Sunday, December 13, 2009
Its Christmas Time In The City
Took a walk down Orchard Road last night. Its been ages since I've done that, but this year's lightings looked pretty bright coupled with the opening of several shopping centres like Ion Orchard, 313 Somerset and Orchard Central, so decided to try a walk from Orchard MRT down to Dhoby Ghaut MRT. Quite a big feat by my standards.
Was pleasantly nice, all the bright lights. In fact, the new shopping centres actually are the brightest and most well decorated. Almost look like the casinos in Macau. Tons of people all over the place though. Felt like it was already the Christmas weekend already. There were a ba-zillion people taking pictures with the Christmas decors along the stretch as well as watching the various street performances. Driving would've been even worse. The traffic was literally crawling at a snail's pace.
Was a nice walk nonetheless.
The bummer of the night had to be watching the new cartoon Planet 51 at Lido cinema. The movie totally sucked big time. Lousy plot and not funny at all. Pui! Go watch Zombieland. Its much much much better!
Was pleasantly nice, all the bright lights. In fact, the new shopping centres actually are the brightest and most well decorated. Almost look like the casinos in Macau. Tons of people all over the place though. Felt like it was already the Christmas weekend already. There were a ba-zillion people taking pictures with the Christmas decors along the stretch as well as watching the various street performances. Driving would've been even worse. The traffic was literally crawling at a snail's pace.
Was a nice walk nonetheless.
The bummer of the night had to be watching the new cartoon Planet 51 at Lido cinema. The movie totally sucked big time. Lousy plot and not funny at all. Pui! Go watch Zombieland. Its much much much better!
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
All I Want For Christmas is a GPMG
Is this not the coolest toy ever ever ever?!
Comes with its own ammo box too!
Brought to you by Nerf.
Wifey had to drag me away else I would have bought it at Isetan...
Sigh.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Broadway Beng: Jiak Liu Lian
Went to watch the 4th installment of the Broadway Beng series last night with the wifey. Really hilarious and entertaining! I think tix are still available if anyone's interested. We watched a Saturday evening show and it wasn't sold out(maybe like 80% full?).
Still the musical's tailored towards locals and appreciation of Hokkien is a must. The old couple sitting beside us looked absolutely morbid while everyone else was laughing hysterically at the skits(probably didn't understand a thing), even with subtitles.
Best bits were the 10-min version of Les Miserables, and the local rendition of Chicago's Cell Block Tango.
Go catch it if you can!
Still the musical's tailored towards locals and appreciation of Hokkien is a must. The old couple sitting beside us looked absolutely morbid while everyone else was laughing hysterically at the skits(probably didn't understand a thing), even with subtitles.
Best bits were the 10-min version of Les Miserables, and the local rendition of Chicago's Cell Block Tango.
Go catch it if you can!
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
BRPS Pride
Just back from the BRPS SAC meeting which oddly enough, was held at Ramenten at Far East Plaza(maybe we were all trying to act young).
As with most neighbourhood schools, our overall grades have gone up, with the exception of English and Chinese. And one of the students broke the record for best PSLE score this year! 273! Think it broke Shangzhou's record way back in our year.
Go BRPS! Whooooot!
As with most neighbourhood schools, our overall grades have gone up, with the exception of English and Chinese. And one of the students broke the record for best PSLE score this year! 273! Think it broke Shangzhou's record way back in our year.
Go BRPS! Whooooot!
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
The Long Leave
On leave all week. Yet I feel like going back office to clear some emails perhaps. Its boring at home all alone after awhile of cleaning up and packing up. And there's only so much Facebook and computer games I can play. Monitor the share and fx markets...
Went to the dentist yesterday. Ended up having to do a filling on the back of my two front teeth. Now they feel kinda weird. Luckily everything still looks normal. Guess I have to heed the doc's orders and floss more from now on. $210 bucks man. Lucky can claim. Phew.
Should be going back to office tomorrow before going for the BRPS SAC meeting at Far East Plaza. What a weird place for a meeting to share PSLE results. Haha. Hope they did well this year to compliment the better performance by neighbourhood schools.
Meeting Tsen Yeow/Thomas on Thursday for dinner, since he's back for a one week leave like myself.
Friday is the department Strategy meeting. Sounds like fun. Hur.
Watched The Twighlight Saga: Newmoon on Sunday. Super kiddie show although I kinda enjoyed it, since I never read the books. The wifey read the first book and didn't find this very exciting though. It's always the case that the books are better than the movies. I dunno why. But still its nice the watch a visualisation after all. Go Team Jacob!
Went to the dentist yesterday. Ended up having to do a filling on the back of my two front teeth. Now they feel kinda weird. Luckily everything still looks normal. Guess I have to heed the doc's orders and floss more from now on. $210 bucks man. Lucky can claim. Phew.
Should be going back to office tomorrow before going for the BRPS SAC meeting at Far East Plaza. What a weird place for a meeting to share PSLE results. Haha. Hope they did well this year to compliment the better performance by neighbourhood schools.
Meeting Tsen Yeow/Thomas on Thursday for dinner, since he's back for a one week leave like myself.
Friday is the department Strategy meeting. Sounds like fun. Hur.
Watched The Twighlight Saga: Newmoon on Sunday. Super kiddie show although I kinda enjoyed it, since I never read the books. The wifey read the first book and didn't find this very exciting though. It's always the case that the books are better than the movies. I dunno why. But still its nice the watch a visualisation after all. Go Team Jacob!
Friday, November 27, 2009
Down Memory Interchange
The day started with breakfast at Ya Kun at Compasspoint, casually reading today's papers. It's Hari Raya today so its a public holiday! Then we went to buy contact lenses and since we were at the shop, I finally decided that the people were nice enough to help me make a set of new glasses. Ended up changing my glasses AND making a pair of reading glasses. All for less than my transition glasses years ago. Total was $329 which the wifey paid for! Thanks for the early Christmas pressie dear! Hee! On top of that, we got a free $20 voucher and a Sesame Street umbrella!
Then we decided to head to the Singapore Expo, where SITEX was held, by bus. There wasn't any direct bus to the Expo from Sengkang, so we took the next best option, Bedok. And bus number 87 took us there, interchange to interchange. Bus ride was 40minutes in total.
Wah, when we reached Bedok interchange, it felt like I was taken back to my secondary school days. Hardly anything has changed over there, the whole place still looks the same, crowded as ever. In fact things got so nostalgic that we decided to eat there! The old mutton soup stall was there, the chwee kuay stall was there, even the Hollywood dessert stall auntie was the same! Still long queue somemore! Delicious stuff.
Afterthat we took the MRT to the Expo. Wah, it was so so so crowded man. People mountain, people sea. Took us almost 15mins just to walk to the first hall. Managed to buy what I wanted: a Toshiba 320GB portable harddisk. In fact we even almost bought an auctioned LG TV! Full HD, free wall-mounting, free DVDplayer, free trolley, all for $599! Super cheap right?! Amazing. But somehow it was fated that we didn't buy it. :)
Then it was so crowded on the way back that we took the train up to Changi Airport instead. Walked around for awhile before taking a taxi to the parents place. Then we went to Marine Terrace for dinner and finally back home.
What a fruitful day.
Then we decided to head to the Singapore Expo, where SITEX was held, by bus. There wasn't any direct bus to the Expo from Sengkang, so we took the next best option, Bedok. And bus number 87 took us there, interchange to interchange. Bus ride was 40minutes in total.
Wah, when we reached Bedok interchange, it felt like I was taken back to my secondary school days. Hardly anything has changed over there, the whole place still looks the same, crowded as ever. In fact things got so nostalgic that we decided to eat there! The old mutton soup stall was there, the chwee kuay stall was there, even the Hollywood dessert stall auntie was the same! Still long queue somemore! Delicious stuff.
Afterthat we took the MRT to the Expo. Wah, it was so so so crowded man. People mountain, people sea. Took us almost 15mins just to walk to the first hall. Managed to buy what I wanted: a Toshiba 320GB portable harddisk. In fact we even almost bought an auctioned LG TV! Full HD, free wall-mounting, free DVDplayer, free trolley, all for $599! Super cheap right?! Amazing. But somehow it was fated that we didn't buy it. :)
Then it was so crowded on the way back that we took the train up to Changi Airport instead. Walked around for awhile before taking a taxi to the parents place. Then we went to Marine Terrace for dinner and finally back home.
What a fruitful day.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
2012
Just caught the show. Damn kuazhang, but then I've always been a sucker for disaster movies. Just don't bring your brain to the theatre. And I really don't think the arks could survive the tsunamis anyway. Maybe a space station on the Moon could've been more plausible.
Nothing much else to update.
Knee still abit unstable. Will need to do more runs and more soccer games under my belt. Maybe some cycling in th gym might help.
On leave next week!
Nothing much else to update.
Knee still abit unstable. Will need to do more runs and more soccer games under my belt. Maybe some cycling in th gym might help.
On leave next week!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Lousy Game At Tering Bay
Ended up last even with our -18 handicap. Had a really rotten game and somehow I didn't like the course that much. Hoping to have a better game soon. Ended up with a score of one under.
Can't wait for payday.
Can't wait for payday.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Longest Week
Never been a big fan of reservist.
Every morning wake at 6am, today booking out the earlist so far, at 7pm. Last 2 days were at 9pm. Wahlao. Just one week and yet it feels like a whole month.
All the time in camp spent stuck in the Ops room. With no internet and not even handphone signal. My only source of information is an over-read copy of Monday's Today paper.
But focusing on the positives...
I hardly spent a cent all week (great for my super savings plan).
I've been eating extremely healthy meals (yes, all three plus night snack) all week.
I get to catch up with all my good friends from my unit.
I've cleared my IPPT for this year!
I've never been fitter in the last 5 years.
And finally, I'm probably going to New Zealand next year!
Every morning wake at 6am, today booking out the earlist so far, at 7pm. Last 2 days were at 9pm. Wahlao. Just one week and yet it feels like a whole month.
All the time in camp spent stuck in the Ops room. With no internet and not even handphone signal. My only source of information is an over-read copy of Monday's Today paper.
But focusing on the positives...
I hardly spent a cent all week (great for my super savings plan).
I've been eating extremely healthy meals (yes, all three plus night snack) all week.
I get to catch up with all my good friends from my unit.
I've cleared my IPPT for this year!
I've never been fitter in the last 5 years.
And finally, I'm probably going to New Zealand next year!
Saturday, November 07, 2009
On Reservist Next Week
Damn xianz, gotta go for reservist whole of next week with a compulsory book-in timing of 0630. Tentative book-out time is 9pm.
Wtf man.
Sigh.
I think I'm really growing older. Body not catching up liaoz.
Wtf man.
Sigh.
I think I'm really growing older. Body not catching up liaoz.
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