My 24th Birthday!

Hmmm..Yesterday is my 24th Birthday!~3rd time having it overseas but 1st time having it cold and lonely.

Working in the morning and luckily having a chance to meet up with my client for a short while so I got a early off~ In the afternoon, my colleagues drove me out to eat the mini dumplings soup that came to my surprise. Before work, I told myself that no matter how I will not take the company lunchbox...then they told me let's eat out! Hahha..but none of them know that yesterday is my bdae!....

Decided to meet my landlord up at night so I just strolled around my client surrounding and didn't realise to walk to the Yunnan Food Street where I got to eat my favourite Uyghur Mutton Kebabs and the naan! Each at RMB3. I grabbed 2 sticks and 1 naan and practically filled my stomach and satisfied my crave! Moving on and passing by Zara, since there was a sale, so walked in and got myself a dark blue cardigan to match my flowery top. My current black cardigan is quite wash-out so my 1st bdae gift! Walking on, Raffles City is just a stone throw away in which had this idea to get myself a slice of secret recipe cake! Went to the shop, in front of me is the neat displays of slices. MmmMmmm...make the decision to get a carrot slice since I had tried the normal slices...shall tried something new!

With that, I headed home to get my parents to sing a Bdae song to me via Skype! Singing...and pretending to wish and blow a fictitious lighted candle indeed delighted me!

Wishes from 178 FB wall posts, 7 FB mgs, 5 smses, 2 emails, 7 人人 wall posts, 2 人人 mgs, 1 bdae call, 3 long bdae msn chats, 7 开心网 wall posts, 2 unarrived bdae cards, 2 unarrived bdae gifts... =D also Wishes from New York, Canada, Thailand, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka...! Really glad and warm my heart in this chilly weather!

Coincidentally, my neighbour whom is my landlord's eldest sis had her lunar bdae same day as my 'english' bdae! =D hahha!...so ending my day with a homely chat at her house...

And today...then my china manager on seeing my msn status wish me Happy Birthday! Wow..that's indeed very nice of him! as well as today went out to eat a nice lunch + early release from work! So...seem like the 'aftermath' of birthday is well better than the actual day?

24th is indeed only 24 hours. I find it short and how i hope can be longer~~ waiting to have my lunar bdae on the 3rd day of CNY with my family~ =D

Taking this chance to Thanks everyone for your wishes!!!

20-Days Graduation Trip Itinerary (20th May to 8th June)

Our Luggages! Let's GO!

Day 1 - Transit Tour at KL at Petaling Jaya and KLCC by Wern Chiat
Day 2 - Transit Tour continued at KL town until the evening flight to Chengdu

Picture taken of us at the desserts stall in KL

Day 3 - Chengdu Tour: Chunxi Road 春西路 & Jin Li Street 锦里
Day 4 - Leaving Chengdu via train and have the Chongqing Tour: Foreign Street 洋人街，Jiefangbei Pedestrian Street 解放碑商业步行街，Chao Tian Men 朝天门
Day 5 - Chongqing Tour: Ci Qi Kuo Ancient Street 瓷器口镇街 before leaving back to Chengdu

Picture taken of us relaxing at a Teahouse in Ci Qi Kuo Ancient Town at Chongqing and before Xie wei left us to fly to Shanghai

Day 6 - Chengdu Tour by He Shu before flying to Lijiang from Chengdu

Picture taken before Susan left the team for Singapore and the rest of us flew to Lijiang at Chengdu Airport

Day 7 - Lijiang Ancient Town Tour 丽江古城游
Day 8 - Ancient Tea Trade Horse Route Horse Tour 茶马古道骑马行 & Lashihai Plateau Wetlands Provincial Nature Reserve Boating Trip 拉市海船夫划船行
Day 9 - 古镇游: Lion Mountain Park 狮子山公园 -Naxi Building, Aeon Tower 万古楼，Jade Spring Park 黑龙潭
Day 10 - 古镇游: Mu's Residence 木府 and watch the cultural show 丽水金沙
Day 11 - First Bend of the Yangtze River 长江第一湾 & Tiger-Leaping Gorge 虎跳峡
Day 12 –Shangri-la Tour 香格里拉 Roadtrip：Songzanlin Monastery 松赞林寺 - 世界上最大的转经桶, Gui Shan Park 龟山公园，Shangri-la Ancient Town香格里拉古城
Day 13 –Shangri-la Tour 香格里拉 Roadtrip：Shika Mountain 石卡雪山 also know as Blue Moon Valley 蓝月山谷

Picture Taken at Shika Mountain at the temperature of minus zero deg. cel. with our thick rented winter clothings!

Day 14 –Visit to 束河古镇 & 茶马古道博物馆 via 1 hour cycling journey
Day 15 –Visit to Bai Sha Ancient Town 白沙古镇 & Bai Sha Murals 白沙壁画 via 2 hours+ cycling journey
Day 16 –Visit to 束河古镇 via Taxi

Picture taken before we reach Shu He Ancient Town with our bicycles!

Day 17 –地震带在玉龙雪山县，Shu He Ancient Town 束河古镇 Private inn
Day 18 – Chengdu Tour: 荷花池 + Homestay at He Shu’s house
Day 19 – Homestay at He Shu's house + He Shu’s stolen wallet that lead to visit to police post, police station, police headquarters + delayed flight from Chengdu to KL due to plane accident

Homecooked Dinner with He Shu's family

Day 20 – Took the assigned flight back to KL and managed to catch connecting flight to SG --> Reaching Singapore before midnight!

Friends met during the Flight Delay at Chengdu Airport

My Graduation Plan

I would like to announce my Plan for my Graduation!

Last NTU Examination (hopefully!) - 22nd April 2010 to 30th April 2010

'Exams-end' Celebration Dinner at Little India - 6th May 2010

FYP Presentation Day - 11th May 2010

Star Cruise trip to Redang Island (with uncle's family*)- 12th to 14th May 2010

NYC MSYC Residential Planning Camp - 15 & 16th May 2010

My Long Awaited Graduation Trip (with my LDP kaki*) :
20th to 21st May (transit in KL),
21st to 25th May (Chengdu & Chongqing),
25th May to 5th June(Yunnan, Dali, Lijiang),
5th to 7th May (Chengdu), 8th (return to SG)

NYC MSYC Actual Trip - 12th to 20th June 2010

Go to Susan's house in Indonesia - late June 2010
*jus happen to talk about this... if she and I haven't start work

Job Starting... - July 2010 onwards

NTU Convocation Ceremony - 28th July

NTU MAE Graduation Dinner - 30th July

KL/Ipoh Adventure Trip (TBC) - late August 2010

Recess Week Getaway 2 to Bali - 15th to 17th October 2010

Relocated to China for Work - October 2010


*MYSC - M'sia-Sg Youth Camp

Hmmm...My planned Grad Trip Part 1 (lead by Xie Wei) & 2 (Lead by He Shu)- China, Grad Trip part 3 - Redang, Grad trip part 4 - MSYC, Grad trip 5 - Indonesia(if have), Grad trip part 6 - adventure trip(if have), Grad Trip Part 7 - Bali

Invitation to a Talkshow - Mad About Singapore’s Collectors

I'm invited to a talkshow organised by National Library Board via my blog and I'll be speaking about my favourite Hello Kitty!

See the details of the event as below:

Mad About Singapore’s Collectors

Saturday, 13 March
10.00am - 12.00 pm
level 5, Imagination Room,
National Library Building

Do you know of anyone who collects bones or would like to meet such a person? Why do some people collect things that others deem as junks such as tyres, old banners and the likes of it? What are some of the nostalgic values behind some of the oldest toys ever collected in Singapore & find out the stories behind the production of vintage toys – some of which reflects the economic situation in various eras? Find out more on the Hello Kitty phenomena that once took Singapore by storm!

In our upcoming episode, Mad About Singapore’s Collectors, we take a look at some of the weirdest collections ever made by our Singapore collectors.

Due to limited seats, registration is required and can be made via http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg/Event.aspx?EventID=31788


About the speakers:
Didier Ng is a creative artist whose artistic works caught the attention of award-winning hospitality brands such as Banyan Tree where her works are sold. Using recycled materials and innovative processes; Didier’s works are both creative & quirky.

Mr Chang is a toys collector whose personal toys collection has span more than 25 countries and over 100 years. He founded the Mint Museum of Toys, which houses a fraction of his toy collections. Be inspired and feel nostalgic by the rich display of the toy showcase in the museum. This includes limited collections of Tin Tin toys, Popeye & other vintage collectables.

Mr Bony Sim collects bones as a hobby. His collections, which include monkey & wild boar skulls, are part of his educational tools. Established as Uncle Bony’s Outdoor lab, the skeletons are used during educational talks, which he frequently conducts at schools.

Ms Sherri Tan is a mechanical engineering student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) & is a huge fan of Hello Kitty. She has been collecting the Hello Kitty merchandise since she was in primary four.

LDP CNY cum Graduation Dinner - Journey in LDP

(adapted part of my informal 'speech') Way back in the year 2007, I graduated from my course, Quality Management & Engineering in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. I was waiting anxiously for my results from NTU & NUS applications. Right then, I applied for my desired course, Industrial Management in NUS (1st choice for NUS). My 2nd choice for NTU Mechanical Engineering (which is 1st choice for NTU). The results are out… I was not offered Industrial Management instead Business Administration. And I know this course is rather hard to get in as the poly students would know need at least a gpa of at least 3.6/4.0 to get in. NTU gave me my 1st choice, Mechanical Engineering. This course would only need a gpa 3.2/4.0 to get in.

So, I went for the MAE Welcome talk and get to know about LDP. After talking to Prof Chui about LDP, I decided to give up Business in NUS in which all my friends objected my decision. They scolded me why give up such a good course for a lousy course! And NUS is way better than NTU… Then, I didn’t regret the choice I made.

On the few week of school in NTU, I was sick and my close friends went to NTU MSE/EEE, NUS or SMU courses. I had my poly coursemates with me but our timetable turned out to be different. I couldn’t catch fully what the lecturers taught as I was from a non-mechanical background in which worsen my illness. I think I’ve mild depression where I cried every night.

Ahhh! Then, I received an email from MAE office for the invitation to join LDP and attended the LDP Introductory Talk. Back then, I think my benefactor is Susan. She was kind enough to give me her hp no. during Orientation Day. I got to know from her the information about LDP and schoolwork via sms. With her support and my friends’ support, I decided to fight against stress and persist on. I applied and got into LDP after the interview. And that’s how I am there for the Orientation!

After recess week, I did have the thought of giving up my university education. Guess what? Project L.O.V.E 2007 to Neijiang China gave me the strength to continue as NTU is not always about studying; I could enrich myself with other activities. Yuli who was the Asst. Team Leader for Project L.O.V.E 2007 offered to help me with my modules before exams and I managed to clear my exam. My 2nd benefactor! The Project L.O.V.E team gave me the opportunity to be part of the secretarial team. It’s indeed a team of love as what I have seen. Everyone works closely like a big family. And that’s when I get to know more LDPians besides Susan and Yuli. During the trip, the team was bonded more closely.

Unlike my 1st community service trip to Thailand during my poly days, we were treated as adults and leaders. In the different departments and the group collaborations of classroom teaching and science exhibitions, we are expected to initiate and take the lead to come out with the best plan. “We’re old enough to think for ourselves!” that was muthiah and jarrod’s favourite phrase. The 2 leaders only reminded us the rules and regulations for only once. Then, we must uphold their trust on us. Effective decision-making and communication skills were practiced during nightly short meetings. I still remember the serious case of ‘students requested for autographs’. Technically, we shouldn’t give the autographs as it would affect our plan. Muthiah brought up his view - we should! as we could give hope to each of them to work hard! One by one, all state our views. Our decision is that we would only give autographs after our science exhibitions. And definitely, not forgetting the experience of the local culture eg the nice nice food & warm hospitality and backpacking R & R experience.

My next project is my own department, T & D project, Coaching workshop conducted by LDP seniors lead by Kelly (who was the T & D dept head). I had to work with a completely different team and also the very very experienced seniors. It was my 1st workshop but not the usual one as in engaging external trainers but getting our very own LDP trainers. The whole course benefitted me a lot in the way of learning what is coaching, learning the various presentation styles from the seniors, pick up a new set of team management and knowing more LDPians.

In Yr 3, I took up the LDP main com post as Honorary General Secretary and initiated the UNI-For-The-New-U Programme. It was a programme being adapted from the previous committee tutoring sessions for polytechnic students. We had weekly tutoring and also mass lectures for the yr 1 and yr 2 direct entry students. Aside from these, we had an recess week event of having the honor to invite Prof Chou to share his studying skills when he was a student and the yr 3 & 4 to share on their exchange and OIA experience. The programme was then carried to Peer tutoring under Kok Hou and his acad dept. The whole project was a success and I was fortunate to have Rudy Herianto as my asst team leader who helped and supported all along.

Top on of that, I also took up Vice-Chairperson in NTUSU BP Mentoring. In the post, I did apply what I have learnt in LDP especially the operational model in LDP in having workshops to train my mentors. (speak abt photos) Then, my batch of LDPians were just like me taking up main committee positions like Susan took up President for LDP and Vice-President for Food Aprecio Club, Xie Wei - Vice President for Toastmasters’ Club, He Shu - Vice-President for MAE Club, Bao Shin – IT Director for Investment Interactive Club, Boon Yen – PR Asst Head for LDP, Yee Loong – Centre Head for WSC RSP and Yan li & Boon Inn - the few LDP events IC There were also some who had stepped down from their posts like Yuli – Vice President for LDP & Project L.O.V.E 2007 asst team leader, Yiliang – PR Head for LDP, Kelly – T & D head for LDP, Jason - Hon gen for Hall 16 JCRC, Parvathy - Treasurer for LDP & Project L.O.V.E 2007 team leader

As a hon gen, I made the efforts to know at least 80% of all LDPians since I was the ‘spammer’ to inform of events and workshops. That’s when I was even closer to LDPians. I always maintain my beautiful attendance close to 100% in LDP activities to set a good model to all and always fulfilling my job as a hon gen to take attendance.

Then, I continued to join Project L.O.V.E 2008 to Baray, Cambodia and until the recent Project L.O.V.E 2009 to Wenxian County, China (speak about the photos). Hahha! I was wondering who can break my consecutive records for Project L.O.V.E(s)!

Besides that, we, the LDPians also initiated our very own outings like Homestay trips in Malaysia and China, Tioman snorkeling trip, impromptu JB trips and in the recent weekly badminton sessions at this function hall! ~~LDP events and private bonding events…

My NTU life evolves round LDP so I was wondering what my life would be without LDP! My story is just a chapter out of many other chapters of stories to be shared by my fellow graduating LDPians. Do take your time to hear from them of how we benefit from LDP, what activities we will miss after we left... and I think we all are going to miss LDP Room the most! The place where we study, we mug, we spend our short breaks in between lectures, we cook supper and desserts, we play games, we sleep, we have meetings, we HTHT, we get to know more LDPians and many more…

On behalf of the Graduating LDPians, I would like to say a big thanks to LDP for giving a whole list of wonderful memories and equipped us with skills to prepare us for our future career. Also a big thanks to all Professors who assisted us especially Prof Chou who see us grow in LDP. Also a big thanks to the LDP committee for planning our graduation dinner very well! And to the juniors, do cherish your moments with LDP and I believe you might benefit more than me!

My 23rd Birthday!

This year seem to a year full of surprises with 63 facebook wall bdae wishes + 5 email bdae wishes + 30 sms bdae wishes + lot of verbal wishes! 1 cake cutted on 29/01 & 2 cakes cutted on 31/01 and all 3 cakes came to me of a total surprise to me!

I organised a Room Warming Party with my uni clique, LDPians on 29th Jan 2010 before the weekend march in! We've a Night Picnic Session behind SSC (by the walkway) just in front of the scenic night scene from NTU to jurong Island! Ramanan had to leave just when we started the picnic and the crowd started to get bigger with more ldpians joining in. Sitting by the picnic mats were...Sean, Roy, Zhimin, Jasmine, Hui Qun, Yun Qing, Gerry, Ma Jie, Xie Wei, He Shu, Boon Yen, Yuli, Shah Kiat and Swee Tim! I had prepared my only-know-how-to-bake-that brownies with vanilla ice-cream (in which goes with sean's vodka is nice nice), cakes, titbits, ice lemon tea-ju hua tea-green tea drinks, my favourite brown brother dessert/light wine, a whole chicken and ... Eating and chatting with the light breeze blowing onto our faces! so nice! Sean also dare me to pop a 1/4 cup full of gin in! I did it but it was 'spicy' as in burining my throat! Soon grace here with her handmade cookies and a pack of biscotti for me too! And the climate came when Christopher (little chris) and Huang Xu appeared with a bengawan solo coffee cake with lighted candles from the back! Ahhhh! Surprises! I really didn't foresee this will take place. Indeed, touched my heart! And all of them sang the bdae songs in english, chinese & malay...My smile was like swaying from right to left trying to give the biggest and nicest smile to appreciate everyone efforts while trying my very best to keep my tears inside the eyes. In LDP tradition set last year, the bdae girl/boy must sing bdae song to themselves! So...Happy Birthday to me...and so more...! After the caking cutting ceremony, everyone ate the cake and soon let's pack and go on to the next programme! Some have to leave...

We then marched to my Hall 4 Room through the SSC stairway, along the nanyang lake and in front of Yunnan Garden and still up the stairs to the 5th level! Here my room! I've prepared the lucky draw presents from 1st to 10th prizes. Here we were...getting the excited abt which prizes they were getting just like X'mas! After that, all simply just chill-out at the room with HTHT session and susan came! Abt 1.30pm we went back our room and i got my new roomie for the night, Yan Li! hahaha!

On the actual day (31/01), I decided to turn up for the NYC camp Day 2. And didn't expect them to have a bdae celebration for the bdae babies! So the whole camp sang bdae song to me and another girl from other group! Before that, at the introduction session with my fantastic team, Rojak, everyone reveal their age... and I announced:" Since you are turning 21 this coming date...I'm 23 today!" in which shocked all of them! I didn't regret going to the camp as it was so much fun. My team excel in a team planning exercise of planning a 6 mth activities with a beneficary and getting a sponsor of $5,000 in just 3 hours.

After the camp, heading home and after mummy's home-cooked dinner with a range of my favourites, Zhimin appeared with Kailin and Norman with a cake at my doorsteps! Wow! That's the 3rd surprise! And ahhh! Chocolate Indulgence! my 2nd favourites of four leaves cakes! 1st is Coco Delight. They really shock me! Kailin and Norman went off 1st and me and zhimin had HTHT session! She also helped me to design my Guestbook for my Room Warming.

All should be curious why I try to discourage the idea of bdae gift giving after 21st bdae. To me, I feel after the large expenses for 21st bdae gifts to friends...there's no need to give anymore as all are grown-ups adults le! Jus a simple dinner or a simple cake or preferrably a simple card...will have the same effects as the gfts! This gift-giving culture might worsen friendships in a long term...I mean to me....! hahah!

All in all, I've a happy satisfying excellent marvellous fantastic 23rd Birthday! Really enjoyable, really surprising, really interesting and really touching! =D Thanks each and everyone!




Room Warming cum 1st Surprise Celebration facebook album:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=198985&id=647364967&l=c891868f46




NYC Recruitment Camp 2nd Surprise Celebration facebook album:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=199019&id=647364967&l=4867ea3788




3rd Surprised Celebration by zhimin & kailin and a surprise gift from grace facebook album:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=199020&id=647364967&l=cd28e660b9

Project L.O.V.Es...The 1st time(s)

In particular to this year Project L.O.V.E, I've a lot of 1st time experiences:

*this blog contents came directly from my journal written during the trip.

1) Accumulated 38 hours of long distance bus ride: Taking a 15 hours bus trip to Wenxian County + 15 hours also back to Chengdu + 4 hours to Jiu Zhai Gou Lake + 4 hours back to Wenxian County

2) Taking a travelling bus with 3 rows of double-decker beds and no shoes allowed!

3) Host got us a nice hotel to stay in which is the nicest out of the 3 other trips that I went! This gave us energy to conduct the community work everyday.

4) Getting winter clothings (2 jackets for $30+ each after discount, 2 long john with 10% cashmere at RMB 158 each for myself and aunt)

5) Jiu Zhai Gou Lake is a magnificient tourist site in which everyone is bewildered by its natural beauty especially the 'cool beauty' in the winter

6) Try a lot of local dishes and my favourites are xue mo (a dish whereby fried slices of pig blood mixed with wheat flour is cooked with pork), xiao long buns, chuan shao (bbq sticks of delicacies like satay - especially bbq rabbit meat and mutton), tang bao (soup dumplings) and more...

7) Very hungry until very full due to the warm hospitality from the hosts to treat us 20 course meals

8) Join the rocket team for the school mass experiments out of the 3 Project L.O.V.Es

9) teaching with George (from India) and Ma Jie (from China)

10) following freshies (Christopher, Jean, George & Swee Tim) for Project L.O.V.E 2009 'extend' and definitely extend the trip from 10 days to 14 days

11) Visit friend's house in China and eat with his parents and the friend is Yunqing! His house is just like the 4 or 5 rooms flat or condo style apartment.

12) Taking a 4 hrs 'hard seat train' and slept very badly. The seat is 90 deg and with a bit of cushion.

13) Taking a 12 hrs 'hard bed train' and slept very well! In each carriage, there should be about 8 - 10 rows of 'thrice'-decker beds

14) Compensate S$90 for the 'extend' by changing the date of the air tickets but it's super worthwhile!

15) Get to know friends on the train and really becomes very good friends! They are Xiao Sa & Sis Hai Yan) They are so kind to bring us around.

16) Adding Chongqing and Xi'an to my list of 'Places I have travelled'

17) Eating a wide variety of fast food like KFC, MacDonalds, Subway, Bestfood...(very different from singapore like they use chilli powder instead of chilli sauce and KFC got egg tarts)

18) Taking public bus in Xi'an and have to pay the conductor the bus fare. By taking the public buses, a lot of tourist destinations are 'reachable' with cheap bus fare!

19) Surprised to discover they also have so called 'the ez-link card system'

20) Taking 2 connecting flights to (SG -> KL -> Chengdu) and fro with 3 connecting flights (Xi'an -> Chengdu -> KL -> SG)

21) been to 3 train stations in China (Chengdu, Chongqing and Xi'an)

22) seen muslims in China and been to muslim street in Xi'an

23) took a taxi to airport at RMB 140

24) miss flight from Xi'an to Chengdu! Mighty Chris manage to get the next hour flight tickets for us at no extra costs incurred after begging the airline staffs. And none of us are angry or anxious. Guess what! We are excited that we miss flight and it's the 1st time in our lives!

25) rush within half-an-hour to check-in for flight (Chengdu to KL) after alighting from another plane (Xi'an to Chengdu) and we make it!

26) Taking China Eastern Flight in which it's rather shaky but supply bottled drinks and hot tea

27) Christmas Day Countdown on the Airasia Plane and especially the plane is inclined to take-off!

28) Christmas Exchange (proposed by jean) on the plane & on the day itself (just nice at 12am+)

29) a lot & a lot of H-T-H-T sessions throughout the whole trip!

30) overturn a plane set meal & was offered a crew meal for free!

31) try airasia plane mel sets - Smoked BBQ and Chicken Rice

32) twice on AirAsia new plane, AirAsia XL with touch screen TVs & confortable leather seats

Actual itinerary including the 'extend' part

Day 1 - Travelling from Singapore to Chengdu via 2 plane-trips and stayed overnight at Chengdu near the bus station
Day 2 - Travelling from Chengdu to Wenxian by travelling bus with double-decker beds for 15 hours
Day 3 - Reaching Wenxian. Meeting the education board officers and personnels for media conference and then have cultural exchange with wenxian no. 1 sec sch
Day 4 - English teaching & Science exhibitions at 2 schools - bailin sec sch & another sec sch
Day 5 - Giving out stationery kits and thick thermo blankets to the students in Guan Jia Gou pri sch + cultural exchange with them. Also, visit the nearby houses to give away thermo blankets. In the afternoon, engish teaching & science exhibitions at Cheng Guan no. 1 pri sch
Day 6 - English teaching & Science exhibitions at Ai Yi Pri Sch. In the afternoon, adventurous trekking up the bai yu mountains
Day 7 - English Teaching & Science Exhibitions at Cheng Guan no. 2 pri sch
Day 8 - R & R at Jiu Zhai Gou Lake
Day 9 - Travelling from Wenxian to Chengdu via the 15 hours bus trip
Day 10 - Exploring Chengdu by going to Wu Hou Shrine, Jin Li street, Poet Du Fun garden, Kuang Zhai Alley, Panda Breeding Ground and Chun Xi Road. At night, rush for train to Chongqing and slept on hard upright seats
Day 11 - Arrive at Chongqing and sleeping at Yunqing's house a while then move on to a delicious lunch with yunqing's family. Then, we go for a city tour before catching the 12-hour train ride to Xi'an
Day 12 - Reaching Xi'an in the early morning. Check-iin hotel and begin the tour to Terractta warriors, Qin Emperor tombhill and the underground look of it, largest musical fountain in front of the big wild goose pagoda in asia and the muslim street
Day 13 & 14 - Visit to Shaan xi musuem, tour around big wild goose pagoda area and muslim street and then rush to the airport taking 3 connecting flights to Singapore.

Back from Project L.O.V.E 2009 and 'extend'

Yea! I'm back from Project L.O.V.E 2009! and this year...I've extended the trip and called it Project L.O.V.E 2009 'extend'! Updating my blog soon!

long time no updates

wow! seem like i've not been updating for a long time! I'll do so after my exams!

Jus a short update...

I'm having my exams on 19, 20, 30th Nov and 1, 3 dec...

Then, I'll be going for Project L.O.V.E from 12th dec until 25th dec. =D

Yea...excited about my last dec vacation (although most of the times I have to pack it with FYP) before I graduate next year!

Sanrio Fiesta 2009 at Takashimaya!

Yea! The yearly sanrio fiesta is up at Takashimaya Talking Hall B1 before Hello Kitty Bdae on 1st of Nov! Hello Kitty is celebrating her 35th birthday this year as well as her success in being the one of the most famous cartoon character worldwide!

Recess Week Tioman Getaway Day 2 & Day 3

Awakened by the break of daylight... Breakfast time! We had scrambled eggs, baked beans and toasted bread with butter and jam. A warm cup of tea or coffee do energise the sleepy minds of ours.

We would be following the resort schedule for the 2nd day. At 10.30am, all of us gathered at the bench to learn about snorkeling - how to wear and adjust the mask with the mouthtube, how to wear and adjust the life jacket, how to empty the water that get into the mask, how to breath through mouth, what is the posture that we must keep to stay afloat...etc! The uncle was very nice to teach us. His idea of using bottles to stuff pieces of bread in to feed the fishes amazed me. The bread will not melt away from the hand and would be able feed the fishes bit by bit.

the briefing

Walking to the jetty and get on the speedboat, we were ready for the exploration! The wind that gushed to our faces and the bumping effect of the boat brought us up the graph of excitement!



1st stop - We reached another jetty. The huge, beautiful and colourful fishes surprised us! Can't wait to jump in and say hi to them! We all went down. As for me, I discovered I had difficulties to use my mouth to breathe. Over there, I had been trying hard to learn. Indeed, my hardwork pay off and I get to enjoy the scenic view under the sea! Besides fishes and coral, we spotted sea urchins! We had our lunch by the jetty with the little cats after a few hours of snorkeling.

2nd stop - we moved on to the duty-free shop where we get our souvenirs. As we was walking to the duty-free shop, we spotted something black hanging on the trees. Getting closer to investigate, we discovered they are fruit bats! So coolz of them to hang upside down and sleeping away... We bought our souvenirs and move onto another site for snorkeling...



3rd stop - The boat stopped near to a small island full of bushes. From there, we will start off our 'advanced' level of snorkeling! The view under the sea is magnificient. It was just like watching discovery channel live! A lot of fishes...I love it when I hold the bottle of bread and the fishes just follow me. The awesome sights of sophicated corals and the schools, schools of variours breeds of fishes and the small surprises like sea urchins make me think upon how magical the underwater world is!



Returning back to our house, the sky started to turn dark and dizzled... At the point, rudy and the guys went to borrow the guitar. We sang and chatted until dinner time...

At night, we had our last session of HTHT with titbits...

and 3rd day.. a group of us left early back to singapore.

I had really enjoyed myself! and I do encourage my friends to go there!

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Recess Week Tioman Getaway Day 1

A getaway trip to relief all the stress before going into 2nd term marching toward exams!

On the SBS bus to Larkin

It was indeed a fun trip especially going with the LDPians (me, susan, shah kiat, rudy, bao shin, roy & aikling)! The organiser was shah kiat and as for me, I helped him in getting participants. Initially, we had 9 but xie wei and yee loong dropped out so we were left with 7. Nevertheless, we are not affected by the loss of participants!

On the bus to Mersing

Let's march there! Kee Kiat helped us to get bus tickets to Mersing for the departure timing at 8.30am. Everyone met at 7am at the Singapore Customs and take SBS bus to Larkin Bus Terminal. After a hearty Macdonalds breakfast, we hopped up the luxury bus at the price of RM11.50 only! About 2 hours, we reached the Mersing Bus Terminal. Taking a cab at the price of only RM5 per person, we managed to rush for the departing ferry!

On the ferry

We were seated at the front of the ferry and the chilled air was full-blasted at us! Oh mine...so cold!! There are 5 stops at Tioman Island and our resort is at the last stop. Roughly 2 hours, we then reached the right jetty!

We've reached!

Wowo...! We are so amazed by the different gradients of turquoise of the sea. The clear water revealed the underwater live scenes - big schools of fishes, beautiful corals, huge living seaweed and even saw a swordfish? Quick! let's look for the resort we are staying - Salang Beach Resort!

As we walked along the seaside to find our resorts, we could feel the light breeze and the lay-back lifestyle at this island... We are happy to know that this is a low peak for tourism so there's ain't many tourists so... Yea! Do not need to queue or squeeze through the crowd!

'check-in and check-out lobby & dining area'

Our house!

Checking into our room... We never expect such a big bed and a clean and neat toilet! After lunch, we went 'swimming' at the beach with our goggles. Little can I imagine, the water was shallow enough to see the corals and the little fishes swimming at the coral. We enjoyed our 1st day afternoon by swimming above the corals, through the school of fishes, visiting barnacles by the jetty, spotting sea cucumbers and floating on the green crystal clear sea! What a relaxing activity to be done!

Our wet look after swim!

View ard the house and sea

Getting ourselves clean and ready for dinner! To our surprise, the dinner consists of a preserved veggie omelette, fried diced chicken with a special sauce topped with sesame, fried fish fillets, braised tofu with minced meat, sambal kangkong and tom yam soup! Indeed a sumptous dinner! A slow stroll down the coast where we could visit the shops to get souvenirs and ice-cream... Before we went back to our 'house', we had a supper by the sea. Last item for the day is Heart-to-Heart talk initiated by rudy...haha!

Our Dinner

Shopping moments

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Aquarius(es) are...

-don’t want to be like others and take pride in the fact that you’re so unique
-self-sufficient
-determined and forceful in how you deal with people
-You want to express your ground-breaking spirit in everything you do but unfortunately you won’t always able to break free of the limits that are imposed upon you
-very energetic
-you’ll dream and aspire
-You have very inspirational views of the world and even if your opinions are too different, you’ll always be respected for speaking your mind honestly. (OHHH SO THIS THE ONE THAT MAKE U>>> honest!)
-like to be involved in groups and organisations
-great organisational and communication skills
-have your own ideas and solutions to problems. Others are surprised at your quirky approach and how you resolve these issues.
-You’re investigative, curious and extremely active mentally. Your thinking mind rarely, if ever, stops.
-like to create a comfortable environment in which to live.

*93.3% accurate!*

How have i'm been for final yr sem 1?

Cute little elephant keychain that I buy with siew ping

After stepping down from the main-com positions from my cca(s), I'm trying hard to adjust to the 'hard-core' muggin' habitat since it's my last 1 km to complete the degree paper chase. It is really hard for me as I'm been leading a exciting schooling life without being tied down by books. So far, my results slip show no 'F' and no warning letters were being mailed to me.

I've been putting efforts to read notes and do tutorials after the busy week 2 for cca booths tending. The results of this is slow but showing a slight slight improvement. Still a long long way to go! Hope I don't stress myself....

I'm taking Malay Language Level 1 as my elective. 5 cores + 1 elective will make it 17 AUs. Not considered heavy and have to start on my 10 AUs FYP soon!

Recruitment talks and industrial visits are very favourite activities as many of my friends know that I love to go for workshops and talks! Not for the goodie bags or the sumptuous buffet spread athough they are indeed important...It's nice to attend talks to know more about the company, what they offer and how the speaker present... As we are stepping into the workforce, I feel it's good to increase knowledge on the workforce especially when you are networking. For example, you met someone and he's from a company named ABC engineering. In many circumstances, many people might be wondering what is this company doing and the history... It's a fantastic way to impress people if you know the company no matter how small the size or length of history.

Join me if u are free for the recruitment talks or talks for personal development!

My new E63 Nokia HP