Friday, June 15, 2007

Another calling~

Perhaps god has some other plans for me. Whatever it is, i'll accept it and walk on the path that he creates for me.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

2 day break~

I'm getting a well needed and deserved 2 day break from work, at which i just got promoted to server!! Noticed i considered it a promotion because there will most prob be a pay hike, which will come in the form of tips, something a runner will not get due to his minimum interaction with the guests at the restaurants. Need to start memorizing the menu and what's in the dishes, something i totally dislike, but so as not to screw things up and get screwed by my supervisors, i will have no choice. So far, after my fourth day at work, it has been very enjoyable, albeit very tiring as well, my body taking a toil with all the excessive walking and hours of standing and carrying of the heavy plates at brewerkz. But, there's motivation to keep me going, in the form of the friendliness of the staff, the aroma of the food in the kitchen, the unlimited softdrinks we can take, the appreciative comments of customers and of course the erm...good looking pple working there and visitng the place as well. Soon....i will be a walking menu...sooon:)

Saturday, June 09, 2007

2nd day of work~

Chef:
"Ok this one bring to table 505. I owe u one dish"
" Fighting fire!! Fighting fire!! !@#$%&*&^%$!!"

Manager:
" Ah ok test you, red stick means what?"
" This is New York Steak lah, not Ribeye steak."
" Let me show you how to hold 2 plates in one hand...."

Supervisor:
" Eh how come no more beverage glasses??"
" I don't want all of you to line up a the collection point, fill up the ice!"
" Ok this one i settle for you.."

Me:
" Lyanna, where is table 609 ah?"
" Chef!!! Side BBQ sauce!"
" Wah ji ***, this tray kam heavy sia.."
" Enjoy ur dinner!"
" I am DAMM shack...."

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Rise and Shine~

Its gonna be one hell of a week from here on, I'm going for my Brewerkz orientation finally!! Which means i'll prob be starting work this week! Plus the rollerblading session with church peeps and theme park rehearsal tomorrow and maybe roller blading with aero peeps on Sat, plus the worship sessions on Friday and Sunday, plus Sentosa outing with the Small group on Sunday and then the Shineforth worship teams get together at Rachel's house on Sunday night, my schedule is gonna be packed, and hopefully, fufilling.

Robbie dude, pray that you'll have a blessed trip and journey mercies tomorrow on your flight to Thailand for your mission trip. Remember to check whether you need a visa to go anywhere else next time yeah? Haha. God bless!! Go and be a light shining brightly for the glory of God:)

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

04.07.07

Cool so under describes the new transformers trailer. Just hope that not all the candy has been given out:)


Website~

You need to know anything about a country? Just take a look at this one powerful mother website...

http://www.state.gov/

Monday, June 04, 2007

The Shit Hole~

How far down can one get the shit hole? Deep enough not to be able to pull himself out of it. Recently critisized for issues pertaining to finances, the government has yet again been scrutinized for its lack of ability, or so it seems with S$6.2 million of public funds doing a Harry Houdini according to the Auditor's General's Office reports. Look at the equation from a simplistic point of view. Money disappear + Minister pay hike = 7% Gst. (Warning, equation maybe too simplified and there might be other variables to consider)

Friday, June 01, 2007

Bull Statistics~

1. I linejudged a total of 4 matches today.

2. My last linejudged match at Cheers Asian satellite lasted for 1 hour.

3. All it takes is just 1 min for the sun to hide behind the clouds and the rain to start pouring down on you.

4. It took me 20 minutes to get from National Stadium to Suntec City to realise the carpark and ALL the adjacent carparks were full. (Quite farnie how all said pls try to park at adjacent carparks.

5. Esplanade's carpark charges 1.50 per hour from 6 am 2pm to 10pm. The other times are 1.50 per entry.

6. I shit(ted) at the Esplanade toilet 2 times in 3 days.

7. My latop has now 3 times more memory than it used to have before. Yippee!

8. I ate my first char kway teow in 86.4 days.

9. I am going to the zoo tomorrow, which makes it a wooping 10 years since i last been to the zoo.

10. We just added in 16 more koi into our koi pond yesterday:)

Monday, May 28, 2007

Systems~

"What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere."

- Leonard Cohen

Was the change ever necessary? What was the impedance for change? Apparently an issue about passion came across their minds. It is true that we should be let students participate in activities of their passion, and not just participate for the points so that they can retain their place in hall. Sounds good, and a little too idealistic in my honest opinion. Just take a look at the outcome. My roomie got rejected for a place in hall. Hall 2's rookie sportswoman of the year didn't get a place. And according to Huishan, 3 Hall presidents didn't get a place in their own hall either. WHAT A JOKE. People that I know who are getting rejected are people who are contributing alot to the hall culture, one which will become less vibrant with this system in place, due to the fact that it doesn't honor those who participate in alot of school activities, all of which could be his/her passion, but honors those who sits on main committees. This is true to a certain extent. Since the the cut off point for stage 1 is 14, a Hall president might not even get to stay in Hall if he happens to stay in Jurong, assuming he doesn't have those extra points that u can get from like the willingness to share a room with a foreign student, or the fact that one just came back from exchange.

What i feel the hall system should be is to honor those who participate in alot of activities(LPPL right?), one might argue that it defeats the whole purpose of passion and all that bullshit cos people just join for the sake of participating in the activities. I'll say that's bullshit you shithead. Without the crowd, there is no atmosphere. Take the IHG for example. Seniors have commented that the 06/07 IHG has lesser participation rate than the 05/06 one. This might just spell trouble for future IHGs to come. Moreover, people who joins more activities shows the amount of time they are willing to commit to the activities. Shouldn't the system reward those according to the amount of time they give to the school? In the new system, only the highest weightage activity is considered. One could be slacking on a main comm position for Leisure and Hobbies Club (No offence whatsoever to anyone) and successfully get a place in hall, or one could be participating actively in various sub comms and helping out in hall activities but gets rejected by SAO. Life's not fair, but not that unfair.

Why was there a need to change the system in the first place? Sometimes for personal benefit and achievement, sometimes because there is a genuine need to do so. In this case, someone's just so free and in the hokkien saying:" Jia4 ba4 bo3 tai3 ji3 zo3". Stage one is over, let's just see how many of those who got rejected in stage 1 gets accepted in stage two. The system may not be as screwed up as it seems, and it better well not be.
Cindy's Wedding~






Eh why look so dao...we need to.......





.........be a little bit more friendly!!!








Look at all the mian qiang smiles.We need to.......





..........Loosen up a little!!!


She's the boss man..... No two ways abt tt:)

Sunday, May 27, 2007

The Remains of Guangzhou~

I already miss Guangzhou. Sitting on the cab back from the airport felt painful seeing the meter jump so fast. Damm, can't divide the cab fare by 5 anymore. Mutarbak at Casuarina today was 6 bucks. Damm, in Guangzhou it would have been 1.20 Sing. For the remaining days at Guanzhou sinced my last entry, we played Guangzhou Sports University, and an Engineering University(the name which im still quite puzzled abt), which i lost 18-21 9-21 and won 21-23 23-21 21-9 respectively. Went clubbing in Guangzhou and got wasted. Still sober, but the most saa i've ever got. We went to this club called Babyface, apparently the most happening club in Guangzhou, like the Zouk of Singapore, but uncomparable comparatively in size. Guorong puked big time, and it will be talked abt for the rest of the year man...haha quite farnie how he puked outside our hostel room. I was just laughing at him while Kenneth just took a photo. Anyway, hope the badminton team of Jinan uni comes over next year, so we can show them the good hospitality that Singaporeans give our guests, and also hoping to go back to Guangzhou 2 years from now. Sheesh im not writing coherently. It was a tiring but fufiling week. Moving on to another chapter of the holidays....

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

With Love from Guangzhou~

My hostel room has no mirror. I can shower and shit at the same time. Everyone can see u brushing teeth. The door of my hostel room is a rusty metal plate. You can get locked in ur own room by a prankster from the outside. Lights out strictly at 2330 hours. Hot water only comes on from 1730 to 2330. There is no bloody f***ing mirror in the room. My block is sanwiched between 2 girls block. Overall, experience 10/10. Comfort 1/10. Bring back army memories 8/10. Hostel view 5/10.

Besides the fact that accomodation is pretty, shall we say unexpected, so far ive enjoyed my time in Guangzhou. The shopping, the cheap cheap food (down here when u attend formal dinners at least 10 dishes will appear), the university (tomorrow i'm gonna crash some lectures) and the amount of practice that i get with my chinese. Pple here say we speak pretty good pu tong hua. Just played with Jin nan university badminton team today. We lost 1-4 overall. But i managed to win my match!! Pretty shack man...almost died in there. Score was 21-18, 23-21. Tomorrow we are gonna play with the Sports School, and they are so gonna woop our ass. So that's why im hanging out in wang3 ba1(internet cafe) and not resting and preparing for tomorrow's match. haha.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Leaving on a Jetplane~

Leaving on a jetplane in 6 hours. Leaving my event partner behind, leaving my cousin's wedding preps behind, leaving Sunday's worship team behind.

Akashi is a damm gd japanese restaurant. Just go there and eat their spider maki, you wouldn't wanna eat any other spider maki elsewhere. I'm leaving that behind too. When i get back from Guangzhou, im so going to Koshimbo with Glenn.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Lightning without thunder is like...

1. Seeing a flash without a bang.

2. Listening to your mother nag

3. Shitting without farting

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Summer Palace~

I went to watch Summer palace today with Sarah, and she's one of the few if not the only one whom i feel comfortable watching the show with. The ticket guy made my day. He nervously asked me to show him my IC after i assured him that I'm 21, and Sarah was 21 also. At this point of life, when someone actually doubts that you are 21, it actually feels kinda good. I'm sure we are all too familiar with the days when we just couldn't wait to grow up and wanted to be more mature, more adult like. Now, we just wanna be young again. Anyway, when they mean sexual content, they really mean sexual content. Lou Ye really didn't hold back the flood gates when it came to the love scenes. There were at least 10 of 'em. Wouldn't be surprised why the Chinese media banned the film on local soil with the taboo issue of the Tian An Men square being featured in the film as well. Well the main take home points of the film that was discussed over dinner was that no one could ever forget the first real love, even after breaking up. Subsequent relationships were just there to fill the emptiness inside, but the heart longs for that first real love. Also, it is only human nature to tend to wander, to explore, and to seek different experiences. Sarah pointed out a very good point in that we choose to wander because we feel that we do not have any direction in life, and maybe because God is not in our lives. With that in mind, one might wonder whether marriage is just something practical, a contract that is signed between two people, and not an affirmation of true, real love, a couple that is willing to go through thick and thin for the rest of their lives.

Anyway, this song has touched me recently.Wish to share it with all. Enjoy:)


Hosanna - United Hillsong.wma

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Baby Conundrum~

"Eh the Singapore Birthrate has fallen to 1.2 births per woman man. How?? We are only 0.1 births away from the world's lowest fertility rate owned by South Korea."

"No problem one, if we cannot reproduce, we will import our babies from other countries. Like that, we can have lots and lots of babies and Singapore can become a baby hub!"

"But how abt giving maternity and child benefits to parents, just like what the french has succeeded in doing, look at where their birthrate stands now, 2 births per woman!"

"No no no, Singapore is a competitive country eh...we wanna stay efficient and have that competitive edge, just import can already, like that can diversify also, then got a more vibrant culture eh? Then maybe can become cultural hub eh? Tio bo?"

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Bus Drivers and Tea~

I felt so cheated when i asked the bus driver "Uncle this bus goes to holland village?" when i saw the bus sign say Holland Road and he said yes, but the bus made a turn to queensway instead of going straight. TMD. Uncle, don't bluff me lah. Don't think just cos u heard the word Holland can ignore the village that followed behind lah. I braved the slight drizzle and got my slippers all wet and dirty to walk all the way to Holland Village, uneccesarily.

Not my first time paying $3.50 for a satchet of teabag at starbucks. These coffee and tea at starbucks are exorbitantly overpriced. I had to buy it cos im using their facility now to blog this entry. Someday someone should bring the same standard of coffee and tea with style to the masses at a lower price. So much for all that franchising premiums.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Pandora~

Oh man!!Pandora can no longer function in Singapore!! Due to licensing constraints...what the shit. Looks like got to look for other avenues to discover new music...

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

The Week of Public Tpt~

It's not that I don't take public transport at all, its that i happen to take it rather frequently this week, due to my going back to work at DSO to cover for Xinping since he's in Bangkok sipping singha beer and watching tiger shows. So the morning starts with a train ride, from Kovan Mrt to Outram, then change to the Eastwest line to Buona Vista, where we will take a bus to DSO. Then after work, vice versa. I think the amount of public transport i take this week is more than the amount of public transport i take in 1 month studying in NTU.

Today, someone made my heart beat faster just by looking at her. She represents the perfect female in my eyes. Long hair, fair skin, big eyes, pure lookin, and before you noe it, she whips out a bible and starts reading it on the train. She was reading 1 Kings. I think i was totally mesmorised by her that i was flipping my Today paper without even reading it. Man.... I should take public transport more often.

Meanwhile, busy working, busy training for the China trip, busy meeting up with pple, busy practicing and playing guitar for church, busy settling stuff for Sports Unlimited 14, and busy running all over the place. Still trying to organize class gathering for my jc class, trying to contact the old ri boys of my batch for a friendly in RI on the 19th May, and trying to prioritize and put things into perspective. Trying real hard.

Monday, May 07, 2007

Tioman~

I almost swore when I realised i never bought travel insurance when the van driver that took us to Mersing drove as if he was in an F1 race. I totally enjoy playing beach soccer although i suck at it. I think that bathing with candle light in the dark is so romantic. I think that Michael is a serial blanket stealer(haha!!). I so got sea sick when snorkelling in choppy waters. I think i suck at charades. I think Man United is so going to win the title after defeating Man City 1-0. I felt the pain when my phone dropped while playing silent heart attack in the resort room. I am certain that Bekky's cake thingy was one of the funniest sleeping antic i've ever seen in my whole life. I'm so sure that getting sea sick for 3 hours is no fun at all. I felt so good after eating such cheap seafood at Taman Sri Tebrau. I am such a ganster for jumping the taxi queue and in return tio a gangster taxi driver who tot that kenneth jona and i wanted to look for prostitutes when we asked the most "zui pian yi" route to take.

Tioman was a great experience. Thanks all programmers for making it a wonderful trip!