-=Faith Of Life=-

new year, new sem, new chance?

2010-01-15T03:16:00.002+08:00

The troubling and stressful semester has began once again. With this feeling of negativity , i can't help but say i don't feel as hopeful as how things will be. My course modules are a nightmare, and my committees and activities start to pile up real bad.

i love hall life and somehow it's the only thing that makes school really fun. i don't dread the work given in the committees but rather how ridiculous the syllabus is. So many have advised me to quit hall but after this its the working world can anyone bear to let go of this fun and all the friendship, commitments that one has tried so hard to get from the beginning. I dread my course seriously and i realised i hated the math and sciences so much as compared to the humanities or subjects that require human feel and empathy. Just when i thought JLPT 1 can get me a decent job and then i realised there are so many who are much better speakers and achievers. Transfer of course failed and somehow i am so worried and saddened by this fact. I just wish to tell some people that i'm not as perfect as it seems because i tried my best to be one.

thanks for reading my complaint.

new year soon. new start

2009-12-26T22:31:00.003+08:00

Results were released on 22nd December. There were fewer tears of joys as compared to sadness.
I did the worst for my *(&# core modules which are mainly physics and computing which i got C+ for. Thankfully i got an A for the i-didn't-go-clubbing-despite-the-temptation- MNO biz module which was on the day after ladies night. This saved my ass by quite a bit but the overall CAP is still nothing but one word - CUI!

If you ask me whether Hall was the cause of the bad results i really beg to differ. Based on my character i won't do any consistent studying/revision to begin with so last minute studying is still my style.

I hope my application to transfer is approved soon!

To all my friends i hope you guys are doing well!

update

2009-09-23T00:05:00.002+08:00

hi everyone, it has been a while.
Studying has been a chore these days. Sometimes i feel that my ability to comprehend things have become slower, or its just simply my unwillingness to understand the boring fundamental concepts. yucks electric potentials and magnetism simply turns me off.

Anyway i just found out one of my good friends actually got accepted into oxford university and imperial college before the A level results were out. But because he couldn't get the overseas scholarship he has to reject both schools. When i heard his story i felt so sorry for him. somehow or another i always feel the ivyleague and prestigious top universities can alter someone's fate forever. I hope i'm wrong in this sense.
anyway his modesty was what impressed me most. there wasn't any air of arrogance and he didn't make much of a big fuss out of it, in fact it was me who squeezed this information out of him haha.

i hope i can make it for the mid terms

SCHOOL BEGINS!

2009-08-09T23:51:00.000+08:00

hi all, it has been some time since i last updated. anyway these 2 weeks was rather crazy for me. Running back and forth between two camps, both sheares hall and engine camp. Nontheless it was fun and there were some stressful periods as well. I think i'm both physically and mentally tired. In the midst of bidding for my two modules i spilled water on my laptop, and i forsake so many outings with friends just to go orientation week. honestly the opportunity cost is sometimes so high but there are some sacrifices somehow.

anyway one good thing is i passed qet and i'm exempted from the eng modules. the fact that i was once an english teacher simply show how important this test it is to me.

oh, and i'm so sorry to those who have organised outings and i ps due to unforseen circumstances.
meet up soon =)

and to those friends of veg, his bday is coming soon so if you wanna share MESSAGE ME ASAP.

camps

2009-07-19T20:37:00.003+08:00

i came across this in one of the online news bulletin.

hmm i have heard stuff from my seniors. maybe its because of all the SP's and angel and mortal game which resulted in all these?

gucci

2009-07-15T01:28:00.003+08:00

today at gucci store, i saw my lost/stolen GG plus coin pouch.
a sudden sadness filled my heart.
and i saw my 100 yen replacement coin pouch.
i sighed.

back!!

2009-06-20T13:53:00.002+08:00

hello. i'm finally back from camp. one good news is that i;m not so fair as before. bad news is my body is so badly burnt i think the skin area near the shoulder are going to peel off in a few day's time.
anyway i will blog about my camp some other days when i have the pics. basically it was quite fun just that still as usual i don;t know any year ones from comp engineering. and engineering is not the shaolin temple i used to think it was supposed to be.

so before i went off for the camp, i attended V's fashion management dip grad ceremony.

well this is their group presentation display.

and i think their t-shirt designs are so fcuk-insipired style.

and these are the supporters for her presentation

and of course i came to support ana as well! hahaha vera is going to be so pissed off.

she had to bend her legs to match my height. tsk

and guess what, eventually vera was the top student for this fashion management course. CONGRATZ =D=D she's re-living the legend of coral. hahahaha. well done!

for fun

2009-06-09T00:59:00.002+08:00

ok the scene of me in front of my desk now is quite weird now.
basically i have 5+ MSN windows open. 3 telling me about their problems and 2 chit chat windows. one asking me about trading in restaurant city and i;m eating my nissin cup noodles now.
wow i can multitask.
and people stop stealing my harvest in barn buddy!

i am not so/so looking forward to this sat. ok its a fifty fifty thing T_T

rockband and songs

2009-06-07T22:37:00.003+08:00

yesterday was the very first time i played rockband. the best part was we eventually had 4 wii controllers hence we managed to form the full set of players - a drummer, 2 guitarist and a singer.
i just love such music games but i hate rock songs la how on earth do you sing them.

anyway someone told me american suitehearts is some incest song with this line "i fall in love with my own sis" in the chorus and i just checked it out and realised is "i fall in love with my own sins." thanks, i;m doomed i just told so many people the wrong thing.

excursion

2009-05-28T23:09:00.002+08:00

today once again, another sudden bomb fell upon me and Mr Arrifin. In just 2 minutes we had to prepare to go to SDC with the sec 3 students. well i was kind of expecting it and the thing was i was given a choice to take 3/5 or 3/7. i remembered 3/5 was the normal academic class and i thought 3/7 was xinliang's class so i chose 3/7 without thinking much.

To my greatest horror, 3/7 is also another normal tech class. Oh my tian, xinliang is actually in 3/9 and my life as a nanny teacher began ever since. They are a bunch of very funny people who just cannot stop touching all the screens, railings , displays and love running around the helicopters. the best combo is our dear favourite Ms Yong abandoned me. i was left to take care of them and it's just another version of my own sec 2 NT class.
thank god we didn;t get complained.
Ms dai mingmin the 3/7 students remembers you as well. they call you the teacher who love to anyhow bang chairs and tables.

next best thing, when i was at home, an unknown number called me. i thought it was a call from my students and i was blasting "Let's get retarded" on my computer. and i picked up the phone,
"hello, is this mr ho."
"yes this is speaking"
"oh Mr Ho, this is XXX's mother here. i would like to inform you i cannot attend the Parents teacher's session today..."
and at that moment the let's get retarded chorus keep repeating.

LV

2009-05-22T17:35:00.003+08:00

haha i'm quite excited. apparently 1 week back i applied to Louis Vuitton for their part time associate position and they called me down for an interview next monday. yay i'm one more step closer to the broadway bag i wanna buy.

and today marks my final official lesson with my students, i'm very relieved that i've finally finished all the marks allocation and stuff, and its quite sad that i will kind of miss out all the ridiculous funny happenings in class, but definitely not the nightmares, like chasing for ppl after some stupid worksheet and the scary markings. some of them said some nice stuff to me before i left and its quite touching.It has been a pleasure teaching them, although i'm not very sure what they've learn from me besides letter format and the nazi's.

anyway some of the students gave me this and i kept laughing when i opened it up.

it only shows the impression of what type of teacher i appear as to them.

a late night post

2009-05-17T03:05:00.002+08:00

prawning was fun. a first time experience turn out to be quite interesting. just that eventually one piece of prawn cost 5 dollars each and we gave them away.

it's great to know when someone compromises his or her personal welfare for the sake of other people happiness. a friend taught me this.

anyway i concussed for 12 hours by accident and i just can't sleep now. eventually i ended up watching 'don't tell my mother' on national geographic and this time the country featured was pakistan.
wow it's simply and eye opener, when they actually showed one part of pakistan that resembled the swiss alps, and from the video it looked really clean. but it's sad that now tourists are not going there.
It is documentary like these that are so enlightening, from the view of the citizens, human slavery, woman discrimination. life is just so sad. and you can just see how some people who are not very rich, but because of their education ability or influence, they actually made the people around them much happier.

it is often those who have nothing much to give who contributes the most.

Duel - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

2009-05-10T10:38:00.001+08:00

i chanced upon this song at a music shop yesterday, however i was unable to download it. i shall put it on my blog then. enjoy people.

Theme from Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - Sakamoto - Duel

school

2009-04-30T17:25:00.002+08:00

these days i became quite cranky, in school i became very childish and i started doing stupid things like talking about maple story and L4d and even pet society with my students. but usually they are the ones who bugged me about it and i;m very pissed about maple story now, for the fact i don't play it and my students keep thinking i have hell lots of Meso which i have no idea why. they even resort to not doing my work unless i give them mesos -.- i tricked one by writing some fake account and lester's famous password.

the weather is extremely hot and i wanted the teachers fan for myself and then my two technical students starting making a lot of noise about the fan and they will oscillate the fan whenever my head is in the other direction. and soon, i exercised my authority and they sat back on the chair, saying "wa cher you very unreasonable leh"
"you guys know my middle name not" i retorted
"mr Alden Unreasonable Ho"
ever since then they gave up about the fan and it works. hahaha. now i have the whole fan for myself.
ok this is stupid but fun.

news reporting

2009-04-29T20:33:00.002+08:00

a friend of mine is currently for the newpaper as an intern. and once in a while on msn, he would ask me certain questions and asked for my opinion.
and so there was once he asked me whether Terrorism will occur in Singapore and i answered blatantly 'yes' without thinking much and when he asked me why. i just simply replied "we singaporeans are complacent'. soon after he bombarded my whole msn and asked me whether he can quote the word complacent and use my picture from my facebook. i panicked then and at that instantaneous moment i literally typed out an argumentative essay and took back the word. whew. thank god i did that, i just saw his name appearing in asiaone news.

and recently the issue of elitism came in and i just shut up lol.

悲しい気持ち

2009-04-27T22:10:00.002+08:00

these days i dread taking naps. they are so important yet whenever i wake up, i always felt this depressing feeling, like the world seems meaningless at a point of time. geesh.

things get so bad i always think of stuff i made myself proud to make myself better but it just failed eventually. maybe because i always feel the people around me are always better.

hoho, on one random day i even went to ask mom whether is she proud of me ? haha i think its retarded but i need this assurance. honestly i believe my brain is lacking serotonin. as a result i keep spamming chocolates and all the sweet stuff to make myself feel better. khalis once told me sweet stuff makes you feel happy.

have you ever felt like this before?

anyway today is the start of the exams and one of my student wrote this:
"dear resident,
please note that we are collecting can food and no pig meat allowed."
wah sian i burst out laughing during invigilation

wed night

2009-04-22T21:32:00.002+08:00

my phone rang on the table at 9.28pm.

charn called.

i adjusted the knob of my speaker, blasting the music on my winamp playlist - poker face

charn first question was " alden you at zouk ah?"
.."yes"
"can i enter at this time if i go now not?"
"er friend i;m kidding, i'm home la"

actually for a moment, i really wanted to go , for A WHILE. HI friends, if you are reading this, get my hint.

my teachers

2009-04-09T11:00:00.002+08:00

today, i sat down with my colleagues, ironically but not strange, they are teachers who have taught me before.
mdm fadzilah and mr melvin tan (a.k.a cute thirsty hippo) told me about their experiences in educating their kindergarten kids, starting from how they learnt simple addition till the interpretation of timings. and then mdm fadzilah described this scenario which i found it very meaningful
"imagine there are two kids screaming over a marker pen, and what would modern educators do? these days, they would just give them 1 marker each..."
and so cute thirsty hippo said, " that's when students never learn to share ever since and that's why the students now are so self- centred"
although it's nothing really special, but it sets me thinking for a minute. i guess it's just so sad how our education system turn out like this. in our pursue for academics, or getting our work done, we settle for the easy-way-out solution and forgo the values needed to instil in our younger generation. parents expect teachers to instil values in their children while teachers think parents should do so instead. it just explains why city dwellers lack this thing called empathy for others.
wow i really learnt something in school.

protect

2009-04-02T23:31:00.002+08:00

there's this special need student in my technical class. how is he special? i don't know how to put it, he's does not have the downsyndrome condition, the exact way of putting is his reaction is much slower than the rest. and so when i began to teach this class my headache never ceased ever since.

and so the class never fails to bully him everyday, and as their teacher i'm the youngest around so they displayed to me their actual behaviour. his pencil case will always go missing, chair broken, paper/worksheet crushed, pens all over the ground etc etc. and so there are many times when he vented his frustration to the class, he started screaming and banging his pencil case on the table. and today i actually witnessed him crying, and it was the sort of cry he felt really, really miserable. i felt so sorry for him because it's way beyond my control. i scolded whoever who's responsible, but the gang that's bullying him is way too big. lets put it this way, i have this chinese gang, malay gang, and the general gang. so if i'm scolding either one of the groups, the other will take action. it's an endless cycle and i'm at my wits end.

Somehow or another, i do understand why the rest are bullying him. Feeling inferior in the technical class, with someone 'special' in their class, they felt they are at the same level as him. some scold this special student 'retard' and i was saying that they are worse then a retard if they are behaving this way. i've noticed the change in their reaction and i got my answer.

because i saved a few of them from detentions, they do feel apologetic when i scold them but this bullying will just start again the next day. zzz i'm so tired.

the special kid's parents sent him to a normal school because they wanted him to learn in a 'normal' environment. but in this case, is this the best for him? He doesn't have any friends and no one is helping him. the girls in the class are victims of the notorious acts of the guys themselves. If you are the parent, would you send this kid to a 'normal' school?

your views

2009-04-01T19:37:00.002+08:00

there was this messenger window that appeared when i came back from my break, a friend whom i have not spoken to for a long time suddenly said hi and soon enough we had quite a lengthy conversation.
and so if you guys didn't know, MOE has decided to make social studies a full O level subject, it will no longer be combine humanities. and so this friend of mine was so interested in this topic and he asked me a lot regarding it.
and so i realised, he's having his internship at the NewPaper.

marking

2009-03-30T21:37:00.002+08:00

now i understand the plight of english teachers? can you imagine the no. of compositions they have to read. assuming one class has 35 students and each has about 3 classes its already 105 essays to mark. about 50% write the same thing with grammatical errors and 20% has horrible handwriting and less than 3% write very interesting/good essays.
one of my sec 2 NT student was so motivated, he wrote more essays than usual and he produced a 6 PAGE LONG ESSAY!(with lots of weird sentence construction/tenses/grammar)
i am chewing biscuits/msn-ing/facebooking and marking for 2 hours and it's still not done. HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

now i know how cambridge mark our english papers.

teaching

2009-03-28T20:41:00.003+08:00

happy to be back teaching, but loads of stuff to mark once again. i know this is an endless litany of complaint but allow me to do so till the next few months.

anyway i found this pic in one of my student's blog.

camera handphones are quite scary these days. it's so dangerous i can't imagine if one day i start going crazy and i toss tables and chairs .the next thing i know is my face appearing in stomp.
and i googled my name to ensure they cannot find my blog. whew. facebook is a terror itself.

un translator

2009-03-26T18:13:00.001+08:00

UN Translator.
ah yoh so sad i've got no hope already. jap is not one of them.

What are the minimum qualifications?
You must know at least 3 of the 6 official UN languages with English and French typically at the core. The third language would then be either Russian, Arabic, Chinese, or Spanish.
The minimum qualifications of a UN translator are that his or her writing and comprehension of French must be very strong with at least 4 years of training plus some experience through living abroad. The spoken French does not have to be as strong. For Russian, the translator is expected to know technical Russian. It is highly recommended to have about 2 years of translation study or equivalent professional experience. The translator's native language must be very strong and complete because you are always working from French into English or translating into their mother tongue.
UN officials and diplomats often use idiosyncratic vocabulary that differs considerably from the day-to-day use of the language, making the novice translator's task more difficult.

How does one go about becoming a UN translator?
Obtain a university degree and gain some experience with translation. For example, take some translation courses.
Should not be older than 32 years old.
Pass the examinations: a written exam and interview

Work

2009-03-25T21:35:00.003+08:00

4 days back i received a call from my HOD of english, she told me a new NIE teacher was coming to take over my classes so, my last day would be on the following monday.
And so i was officially retrenched on monday, i packed my stuff and i returned the laptop. i was so sad then because i was jobless just like that and i haven't pay the credit card bill used to buy the burberry HAHAHA.
ok anyway the point is job hunting is very very hard now. like i really asked for all help, mr goh from P&G, mr loo, mrs lau, mr paul lee, ms leong, for relief teacher positions in their schools, my ex jap consultant and i called gucci HR, LV, club 21 and i emailed burberry and waseda shibuya high school. i think my skin can be thicker than anything else.
and so today i was called back and i was reemployed once again! i got back my classes.hurray!
anyway those who have temp jobs now , seriously stop complaining and appreciate it.

coralites

2009-03-20T00:37:00.002+08:00

this week has been rather eventful. i've planned to mark my papers on a few days these week and guess what, i haven't mark the papers at all. I'M DOOMED.

anyway, maybe i realised this a little too late, it seems to be a habit of my coralite friends when it comes to punctuality.
for example, when we say we meet at 8.15pm.
at 8pm,
A FEW would start leaving their house,
SOME will start to shut down their computer.
MANY are still bathing, putting their make-up or choosing their clothes.

upon calling them, when they say,
i'm on my way - it means they are still at home (this applies to charn)
i'm reaching already - means they are halfway there.
and usually when they are hopelessly late, they don't pick up the phone.

and when it comes to fun,
we will
- stay out as late as possible at all costs to prolong the fun.
- find the cheapest alternative to our activity
- go play lan even if it's still 4am.
- eat supper/breakfast even we are damn tired - to talk cock.

oh and today morning, is the ultimate.
i slept at 6am because of certain night activity, at 10 am, someone with a weird ID no. called me.
me: har-low
ops room no.: yo, mr ho. shiboon here.
me: oh hello, how can i help you
shiboon: eh can you tell me where can i find burberry sale
me: ...*goodness man that's what people perceive of me* and i told him about the IT fair
and soon after, i chatted with boss poon for a while. apparently jason is stressed and he misses your help yonghao. haha that's what he said personally LOLOL.

same name

2009-03-12T13:55:00.002+08:00

i'm currently in class 4/4 now. It's really weird to have someone who has the same name as you. Mdm fadzilah was the subject teacher of the class and she kept scolding this guy Alden. i was standing beside her and it was extremely awkward,because fadzilah never scolded me before. hahaha. this alden is the exact opposite of me, he's tanned like charcoal and he can't sit down quietly to complete one worksheet.

my jobs

2009-03-06T21:37:00.002+08:00

i hate marking common test.

friend shi**** called me today. everytime he calls i know it should be a good thing. guess what, he's offering me a data entry/admin job for 2k. gawd. i was like "WHATTTTTT" then he told me about the job details and everything. haiz. working for proctor and gamble is still the best.
i can't leave my RT job just like that.

anyway Ms Dai mm was right. students really observe what you wear everyday. today i decided to wear my clubbing skinny jeans to work for various reasons and it became a big hoo ha in my 3 classes.

class

2009-03-02T13:17:00.001+08:00

my current 1/8 class has a student who is behaving like khengyong. i'm going crazy soon lol.

yay

2009-03-01T15:44:00.002+08:00

yeah i finally passed my jap 2kyuu. my greatest worry is finally over though i passed by barely a few marks.

my parents bought a weekend car for me to be a full time chauffeur and i have both cars to play with soon. yoo hoo. the only thing now i;m very worried about is the petrol.

and my sis is going to buy a baby maltese. i'm very excited about this one.

umbrella

2009-02-23T18:53:00.000+08:00

how ingenius. you will love this.

joke of the day

2009-02-22T11:37:00.003+08:00

this never fails to make me laugh whenever i thought of it.

denice wanted to drive my manual car... (*adjust seat, switch on headlight *)
and as she meddles with the gear

denice: "eh, how come your gear cannot engage in gear 1"
i didn't bother looking at what she's doing, I said randomly : " eh you got step clutch not?"
denice: "oh. Ya hor."

the rest of us peng and died laughing.

english lesson

2009-02-18T17:36:00.002+08:00

today, i wanted to make my class more interesting, hence i told my class about necrophillia, haemophillia due to certain passage involved.

and then a student asked:" teacher, so what is hermaphrodite?"

me: ... hmm *scratches head* ( i remember i heard this word somewhere before)

and then grey's anatomy appear before my mind! i remembered about this girl was termed this because she had two sexual organs.

thank goodness. ok i think its time to watch season 4 and 5

ambitious

2009-02-16T22:16:00.002+08:00

i brought back 1 stack of letter writing to mark,
in the end, i marked half a page. and i went to sleep. lol

i must be very ambitious.

and tomorrow i must brainstorm how to scold my sec 2 class. this is even more stressful.

mid of the month

2009-02-15T16:42:00.002+08:00

i think my valentine day was spent in a rather interesting manner.

anyway i got piles and piles of things to mark now. i've decided maybe i will offer $2 to mark a bundle of worksheet soon if i'm desperate enough. ok maybe i'll make it $3 and $0.20 per compo lol.

and i saw my potential classmates in nus. i think i will be some loner soon enough haha.

happy valentine ppl

2009-02-14T01:41:00.002+08:00

heard that 2kyuu results are out. i am very very stressed now.

i received valentine day gifts from my students. i was rather touched.

anyway i need help in grammar ...

whew

2009-02-12T23:26:00.003+08:00

thank goodness i found out sis is going to auckland tomorrow. i need her to get me something from gucci.
it's great someone in the family is flying around. and it's not me. hahaha.
hopefully we can start an online business soon.

school. teaching

2009-02-08T19:51:00.001+08:00

ok i think i did the stupidest thing ever.

i told this to my normal tech class:

"Class, if any of you don't hand in your journal to me on monday, you guys will have to stay back with me after school to finish it!"

and i realised, SHIT, NOW I GOT TO STAY BACK TOO T_T.

occupation

2009-02-02T23:48:00.002+08:00

On the very last day at recruit express something rather dramatic happened, somehow or another most of my past candidates came down personally to submit their timesheet at my main office. i asked them how's work and stuff and some replied that it's good, some thanked me and some asked me to help them find other jobs when their contract expires. i was rather touched on that day itself and i was very sorry that i have to leave - for the greater good and better pay. In overall i was still very happy to leave, however i felt very apologetic to my boss and mentor because they were very nice to me.

And today is the first day at coral teaching pubescent kids english. Honestly if i have a choice i would rather teach the math and sciences. It was great going back to coral, the teachers still recognises me as well as the clerks at the general office and so it was easy settling all the administrative affairs. Oh anyway the fishball/bar chor mee aunty jennifer is still there! HAHA. she was more excited than me when i said hi to her. she's the best man, still giving me a lot more free food than before.

anyway i can;t believe there's so much marking to do on the first day. and i can't mark english essays for nuts. i hope i can teach social studies PLEASE!!!!

top ten survival tips in japan

2009-01-22T20:45:00.002+08:00

1) heed the advice of the weather forecast. When it's going to rain the next day, bring an umbrella! it's freaking accurate.

2) 100 yen shops are your life saviors. buy lots of drinks, miscellaneous stuff and most importantly the 100 yen umbrella!

3) eat mcpork everyday, you will save a lot of money!

4)stay in hostels for accommodation. they are clean and very cheap.

5)don't be a vain pot and wear fancy shoes for fashion. wear comfortable ones

6)the japs are very brand conscious people. Wear burberry collar or carry a good bag and they treat you even better

7)buy burberry black and blue label! they are the most worth it branded items here.

8) know how to listen or speak jap or grunt and point like an ogre

9) when the japs speaks to u in english, reciprocate by replying them back in english. They want to learn. but most of the time it will be a jap conversation once again.

10)save a hell lot before coming.

japan

2009-01-17T19:57:00.003+08:00

i wanted to blog about the tokyo trip but i don't really have enough time. will do so when i get back from osaka.

i'm dreading the plane but i'm so looking forward to osaka, the weather, the burberry! once again and universal studios. however when i return back to singapore it's back to reality.

will come online every now and then. take care all friends.

new year resolution

2009-01-02T03:21:00.005+08:00

i was a little too late to blog about this but it just seems an obligation that i too, do the usual end of year review. normally i don't really feel anything special about a new year, but 2008 to 2009 IS special as it would be a transition from army to civilian life and back to student's lifestyle.

At this time of the year, the newspaper often features the look-backs on the past year, in individualized sections. they are grouped into world affairs, economical statistics display, significant sports achievements etc.
however what show's is often about the world and not yours. and this is the right time to reflect and perhaps set some goals to make things right.

and some gd stuff about 2008
knowing Mike team, boss poon, jason, benny, terence, tang,mathi and kong.
made quite a lot of new friends. hmm
all the spontaneous birthday surprises/celebrations
bintan trip!
ord, of course

so 2009 resolution
ranking no.1 is
passing my freaking jlpt 2. i just hope its time to proceed to level 1.
study hard. this might not work out depending how eventful my uni life may be.
learn french! so that i can go to milan or paris in ease.
go switzerland with family. hope its happenin this year since dad's not going to china anymore.
find a japanese-mixed girlfriend. jap-french, jap- venezuela hahahaha.
switch to a better job. times are hard but passion and liking plays a bigger part.
and of course, maintaining gd relations with all my pals and gd friends.

i realised from resolutions some seems to overlap with the concept of wishes but i dont care i just mix them together.

letter from japan

2008-12-26T22:22:00.002+08:00

upon returning home today, i received this cute lilo and stitch envelope on my table. apparently it's from my host family in japan, the yamashita family. i was very excited and then..

in the letter, yui, takuma's sister wrote this:
"Actually my father died three years ago and we've got a lot of things going on and really busy, so we could not get back to you right away...."

i was really shocked. mom was too. we felt really sorry for them. apparently now takuma also stopped studying but his sister is currently an undergrad.

and so, now i don't know what to reply in the letter.

Wed night.

2008-12-17T23:10:00.003+08:00

mr teo yuanchyi messaged me from the states to tell me of the cheap Calvin klein T shirts he bought in the states. oh man its my turn after 6th jan:) .

i met my BMT mate for dinner today. anyway the thing was i introduced him a job that pays $7/hr intially and eventually he rejected mine , which luckily he did because he was offered a job that pays $1800 a month plus one month BONUS after completion of the 6 months project. Oh man i feel like a sucker now but i realised i can't work all the way. people don't bother asking me how he got it. naturally its through some networking and luck. i also want it dammit.

anyway i realised i don't have any recent picture of ours so maybe a piece of nostalgic photo.

ORD LO!

today is mambo night and i really wanna go quite badly. work sucks.

arena POST ORD celebration

2008-12-14T02:25:00.002+08:00

I didn't really wanna post about my ORD celebration/MM bday because of the Calvin Klein underwear incident i was unfortunately seen wearing that day which generated myraid responses..

anyway...
i found this picture. Jiahui is a happy man lol.

i just can't help it.

and i don't even know where i was at that point of time.
i should be lying on the comfy couch i guess.

JLPT fever

2008-12-09T20:34:00.002+08:00

i've made the same mistake like last year once again.
in my attempt to finish the grammer in less than 30 min, i didn't have time to do the compre and they are worth at 5 marks each. oh shit i'm so screwed. if i failed this paper again its ultimate disgrace.

i;m really so damn worried now haiz.

recruitment process

2008-11-29T00:48:00.002+08:00

i've finally closed my 3rd case today. The person came down to sign the contract from me immediately and he was from MJ too. yay i realised helping people to get a job creates some form of satisfaction.

My proudest moment was helping this 45 years old lady in getting shortlisted for 2 interviews. Apparently my powerful resume(weee) editing plus quick sending helped her to be selected for both. i just hope either one is the right one for her.

and so the same thing goes on everyday just that different people approaches every now and then. The most problematic ones are always those under-qualified people because it's just so difficult to help them.

once in a while i will call ang bak bak for temp orders and we end up chit chatting. its just quite amusing how we ended up with the same job. ops controllers, note this may be our fate(except for dan and yc).

I really appreciate studying now because work is never so ideal as how we think it is. Despite the nice work location, nice attire (but terrible pay), studying in school is still the best i guess.

This job taught me quite some stuff - how to prepare a resume, what to look out for, things to do in an interview etc. well i will never be a perm consultant, thats for sure but despite this low pay i guess its the experience obtained is the only thing that can compensate for that.

but still i hope to go back coral and teach lol.

job, my life

2008-11-26T21:37:00.002+08:00

hi friends, for all your info i shall help to advertise: our ang bak bak is also working at recruit exp but at the branch in bishan. LOL. avs ppl are ending up there. mw and yh we are waiting for you two.yay.

anyway i'm so not meeting the quota required and i think i'm gonna get retrenched soon and i feel both happy and sad about it. happy because this job is not really for samaritans like me ;X and sad that i can't meet up to the required expectations. oh well lets see how it goes i got backup plans though so not much worries.

i got so many new things i wanna buy and there's sales now at my top 4 favourite brands. at the same time, the january japan trip is hindering my spending ability.

oh well, life is such a drag.

home alone

2008-11-23T22:41:00.003+08:00

hi blog, hi friends.
and so today is home alone day 3. a sincere thanks to my friends who accompanied me for the past few days for the mahjong and guitar heroes session. otherwise i think i would have gone insane.
anyway mom and dad are really stuck in some remote place in china without reception and sis is happily shopping in milan.
and now i got to wash my own clothings. zzz

life update

2008-11-19T21:27:00.003+08:00

life is not so ideal as it appears to be.
just when i thought my job was to help people find jobs, it seems there's more to it.

on the brighter note, i got the house and car , all to myself by this friday. mom and dad's going on a holiday and sis is on a flight to milan.

shucks i got to wash my own clothes. zzz

hotel626

2008-11-10T22:14:00.002+08:00

hi guys, if you got the guts, pls try this game
http://www.hotel626.com

its quite interesting. took 3 guys' guts and a youtube video to complete the game.
play in groups, remember to blast ur sound and switch off your lights.

Gant Fashion Show

2008-11-05T22:43:00.002+08:00

Raffles design institute organised a fashion show at bellini grande and vera was one of the organisers so naturally, mingmin, denice and i went to support her. i managed to drag terence along because he was being nice to accompany me. i ought to give some credit to him.

the tickets were rather expensive, at $30 dollars for this event. but we've heard it took close to 11 k to book the venue for say merely 3 hours? not including the hiring of the models etc.

and so the fashion show begins, some were naturally model callibre, and some were plain weird. anyway the brand of this line of clothing is Gant.

i think she's japanese and she posed right in front of me. YAY!
intially i have not heard of this brand before then i realised there were all over Takashimaya, paragon and lido. strangely, they focused on winter wear for this season even though its singapore.

we got really good seats despite coming late. We indirectly chased people off their tables because they were being nice and they gave up their seats to let us sit together.

mm and denice thinks he looks like victor. and i just realised it too.

and the lady in the middle is vera's brazillian model friend. finally i got to take a pic with her. hahaha!

she's really tall i think without her heels i'm still shorter than her. and another funny thing was she can't pronounce mingmin's name and calls her miu miu.

and so the day went on all night with sempang's prata for dinner and we had this catwalk forfeit for those who lost in a game. all 4 of us took turns to do eventually but i shall only post two of them .

that;s it for the night.

JLPT

2008-11-05T19:37:00.002+08:00

a letter came..

The Japanese Language Proficiency Test for level 1 and 2, will be conducted at Singapore Management University School of business.

YAY!
no more small seats and miserable toilets.

Big offer

2008-11-03T18:06:00.003+08:00

Hi friends,

Club 21 sale.

SEE, i'm sharing. it always happens at times when i having personal financial crisis.

mike team last outing

2008-10-25T15:28:00.004+08:00

as of now, i think i'm left with around 3 weeks to ord.
and so this is our last official team outing.
we finally got to play paintball!

the venue of the paintball is at OCC, and some pricing problem occurred and it was quite expensive. but we still continue anyway.

and so these are the before pictures

the person on our right is our big mini boss.

and after

there's some yellow paint on my hair anyway.

because i was too enthusiastic in winning i ran till i got a terrible migraine thereafter.

group pictures!

the charlie angel's pose

the rambo pose

and the i think i wanna kill you pose

and at night it was dinner.

this is a really sweet photo. especially with yc boyish smile and gary's innocence smile.

and so this denotes our last outing. ok and i finally did my part as a welfare IC. although its tiring and waste of phone bills doing all this planning but it was a good experience. well as what yc said, i think i need to feel important. haha

it was great working with this group of friends.

booked!

2008-10-21T21:37:00.002+08:00

thanks to mr teo, our flight to japan is finally booked. we even get to choose our seatings. apparently we got to sit 2 by 2 with an empty seat beside us. i hope a hot japanese sits besides me, yay.

i hate wire transfer to banks and i try to avoid doing that again. transaction costs so ex and so many details to check. furthermore the lady serving me keyed in the bank account no. wrongly ommggg.

and i finally got promoted. yes and they owe me april,may,june,july,august,sept,oct back pay. i feel really sorry for the rest of my team mates when they deserve to get promoted the most as compared to...

and its 21 days to ord!

stupid me

2008-10-13T20:48:00.001+08:00

i did the dumbest thing ever. i wrote the full address but i forgot the postal code. the worst among all things, the mail was meant to be sent to japan. OH NO!
i just hope they receive the stuff i sent.

sunday!

2008-09-28T23:21:00.002+08:00

recently i have not been going anywhere lately.except for the MANY birthday celebrations and one more coming up(wah lao i am freaking broke - why are there so many sept and oct babies????). other than that i've either been sleeping at home or going out to meet friends for dinner.

i'm so happy that i've finally passed my japanese listening and its quite a good score. It was an ego boost and i got to thank kurosagi and hana yori dango because i have been watching these drama series lately. but still i'm so worried for the upcoming JLPT.

my room is really in a horrific mess now. lots of forex note lying around. recently i have been quite paranoid because my indicators are not in sync with my prediction and i can't seem to figure where went wrong. but really,torrents do solve my problem and at least i do know where to start. i love file sharing.

life goes on

2008-09-24T22:54:00.002+08:00

recently i have been dedicating my life to forex. Been reading up endless pdf files,forums and installing programs, softwares and staring at graphs for whole 3 hours catching the right moments and studying trends. well fortunately, i do make some profits on the training account but i strive to do better.anomalies do occur which made me really stressed up all over again.

anyway the japan trip needs confirmation soon. and i can't decide whether i should visit universal studios at Osaka or not. how how how. money + planning = big headache.

resume

2008-09-18T22:37:00.002+08:00

my sincere thanks to Kavan, Qinxin, Xinwei, lester for their sample resumes which really helped in my application to the respective job agencies. anyway good news was 2 agencies actually replied but they put me on hold first because i have yet to fulfill my obligation to the country.

anyway i really envy sis now because she's in dubai. Dubai appears to be one of the dream destination i really wanna go because of the world reknown hotel burj al arab. Furthermore there's no other reason for me to travel there in the first place. one really embarassing thing was that neither of us knew what's the currency for dubai. we thought it was the saudi arabia riyal or something but it turned out to be the dirham. oh well we learn new things along the way.

anyway happy birthday to lester. and shucks we still didn't manage to eat kuishin bo.zzz

dental job

2008-09-11T22:34:00.002+08:00

my application for the dental assistant job had a reply.

"この案件は、すでにクローズとなっております。"
basically it means this job application is closed.

oh man, i was rather disappointed.
but still, this japanese correspondent was rather nice because he offered to help me find a job which suit my qualifications.

anyway i need help in writing resume. how do i even begin with?

jap

2008-09-09T21:12:00.002+08:00

i've realised my listening ability for japanese is absolutely bad. as long as any of them spoke very fast with some slang/dialect, i couldn't catch it at all. i;m very stressed about this since jlpt 2 exam is coming in 3 months time.

anyway one thing really amazing was most of the guys in the jap tour today carries a LV/Coach wallet. well some are real and some fake. there are even more obesessed than me. geesh.

ORD

2008-09-07T00:58:00.003+08:00

one of our team mates finally ORD-ed last friday and we had a dinner celebration with him on the day of our course graduation. honestly i feel kind of happy for him because it has really been a long wait. furthermore our work place isn't a good place to work in the very first place (during our trainee periods) along with some terrible people around like chucky.

and so i started counting down to mine and bak's turn which is coming really soon. somehow i do have mixed feelings about it, i hope the day comes soon and similarly, i hope it doesn't come. its like this 1 year plus in the flight is really long, along with all the friendship and bonding with the team members, its just down to this day when you no longer work with them and soon you have to re-socialise with another group of people at your new workplace/university. maybe i have become really lazy and i;m quite reluctant to readapt again. its quite tiring somehow.

well all good things come to an end. just hope the better comes along.

work

2008-09-02T22:22:00.003+08:00

i have been dreading to go to work these days. days pass by so slowly and it starts to get miserable. everyone starts to get lazy because after turning ops there isn't any obligation for us to do certain stuff but as a result soon we will start pissing each other off. oh well now things turned like this i wonder if whether its for the better or the worst.

however i laughed really hard today in camp today. our mike terror giles got this gooey wax sample from a certain magazine and claimed that it was nose wax/shit/sai/whatever its called. he started cleaning it off people bodies and the reactions were simply hilarious.

and on the brighter brighter note i finally applied for my dental assistant job. i hope they want me.

agnes b

2008-08-10T20:52:00.002+08:00

sis is going to graduate from her stewardess course and i felt it was only appropriate if my parents and i get a gift for her(since i never get anything for her on her birthday anyway). so for the very first time ever, i asked my dad to chip in for the gift. well as usual, being super stingy, it took me some time to persuade him to share for a designer bag. in the end we gave up and lied to him it was a PDA we are getting for sis.lol

mom and i went all the way to town to search for 2 particular agnes b bag. Other brands were not in our consideration because take LV for example, there are too many fakes around. burberry is too expensive for me, prada has so many similar copies and chanel has no distinctive features. miu miu is really good but it cost 1.6 k for a bag so no way. anyway it was great buying for sister because she was very touched as it was her first designer bag ever. being particularly cautious in her spending i think she would never buy one for herself anyway. The biggest rationale in buying this is because i was rather worried that other stewardess would be rather materialistic and they would start comparing their branded bags and i can't possibly let sis lose to them. what a great brother i am, hahahaha.

ok at least i got the super nice big paper bag from agnes b.

rant.

2008-08-07T19:43:00.002+08:00

a sign that shows i'm too long in the army.

I wrote LCP on my answer script today. ARGH. freaking embarrassing. i tried cancelling but i think there's still bits of it that's visible.

ok today was hell of a long day. 5 papers are one go, starting from physics, chemistry, english, math and japanese. i was playing guessing games for the sciences paper but guess what, my neighbours were doing so too lol.

the venue of the scholarship exam was at the japan embassy's conference room itself, which is really cool. i hope i can work there one day.

among the exam takers were 4 rjc students, 1vjc in uniforms, some hci students and many in home clothes which i don't know where they are from, plus the ns guys, like me who claimed they also didn't have enough time to study. lets hope its true.honestly, i don't put much high hopes on it.

monbugaskusho

2008-08-05T23:37:00.002+08:00

hi guys i'm screwed big time this time round.

this is what i've received from the japan embassy today.

"Dear Mr Ho,

Thank you for your interest in the Monbukagakusho Scholarship (Undergraduate Student for 2009).

I am writing to inform you that the examinations for the above scholarship will be held on (Thursday) 7th August 2008 at the Embassy of Japan, 16 Nassim Road, Singapore 258390. The exam timetable is attached. Please report to the embassy 10 minutes prior to the exam.

For your information, you can refer to last year’s examination papers on this website: http://www.studyjapan.go.jp/en/toj/toj0308e.html

Interview will be held on 14 August 2008 at the Embassy for shortlisted candidates only. The embassy will draw up a shortlist for the interview based on your exam results. You will be informed of the results by early next week.

Please confirm your attendance as soon as possible.

Thank you for your attention."

update

2008-07-29T21:32:00.002+08:00

recently i've been rather busy, preparing for the stupid exams and mugging all over again like some toad. dad and mom were so impressed when i actually managed to dig out all the notes again. my room is in a huge mess so i think adding the whole junk in didn't make much of a difference.

this is what's going on recently - Vera's birthday

i liked my disgusting kissing face so i shall not change and just take it from mingmin's blog.

yeah and my burberry rocks man. hahahaha. pardon me for my shameless comments.

and what else, i've watched the dark knight and i loved it. i felt that it was one of the better superhero movies.

to my friends who are in certain difficult situations. i'm sorry i couldn't hear you out or help you but endure through it will be fine soon.

and disclaimer: jellylegs don't photoshop my photos and superimpose weisen's face on mine.

japanese learning pack

2008-07-17T21:08:00.002+08:00

i stumble upon this japanese learning pack torrent which is a rather huge file, consisting of grammar books, dictionaries etc. a rather useful tool for any learners.

and then i saw this pdf file, dirty japanese.

haha i was laughing my ass off when i saw no.5. ok i presume all readers here are rather mature and understands that the purpose of reading such information are purely for knowledge.

and i just realised takuma was such an ass. he taught me some stuff which now then i realised what it meant.

hoho, some stuff you will never learn in class.

Jupiter - 平原綾香

2008-07-15T21:33:00.002+08:00

i'm in love with this song. and its so hard to find the mp3 i think i have to buy the single soon.

this day

2008-07-08T21:09:00.004+08:00

it was a total waste of time at work today.

all the paper work in the morning, the pseudo training that didn't take place in the noon and the conflict that occurred.

geesh.

i couldn't care less. i was really pissed but i realised what for, some people will just never change.

anyway happy birthday denice! i see you had a great time with min playing guitar heroes. Someone should really buy the rockband package soon.

back

2008-07-01T21:22:00.002+08:00

i've returned from bintan alone, yesterday, to attend the parade today which i find it unnecessary if i'm absent. honestly its a good day to go if there's nothing on.

bintan was great! i think its more important to go with the crowd you are particularly comfortable with, and with full time entertainers like mm, yx and andrei , you will never fail to laugh despite how boring the day might be.

a bad news i found out was that my cam only had 4 photos. all the good shots are in mm, vera's and jolyn's camera. so i gotta wait for them before any post can be created about the trip.

so in the meanwhile maybe i shall start on my team outing which was ages back. and the word maybe is highly doubtful because i'm simply too lazy and i'm preparing to watch private practice on starworld. bye.

140608

2008-06-21T20:31:00.002+08:00

this post was supposed to be published like last week, but as usual i'm either too busy or lazy + procrastination which resulted it being such an outdated post.

yay and i'm finally 20. hitting the first digit 2 didn't really impact me much, but it just feels strange, like there isn't this adolescent feeling anymore. and soon we will be FULLY responsible for all our actions
anyway it all started at 12 am, with all the sms wishes from all my friends. thank you very much for staying up so late.

and so the day starts at siusing's house because the main reason was i wanna play guitar heroes. well they bought me a cake which was supposedly a surprise but as usual i saw it but i feign ignorance and shock. haha thanks guys anyway.
and special thanks to mr oh sc, gladys, abi, shuli, yiling and shawn for the card. honestly i really love the card a lot because it has all the long essays of message behind. somehow it feels better than any gift bought but you can always buy me a burberry and i will love it too.
and thanks to all those around like oon, rachel, sweekheng, siusing, terence. a pity i didn't play mahjong with u guys because i think you guys will let me win on that day.

shawn playing guitar heroes and gladys in awe.
yiling doesn't give a shit and falls asleep. hahaha

grp photo

and dinner was with family. eventually i didn't go kuishin bo because of the I.T fair crowd and i end up eating zi cha. haha cheap and really good. dad and mom feels bad and so they gave me another red packet instead. sweet. oh and mom bought me a birthday fruit cake from angie choice - cake no. 2.

and so the midnight fun begins. i met lester, xinwei and veg first, and thereafter we went to katong to fetch houmeng. apparently he was carrying this big plastic bag from awfully chocolate.and before we go to sentosa, we caught the movie the incredible hulk which is at gv max. coincidentally , i got the same row like the time i went to watch golden compass with my team members. after that we went to cafe delma at like 2am. i think we almost fall asleep but adrenaline started rushing again when we were lost at sentosa lol. and i'm very touched that charn actually made an effort to rush down from simei at 3 am.

and so

cake no.3 from awfully choc.

well rather misleading, i think the waitress at delma was rather shocked because the gang started sprouting nonsense about my kid and i'm 30 and all those shit.

and finally the 2nd grp photo with this grp of friends.

and the day ends with this.

special thanks to veg and gang for all the planning. it was really fun. and i really appreciate this awfully choc cake.

and i forgot, thanks to vernise and xiujun for the movie treat the very next day.

korean food

2008-06-11T22:22:00.003+08:00

this is the very first time i ate korean food!
with so many veggies in each dish it wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. still there's this pancake that i think its rather nice and this pork like thingy which reminds me of 'kom bak'.
there's this dish with this strange name like

BU DE JI GE

reading in chinese sounds like inability to pass or something. a dish you should never eat before exams.

get me a kway teow mee anytime.

facebook

2008-06-09T20:54:00.002+08:00

recently, random south africans are adding me as friends in facebook. i sense no connection to them but these are random messages from them.

"Si this alden ho who was or is in sa, that spoke about 1 year to live?"
and " do you preach?"

oh well i didn't know i looked so holy to them. but the first line gave me the creeps.

anyway i went to google to find out what's going on, and then i realised there's this pastor by the name of alden ho and another who survived this plane crash.

GreeeeN - 愛唄

2008-06-08T01:29:00.002+08:00

one of the best songs for wedding ceremonies.

AiUtA - GReeeeN

GSS

2008-06-07T20:45:00.002+08:00

i just got back and luckily i went to orchard today to get my stuff. Hugo boss nearly gave me a shock when i thought my polo tee was gone and porter international had only one piece of the bag i want left. singaporeans are so rich, really. i have to plan, think and strategise for the stuff so i won't regret my purchase but apparently many are buying on impulse.
by the way, the D&G sale was nonsense. i felt i wasted my time.

off to the airport for coffee. byeeee.

GSS

2008-06-07T13:52:00.001+08:00

i wanted to post this sometime back but i totally forgot about it.

i hope i'm not too late

記憶

2008-06-06T01:40:00.002+08:00

俺にとって、人間関係も本当に複雑なことだった。友人は自分の面倒くせなことを言った、でも私も何もできないかもしれない。そんな無力は我慢しない、でもいいの状況になったを望む。

simple pleasures

2008-06-01T19:36:00.002+08:00

last friday was my final ops controller duty, through certain means i managed to get my dad's car and i drove a few of them to vivo city for dinner. well it was quite enjoyable but i always remember of the traffic jam i almost caused while turning into the junction yellow box. i kind of panicked but it was a moment of desperation.

we had a class gathering yesterday and unexpectedly it turned out to be quite fun. the mahjong table was a cursed table for men because the girls simply won everything. next was guitar heroes which was really interesting especially with the jerk movement and everything. according to guitar heroes - i rock!

GSS is really here and this time i'm so tempted by so many stuff - burberry, hugo boss polo tee, porter sling bag and ps3. i think i should start planning which i should priortize first. kenny was really scared of me because of the CK incident which i shall not mention.

and here i am drinking root beer float while typing this. sometimes life just feels good with such simple pleasures.

hair

2008-05-29T19:36:00.002+08:00

i went to cut my hair at some random neighbourhood saloon. when its done, the aunty ask me in chinese
"which secondary level are you at"

yo hoho! haha i don't have to fake that i'm a student. she assumed that i was. i did not cheat/lie in any way. well i saved 5 dollars today, and its another step closer to my burberry!

somehow i feel quite happy, but its quite depressing i look so boyish sometimes.

word

2008-05-24T13:39:00.003+08:00

we were having this speed typing contest in flight yesterday, and it came to the point whereby we were brainstorming for bombastic and long words to increase the difficulty of the challenge. and so we were deciding what was the longest word and this is what i found.
-picture from wikipedia.com

haha and so my floccinaucinihilipilification wins! the thing was i didn't know how to spell it. well mr teo was pro enough to spell antidisestablishmentarianism.

help

2008-05-20T20:58:00.002+08:00

i saved a lady today on the escalator. she lost her balance and held on to my crumpler. luckily it wasn't my armani tote or she would be in greater danger now.

random thoughts

2008-05-17T21:09:00.002+08:00

i was just wondering..

will feelings change over time?

will love replace filial piety?

will you protect the person who bore your existence or some stranger you really loved?

what is the intrinsic value of love then?

love shouldn't be blind. but the practicality of it contradicts the sanctity of its meaning.

ok, maybe i shall be celibate.

gradual changes of life

2008-05-15T22:09:00.002+08:00

what a terrible week but i'm glad i got a day off tomorrow, YAY. mom and sis is finally back from korea and i don't have to endure another terror of snore interruption from dad. whew.
anyway reluctant as i was to go to work today, i still didn't have much of a choice. the korean travellers were back at like 12 am i think and i just couldn't go fetch them because i was too tired. anyway Mom bought me a few burberrys (at least they spare a thought for me) plus some local jeans that cost 100 plus for a few holes!? how strange people perceived fashion these days. well i'm not complaining since its a gift for me.

anyway my big mouth resulted me being responsible for some wireless lan shit i need to check out tomorrow. furthermore i need to buy so many birthday gifts.

change of topic, the video below is an extract on what happened at eski bar last saturday. it was freaking fun because we were playing random games and we had to do really embarrassing forfeits like stripping the top and standing inside the freezing room in eski bar, kissing the cards and passing on and some other stupid games. just note that andrei and i didn't kiss, there was a card in between. so potential females please find us. hahaha.

clubbing

2008-05-10T18:07:00.003+08:00

after yesterday's clubbing, i've learnt several stuff.

1. clubbing without alchohol feels extremely strange, jumping around with a sane mind makes everyone else look ridiculous.

2. never reach home at 7am. we turned nocturnal plus everyone's in serious coma up till 5pm.

3. never wear prada or versace jeans to club. their brand coultres belongs to the really tight line and cause serious abrasion to the ass if anything is placed inside the pockets.

4. when in doubt, bring a camera. all for one , one for all. so one brought but no memory stick.

5. friendster's party are quite interesting, but we get lost at the 4th degree line.

Music station

2008-05-05T21:51:00.002+08:00

In this month of my favourite japanese variety show Music station, Leona Lewis was featured.
actually it's all thanks to mingmin and gang i got quite addicted to this song - bleeding love.

MESSY

2008-05-04T20:52:00.002+08:00

and so getting a car license seems to be a double edged sword, it gets too convenient which results in my atrocious spendings due to the high frequency of outings. But nontheless they are extremely fun like going for supper at 3am at blk85 after karaoke at orchard. i love such freedom, really.
but somehow i'm turning nocturnal, getting really strange sleeping timings, such as sleeping at 4am, waking around 9am, and sleeping in the noon again. what should i do..?

p.s. heck la. fun comes first. hahaha.

driving

2008-05-01T20:29:00.002+08:00

i passed my driving test recently, and it has been rather fun. i went to katong with lester and gang upon the 2nd day, and i require 4 people to aid me in the parallel parking. next was dempsey road with the AVS gang, it was rather stressful parking there with so many branded cars around. jellylegs still have to mention his denial of knowing me if i knocked into any of the neighbouring branded cars. geesh, thanks to them(especially dongs for drawing the map) i managed to go home successfully. Oh yeah and we finally ate the VERMONSTER from b&j.

sunday fun!

2008-04-23T00:07:00.002+08:00

once again i had really great fun with these bunch of best 'old' friends.

i'm too lazy to type at the moment so please refer to

http://princestsah.blogspot.com/

i will type my version when there's time and photos.

sale

2008-04-20T17:14:00.002+08:00

it was an eye opener for me yesterday at hilton hotel, with the postcard from club 21 informing me of the sale of club21 items.
firstly the crowd is madness. in my opinion, the amount of people depics the scenario as if the items are cheap as dirt but if upon observing closely, the cheapest item i got to check is at least 80 dollars and no one wants it. so basically, gauge for yourself.
items range from all top brands ranging from DKNY, D&G to miu miu. and so guys' jeans were a steal, jeans from DKNY,Jill sander, some strange exotic brand i forgot had jeans prices slashed from 800 plus to merely say 120. some looked really strange but i was rather shocked to see miu miu jeans for guys and i started digging like a mad man but to no avail. hahaha.
and shirts were really good stuff, they had this cK shirt with very good material that originally cost 3o0 plus to 100 but unfortunately there isn't any available any sizes.
and many middle aged male brand whores are there with their little kids. to make things more amusing, their kids are wearing burberry at aged 5.
i think the best part of the day is i finally got something from yohji yamamoto. yoo~

SALE

2008-04-15T22:11:00.001+08:00

Club 21 items, mainly DKNY, D & G having some sale at hilton hotel this friday, from 10am to 8pm. Opened to public on saturdays. Damn just when i thought i got member's entry and i got work that day. SHUCKS

new wishlist

2008-04-09T21:33:00.002+08:00

club21 just sent their newsletter a while back and there they are, promoting their new Giorgio armani -samsung phone.

damn, i really want this. for a while i thought it was emporio then i just realised its from giorgio. i must strategise how to get this. hmm...

fcuk

2008-04-07T20:32:00.002+08:00

this is one of my favourite photos so far.
FCUK fashion show.
and of course, thank you ladies for accompanying.

P.S. MM almost became french connection's covergirl .

good deed

2008-03-27T19:13:00.002+08:00

due to the fact that ms v went overseas, there are no photos available hence i can't do anything about the recent fun events. however something happened today and i did a good deed.

on my way back, it suddenly rained heavily and strong gust of wind were blowing in. there was this stall or something and the papers started flewing all over. i was thinking "well done suckers" but of course i'm not so evil. i just simply ignored lol. but then till it came this boy running to my side. i was queuing at the line for my bus anyway.

this young chap came running over and exclaimed " my paper, my paper". and judging from his speech and stuff, i guessed he's the "mentally - disabled" sort of kid. and seeing him panicking i simply went out of my queue, carrying my stupid fat bag , with the other hand holding newspaper, and bending all over to aid him in picking up 11 pieces of paper. the fact that the boy still said thanks made me rather happy, but i was pissed off with the people standing around me. bloody hell, their hands are so empty and they just can't help one poor boy. they still have the cheek to smile at me. idiots.

my apologies for such a rude post.

=)

2008-03-25T23:07:00.001+08:00

this few days i finally remember what "F""U""N" means. will post some pics online soon when i'm free.

i want to be with you.

2008-03-17T14:55:00.003+08:00

i'm totally in love with this song.

AMS dinner with double O

2008-03-05T22:25:00.002+08:00

i've been wanting to post this for some time. but i'm either too tired or too lazy, thankfully tomorrow off was given to us and yeah, blogging this came to my mind.

our squadron along with other bases decided to have this dinner, and its purpose is to commemorate the fusion of all these squadrons into one. although we are not the main lead, our purpose to go there is to look pretty, eat pretty and say hi.

majority of my team members. great people to work with. and most are too good to even begin with(as in behaviour).

with our specs and officer.

and yes the highlight is this tv. our friend mr jelly legs, this guy in the middle is the winner of the top prize lucky draw. although when i heard his name being called out, i was quite happy and cheered for him but soon after that i was scolding deep inside my heart why it wasn't me T_T.

and it was clubbing at double O.

yoo hoo. 3 shots made me so red. my tomato face is caused by my low alcohol tolerance plus super efficient capillaries. honestly after so many years there still isn;'t any sign of improvement. damn.

and i met mingmin kueky and leroy. i have no idea where is kuek at this point of time but its really great to see them.

mingmin's pretty friend.

i think i'm super high at this point of time.

and aha the highlight of the day. lt nick. drunk thereafter. actions unclear. tried to feed the cat bak kut teh. LOL.

JLPT

2008-02-27T23:37:00.002+08:00

The JLPT results are finally out. I think i'm the only insane person who dares to post this despite failing the exam.
The standard requirement from level 3 to 2 is really a big leap. i still can remember the 6 or 7 terror comprehension passages. After all these i find it quite demoralising, and i have to reconsider my applications for the EJU examinations and japanese speech contest. what can i say, i will retake once again this year.

i am not smart but no doubt i am ready to learn.

my tour group

2008-02-14T20:19:00.002+08:00

tuesday i had my first tour group and this time we had a fixed itinery. we were supposed to go to chinatown, little india and raffles landing place. and so our job is to bring them to the respective religious spots, explain to them about the culture and have a taste of our local food.

and so it all started at elizabeth hotel. i was observing how the group got allocated and through luck and certain means, i managed to get an all girl group. although there's this girl who's really cute looking at the other group i didn;t manage to get. shucks i should have waited longer.

anyway i got 3 girls - Kaori isshuga, yuki and yuka. basically Kaori looks like Jennifer loo no.2 and she'a as crazy as her. we had a lot strange fun activites like running to catch the trains, eating bak kua, going to different temples(i can't explain a thing except telling them that they are different gods). another interesting thing is how those specialised at aiming-tourists-to-purchase-shops attract them to buy those low quality products. the only thing i could do is stop them from buying.

it's quite fun being a tour guide for students but a really embarrasing thing was i got lost.

and i'm really happy that my japanese improved.

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