Don't Give Up

This title came from an inspirational song performed by Alicia Keys and Bono. I also want to dedicate this message to Eugene - even if you do not manage to reach your expectations, there's always other opportunities for you to succeed. Anyway, good luck for your Chinese results!!

Today woke up at 6am getting ready to go back VS Choir. Had a soporific PT... which is rather disappointing. Only 6 people wanted to play badminton lol!! The game was ultra-boring and it kind of terminated early... Nathaniel turned to completing his Chemistry assignment, and I tought him a few useful things. The session was fruitful until he left his homework inside a classroom and forgot to take it back!!... The choir practice was quite interesting... I got to see the Sec 1 and 2's sing. Some of them are quite frivolous... partly because they have not been thoroughly imbued with the precious virtue of being disciplined! Lack of punishment in this case... need more physical torments like pumping. The most severe problems were excessive fidgeting and non-stop, rapid-fire chattering. The overall discipline can be improved though... the juniors just need time to mature and ripen into harvestable talents. =)

After choir practice, Eugene, Reuben and me went for lunch @ KFC Parkway. The outlet was apparently suffering from understaffed crisis... Reuben and I queued for like almost 8minutes to get our turn to order food! How atrocious!! And we saw a seemingly young boy working at the counter... looks like the desperate understaffed KFC is turning to exploit child labour to fill up the unwanted vacancies! Just kidding... =x

We talked about Reuben's escapades to ALL of the local polytechics to satisfy his freebie-collecting craze. In the end he passed me 3 nylon bags, each representing 3 different polys LOL! We used them as convenient sitting mats at an ECP beach where we spent our leisure time watching people wakeboarding on the pathetic tiny waves on the receding shoreline and drawing up plans to ridicule Dora and her malicious accomplices! We went to Mcdonalds after seeing that the tide is retreating crazily (the Moon is closest to Earth today) and treat ourselves to quick-desserts. Reuben was like 'dunnoe' what to eat like as if he visited Mcdonalds for the first time of his life! LOLX....

After bading adieu to Eugene at the bus-stop, Reuben and me decided to go Tampines for a walk. It was the usual Tampines Mall... with the usual crowd... and with the usual boredom of shopping there! Reuben had a brief outlook at the JC curriculum when we browsed through the plethora of A Level books, and I think he should continue studying in JC. It's quite promising lol.

It was extremely tiring after venturing out of home for almost half a day! I'm on the verge of dozing off right now and topple off my shaky wooden chair.... Sayonara!!!!!!

Major Boring

I'm hoping to return back to school ASAP!! The boredom of staying at home and facing the digital pixels is killing me... During this period of involuntary confinement I got addicted to Facebook - sort of the new ' Dota '... it's kind of no life doing virtual socialising... spending your time cyber-fishing/updating stupid photos/posting irrelevant comments. All this nits and bits helped me to past time though... at least it's better than doing nothing!

I'm really looking forward to visit VS Choir again on Saturday. Hope to have a nice weekend before school starts. =D

Sunburn Chronicle

Today went cycling with Jonathan Chan and Tengwei @ East Coast Park. It was 2-hours long, and I forgot that the sun is oh-so-gloriously bright, that it almost charred my skin. My arms are feeling the lingering heat while I'm typing this post. LOL!! I've also sustained a butt-sore from sitting on the tiny bicycle-seat... It was sooo unbearable ! I really pity those professional cyclists... it's a miracle they don't have deformed butts ! [I'm wish I can be in Artic right now... the heat is killing me]

After the hellish cycle-ride, we went to Hong Kong Cafe to have our well-deserved lunch. [Gelare was just opposite and it was having the usual Tuesday discount!!!] I've ordered a scrumptuous feast that is enough to cover up the fats+calories that I'd lost during that bike trip. It was Curry Brisket with rice, Siew Mai, tender fried squid sprinkled with appetising chilli salt and Mango pudding with Mango Ice-cream. I didn't know I was so ravenous until I could manage to eat everything spick-and-span style! After stuffing my poor stomach with loads of spicy madness, I had an acid reflux, which almost burned my throat away. I guess that taught me a lesson on not to gorge yourself straight after exercising!!

Time pasts so totally fast when you're having fun, and it's only 5days left to the opening of Hell!! I've gotta rush my Maths extra assignment to keep up my standard in Maths !! LET'S ACE OUR EXAMS, FOLKS!!

=p =p

Food Craze

I don't know what's getting into me these days... my inspirations and interests are all in a total spasmodic insanity. Got addicted to DotA since the last 2 weeks... I've to eliminate this choleric habit of being mesmerised by funky online games that left me a traumatising experience when I was in Secondary 2. (I almost fail to meet the promotional criteria due to excessive Maple'ing) Luckily, DotA is starting to get boring... and I turn to browsing the wonderous food-recipes at the godly-fantabulous allrecipes.com in bid to spend my leisure time! That gastronomical gourmetish (this is a portmantaeu of gourmet + fetish) struck me in an instant, and I thought of making a lunch for my family the next day. The amateur lunch menu consisted of simple dishes such as Macaroni with cheese, Baked Mashed Potato, Caesar Salad and finally the sweet-tooth killer Strawberry Key Lime Trifle. Although the mashed potato didn't turn out well (the potato was not properly mashed - there were still partially-unchewable chunks of potato left), the whole thing is quite delish... FOR A GREENHORN! BTW, this cooking fascination is also inspired by the triumphant success of the Bread Pudding created by Reuben Su =)

That's all for my revelations in Jan 2009... I'm soo anticipating a good timetable =o

New Hopes in 2009

Year 2009, means 2008 and all the tormenting unhappiness are gone. (top on the Unwanted list are PW + things that require trashy teamwork which ought to be banished forever) I guess 2009 isn't going to be such a 'fantabulous year' either... there're going to be 1) release of PW grade 2) a fatal exam-tide invasion 3) 1 more year of staying in 08S09. I just hope that my classmates will be more enthusiastic in their academical pursues... Yes I wanna move on to University no matter what!! Now that all those idiotic time-wasting projects are completely done with, I can allocate more studying time. Also, there will be an upcoming SYF competition, so time-management is a must. I think I'll die in the midst of hecticeness and putting up with other people's pathological behavioural maladjustments... Talking about whores and butches, I'm not going to give any face to whoever is pissing me off. No one will jeopardise my precious plan to get an admission into University!! Yes.. so to those potential troublemakers and jokers... watch what you're doing. [draws a fine line between real friends and pretend-to-be-friends]

Since year 2008 isn't a great year... I'm not going to present any valedictorians or longwinded corny speeches on who I'm grateful to... -.- I just want to wish all of my good friends only, promising success in all their future endeavours. Bonne Chance! [it's the baugettey French]

My HK Trip Diary : Part 2 - HK Is The Only Food Paradise in the World !

Everyone in the world can satisfy their picky tastebuds in Hong Kong; you get to eat ALMOST everything here... (except for sinister cuisines like eeky tribal-ritualish food - eg. Yak Milk Tea) I've just had ultra-sumptous 9-course dinner @ Times Square Causeway Bay. My favourites were the sauteed lamb chop, lobster baked with cheese and the shark fin soup. The total cost of this dinner was around HKD$3000. That sounds revolting though.

After getting our stomach on the verge of exploding, we had a walk at SOGO again.... well it's just a stone throw away. Bought Ashworths T-shirts + 1 pair of Levi's jeans + 1 Burberry coat for Mum. There was also a 15% storewide discount at Gucci... queued up outside the store waiting... Looks like the store had nothing good to offer. While Gucci was having a continuous flow of curious and discount-raging customers, its neighbouring Prada store was nearly empty! Poor Prada bags being left on the shelves.... Lol.

During the next few days, we spent our time shopping and eating as usual, and also playing with our cute toddler cousin! He's 3.5 years old, yet he's learning lots. Cantonese, English & Mandarin. Wow kids these days are sure busier than we do... I'll be posting pictures of him here.

We are planning to visit Ocean Park next week, and I'm expecting something good, cuz Ocean Park just had a makeover =) Will be blogging soon once I have access to a computer again. =p

My HK Trip Diary : Part 1 - Getting Dim-Summy

Hello !! I'm writing this post right now at my cousin's house in HK =)) For the first 2 days, I've been at SOGO Causeway Bay foraging for new fit-to-wear winter clothings, and my father's really generous about it! Bought Arnold Palmer + Teelocker jumpers for my 2 sisters, which cost over SGD $150+ ..., and I bought a black NIKE sweater @ HKD $485 !! [ will soon post up pictures ]. My HK Gourmet Bonanza haven't really start... just had appetitisers only ^^ Roasted pigeon + the choice of delish dim-sum tibits they have to offer to STUFF YOUR MOUTH! Hahaha... I must really say HK people DO spend alot of $$ on their meals... their breakfast (mainly yumcha time) starts from HKD$200+... If you choose Cafe de Coral / Maxim Restaurants as alternatives will reduce your breakfast expenditure by around 65%... but the taste still remains as good. I had a set meal at Cafe de Coral this morning, which consists of a Norwegian Fish fillet + smooth scrambled egg + thick toast + sausage + Ovaltine @ around SGD $4 ???

20th November, Thursday

Visited Wong Tai Sin Temple, and my family was welcomed by an insufferable bunch of old conner grandmamas... Those old people were loitering around the temple selling the praying peripherals, but apparently the temple has laid a new rule, which stipulates no bringing in of any praying stuff other than those thin joss-sticks. Then we have to discard all the thick candles + incense papers inside the temple's 'sinister collection bin'... I bet the temple must have collaborated with that bunch of scrying old people to garner donation for the temple... or not?!?! Anyway we just treat those 'cheated money' as a form of kind donation to the temple.... LOL!

After lunch @ a restaurant, we went to visit our relatives, and as usual, the adults will engage in their mahjong frenzy, that involves alot of high-decibel yodelling and a smoke-filled living room that resembles an illegal gambling den. No more activities later. Should be doing homework.... SAD!

Future updates: Will be going to Macau for a few days. My father told me that we're going to reside in a so-called 'Grand Venice Hotel'... Wow that sounds majestic enough... I wonder how it will be... YES and also not forgetting about casinos.