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Met Sam, CC and Allan for dinner at Lau Pa Sat, and unknowingly ordered the 30 chicken/mutton satay set, believing it to be 30 sticks, which turns out to be 30 sticks of chicken and mutton each! OMG!

After that we went for a drink at Clarke Quay, and we found this place celebrating ocktoberfest, so we decided to join in.

It’s being so long since i last blogged. So sorry. I’m too busy these few weeks and too lazy also. Firstly, my work at my internship company is piling up, now got 3 projects on hand and still need to do some ad-hoc debugging, etc.  And i’m going to gym every mon and wed, fri either go out with frens or go gym. So very busy….

Anyway, back to the topic: Camp Woohoo! It’s the Hall 2 FOCamp for this 2007. My first time “joining” the camp, even though i had been in Hall 2 for 2 years already. This is my 3rd, and i’m hoping to stay on till my 4th year. Cos i didnt get in to hall in the first round for the previous 2 years. Well….

Tat’s only Day 2, cos the other days i didnt take any photos. And i only attend the night sessions on weekdays cos of my IA. BUT i make it full time for the weekends hor, completing the “Initiation” in the last night also.

Oh, and I discontinued with my ex-roomie also. Cos he lost his keys and i request to change the lock. But the hall office wants to charge us $150!!! Siao! 1 lock only where got so ex? Not to mention that the block 9 TV room TV is still not working for more than 1 whole semester!!! What’s this!  Then the hall officer want to accuse me of late return of keys which my ex-roomie drew for me, which i already told him to cancel it. I even gave the hall officer the prove of my emails to him, black and white. Then he say it’s a difficult situation to determine and it’s probably a communication breakdown. Ha! Nevermind!

And so, i stayed on to my  temp room, and got a new roomie. Good, got TV now! Though i seldom watch

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This is the second rehersal for the NDP and I manage to get the tickets to catch this preview. Quite excited and looking forward to this NDP preview. This is the first time National Day is held on a water stage and this is the WORLD’s largest performing stage on water.

I am very lucky to be seated in the yellow zone. It is the second best seatings for the preview. I must say that the stage background is very beautiful. CBD area is just behind the stage with Fullerton Hotel and Merlion just beside the stage only.

Here comes the ‘Flying Singaporean’
For this rehersal the landing for parachute are perfect! And they performed twice for NDP 07, there will be another landing later in the show. The marching in of the troops are as usual the same for every NDP.

Troops Marching into the Stage

Is this the biggest Singapore Flag??

Continue here…. and this is the Part 2

The annual aquarium exhibition is here again, this time at Suntec City!

As of previous years, the entrance fee is $8, so expensive.

This year, i think not as impressive as the one i first went to, i think 2 years back. Their “New Products Showcase” like nothing much, not impresive enough to attract people, tat’s y you can see like, so empty.

Still got internet kiosk, for reporters?

Anyway, this year really not as impressive. I remember last time got sea horse tank, now dun have, so disappointed. Then there are quite a few stalls with only tables and chairs, no exhibitions anything. What are they there for? Hmmm….

Something not bad, the mini aquarium that can be mounted onto the wall.

With suitable lighting like the one above, it becomes a beautiful ornamental display for your living rooms. Nevertheless, i dun think it’s really good. Firstly, the depth and width of the tank is too shallow for the fish to enjoy. Secondly, it seems like the water pressure is too strong for the small fishes in this tight setup. It seems to me that the fish have difficulty swimming near the side of the tank.

Yep! This one is good! It’s a really nice and solid coffee table with a gold fish tank inside. You got the best view of the gold fish. It says that changing of water is only once a year. And the whole setup, inclusive of the delivery, flora and fauna, is a whopping 2, 3 thousand dollars!

This one is the bar table.  There’s also a dinner table with built in aquarium. Nevertheless, i dun think it’s a very good idea though. I dun prefer to watch the fishes, or let the fish watch me eat, especially when i’m eating fish… haha

I like the bark behind.

neon tank.

Can’t decide whether to have a freshwater or salt water tank? Have both then!

Lastly, as usual, there is the competition area. Not very impressive too, except the planted tank, haha. That’s my favourite!

Though this one didnt win any price, the sediment looks pretty impressive, i can’t make up what is it. The white color one, and btw, it’s not white sand. The material looks something like clay though.

I like this!

CS CNY Dinner!!!!

The food wasn’t really great, but it’s quite a lot, considering people from my table are not eating much…

so i ate a lot :p

Performance from geyong, drama and harmonica…. 
i think they should each have a mike for the drama team… :p

Something different…. got wushu! 螳螂拳！

And that’s a chinese version of Yoyo! Traditional game, but looks fun, haha

Though it’s not the lattern festival, there’s still 灯谜, and our table got the most answers correct, and that’s the prize!!! Big prize, haha

One of question is really a classic:

含着馒头撙马桶…….猜一成语.
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Answer is ……… 含苞待放    OMG!!!!

Lastly, we got some fireworks to play with…..

That’s all folks!!

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Woohoo! Today is the day for Geyong’s Lunch Time Concert and the launch of Fei Yue Shi Kong 2007!!!!

Venue: NTU Canteen A
Time   : 12.30pm to 2.30pm

And heading for the performance is Melvin singing his original composition - Yi Ge Wu Yan Xia (一个屋檐下) ! Watch out! This song is sold to and sung by Evonne Xu Hui Xin yo.

Right next is Shan Shan!

Oh and btw, i’m manning the stall for FYSK playing last year FYSK’s video. Can see the superstar Diya also took part!

Back to the show…..

Another song by Shan Shan, erm….. i don’t really like how they dress for their bottoms…..oops!

Next up is Fuli singing Kok Song’s OC - Lan Hao Ren (滥好人).

Alvin and his partner is going to perform the song - kao an (靠岸), just look at the crowd…… Wow! A lot leh!

His singing is very good, even huiqi asked who’s he! haha

One handsome guy is up, and he’s backed by his fans! RuiQi!

Yuxin singing, with lots of action! haha!

And here’s last year geyong’s chief - Huiqi, singing gao du nan ti (高度难题).

Oh yeah! This year’s geyong’s tou tou - Qingwen is singing ka fei pao mo (咖啡泡沫)

Woohoo! posing sia！ hehe!

And she’s backed by 2 more diva harmonisers!

Our geyong’s pretty secretary singing Liang Jing Ru’s Nuan Nuan (暖暖)!
Someone (a senior which i forgot her name, oops!) commented this year geyong’s secretary can sing really well!

Her duet is even better!

Don’t believe? Just look at the fans club!

Haha! That’s all folks!

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After so long, i finally had the opportunity to go over to the Red Dot Museum to take a good look!

After walking out from the Tanjong Pagar MRT underpass, i was greeted by this incorrigibly red building at the opposite side of the road.

That’s the Red Dot traffic building, which i think it should be a Red Patch instead! haha.

And this is the purpose for my visit - the MAAD bazaar!
MAAD for Market for Artists and Designers

The bazaar is only available on the first weekends of each month and visitors can visit it for free during the bazaar. If not, a fee of $5 is chargeable for each adult.

The museum is at the inner side of the building and you gotta walk in to see it. There are other shops and a cafe in the building as well.

The sides at the inner building is funkily decorated with graffitti!

The first room in the museum is densely packed with stalls selling numerous different merchandises.

Think it’s a great stop for ladies, the stuff are mainly dedicated for ladies’ fashion consumption with lots of nicely crafted self-made accessories, vintage inspired dress and graphically inspiring T-shirts.

The second room is truely a musuem.

The museum showcased numerous state of the art designs on simple things from water tap, fire extinguishers, children emergency suits to multi-function mobile phones. I was just wondering when ever will these design come into the market.

There’s one more inner room where the bazaar continues.

It’s much more spacious here. And you can even see artists at work!!

More stalls here!!

More clothes!

Vodka bottles transformed into creative lamps!

There’s this funny stall, selling funny things. I don’t get what it is, heard that they do poems on the spot on a type writer!!! Saw they took polaroid pictures, and from what the sign says, they selll erm….. bad drawing? for 1cent…. oops!

Got this white dog bobby stall selling numerous merchandise based on the inspiration from the owners white dog called bobby.

There’s photography display too….

And the main purpose for my visit. ALL(a pets charity organisation) calendar is selling here, and i’m here to support a bit, hehe.

Ordinary card board calendars are transformed into creative works in the hands of illustrators and artists.

This is part of the museum……

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I was involved in Fei Yue Shi Kong - a chinese song writing competition from ntu, as a main comm publicity. Last Wednesday, we just got our first seminar in ntu lt19, a song writing seminar conducted by Zhi Wen and Lester from VI Music.

At first, the turn up wasn’t very good, i think there are even more committee members around than the “true” audience. But luckily, more people began to turn up. Great! Should be lesson end late bah. Roughly 20 odd people turned up, a lot more than i expected, haha. After all, it’s a song writing seminar, and it’s in chinese, not the cup of the tea for most people i supposed. Didnt expect even Alvin and SK from last time J&B turned up too, really long time no see.

Think it’s really quite a good start. Great! now some pictures.

Performance to demo a few of their own composed song, from vi music.

ZX and HJ on the mic!

Lester and Zhi Wen. Oh my, what happen to my camera, or maybe my skills :p

Good Start, FYSK!

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It took me quite some time contemplating whether to go for this night cycling event, but eventually, i finally made the decision to go, and i did not regret it.

We started off a bit late, ard 12+, and i am in the Integra Team, led by Basil and Jaime. We started with a group of “chiongsters” and “laggers”. So there had been quite a few times we had to stop to wait for the rest to catch up.

So sian my handphone camera doesn’t come with a flash.

Our first stop from NTU is the kranji reservoir. Took us quite some time to reach there, cycling through a lot of very ulu places. We travelled along jalan bahar towards sungei gedong, then along neo tiew, passing by some mysterious places and finally to our first checkpoint.

We managed to get a long long rest over there, until we head for our next checkpoint, chong pang nasi lemak. It’s another long long journey along the mrt tracks in woodlands.

Good thing the good food wakes me up for the journey ahead - The Singapore Drift.

It’s actually the seletar reservoir. The place is quite scenic, we can see malaysia at our left, and our right hand side is a welly lit golf course. Too bad my phone doesn’t have flash, else i could get some good pictures of the place.

Such a coincidence i saw in the chinese newspaper today that the golf course at selatar is so cheap it’s only charging $40 per pax on weekends for non-members!

From there we move on along seletar camp towards jalan kayu prata place, our next checkpoint. Along the way, we cycled passed the old seletar airbase and camp. It’s also the place where we had the barat timor run when i’m still in NS. The place is so nice, a bit rural, having a taste of old colonial buildings beside the peaceful reservoir. Hmmm…. i must visit the place sometime again, hopefully sometime soon.

We rested for 10mins at jalan kayu. Up next is our final destination - Punggol Beach! Finally! Over the journey, it’s quite easy for me to keep awake with the refreshments along the checkpoints. The night breeze kept me cold enough to keep awake too. But it’s around 6am when we got in jalan kayu, and i’m starting to get tired already. Nevertheless, i told myself, this is the last lap, i must definitely finish it! Yeah so with this mentality, i kept on. There had been many times i wanted to just doze off, but i know i can’t.

The last lap is a long one…. A left turn from jalan kayu, we can see one of the punggol lrt stations and reach there within a few minutes. At first i thought it’s only a short journey, despite basil warning us that the most “siong” part is ahead of us. We took quite some time cycling alongside the LRT tracks. As we are passing along the LRT tracks, i was thinking why are there so many LRT stations along the way, which have nothing except trees, grass, and more trees. Not even a single building! Are they going to develop the place? How come i see no signs. Nevertheless, the air is so fresh there with all the greeneries, it’s definitely a good place for morning jogging. Which maybe is the reason for the LRT stations - to let the joggers go back home when they got tired, HAHA.

The last lap for the journey are 3 consecutive steep down-slopes and up-slopes. Good thing the down slopes start first, i just had to cycle very fast down and the momentum rides me up the slope. Crazy lap too. I just gather all my speed down the slope, even passing by the team infront of us. And finally, our final destination!

Got “dou jiang you tiao” for breakfast. And my thighs are hurting…… finally, it’s time to rest. Not forgetting my faithful partner for the journey -

And lastly, thank God for keeping my journey safe and tired-less.

Way back to hall on bus!

See this? That’s the program booklet of Music Express 12 last friday. It’s a chinese song writing competition organised by the ntu chinese society geyong.

The thing is supposed to start at 7pm, but 7.30pm we’re still queueing outside the auditorium. Wah! Felt like I am queueing for some super star concert, so long…… Lucky i’m going with Joe and his friends, if not sure bored to death.

That’s the package of program booklet on the seats, inclusive of a can of pokka coffee and phamplets from the various sponsors like music clinic, vi music and ai qin hai. Hmm….. can drink inside audi meh? Haha, who cares, just drink. Anyway, it took a while after we sat down until the show starts.

At first i thought the show is just emcee introduce the next contestant, followed by the contestants’ performance. I was wrong. The emcees spent quite a lot of time interviewing the contestants, asking how they got the inspirations, talking cock, etc etc.

The first few songs are quite normal, but a bit dull. But i think that’s how chinese songs are. They don’t focus on the variations in the music, but more on the lyrics and feelings of the songs. I feel like chinese songs are more to the type that will sound very very nice when listening alone, it really soothes the soul. But when i’m really in the mood for music, i’ll prefer english songs. Nevertheless, the next few songs offers more variations, got band, got jazz, got R&B, which really prompts me to want to buy the CD. It’s a worthwhile compilation i think, combines both sentimental soothing lyrics in some songs and more music variations for some other songs. $10 should be a good buy, haha.

Guo Song’s composition ’Lan Hao Ren’ is very nice, his melody is the easily remembered type, somehow, i thought of Andy Lau might sing his song, haha.

The event is also graced by project superstar finalist - he wei jian. Haha, his way of talking really like some young chap with some “hao lian-ness”, oops. Haha, no offence. But he sang quite well and will go on to promote his fellow musicians to the the music producers.

Altogether, it’s a really nice show, but it ends very late, 11pm! Oh gosh, this is boon lay leh, and i’m going home that night. Sian, missed the 179 when i was walking out, then the next bus came, but it’s single deck and too full to stop. Waited quite a while for the next bus, lucky i managed to get on the train to go back my place, else i gotta return back to hall.

Anyway, well done, music express 12 committee!