'Et in Arcadia ego'

Happy 42nd NDP '07!

2007-08-13T21:06:00.000+08:00

They gave fans with spinning light decked with a national day msg... freakin' cool...

Happy Birthday Singapore... So its says...

What's NDP w/o the National Anthem...

Me in my all red attire and patriotic cap to support the parade.

Wad's that? A spain soccer jersey? :) haha...

Last but not least, the finale of the show...

Crane Flies

2007-01-17T00:18:00.000+08:00

From the insect identifier...

"Congratulations. If your specimen has only one set of wings, then it has to be a Diptera. This order includes the true flies, crane flies, midges, and mosquitoes. These insects have one pair of membranous wings. Their hind wings are modified to form halteres. They have sucking mouthparts, usually forming a proboscis, that are sometimes adapted for piercing. Ouch! "

And of course, these are crane flies... And they have some really weird alias names as well. Beat these!

"daddy longlegs, mosquito hawks, mosquito eaters (or skeeter eaters), gallinippers, and jimmy spinners!"

From the names, you can tell they have really long slender legs!

Pictures courtesy of dom since i didn't take these... Super Clear Pics! Kudos!

And well now you know... you can call them daddy longlegs! and they are also called jenny longlegs in Scotland!

Day 3 & 4 of KL Trip...

2007-01-11T00:19:00.000+08:00

We visited the school of HARD KNOCKS at the royal selangor... basically a pewter factory... and after returning to singapore i realised that there's plenty of their stores here as well...

We paid about S$22 for a short session of their pewter craft hands-on there where we were clothed in a school of HARD KNOCKS apron and armed with a mallet, as well as other tools.

Not knocking my fingers in the pic but on a flat pewter sheet that gradually took the shape of the hollow as you knock into it. HARD labour really!

And after a job well done, you get THIS! and with my mis-aligned and jumpy initials imprinted on... And placed in a store to sell for RM4455 thereafter. AMazing isn't it? ...

...and it also happened to be the price tag which the LOTR chess set is retailing at! Freak that's EX!

So after having our S$22 conned for a useless piece of pewter bowl we went to have a picture at the biggest BEER MUG made in PEWTER (recorded by Guinness). Hur.

There were many museums we went to. But this one on the islamic stuffs, some of us didn't and we loitered outside in their souvenir shop and the areas around it.

The beforemath of being CAUGHT...!

The climbing and scaling of the heights of the non-working fountain in the middle of the complex...

When i climbed all the way to the top and stood up, a security guard at the third level saw us! Oh DAMN!!

So i quickly scrambled down and posed for a picture with Luke...

Got reprimanded in malay which only yeevon could understand, and so we ended up playing spastic games at the benches there before it rained and had to scramble to shelter...

MEMORABLE! LOL!

Following on we had a visit to an architect's personal working studio/home where much of his house is designed by himself... Pretty impressive esp considering how much time he obviously needed to spend on them... and how he basks in a personal self satisfaction and aura of self-glorification...

Perhaps his house is most unique from the very start... in welcoming visitors such as us or his clients through a black cage which he could easily direct them up to... walking up steps of concrete that seemingly float but are firmly secured by thick iron into the brick wall... up the cage which acted as support when opened and security to outsiders when closed which were absolutely practical purposes.

After a long but insightful talk by him, he brought us to another of his friend's place...

Another surprise entrance for us. This time the front of the house is presented as shown in the pics below...

They had this shelter of plants with incredibly long roots for the car which provided a good shade and at the same time facilitated privacy within by obscuring outsider's view into the house.

The house contained many exhibits and we spent quite awhile there taking pictures. The owner was away though.

A sculpture of complexity and detail, placed behind a scissors of commodity and simpleness. Deliberate?

A nice chain of insects that formed behind the table. Very nice...

The male's toilet... as depicted by a graffiti on the doors... The guy's shitting obviously...

And inside the toilet was a mirror facing the toilet and a portrait the person doing his business is forced to scrutinise daily. Freaky!

The following is quite unique i feel, where the pool by the entrance depicts 2 completely opposite sides. So while sitting on a physically heavy and solid looking chair he would be looking at one completely made out of wire and with a leaves-filled wired backrest.

We left for more museums /exhibits...

Here's one with a twist... and inspired none other than by Oliver Twist. =)

Pretty cool graphic shoes...

...or an entire roll of toilet paper typewritten with a whole poem.

And i wonder how they made this. It's movable some more! Incredibly detailed!

And finally... some last miscellaneous photos...

Another one at Putrajaya...

and Cockroach attack no. 3!!

All in all, a memorable trip that happened to be financed totally by the department... so it doesn't get better than that...

Day 2 of KL... Putra & Cyber Jayas...

2007-01-09T02:03:00.000+08:00

Day 2 and after a night's stay, we finally left Malacca for KL... We headed straight to Putra Jaya and Cyber Jaya for our first stops...

Maybe just a short intro...

Putrajaya, well, is something like a showcase city but acts as a federal administrative capital for malaysia. It's more beautiful than most of sg is as u can see in the pictures. But it is probably at the cost of some very extravagant expenditure and not forgetting everywhere else is a backdrop of a poorer malaysia.

Well, next to Putrajaya is Cyberjaya. And it is something like a Silicon Valley of Malaysia according to the tour guide. Its main aim is to attract all the high tech companies, but other than that everyone else aka the residents number only as much as 10,000!

Along the way there were tons of sculptural street lights everywhere and they looked really nice and so i snapped them all while on the bus...

Some nice architecture also and here we have the imposing looking Ministry of Finance building in full glory.

Guess what this is? =)

It's a cute little god'damn dustbin for heaven's sake!! So pretty. I loved them.
And there were thinner ones lined up like the dustbins all along the road as well. At first glance i thought what-the-heck for so MANY dustbins!!!! But it turns out the rest weren't.. so oh well. HUr. Blur me.

Walking around taking pictures could never be as DANGEROUS@!
cos the above you see is a HIGHWAY!!!! which merges with everything else around. SO MUCH that i really wonder if there's any fatal accidents around this region man... So a car zooming past halfway whl taking a rubbish bin and dying ain't not worth it at all. And it doesnt help that there isnt much traffic and you get fooled even more...

Next we have the gorgeous wavy shelters that really goes well with all the man made beauty all around. Makes one cool and happy at the same time. Not too bad...

The flowers here are so colourful and nice... Helps when the sky is so blue and nice too on the day as well. Makes for really good photos... PiCTURE PerFECT!

The Seri Wawasan Bridge(hope i got the name correct) is by some quite well known architect if im not wrong, not too sure though. I love bridges; they are always of amazing architecture and built to such perfection.

Couldn't have turned out any nicer than i had hoped. The sky's so beautiful!! And especially in the hands of a good photographer... *cough* ... none other than me... *cough*

They weren't posing by the way... it's a snapshot!!

Forgot what this is already... But all i rem is that the strucure is made entirely out of metal and it looked incredible again... especially from a closeup...

The most beautiful mosque in malaysia i feel.... the Putra mosque... And it's just next to the sea... Breathtaking view while worshipping! How thoughtful...

Some more group photos... Before we depart this lovely place...

After we went to some mosque which i forgot the name... The tour guide had a big argue here with the ppl there... So we slacked outside for quite a while.

Took some pictures of the mosque while we weren't allowed to enter... i liked this picture cos of how it showed the reflection of the nice geometric patterns in the water.

Indecency meant anything from excessive exposure like wearing short skirts and pants below knee caps... so they gave out robes for those wanting to enter... And so, a grp of BLUE riding hoods....

And its end of Day 2 after a freaking long traffic jam...

KL/Malacca Trip Day 1...

2007-01-08T12:32:00.000+08:00

Day 1: Malacca

First stop was at Mini Malaysia where we spotted a freak chair ala the 'Casino Royale' torture... Ouch! Not forgetting to stop by for some cheap but abit tasteless chendol at $0.50...

Wacko faces were common along the streets...

Cockroach attack 1 at Malaysia.. truly Asia!!!

lah lah lah!

A freaking tasty roadside POPIAH store by the ah pek who doesn't speak much... but we figured his secret recipe lies in his brownish-yellow crude nails and other unsightly handling...

Cockroach attack 2: Creeping up my mango ice blended!

New Blog Template!

2007-01-04T13:02:00.000+08:00

New year means everything's starting afresh. You eat fresh fruits, wear new clothes, set new goals, begin a new sem of sch life etc... So an old blog's getting a makeover as well. Pretty deviantart IMO so i'm cool for all that... Just one prob actually... I couldn't think of wad to put at the bottom of the page yet... Any ideas ppl? Thx in advance! =)

Oh yea gotton a new tagboard as well since the old's one already defunct and dead. The new one's over at under the PULL menu now... so check it out and post there.

Reflections...

2007-01-04T02:17:00.000+08:00

Reflections for the past year. I do that often. In fact everyday. Once every hour or more. For vanity that is... Hair's getting long and i can't stand it... so i should SIT at a salon for a cut soon. LAZY really. And that's also the case for blogs. Too troublesome to lift a finger, to move the mouse. Too slow to load anyway. And it's still is as well after the quake... Grrr.... My southpark's still loading in the BG... Taking ages. My hair's still wet as well... So i can't sleep... Sleep is good! Very good in fact, just that i dun sleep all that much actually. Except on rides and journeys... and the sort... So i get my daily dose of black rings... and so am just waiting for fashion to hit high on goth fashion so that i can save some on make up costs and scrimp my cash. Cash's low nowadays. So prob i got better luck now then ever for scholarships to apply soon for SEP which is good anyway. 'Cept that it wouldn't matter cos that's not family income. Family's got a new member over the past year... NOT a baby... but a bro-in-law... But if u consider the saying that you lose a daughter in marriage. Then i've got one less sister? So that makes a negative. So i'm confused.

Hahah... Too much spam there? Well, it's cumulative crap over the past months, whadd'ya expect? SPAM's a meat btw as i've learn in computing module last sem... So im applying wad i've learnt. Computing's a good module to take really. So take it if u can unless u dun like mcq exams (i doubt so!) or are really clueless to com stuffs.... Results are not bad last sem. CAP improved a bit, hopefully will continue to do so.

New year resolutions. Lots of people set them. Prob 'cept me. Laziness mebbe. Or maybe just letting fate take its course. But it's good to have one. Or many. Cos goals make u happy. Make a soccer coach/player/fans happy too... So aim for it if you have one. Dun follow in my footsteps. Not that i'm not good as an example. But i'd rather be original. Be myself, so dun follow me. I have lots of them, original stuffs. But i have lots which aren't as well. Esp my ps2 stuffs... Strikes on my conscience sometimes.

There's been present exchanges, money exchange, defective exchange and now... Student exchange. Quite a troublesome thing actually. Who's going where? Who's to decide who go where? In the end it's all a mess...

Some choices to choose from.... But everyone's scared of EVA so holland's not so hot. Well there's other places also... Switz for artsy-fartsy... Korea's for bombs... and Germany's for Nazis... And China's for... erm maybe daryll =)... and norway's for no one (LOL that's a surprise)! Columbia's for CARLOS and COFFEE and ECO but we dun get the choice here as well...

So Italy and Sweden became both pretty hot as a result... Actually they're cold at 0 degrees ard there but they're popular la... So what's the school gotta do to discourage ppl from going abroad aka PAP and stay in our beautiful industrious SDE estate? Here's a list...

1) Need to apply
2) choose schs from one long list and rank 5 of them
3) need to fill in one LONG form
4) need to get referral letter(not 1 but 2!)
5) need to plan study plans at the unis(again not 1 but 3!!!)
6) apply visas
7) settle accommodation
8) learn languages
9) get winter wear
10) not forgetting scholarships...
11) and travel tickets there...
12) and holidays whl you're there...
13) the travel back...
14) the submission of results to dept
15) the post-sep review...
16) did i forget anything? or maybe i shd go thru the list again?

>back to step 1)...

17) and repeat again...

So wonder if it's worth it whl you still haven't apply. Lol. But i'm sure it is... So just endure the above steps ya =)

Sch's opening soon... Not that i can't wait for it... This hol's been the worse i dun wan sch to reopen though. Lol. Probably it's cos of having done nothing much at all... 'Cept the fact that i watched countless movies like...

1) Night at the Museum
2) Death Note 2
3) Eragon
4) The Covenant
5) Casino Royale
6) Happy Feet
7) ... more probably but memory's failing me...

and plenty of dvds... and anime... and lotsa games as well for a very long time since the last time i touched... KL trip which i'll upload photos of next time b4 sch reopens, one big wide Disney jigsaw which i had since JC, one gundam, and more....

Site's dead? Nah. Just lazy. Time's a precious thing. Could do lots more with less sleep but then the dark rings come again. It's a vicious cycle. Counting down... 4 days of freedom...

I want to play!

2006-10-29T08:52:00.000+08:00

Final Fantasy XII

What a nice game!~ But NO time to play... And it's been damn long since i last touched my PS2 as well. Sigh.

And at long last i removed the irritating tagboard that's been popping up on quite a few blogs powered by Tagboard, and on mine too! Grrr... time for a new tagboard! and a new blogskin! and more time for blog! and play! and relax!

Haha... maybe after submission =)

Ka-Ching $$!

2006-10-01T21:04:00.000+08:00

Went out early morning to sim lim cos Fuwell had a new shop opening promotion. X800GT at $99!!! =) And i bought quite alot of stuff back for my new com today... Plus ordered a casing plus artic cooler as well. Total damage for today comes up to $1302!

The items...

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 $315
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 $250
Kingston PC 5300 DDR2-667 CL5 1GB $189
Seagate 320GB 16MB $165
PowerColor X800GT 256M DDR3 $99
HEC Ace Power 480W $100
Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro $56
Lian Li PC-A07 Mid Tower Aluminum Casing $128

Total $1302

Lugging them back home. Ouch!

Turning 22~

2006-09-28T05:46:00.000+08:00

HOls so short you dunno why its over already. And i'm now officially a big fat 22 years old... Thanks everyone for all the well wishes and presents and all... Also had a joint celebration with daryll and gang on the 26th at a turkish rest over at arab street... Here's a quick blog for the dinner...

The birthday gang~ tiff, daryll and me...

The girls... and...

The guys...

1, 2, 3, 4 and 5...

the table we occupied...

Caught while snapping allan

me and jane~

Smile...

A group pic...

The older the wiser they say...

The Finished Product...

2006-09-18T20:44:00.000+08:00

Just had crit session today for our major project this sem! Its for a heritage lamp using leds. Crit was pretty okay for most i guess and quite a good showcase i think. And LEDs are damn blooodddyy expensive!!! Some even go over 200 plus bucks just on LEDs alone.

And for mine, i explored on the origami heritage for application in lighting.... Some pics to savour. Its a painstaking folding process... =)

The finished lamp in its full glory.. lighted with LEDs... Pretty nice i think.

Hmm, i didnt really like how the bottom of the lamp turned out in the end... or in the case when its hanging as a pendant lamp, the top side... Kinda like a top eh.

The bottom view or when looking up at the lamp...

The cross- section of it...

Looks kinda like a flower in this pic... Soft and fluffy...

The inner photo of the lamp... I think it looks as nice inside as well...

A look at how many of those i folded... before i fix them up...

Joining the individual sections... I had a extremely headache with joining the different sections that were originally supposed to be made using opnly a piece of paper, which would solve all these headache.

4 Days and 4 Nights...

Sleep is precious they say...

An alternative variation that can be made as well... Just a different orientation of the folded sections.

I had backache while working with these... Seriously lots of work.

Looks nice as an architecture of some sort or a sculpture too...

Looking back at the heritage lamp, i think its quite amazing how everything is done in almost 4 days, not counting some less useful stuffs like researching, drawings etc that we are rqd to show almost every week... From purchasing of materials to planning to construction to panels... =)

And if there's anything that shows during this project, it's that i have lots of patience and determination man. And i always pick the harder route i guess. Haha.

Lotsa WORK!

2006-09-16T20:42:00.000+08:00

Working myself out seriously doing the heritage lamp. And i've got back ache now cos of super tedious drawing the crease patterns, scoring them, and of cos folding them. It better turn out good otherwise i'll be cursing myself. Haha... Time's ticking away to submission and i still got lots more to go... How to finish man. Sigh.

666

2006-09-10T15:34:00.000+08:00

Happened to logon and find that i have a devilish "666" viewerships so far. =)

Anyway, life's been busy and design/studio/projects are really sucking all my life out. Much more than 1st year. Sigh. So all my free time is spent with heritage lamps, sketching redundant cubes and bottles and such, pulling tendrils and analysing them (wth...), stuying coke cans etc. Life is certainly so interesting' nowadays!

Sometimes i wished i had better time management or even better more time... Esp since the deadline for our heritage lamp is looming so close i can smell it. Its on 18 Sep! Yet there are so many stuffs to tackle at the same time also.

Furthermore, bono has a fascination with BIG lamps! Its damn funny how he asks us how big our lamp is going to be when he saw our concept presentations. Cos he keeps asking and asking. LMAO. And it's becoming a common joke in the class. Ha.

But at least crit sessions are more helpful than last year's with some very sharp comments esp by christiane. Quite impressed seriously.

Ok back to more work...

Birthdays...

2006-08-30T01:53:00.000+08:00

Daryll complained about me not updating... Tommy too...

A late entry again... But on monday we went out to celebrate luke's birthday and partially for stef's as well...

But not everyone is happy as you can see... Some were sulking...

But no one was more grumpy or sulking more than mr. birthday boy himself... throughout the whole day! Lol.

El Patio... Wad a nice name...

Not the name of this cat...

...who popped by beside me while we were eating! And i suspect he's there doing some business of his own! OMG!

But the name of the Mexican rest at holland V...
We had free flow of soft drinks and water and nachos with salsa!! All complimentary... Haha.

Introducing our new and old id mates... on the left we have hafi who have left for ntu for greener pastures and on the right we have joanne from poly joining us for studio! But regardless of new or old, we id love u all... Oh and not forgeting mr. destructive wilson...

What a reunion... We had the longest table as you can see... 10 tables in a row!

We have mr. hot with his red aura over here... Phew... Scorching hot...

And here's me with the birthday boy... who's more sulky than anyone today... and sth i overheard which tells the whole story...

"I've to ask everyone out for my birthday and get ppl to buy a cake for me and there's no present for ME.... Am i such a BAD classmate?!!?@#"

"Next time mun yin, daryll or wan xuan all won't get any presents ALSO!"

Oooo... fierce. Impatient boy isn't it. =)

Tsk. What's the 3 Js doing, jane and jiahui and joanne doing here? So secretive...

Tada... A birthday card... Complimentary on the El Patio as well... Lol.

This card got character (pun intended)... Nice card right? Kope one for myself too...

Tiff's here too! After some thai-ing at school... Lighting the candles with wilson here...

We went to redraw money (excuse la) 2 times for the birthday cake... Once at 8 to recce and finally finally at 830 to get the cake... AND we were joking that luke will kill us more if he knew that crystal jade got d/c for cakes at 830pm and after... and we went to get it then... hahaa... =)

Smiling not so happily... Forced smile isn't it? =)

After tahan- ing whole day by not giving him his present... Surprise surprise!

A wallet from braun buffel i bought the day earlier...

So luke has to eat his words... And he became damn happy afterwards...

Luke and the soon to be birthday girl...

Everyone wants to snatch some limelight...

Steph became high after eating the tiramisu cake... Typical steph that we are damn familiar with already... Lol.

A celebration wouldn't be complete without a mass photo... There...

And here's scary michael jackon posing with daryll with the receipts!

To all ID2s, Jack Shen will be sending u all a mass email for exhortion...

And a summary msg from jackson to all ID2s.. O $$ P $$!!

Otherwise i'll be bankrupt soon from all the past bdday gifts and cakes that i've been paying and from the matriculation packages for the ID1s where there's some complication cos we had to go for lesson and art friend was collectin money and issuing matric packs whl we're away... some w/o signing and others did... and thus resulting in me sustaining some loss and i still dunno wheres the missing money!!

So here's Luke finally with his present at the end of the day.

A victory sign courtesy of jane. Mission complet-o !

A Worker Ant's Life!!!

2006-08-29T23:37:00.000+08:00

Been too long since i updated. Hahaha... But i did a compilation so far on upcoming deadlines...

OMGWTF!

Concept Sketch Folio Ex 3 (4 Sep)
Tendrils Analysis (5 Sep)
Handphone Design (5 Sep)
Rendering (5 Sep)
Heritage Lamp CG (7 Sep)
Concept Sketch Folio Ex 4 (11 Sep)
Eco Consumerism & Mkt (12 Sep)
Metals Project 1 (13 Sep)
Heritage Lamp Final Presentation (18 Sep)
Tendrils Final Presentation (19 Sep)
Website Project (?)
Flip! Competition

Flickering Thoughts...

2006-08-16T02:01:00.000+08:00

Eye's been constantly flickering tonight. And i wonder why...

Drawing perfect straight lines free hand using a pen is hard! Hmm. Guess i need more practice as well... It's retribution from all the laughing at all the archi friends last year i guess. Now's our turn... Staying back for CAID lesson late at night ard 9+ pm which turned out to be sketching lessons for the first few lessons... And there's more perspective drawings for bono. Hmmm... And i'm stuck thinking wad to do for lamps. Oh well.

Had more lects this 2 days... Where we learnt "biomimicry" in eco-design. And after the lect, everybody understood how "bio makes mi cry!". OK that was lame. But we couldn't help but crack the joke after the lesson...

Today's was worse... Had intro to computing which was basically a total bore... And the new lecturer looked geeky! Haha.. what to expect from a computing mod anyway? A beautiful lady lect that talks computing? =)

Next up we had our dose of more story telling aka case study from kouo for our metals module... As if kingfisher wasn't bad enough in sem1 we had to endure more! Esp this time it got to do with a heart valve design in 1987... when i was only 3! Eh wad's the link?? LOL! and we spent the whole lesson almost 2 hrs listening to that...

Oh and yesterday, after about close to 2 weeks, i finally got my hands on the invisible shield delivered all the way from US yesterday... All for the brand new ipod i got back from apple service centre... It was a long and tortuorous wait... esp since i resisted to using it before i apply a screen protector on it...

And i found out that it's made from a film originally created by the military to protect the leading edges of helicopter blades from wear and tear while traveling hundreds of miles per hour! Like WOW!

What's included... and after applying...

Slightly bubbly here... But think it'll go away...

And it's damn amazing how tough it is! I've linked a video for those whose interested to see below... And crazy as it is i actually TRIED it... Using a real KEY to try to scratch it... And verdict is it's Damn DURABLE!! Haha!

Allendale/Conroe soon?

2006-08-16T01:43:00.000+08:00

My FREAAKKINNGG COM is having PMS and refuses to boot up the whole day!!!! And it irritates the hell out of me!

Bad CAPACITORS i think! BYE BYE SLiX?

So did some research for AMD and INTEL DUO CORE and in the end think i might end up with a new com with these specs below... But i'm still weighing the pros and cons still...

MONEY vs NEW COM! Delicate issue dun't u think?

HMMM...... I can't decide!

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 & Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 - $575
Kingston ValueRam PC2-5300 DDR2-667 2GB (2X1GB) - $266
Hitachi T7K250 SATAII 250GB 8MB 7200RPM - $128
Cooler Master Centurion 5 or 534 Casing with Side Window Panel - $95
Antec Smartpower 2 450W - $95
Benq DW1670 16x DVD+-RW (DL/RAM) - $66
Xpertvision 7600GT - $250

TOTAL : $1475!! =) Not bad i think...

School Starts Again...

2006-08-16T01:03:00.000+08:00

1st day of school started with studio at 2pm... And i was late for class again. Haha... Think not much changed after the break huh.. haha same as old days in year 1... =)

Design module is now spread out on 2 days.. monday and thursday. And according to bono, we were supposed to have 3 tutors just that one is still deer hunting somewhere and the other i cant rem really haha... Can tell i haven't been listening much? So we are practically left with him. LOL. We're gonna have 3-4 projects this sem... Haven't read the briefs yet but guess i'll do so later.... 1st is to draw some 'concept sketch folios'... erm okay pretty boring stuffs... 2nd is designing and make a heritage lamp that usees led. Much better. Ha. And 3rd is designing eyewear! OOOooo.... hhaha much more interesting although i dun wear glasses la!! And last but not least 4th is basically compiling a portfolio.

Rest of lesson i rem is bono's 3 little pigs story which turned out to be how there used to be 3 pigs that lived across his farms and how they've been the little evil ones by eating little birds and affecting the fauna as well as ecology of the area. So his attempts to rid of them include the WHOLE process of how he got a rifle with telescopic sight with aids from his friend and tried hunting the 3 pigs, where he go thump thump in the heart, and thus shoot and miss whenever they played catching with the old ma. So in the end he failed to kill any. Except that all of that is narrated in an extremely animated and humorous way... And across a span of maybe 15 mins? =) Haha wad a way to spend class time huh?

But on one hand it's cool to have a lecturer/tutor like bono telling jokes and keeping everyone happy in class but i thought i really could do with more teaching instead of telling old grandfather stories like those. I end up knowing more bout his farms and toilets and table and pigs and wad have u.... Seriously they're like stuck in my head! Gosh!

Came back home and spent the rest of the day packing stuff into my new cupboard that came in the morning. (now u noe why i'm late... hah) All the way till 12 plus am... Well i think that took damn long! All of meticulously sorting and planning and arranging! I'm too neat sometimes its scary... Hah.

There... the final result... And why it took so looonngg!! Nice? Haha.

Took DAMN long!

SDE Rag... Rehash of Last Year?

2006-08-12T23:14:00.000+08:00

Today's finally Rag Day...

Ended up i didn't help out with rag though initially i thought i will probably pop by the last week to do so. My conscience's abit acting on me esp since zaha freshies are such regulars for the float. Attendance's pretty impressive i think. Haha.

Woke up abit late today but still made my way down to school to catch some of the performances...

It's quite amazing really cos SDE's float was like super uncomplete the few days before only. And like all assignments and deadlines, it turned out pretty fine in the end i guess. Too well trained? =)

Hahah... Not too sure... But i think the float got the chancellor shield for best float right? Is it?? Hmm... (i left before the results in case u were wondering...) Haha so i'm not sure.

Some qualms about SDE's float/dance though... Hah! I still think it's all too similar to last year's!

Similarities!! :
1) The whole theme of it!
2) Costumes... changed colours?
3) Float... Basically did the same float again 'cept the zaha tree! =)
4) Stilt Walkers!

Dun believe? Check it out below... I'm not telling which are from this year's... =)

Shiny Roots!

Zaha tree in full bloom!

Last year's? Or this year's?

SDE's take on Kylie Minogue's "Spinning Around" Ooo.. I'm dizzy!

Erm. No one told u i'm inside okay? =0

They popped confetti!!

To their credit, it's a sequel for last year success float/theme so it's unavoidable it's similar to last year's...

Anyway KR's presentation was like super impressive... I think the rest would agree too... They got a freaking time travel train float which looks damn real!!!

Highly movable float... Checked.
Smoke effects... Checked.
Costumes full of character... Checked.
Large spanner/hammer/screwdriver... Checked.
And last but not least.... Bring it On cheerleading moves and throws!!... Checked.

And so they swept quite alot of prizes...

Sigh... Ended up no fireworks in the end.
Shucks i missed it again.

Do-It-Yourself

2006-08-10T23:57:00.000+08:00

Woke up freaking early today to travel to the far east... all the way to expo... which is just 1 stop away from changi! And almost half the class was there cos homefix is interested in getting us to help them design their new range of products for their new store... for pdts of various storage solutions for the home, like in the kitchen, bathroom, home office, bedroom etc... And well since its a new store of course got new concept... Top secret? Tsk.

Think it might turn out to be interestin' after all... Ha. =) But that means more work! SHITZZ! and there's the FLIP! competition as well... $%!@##!

And so... 4 days prior to the new term... It almost felt like sch started already with so many ppl present!

After home fixing, was back in SCHOOL to help sanny clear up his stuffs, 'chop table', bid for module, view ENDLESS pics of union camp war games pics and finally to meet the ID freshies to collate orders for their matric pack after their incredibly draggy introductory talk by the tutors!!! 1st day only and its such a long talk... LOL! and behold... they have 4 tutors for studio this year! (we had 3 last year... and it was too much to handle)

So after wondering which nudist beach christian went to to get tanned, and discovering why bono had longer locks, and finally the identity of mysterious santana maria maria, i'm all geared up for the new sem... =)

Fun Fact of the day: Turns out that the National Day that we celebrate without fail every year on 9th August coincides with National Underwear Day in the states!!! Holy!! And so they sing aloud... one people, one nation, one underwear!!

In Honour of a Great Friend...

2006-08-07T23:48:00.000+08:00

Life's fragile isn't it?

You never know what to expect and how things can suddenly happen to one...

For i'm devastated to have received news for a 2nd time in 2 months that another friend has departed... Sigh... It's so sudden and unexpected. And i totally feel bewildered at the thought that someone who's of the same age can suddenly disappear from our midst like this.

I'm speechless and loss for words really.

I sincerely offer my greatest of condolences to both of them and their family.

And to everybody else... Please drive with caution...

Life's precious.

Sunflowers are so Lovely~

2006-08-05T22:19:00.000+08:00

Some flowers to brighten up your day...

Where is the moment we needed the most
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
They tell me your blue skies fade to grey
They tell me your passion's gone away

Let the rain come down and wash away your tears.
Let the light fill your soul and drown your fears.
And let time be the catalyst that cures all wounds.

Smile ~

Hard Candy

2006-08-05T03:50:00.000+08:00

One word. Disturbing.

Went to source out more stuff for matric pack for ID today.

After which is cine to watch "Hard Candy"! Acted by Patrick Wilson and Allen Page, the plot is about how a mature 14-year old girl meets a 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.

Its a M18 psychological thriller and it's rated that for a reason. It's disturbing shit!!! Particularly a certain scene in the film that gotta do with genitals. *Oh my!!* How come they deal with such stuff??? WTF! Hmmm... And while there's no visual gory, to hear how a 14 year old teenage girl speak and act as such is certainly very frightening!! *Shivers*

Oh!! And did i mention that the whole movie is played out by 5 cast!!! And Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson are practically the 2 who had dialogues in the film. LOL! And the bullk of the movie is spent talking!! Amazing acting and pacing in the movie!!!

Popped by art friend and got a new A4 sketch pad today for the coming sem... And when i got home... Did a rough sketch in about 15 mins... Cool anime btw. A must watch!!

I can't draw for nuts... Serious...

2006-08-05T01:58:00.000+08:00

i LOVE computing?

2006-08-02T01:39:00.000+08:00

GEK1511 - Introduction to Computing

... taking as GEM next sem? hmmm....

i LOVE red??

2006-08-02T01:28:00.000+08:00

Another splurging of money... An expensive indulgence... A show of ostentation...

-$143.10! kaching! #!$$@#$$

i LOVE fireworks!

2006-08-02T00:48:00.000+08:00

It's a FIREWORKS AUGUST!

Singapore Fireworks Festival 2006 at Marina Bay
Date/Day	Time	Team
5 August 2006	2100 hours	Team Italy
8 August 2006	2100 hours	Team Singapore
11 August 2006	2100 hours	Team New Caledonia
12 August 2006	2100 hours	Team France
*Popular viewing areas include the Padang, Esplanade Park, Marina Promenade, Marina Centre, Marina South and Kallang Basin

So anyone wants to go? 12th is booked so far with zaha... So that's left with 3 more days... =)

i LOVE mahjong!

2006-08-02T00:40:00.000+08:00

Had mahjong on sat... And here's how it turned out in the end...

the scoreboard:

ching... 0
hui ying... 410
hong guan... 430

guess wad's mine??? =)

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haha just add up everything lor... LOL!!!

me (& emily)... -840!!

emily came late... but my "军司" couldn't help turn the tide... from -200+ to -840!!

the theory of my lost? my seat? no... according to them i was wearing RED, so i'm like 财神爷 or santa claus! So of cos lose la... haiyoh'

Wahhhaa!!! Pathetic isn't it? i know... but i'm a beginner... haha! so next time i'll thrash them... =)

But i think the scores isn't really wad it seems though... COS there's quite a handful of games i nearly won! And 1 with 5 台s... NEARLY!

Anyway i've been wanting to pick up mahjong... So i'm quite glad i 偷师 from emily during the short session of mahjong... thanks ar.. and now... i'm looking forward to more practice in future! haha!

Anyway quote of that day was...

"The philosopy of one century is the common sense of the next."

Got it from a fortune cookie at ching's house... eh like WTH!? Makes no sense doesn't it?

Review: a~dream~player

2006-07-31T01:50:00.000+08:00

This baby's been ard for a year now... A rare limited edition portable media player in the whole world... I've been wanting to take pics of it ever since but it dragged till now...

A new gadget emerges~?

the packaging... nifty isn't it...

the unsightly process of unwrapping...

Ta da! Its finally out of its womb!!

A hands-on experience... Hold Button. Direction and Control Buttons.

Widescreen, Speakers, and a Jog Dial. And wow it GLOWS!!

Bottom: USB, DC Jack, Earphones.

Ain't much bigger than a nano?

Side by side. Back on back.

10,000 songs. 15,000 photos. 100 hrs of video. =)

Well... that's the end of it. If u still didn't noe by now... Its a Year 1 sem 1 project i did for a Portable Media Player (in short PMC)...

Alot of hard work whl doing this project since its one of the more interesting projects for sem 1. Lots of laser engraving and cutting, lots of sanding, lots of spraying, lots of drilling, lots of buffing and polishing, and even more trial-n-error. And in summary, lots of work.

In the end, think i'm pretty satisfied at how it turned out in the end...

Reflections...

2006-07-30T01:24:00.000+08:00

Working's finally over! since friday! And i'm free again... how i cherish this freedom! free from the confines of a 9-6 job, waking punctually everyday at 730am, reporting to work by 9, lunch at 1230, and finally leaving on the DOT at 6!!

And its basically that for 5 days... How sian!

The redeeming value though is there's nice ppl ard who made the difference. Same goes for everything that ppl do i guess. Its the company that matters, not the stuff that u actually do. Cos when there's ppl u're comfortable with and enjoy being with, all chores will become a breeze.

Ching asked lately too... 'How come it feels like we 4 have known for a very long time though we were almost total strangers the week b4'...

'Strangers?' Nah. They're just friends whom i've yet to meet b4...

In fact, sometimes i wonder... What is it that makes ppl 'click' and thus form these special cliques, that makes us want to hang out and spend precious time together.

Similarly... Special ppl they are... ter, nick, mei, dee, lena, dor... Everybody's from all walks of lives yet we spend so much time together that it makes me think back on how we actually met and started to speak to each other in the first place. It isn't possible - cos of studies, overseas, gfs, special circumstances etc - to hang out like we did anymore... Whenever we meet again though it feels warm again.

Well for luke, daryll, mun, yv, same as well i guess. Or perhaps u need to have some special characteristic/ability like being able to draw super super well that i'm still damn jealous of, or gifted enough to make kitsch door knobs with tendrils.. erm n which looks like certain part of the body, or having to jump for the fire extinguisher button beside the lift and yet not reaching it, or just being oh.. so...BUSYYY 4eva instead of doing sch work.....!

Oh and back to work... One thing that's been bothering me whl working are my EYES! Worked 'till my vision BBLLLUURRR!! Oh gawd... if there's anything i treasure most, it's my eyes/eyesight! Fortunately!! Today's been much much better already. So thank god.

Frankly speaking, i hate fixed routines such as these... What's with the mundanes of everyday lives that those who adhere strictly to i give my total respect!!!

Hmmm... Many ppl have been asking me since yr 1 the reason behind choosing ID. Well... cos i love designer pdts... and in ID at least, every single assignment you get, its basically a new thing. So at least for working, it's a whole new ball altogether. Besides it helps when you see other ppl wearing/using/enjoying the products u design. Its satisfying! Imagine you can walk up to them and say 'Those... that u are using now... are designed by me...' =) Cool huh.

YET! 1 of the things that bother me is the prospect of designing as a career in SG. Or how grads like us get LOW pay compared to those with degree in business or others, despite the fact that we use up much more creative juices and brain cells than them!! How unfair!!!

Its 2 more weeks to school... Time passes fast doesnt it?

Anyway... I got 4 core mods next sem...

ID2103... Design Studio! ... It's a freaking 2 DAYS per week!
ID2122... Eco-Design... Erm who's carlos montana!
ID2111... Com-Aided Design...
ID2321... Design for Production - Metal.. Yay... SLEEP! hah...

All ID modules! which means i'm gonna be stuck in studio the whole time dang it...

... and TUES timetable is a killer... take a look and i think u'll agree...

1-3pm: eco-design lect...
3-5pm: eco-design tut...
6-8pm: CAD lect...
8-10pm: CAD tut...

All the way from 1-10pm!!!! that's really freaakkkinggg late!!

and the gems that i looked... they dun really appeal to me... anyone got any suggestions? mmm...

Pictures Galore...

2006-07-26T01:10:00.000+08:00

The pics for yest's dinner...

The girls...

Food's bad... Can tell?

Mugging the menu...

Psss... this the waitress who served the birthday cake in the plastic bag for us...

She didn't do much... So...

Not wad it seems... She's not the bday girl...

So... Ching had to stand in and do the serving...

Last take b4 dinner commences...

After dinner...

Fun at esplanade!

Not cos of Caberet...

But...

Who says big kids cant play with bubbles? Esp BIG bubbles!

Trick 1: Making bubbles appear from ur hand.

More tricks...

I guess i didn't play much... And i realised i'm the 2nd oldest in Zaha during dinner! This is so weird. I'm like always among the youngest ard in the past... Not anymore...

But its fun watching them play as well.

Dinner~ finally!

2006-07-25T01:33:00.000+08:00

Had my first day of work at Renault...

BORED to death!! Seriously.

And if not for my ipod, i'll be kinda fed-up... Music feeds the soul...

And its another 4 more days of it... Eeyucks! Sms me! Entertain me and keep me alive . I'll be very grateful. =)

Today's also celebration of sky's and tiff's bday~abit belated but... everybody can be present ya?

Met zaha ogls at 630pm to get cake... And on the way, saw ying again... And that's twice in 3 days... I was pleasantly surprised again. Cake buying was like so undecisive though... went into quite a few shops all over citilink/marina... haiyoh shall not go into it... But in the end we got a cake from Jack's Place...

Dinner was at New York New York which was just newly opened last monday. I had ribs n its pretty good... But service was quite bad... food was slow and worse!? do they know like how to serve cake? no disrespect but the waitress just happily bring the cake out from where they kept and proceeded to our table and pass it to me with the cake still in the box and tied up and totally untouched in the plastic bag. Basically its unserved. So ching and shar had to help out... Oh my. How worse can it get? 1st time ever encountering such situation ya. Hopefully not anymore. Just spoils the surprise like totally.

Following on we played some 'mind' games, and after which we proceeded over to esplanade for the bday ppl to unwrap their presents. Guess they shd be pretty happy with the gifts. I think the presents suit them quite alot... Ha. After some 'bubbly' fun (literally) at the esplanade, everybody was like rushing for the last train home... Ya cos its LATE already!

End of day.

No pics yet but guess i'll upload them when i get them fr rayson, ching and cheryl tom...

Time for bed! Zzzzz...

Hey i've seen u b4?

2006-07-22T21:25:00.000+08:00

Was supposed to wake up at 9am today for bball , 10am at nus. My phone alarm (maybe i shd change the default tone eh? haha!) didn't wake me and i got up at ard 0940! Shucks late once again!! And i still told ching whl chatting at abt 0330 the prev day i wun be late for bball! Guess sleeping at 4am is too tiring for me...

So i reached sch abt 1040. 40 mins late!

Coincidence no. 1:
While walking to the bball court, I saw 1 of the PCs of 'A' Coy of my reservist unit. Damn qiao he was there for soccer i think... But i forgot his name! ... Well that's cos i'm new to the whole unit after being mysteriously posted to as CSM of 'A' Coy. (Is it Joel? Argh, my memory suck! Oh its ravel actually) And it itsn't easy remembering everybody's name while being totally new to the job and had tons to learn and also knowing nobody b4 that as well..

So we talked for abit while i totally had no idea of his name. I was kinda surprise to see him actually cos i didn't noe he's in nus.

And he too was surprised that i'm in nus as well and actually the same age as him and going year 2 next sem!!! Cos well according to him, i look too 'lao jiao' and so he thought i was working already! OMG! WTF!! Was it more of a remark/compliment or do i look OLD already? Sigh... I'm only 21... going to 22 ya?

Yup so i bball all the way to 1 plus... Grabbed subway for lunch and went to far east str after to meet J there cos she was rebonding her hair there. And i cut my hair there as well to ease the waiting time...

how's it look?

Ended up having 2 shampoos for my hair! Cos the hairdresser gave me a wash first but as the salon was kinda shorthanded, i was told to go to another in far east... LOL. Totally worth it yea? =) But i ended up having washed my hair 4 TIMES in a day... once after bball, twice at far east and 1 more at home in the night... Erm any side effects of washing hair 4 times in a day?

hmm...

A new hair cut~ wee~

Plenty of roadshows in orchard so went to take a look... esp cos i want a k800!

Coincidence no. 2:
Went to the booth near Paragon and was shocked to find SE k800 selling at only $568 with free bluetooth headset and 256mb M2 mem card... That's like a big drop from the prev price at $938 w/o contract and $798 w contract!

There were 3 salesgirls there... they were super busy i tell u... and i kept looking at one of them! Cos besides that she's pretty she was like damn familiar... but i just couldn't rem from where or maybe its just my mistake... headache just trying to jot my memory there! And i didn't want to approach her and say sth like 'hey... u look familiar...' Cos if i'm mistaken then it wld seem like a lousy pick up line won't it?

When she finally looked over, she thought i was a revisiting customer! Haha funny... So in the end, i rem we used to be in the same mkting tutorial... so that clears our guesses on where we met b4! J was totally clueless as well. So my memory ain't that bad after all... marlene ya? i'll try to rem... haha! though i think i'll forget in a few days time...

A Greenish Summer~ GSS no more!

2006-07-21T22:58:00.000+08:00

GSS ~ 26 May - 23 July

Well, its ending in 2 days eh...

Anyway...

Walked a shitload today in raffles xchange, then citilink and finally suntec.

And there you go, my first lime green shirt bought! Pretty much the exact shade of green i wanted. And its way nicer than the only other lime green tee which i found at Giordano.

Wad a nice summer colour ya. But sad to say lime green is no longer in fashion cos nowadays its almost orange everywhere! Kinda cool as well but i'm contended with my GREEN... Haha...

Speakin' of which i bought these stuff during the past jun/jul from wad i could recall...

lime green shirt above...
spain jersey...
japan jersey...
flesh imp tee...
orange tee...
adidas singlet...
adidas top...
board shorts...
another shorts...
jeans...
saucony running shoes...
soccer boots...
havaianas slippers...
gundam...
creative speakers...

anymore?

oh and some world cup losses as well!

shit!

overspend!

so next week i'll be tagging along with JH to Renault for some temp work to recoup some $ back!

ID Soccer and Caribbean Pirates!

2006-07-19T00:28:00.000+08:00

Woke up at 9 today for soccer! Kinda think of it, it's pretty long since i last exercised proper. Probably the last time was all the way before union camp or idaki camp 3 weeks ago i guess.

I should start exercise more now when i have time since when sem starts basically its work work and more work. And then i'll be like a white chicken again! Hate it! So today's soccer, thur i'll go for tennis and sat bball! Oh and a run soon also hopefully =)

Soccer Day!!! New boots! 2nd time wearing!

Yes that's right, the sun is bigger than a lamp! Hotter than wad the pics wld tell u.

The sun was freaking hot i tell you. And we played from 10 till 1 plus . Too hot i guess that nobody else was ard except us (9 ppl: me, daryll, dom, wil, wc, ben, andre, sanny, allan). So whenever the soccer ball got kicked out of court, everybody scrambled for the shades beneath lamp posts, goal area and the sorts. Hah. And as usual, Sanny came so late, think he barely sweat much b4 we packed up to leave.

At the SRC again!

Even more chao ta after soccer!

Damn excited after soccer. Cos gonna catch the lovely Keira Knightley in all her full glory in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Along with Depp and Orlando Bloom, this movie got a cast to drool over yea! There, i've even included a poster here... Lovely!

Hmm... Before the show started, a Spiderman 3 trailer was aired! Nice trailer but guess what? It's still a full year before it's gonna show in theatres so wtf! Show trailer so early for?

Finally caught this summer blockbuster! Nice poster! I want!

Some spoilers pictures ahead! Warning... warning!

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The movie... in short...

The extreme right lady always gets on my nerves!!! Talk properly won't ya!!

Pirate bengs! Kua simi kua!

U can ignore the old guy. I love u Keira!

Funny scene where they fight on the water wheel! Wonder how they film.... Hmm...

Hollanded! And here comes a pretty lady to ask directions from! Nice la.

All for one! And one for all! Ha, totally not the case here.

So all in all, peeps who haven't watch the movie yet, please do so ya! And thats right if u guys didn't know, Pirates 3 will be hitting theatres in 2007. Till then!

Surprise Rome!

2006-07-16T03:00:00.000+08:00

Came home tonight and got a big surprise! A postcard on my table and sent all the way from Rome from a dear friend! That totally made my day and its really sweet of u. Haha. Looking forward to 5 Aug ya. Miss u loads. Take care!

Postcard fr Rome! The Colosseum!

Union Camp '06! Crashed!

2006-07-15T23:39:00.000+08:00

Union camp 06!

Speakin' of which i've yet to get pictures of mine last year! Wat the heck!

Anyway lots of stuff happened! Like...
Suppers! I love them ya? =)
Cold jokes! Lots of it... Sub zero temps one... And here's some for u... Hahahaha!

1) 放烟火时为什幺不会射到星星?
2) 晚上十二点要做什么?
3) 什么动物可以贴在墙上?

ANS:

1) 因为星星会闪
2) 抱佛脚。因为临（零）时抱佛脚。
3) 海豹（报)

=)

Yet some mishaps!
Discovered! Crashing camp!
Discovered! Koping a green camp shirt!
Discovered! And woken up middle of night for bunking in!
Discovered! Wrong bathroom! Sorry it wasn't on purpose i swear! Just innocently brushing my teeth after bath ya. And i stood there not knowing wad to say. Shocked!

Missed meals! Dinner, then Breakfast then Lunch consecutively. I'm gonna load carbos to make up.

Sheesh man! That's a long list ain't it? So here's an apology to whatever inconvenience i've caused to anyone. *bows*

Somemore.
I gotta complain! Where were all the ID ppl who's supposedly coming to sentosa on thur man. Ended only luke and me were there, plus ben and wc as well of cos. Oh well. So much for all the talk.

Haha... Did i mention i love the beach? Here's one more round of pics... Revisited. Deja vu.

While the camp was going on and the freshies indulging in Sentosa Games Part 2, the group of us were happily snapping pics away at the southern most point of asia! Loads of pics here i tell u! But the pics are mostly still with Yee Han, who's our friendly photographer who happened to take this photo as well. Haha. Thanks so much!

Beautiful!

This picture is up mainly because i like how my hair looked in the pic... Stylo huh.
Yet, i think i'm gearing for another hair cut soon... Torres hairstyle? haha!

Make some noice ya?

Wa! I love the Pai Kia's mascot!
Fiercesome sword that's made using aluminum and badminton grip and 2 acrylic dragons! $40 plus for it. Cool!
It's even bloodied for the last day for the War Games... Good one donald!

Advent Children 2 anyone! Haha!
Shoo shoo! The back OG grabbing some limelight as well...

The camp fire was awesome. The war dance performance however was erhem uninspiring.

The war games committee... + 1!

Fate...

2006-07-12T20:03:00.000+08:00

Fate

The wind plays with a leaf,
The way fate plays with us.
We learn to love.
To give and take,
Only to have the floor
swept out from under our feet.
Sometime in our lives,
Fate rips what we love most
From our grasp.
And we are forced to watch
Because we cannot reason
With fate.
Nor can a leaf reason
With the wind
That rips it from
The trees branch.
It sweeps us around,
Causes a turmoil of emotions
We cannot fathom.
And at the end of our journey
We drown in death,
The way a leaf drowns
In water.

evan williams

And Everything Comes to a Close...

2006-07-12T19:25:00.000+08:00

Day 4

Finally! Shall let the pics do the talking again...

And so they began... / The mighty 'Art Fiends' sets up shop. I like the logo! haha...

People say i look bimbotic! Eh... Comments?

The complete structure in its full glory! / eh eh... Luke does a initial D! Screeechh!

One last take! before it gets destroyed... mwahhaa...

OGLs unite! Messing with real buddies behind... Luke say we look like otters... i think so too! Damn.

Zara... A fight's brewing up! Ka POW!

Club Zaha dudes! Free flow... whenever...

Cheer for the day! Kinda never used it yet! Haha...

Zahahaha...
Hee hee hee...
Ho ho ho...
Heh heh heh...
Yea!

Ok... here's thanking everyone who made the camp so fun to be in... esp those in Zaha whom i shared the 4 memorable days with... And may we stay in touch even after the camp ya...

And here's me realising that it's only a month left till sch reopens!! OMG! I can't take it... the failure of doing any productive work during the hols which i wanted to... And the sleepless nights, the submissions, sch work all's gonna come back!! Bless us!

Sentosa!

2006-07-12T17:43:00.000+08:00

Day 3!!

2nd last day!

We're going to the beach... beach... beach...
How 'bout u... u... u?
You can come to... to... to...
We're going to the beach!

Love the beach! The sun, the sand and the sea! Plenty gorgeous ppl too...

Bus games was awkward for most! Yea? / 1st cheer at the beach!

The whole of flux~Portico plus bre camp! Clue.. I'm in orange!

Higher than the rest! But we tried going for more! And tumble we did! / Painful picture! OUCH!

Beautiful piece from ZARA~our combined OG name! Branded sia!

The members~and their masterpiece!

This is one disgustin' game! Toothpaste on armpits? Undies on the head? Eeyucks!

Peahens love me btw. Here's a proof of it...

Erm... Shaping a vital part of the scantily clad mermaid...

Entire SDE again! Did i say back row?

Zara with the usual OGLs 'cept one... MIA!

Looking cool.

Union Camp?

2006-07-11T02:11:00.000+08:00

11-15 July...

I'll be there...

Idaki Camp cont... West Coast Park!

2006-07-11T00:47:00.000+08:00

Day 2

West Coast Park!! On with the games!

Bad hair day? vs Innocent Party?

Point 1: Punished! Never go out on a bad hair day!

Point 2: Don't play blind bombers when you're Cheryl cos you'll be so suay u get whacked twice by opponents and worse by team mates in 1 game though u're just part of the circle and not actually playing it... When u're playing it, you'll get whacked even more... Ha. Amusing.

Yummy! and the cocktail concoction game!

Point 3: Girls just love bananas don't they?

Point 4: They love Peanut butter mix with pepsi and green tea!! OMG!

1) Round the hoop we go... 2) She scores... 3) Totally Owned!

Me and all 9 freshies...

Erm... Anyone seen Nicholas? Photoshop him in again!?

Nice pic... but what's with Miao? Alien signals?

Reflections on the WC Finals...

2006-07-10T23:27:00.000+08:00

That's a red!!!

Les bleus's blues!! A moment of madness, and Zizou was disgracefully sent off for head butting Materazzi! Ouch. A great example of not using one's head wisely eh...

Hmm. Was shocked when he did that man. I mean what the hell, he walked away, then came back again to deliver a damn hard head-butt la. What an ugly finale to an illustrious career... Pity.

But one wonders what Materazzi said to provoke the normally cool Zizou huh?

But he grabbed the Golden Ball award (that means best player in case u dunno) as well. Ha. What an irony.

Italy's the Champs!

For all the drama... Let's hail the Azzurri for being 4th time champions (Brazil leads with 5 times)...

Oh ya... the snowing confetti in the stadium damn nice la... I was totally awed...

Idaki Camp... Continued... Day 1...

2006-07-10T00:46:00.000+08:00

Zaha! ~ consisting of...
me, Miao Ling, Ching, Emily, Nicholas, and 9 freshies (Cheryl, Tiffany, Lewina, Shamini, Zhe Qing, Sky, Fabian, Tommy, Rayson)

Day 1

Appetizer: Ice Breakers...
So... Continuing where i left off... Ice breaker games started the day to melt the thick and imprenable icy walls and subsequently made them a cohesive and strong unit. Or was it the prata meals which did that? *Roll eyes* haha...

2nd Runner-up for best OG leh... Dun pray pray... Plus we've given them the tag of being 'auto-pilots'. Makes our job easier at times. Hah.

Emily & Ching look like freshies don't they?

Soup of the day?: Round School Games...

Twisting & frolicking in school...

Teaser Meal: The Trust Walk... Tsk tsk...

Germany 2006...

2006-07-10T00:10:00.000+08:00

World Cup Finals ~ Italy vs France

Well, the time has come and the finals is only less than 2 hrs away. How sweet for both countries to be in the finals, with Zidane poised for a ultimate dream farewell in world football and Italy overcoming all odds again despite scandalous affairs in their hometown.

Now some rants. Hahaha... Whatever happened to the devastating Argentina that is so sweet to watch when they took S&M by storm by knocking 6 goals past them? Or dancing Brazil
with fat Ronaldo leading the way? Or Spain with Torres's funky hairstyle? Or Czech with Nedved fighting for them? Or Holland with their oh-so-nice orange jersey. Or how they disappoint and let me lose money. Bleh!

Whatever it is. All the sleepless nights have been memorable. Ha. Prediction for today... 1-0 to Italy. =)

Henry!!!

Del Piero and gang! Marvellous form. I'm surprised.

Black Beauties...

2006-07-09T23:21:00.000+08:00

Sony Ericsson K610 vs K800

One is slim and the other is fat.

But important thing is both are black.

That's right, these 2 black beauties from Sony are launching soon. Damn chio can... Haha, my contract ending just about the right time... Tis' good... =)

Portico / Flux / Idaki Camp 06

2006-07-09T00:40:00.000+08:00

3-6 July!

4 days!

What fun!

Zaha rocks!

Hahaha... Or maybe it should have been zahahaha =) ok lame. But i just gotta say that. Heh. So here goes, the 5 days of sleepless days and nights...

Day 0
For the freshies who didn't noe, there is a day 0 for the OGLs!! I mean omg right, as if 4 days weren't tiring enough, there's 1 more day of camp. Well, Day 0 was supposed to start at 1pm!! I came at almost 3 expecting to be late but still when i reached, there's not much ppl there!! For all we know (kinda expected la) it began at night after dinner... ROFL. =) And after numerous boring briefings (cough cough), our final fright night rehearsal took place at 1am!! So tired already la! Still got name tags to do and our totem also(now u noe why its kinda missing?... lol) So work continued after to work on the decon. name tags (sheesh no pics... any freshies?) and these wired names below... So nice right!

1...2...3...8...9 Zaha freshies!

After that it's about 5 plus 6 and then its koon all the way to 8 and it's time to meet the freshies! Yay... 4 more days to go... Phew.

Lost Sleep... Lots of It...

2006-07-09T00:09:00.000+08:00

Just reached home. Logged on msn and ppl are bugging me for camp pictures. LOL. Haha anyway, i'm still reeling over lost sleep the past week during idaki camp 2006. And its already the 2nd day after camp!

Man, i'm tired!...Think i've been sleeping for 2-3 hrs per day consecutively for 7 days, partly due to world cup and definitely cos of camp! Well guess i'll blog bout the camp soon before i forget some stuffs. Got lotsa pics =) But now, it's time for Germany vs Portugal. Haa... Better be lots of goals man. Otherwise i'll doze off surely... Here's my guess... 3-2 to Germany!

The reason?

Ballack's the man...

And Ronaldo's the crybaby...

Virgin Blog!

2006-07-08T11:13:00.000+08:00

My First Post!

The world is falling apart...
The sky is crashing down...
The earth is splitting...
The rivers are gushing...

Well a few little lies to start off a new blog can't harm anyone can it?

"Et in Arcadia ego" ...
What the heck's with the title u may ask? Well it just turns out that Arcadia used to be my nick until not too recently, so I decided it to be part of the title.

'Arcadia' which basically means ~ A region offering rural simplicity and contentment. Cool huh. I thought so too. Haha...

Oh and about the 'Et in Arcadia ego' if you're interested... Blah blah blah... According to Wiki, it's a Latin phrase that most famously appears as the title of two paintings by Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665). (the one below... heh)

'Et in Arcadia ego' by Nicholas Poussin

'Et in Arcadia ego' is also highly influential in history of art and more recently associated with the pseudo history of the Priory of Sion popularised in books such as 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' and ' The Da Vinci Code'. Nice books huh.

Wow, that's alot of garbage to feed your brain with huh. Thanks to me.