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Been quite a while since I update till Deb said this has nearly become non-existent. Just came back from guanyue (管乐）barbecue, it was very heart-warming for me to so many pple there. Seniors as old as 32 yrs old with a PHD teaching in NUS and juniors who are sec 2 next yr. Although there were only 4 of us from the same batch, its stil nice to be there though i wont dare to say the food is fantastic and it happens to be 丁老师 48th birthday. I chatted with some of the seniors who are busy with 狮城 prac, they asked me to pick up my instrument again and i prob used army as a convenient excuse. Honestly, i felt its realli quite a pity for me to give up something i have learnt for 4 yrs and playing for six yrs. Memories of playing in the 吹打 ensemble and the orchestra start flowing back...

Managed to catch the last train back home thanks to Desmond who lompang me to Kallang on his Honda Accord. COme on, someone one yr your junior has a license le and when are you getting yours? It was a long journey home and like to show my gratitude to Steph who called to talk. BEen accused of not mentioning her name in my previous entries..... She is someone whom i can click very well since JC days, there was always no fixed topic in our agenda, and we dun have problems talking for hours on the line (unless i say i need to Zzzz which always seem the case..) This friendship is at a very different level guess I will treasure this friendhsip cos as mentioned in her blog, a friendship between realli requires the 缘 factor which i truly agree.

Went to Jensen's 26th birthday party at Jupiter @ Duxton Road. That place is realli quite ulu and i took like 15-20mins to locate the place. Most of the HA guys were there and there was plenty of drinks: Vodka with orange juice, ribena, sprite. Ended up playing cards and singing karaoke plus drinking, kind of enjoyed myself till some one said i was drunk. Of course I said i wasn't but then i realised i was like talking very loudly. This "semi-drunk' feeling is rather shiok, its a state of mind which you still have control of your mind, with your body feeling warm, you let go of your emotions and i took the chance to thank darren for being the ever efficient HA clerk and good luck for his future endeavours during his term since it was also his ORD date that day. He was really of great help during my 1 yr term as coy clerk. Saw Ah Kong (the toolstore guy) too as he having his hols now and he studying in Curtin. Dint change much i shall say, friendly and generous. You know, If i have the money prob will go round Australia: Cheryl and Andrew in Melbourne, Siyu in Sydney, Kenneth + Ah Kong + Stelvin in Perth. So many pple to bring me around. Wei E is going Cornell, Peiyi may be going Manchester, Deb is going HK. I want to be take part in an Exchange too!

I dislike and hate people who don't trust me. Someone asked me for directions and when he finally reached the place after much difficulty, he accused me of givin him the "wrong directions" . He might as well not ask me and trust his own navigation skills instead. Jon accused me of aggravating the situation. Well guess I was trying too hard to help, again i stress its very tiring to be the patty between the two buns.

Quote of the day:
1) Some problems in life have a natural mechanism in which they will solve by themselves. Poking your nose into it may not be the best solution.
2) A moon in an overseas sky will always seem rounder.

真挚

真挚

一个人在夜深人静的时候， 我总会开始胡思乱想：人与人的关系环绕着一个‘缘’字，往往在天时地利，机缘巧合之下，才能结为朋友。朋友对于一个人来说，扮演着举足轻重的角色。他陪伴你走过人生最深的低谷，陪伴你走过生活中最灿烂的快乐时光。

一段真挚的友情，何必为了一件小事而大动干戈，大伤和气？周遭的人都以大费唇舌地冲当和事老，希望能化干戈为玉帛，但你们却坚持自己的立场，不想踏出第一步跟对方说话。夹在你们中间真的很累， 希望你们能促膝谈心面对面地解决这个所谓的小误会。

A car for 21st birthday

A car for 21st birthday

It was my Mum's 50th birthday on 27th. Phew she has lived for half a century, thankz mum for all the love and care you have showered me over these 20 yrs. I will try to be a 乖孩子（if i have not already been). Mum has worked for 32 yrs for the same company till she was retrenched early this year. Without her sheer grit and determination these 32 yrs to support the family, my family will prob not live in the house we stay in now, I will not be able splurge on good food and branded stuff as i occasionally do presently. Not to mention driving lessons and Jay's concert.Thanks Mum!

Jay's concert on the 27th was superb! I managed to get last min tickets @ $50 through yahoo auctions. My personal preference is 搁浅(oops not very sure wat the meaning is) its not realli the 主打，but he sang it realli well that night. There was this interlude where he played the piano with one of the members of 南拳妈妈, they were good too, excellent coordination skills etc. Sometimes i will envy pple who can play the piano, i mean its realli nice to be able to play a tune or two. Too bad i wasn't sent for piano classes when i was young?

It was also Xingda's 21st birthday on the 27th at chinablack which me and Vijay dint go. He needed to send Quincy home and I was prob too tired that night, dint join them at Chinablack. Sorry for not keeping the promise that I will be there, glad that the guys enjoyed themselves, dancing through the night. And i shall be 21 next year too, 3 mths away, so wat will i do to celebrate this special day?? i dunoe myself, a chalet so that i can invite everyone i know, barbeque, chionging or just a simple dinner with my close pals? Well, if you wanna ask what is the top of my birthday wish list, guess it has to be a car which i can call my own. (day-dreaming again...)

Supposed to meet up with Cheryl and Huishi since they are back from Aussie. Got some catching up to do with them, Cheryl was not feeling well, she went home without meeting Adel. Everyone still looked the same. i thought Huishi looked slimmer but i thought it was not worth mentioning. Had a good chat with Adel and Huishi at Gelare @ PS and Macs, updates on wats happening in our lives,laughing over the dumb stuff we did back in Dunman. Glad that the affinty between us is still there, prob have a christmas party in Cheryl house soon for a 2H get-together?

Quotes of the day:
1) Do not indulge in waffles and ice-cream @ Gelare just because it's a Tuesday.
2) Do not ask for a car when you don't even have a license (note that i did not say"Do not ask for a car when you cant drive")

同类

同类

雨後的城市　寂寞又狼狽
路邊的座位　它空著在等誰

我拉住時間　它卻不理會
有沒有別人　跟我一樣很想被安慰

風　停了又吹　我忽然想起誰
天　亮了又黑　我過了好幾歲
心　暖了又灰　世界 有時候孤單的很需要另一個同類
愛　收了又給　我們都不太完美
夢　作了又碎　我們有幾次機會　去追

不曉得為甚麼愛　又稀少又昂貴
雲在半空中　被微風剪碎
回憶也許美　可是正在飛走對不對

作曲：李偲菘 作词：易家揚


雄：这首歌想点给有时心灵孤单的你，希望你也有个同类来安慰

tHougHtS

Thoughts

Just some events that happened recently..

20th NOV: FIrst time at ChinaBlack, it was calvin's burfdae. Four of us got him a Fossil Watch, each paid $25. Every yr we have a tradition to get present for the birthdae boy and in turn the birthday boy will give us a treat. Think its the first time drank so much, hard liquor and beer together. Dun think i am drunk though, danced when the songs were good though realised something amiss, 65 percent of pple there were males. big big disappointment, reached home at 5 am on the trustworthy night rider.

22th NOV: My sis jio me to get my mum's birthday present. She is 50 this yr, present ought to be special, got her a diamond bracelet @ $500+. Hope she likes it, it burnt a hole in my pocket....

Thoughts: Days in camp seem to be longer after the air con broke down, apparently due to a rat biting the circuit board( it died due to electrocution). yeah i know some of u may think working in office is slack and stuff, well for me i get lots lots of arrows from diff pple, worst thing is that i dun get appreciated.
Looking at the countdown timer, i still have 152 days left. You may think that i am obsessed with this three letters ORD, indeed i am. I think SAF is sucking the life out of me: the feeling of being trapped, , so badly that i am suffocating. The dreadful feeling of going to camp, facing all the regimentation. the office politics within the company.

Read a fren's blog about him very busy with work. I left a message asking him how he was coping. His reply meant something like that he had left me as a fren is his "long distant memory". Those were his exact words, kind of sad to read something like that. i do not understand how noe can actually disregard someones friendship when one moved into another phase of his life. What i say is very ambiguous i think,but not in mood to write too much.

Quote of the Day:
1) Don't try to say you cant work in non-Air Con environment.

tHe uGly gAnG

tHe uGlY gAnG

I realised that someone who does not know me will not know me much better after reading this page, so this entry will be the first in a series to blabber about myself and the pple around me...
Being in the committee of the orchestra, i had this opportunity to make this great bunch of friends. Our first meeting together ended at like 10pm and we dint even come to a conclusion. We spent some of the Monday assemblies hiding in the Music Practice Room, for fear that Mr Kiw will just pop by somehow. Weekday afternoons were spent in the LT, playing different instruments: tree trying hard to play some notes on the flute, bear and boy on the piano under mongoloid's guidance... one by one i intro you the "ugly gang".(wondering how we get the name, cos of you TREE!)

Debbie aka ThamTham
No doubt the chief of the gang, she was always our dedicated chairperson, always focused and serious during our meetings. She never fails to command the respect of the committee and the rest of the orchestra. Thanks for always heading the organising committee for the chalet, the ugly gang realli bonded together during the chalet. Oh ya, something to mentino, she is a cleanliness freak, the one who will keep our chalet in spick span condition. Music wise, she plays the flute and plays many impt portions in the pieces we played for the SYF( which we became overall champions..)

Han Shuo aka laonuren aka HorseShit
Being the eldest person in our group, we give her the second nick, despite her age, she behaves the same way like everyone of us, if not more childish...(Oops, i am so goona get killed when you read this). She heads the erhu ensemble in DHS and is the shouxi of VJCCO ,and you have to admit she is good with her erhu， playing "The Ripe grapes" on it is one great feat! Hm, have to keep your promise that you be hosting us at Beijing for the 2008 Olympics. Really glad that your are coming back this Dec.

Yuwei aka SaNoSuKe_9 aka boy
Percussion Section Leader- Standing at 1.6+m above sea level,a responsible and musically inclined individual, he plays the role of spicing up things a little. We never fail to gossip all his latest juicy piece of news about his crushes and who is he after. One thing i must mention, this boy is hell lots of fun, remembered the time when we pon practice to go ESCAPE theme park along with Tree and Horseshit, we got ourselves all wet with "butterflies in Peiyi's stomach".However, this guy has already shed his image of the "boy" and has matured into a dashing young man. Oh ya, his mum makes realli good food, girls who wanna learn cooking, u know who to learn from.

Peiyi aka tree
Trying hard to rememeber how you got this nick, i think i must have been the culprit.This nick is gonna stay with ya for as long as you live... She plays the Pipa ， so we sometimes call her the pipajing. She screams and shrieks for the slightest of reasons, but well as long as there is this guy who loves her for some reasons( which i have been trying hard to know why), guess there is no big deal. An aspiring young engineer who posseses the thirst for new knowledge, coupled with her determination and faith, one wont be surprised she will be a successful careerwoman 10 yrs down the road. One word of advice though: If u wanna learn cooking, can learn from yuwei's mum.

Cheryl
Hm, dint realli have a nick for ya. The sleeping beauty back in then in our chalet, we cant deprive this girl of her beauty sleep in our chalets, by 10pm, it wont be suprising to see her in a corner of the room, dozing off.Personally, I have known her for like 8 yrs since Sec1. With her ability to relate to others and empathising people's problems, she is able to have many close acquaintances. I could still vividly remember the letter she wrote to me before she went to Melbourne, it was just very heart-warming to read that again. The CNY gathering and the steamboat dinner which you organised in your house was great, looking forward to you being back in Singapore, hopefully HS is back so that the ugly gang will reunite once again

Colin aka Ah Chio aka RainDragon
Armed with his floppy hair and dashing good looks(which he claims he look like Leonardo Di Caprio), he never fails to attract members of the opposite sex. However, over the years, he seemed only to have eyes for that special one. A dynamic and fun-loving person, there was always something missing in the clique without him around. Though not in the committee, he gave comments and opinions and often offer an insightful view of how certain activities organised by the committee could be carried out. After obtaining his driving license, he makes it a point to send all the people in his car home, right to the doorstep, thats wat i call a gentleman!

XiongXiong aka the Bear
Hey ya thats me! I was the Quarter Master back then, not that certain that i did a great job, but working with this group of wonderful of pple was a highlight for my days in Dunman.I can never bring myself to forget the experiences we shared during chuguo, the joy and the laughter when we organised kangle, the perspiration and even the tears( abit exaggerating) when we won the SYF （pverall champions）. Thank you you guys out there who have left footprints and walked this journey with me, it has been an enriching and fulfilling one.

Quote of the day:
1) Cherish your friends around you at this moment. Things change, people change and memories are the ones that remained etched in your mind forever.

singapore idol

sInGaPoRe iDoL?

Once again, I have to than Peiyi and Jon for helpime finetune ng the layout of this bloggie of mine. Well, you cant blame me, i am a greenhorn in HTML coding, dint pay attention back in sec 2, was always chatting on MIRC behind the teacher's back. Once again, my greatest gratitude to dearest tree and JonJon.

Was watching the episode last night-somehow the much awaited episode-Asian Pop but i think it was a disappointment.I realised that the standard for this competition aint very high(i know i am not in a position to say smth like that) I personally support Sylvester and think Olinda is good but this question suddenly appeared in my head..."Can the winner of this competition represent Singapore on the International Stage?" Pardon me for saying this, "they may just be a disgrace to Singapore". Any comments, anyone? Well perhaps one of the judges, Florence Lian made some sense when she said that Sylvester prob can make it in the Chinese music industry, after fellow Singaporeans like Stef Sun, JJ have made it big in Taiwan.

Well, again, in a competition like this,like many other things in life, i guess it is the process that is most important that the result. The learning experience is often valuable where one acquires new skills and make new acquaintances, just like being in the Army,being in the Uni etc. Something that happens today will become your memory tomorrow, cherish every moment spent with your loved ones, your friends, your family before they become memories...

Quote of the Day:
1) "If you yourself can't sing, do not comment that others sing like crows"

mY fIrSt eNtRy

Hey guys, the long awaited first entry is here and firstly I need to gave total credit to Jon who got me started with this blog. I guess many of you guys out there have found blogging a chore or for watever reasons stopped blogging, well for me i take is an opportunity to learn HTML and prob let my frens out there know more about me.

The weather seemed all bright and sunny as I was making my way to BBDC for my driving test... "Warm-up was okay, circuit no problem, just need to keep a safe following distance" was wat my instructor told me and there was this premonition b4 i finished the warm-up, a single of rain-drop fell on my windscreen...

The tester was one of those old man from TP department, bulging belly and stuff, but looked rather harmless.

Circuit courses dun seem to trouble me as much as b4 as i eased through it, making minmal mistakes b4 my road test began. As the clouds up there got heavier, sky got greyer, rain drops started pouring down. I wont describe it as a downpour but you can say its like a "heavy drizzle". Then came this green taxi (belongs to a new company , dun know the name though) who stopped by the road in front of me to pick up a passenger. Somehow, the person dint board the cab, the worst thing is that the cab just dint move on and i was behind. Momentarily, I thought that the cab was moving off so i just stopped there; it dint dawn on me that it was prob on call or smth. By the time I realise that, I was already too close to the cab for me to change lane and things start screwing up from there.

Guess all of you will have known the outcome of my first driving test, one most irritating thing is that i have to deposit close to $300 dollars to book the next test date which will be in Jan 05. Sigh.
Going off for Seow Ping Jie's farewell dinner which cost me $25 at Turf City, hope it does not disappoint.

Quotes of the day:
1) " If money is an issue for you to learn driving, go look for a private instructor"
2) "Do not try to blame the rain if your driving sucks"