountain mountain and lake lake, got waterfall waterfall and cloud cloud... So nice... However, I guess I'm not into those places because all they do is visit places with beautiful scenaries. It can be kinda boring for me. Oh well, can't wait for my Korea trip!! My cousins and I will be filming our own Korean drama and I shall embark on my toilet project! woots~! haha.. It's gonna be fun with my cousins around since we are such cam whores and we always do crazy things when we are together! Futhermore, the 4 of us will be sharing 2 rooms!! So exciting! Can't wait man...

By the way, I've just realised that older people says the funniest things. My mother brought back a siak liu (promegranate in Teochew) from China and we were suppose to eat it yesterday. Suddenly, my mother ask us young ones what is siak liu in English but we don't know. Then, my aunt (who is not very proficient in the English Language) said the following:

"I angry already. I angry already. I angry university. University no teach things one. No say i want say."
Oh my gosh! You should hear how she spoke it man. It was really very funny. Anyway, its like somehow old people expect us to know what every fruit in the world is named. Even my mother expect me to name some weird exotic fruit or plant she brings back just because I study biology. I don't see a link. I only know how to name plant or human parts... Not fruits... Oh well... Because of that uproar about us not knowing the name of the fruit, we went to search (painstakingly, mind you) what the fruit is called. haha... Anyway, its really cute seeing my aunts converse in English. Especially when they struggle to find words to say. Its really very funny, not that I want to be mean or anything but yea! Woots!