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First Week of NUS

2006-08-17T09:23:00.000-07:00

This week is my first week of school in NUS... Hm... It was a great change to adapting into a totally new environment and challenges. It was not easy. I felt the stress coming straight at my face. Can you imagine going into a module lecture and not knowing what the lecturer or Professor is talking about? Haiz... I really disliked elective modules and this semester, I got to take 3 electives: Singapore Studies--> Nation building; Introduction to Nano World and Financial Accounting.

For Singapore studies, it is something like Social studies that we took in sec sch but it is a lot more tough. More essays and read-ups have to be done... Introduction to Nano world, topic wise is quite interesting, but also got to write term paper of 4000 to 5000 words... Die liao! Lastly, for financial accounting, first lecture I really don't understand anything that he said. What is he talking? Really cannot catch anything... That is why was forced to buy the textbook for financial accounting. Hope that I can understand after reading it...

And also another is everything needs money!!! Oops... I already spent $77 buying only 2 textbooks. Hm... More to come I guess. And I already spent quite a lot during the orientation week and matriculation packages that I bought. Oh no!!! Money just fly away... Very Expensive!

Friday don't need to go school as I only had 1 maths tutorial and tutorial only starts from week 2 onwards... And this weekend had a chalet outing which I have been anticipating for a long time... Poly class 04 chalet, was hoping that it would turn out great and fun!!!

Awaiting for NUS... A new life begins...

2006-08-07T21:54:00.000-07:00

These 2 weeks, I was preoccupied with NUS stuffs. I almost went back to school almost everyday to settle stuffs as well as to attend extra maths revision lessons.

Monday (31 July 2006):
I went back school to attend school of engineering's welcome tea as well as to attend some talk for poly students regarding module's exemption. After that, we had to decide if we were going to join the engin's orientation week (O Week). Each person had to pay $15 for that week. Initially, we wanted to join together asa one whole "LUNA" group but we were rejected. So, in the end, only 6 of us joined, while the rest of the LUNA group just clashed our groups.

After the talk, a lot of question marks on my head, bidding for modules was quite tough to understand at first. As we had to make our own choices of what kind of modules we want to take, organise our own time and have to complete the requirements. A lot of decision making to do for university's life. All I could do after that, was to go home as ask seniors... Oops... Got to trouble them lorz...

1 Aug 2006 (Tuesday):
I was at home the whole day, slacking and rotting as today is the only day that I can rest for the whole week... So was surfing the net to look for modules and doing module's selection stuff...

2 Aug 2006 (Wednesday):
Today is the day my QET results will be out... Sadly to say that I failed my QET, so I got to take an extra english module for 1 semester. I sort of expected of this failure as I didn't really study and my english is not good all the while. Also, I meeting shuling, YY they all for module discussion. haha... As we got to bid for modules on thursday, so we decide to take the same one so got companion.

Then, in the afternoon, I got to go to school for maths revision lecture 1. The first lecture is about sets, functions and complex numbers. hm... it was quite tough, although, we learned before but I guessed it was because I didn't touched maths for almost a year, forget le. I really got to brush up my maths as it won't be easy when school starts as the cirrculum will go very fast de.

3 Aug 2006 (thursday):
Today is the day when I have to matriculate. Matriculation day was quite fast de wor, I got to queue up and to go from one station to another to hand in the required forms and get our password and userID for our computer access. Also, we have to go upstairs to attend CCA fairs. hm... I was carrying lab top lor, it was super heavy, no choice as I thought I would be bidding for modules. Then when we go upstairs, we were been psyco to buy their matriculation packs and engin packs. Those packs were not free, each cost $10. haiz... pay here and there... For the CCA fairs, I left my names at a lot of booths, as all seemed quite interesting.

After that, went to meet Serene, May Fang they all to start to bid for modules. However, they say that the class timetables still not out yet. Sianz... So don't know to start bidding or not. Luckily, we met one senior, so we asked him to help us. He advised us to call the lady in charge of our timetable matters to ask. However, she said it was not out that soon. So no choice, we had to bid first then decide.

I got to rush for tuition but I was carrying so much packs and my lab top. So, I took cab home first to put my things before I go tuition. After tuition, me and my mother and brother went to Tiong Bahru Market to eat. We specially go ther eto eat the famour Tiong Bahru Chwee Kuey. And a few of other stuffs. I actually met my ex-GSK colleague with his family. he even asked his children call me... So sweet...

4 Aug 2006 (Friday):
Today, we have to attend 2 maths lectures, one is on differentiation and another is on integration. Meanwhile, we got to monitor our bidding's status, to increase or decrease our bids. haha... Quite interesting, just that we scared if can get that module or not... Heyz... Luckily, at night, we knew our results already: I got Financial Accounting using 500 out of 750 points and Singapore Studies, Nation Building using 1 out of 750 points too. So i secured 2 modules but got to bid for another 1 general module called Introduction to Nano World.

5 Aug 2006 (Sat):
Sad to say that I had to go back school for orientation. However, I can only make it for the morning so just went for the morning activities and afternoon had to go to church. In the morning, we were late for orientation, just played 2 games called the animal game and big fish small fish. After that, we had mass dance practice for almost 2 hours. The mass dance this time was shorter but it was a couple dance... Hm... quite tough as the music tempo was quite fast, quite tough to follow up. After dancing, was our lunch break. After our lunch, we played faculty games but we only managed to play 1 of the station which is twister before we go... Then it was a tie between 2 groups. After that, some of us left.

7 Aug 2006 (Mon):
I was deciding to go to school or not... As I had to settle some CPF stuff in the morning. In the end, I was too lazy so I never go. haha... I only went for our OG's outing in the afternoon. We met at 2.30pm in NUS to go together to Pasir Ris Chalet in Joshua's car. But before that, we had to go to Joshua's house to take potato salad which his maid had made for us...

After that, we set off to Pasir Ris Downtown East Chalet. We reached about 4pm. From then, we began to play gamble cards until the time we can eat. As usual we played Da Tee and bridging. I don;t know how to play that bridging game but they taught me how to... The seniors were busy preparing the BBQ startup and helping us to barbeque. We were so pai seh lorz... Food sent to us and all we do was eat and eat. We did had a great fun spreading scandel and teasing the peoples. The whole night we just played cards and we also accompanied that serene to walk walk outside... We had a great time out there... I will miss all the Luna people and hope that we do keep in contact:)

C.H.E.S.S. 2006 Camp Rocks!!!

2006-07-25T21:21:00.000-07:00

It had been a long time since I updated my blog. I was occupied with my camp as well as my QET. Finally, all is over and for QET, I would have to await for 2 Aug, for the result's release but I didn't pin high hope on it. Haiz... Well... I am back with the camp's updates:

This is the first camp I have been to since secondary sch's adventure camp. On the whole, I did enjoyed myself and knew a bunch of good friends. First of all, I proudly present those waistbands that the councillors had done for us:

Sadly, they spelled wrongly my name: it should be "Cindi" not "Cindy". I don't blame them as the name list spelled my name with "y". I find that the picture on the waistband was very cute, it represents our group which is LUNATICS, LUNA for short.

First day of the camp (17 July 06):
Our gathering point was at one of the lecture theatres. After which, we were brought to our respective groups. We had a brief introduction before the councillors started to teach us to cheer.

You can see that every group was cheering and shouting...

Let's take a group picture first!

After that, we had a simple camp opening ceremony before we break up into our respective groups to start playing ice-breaking games. The first game is none other that game which we had to memorise everyone's name:

Indeed we did have great fun memorising the names of our group members. What come after next should be Wacko!

After that, we played a series of games such as the titi-tootoo game and the sadist game which is called "Ouch! OB! OB!". This game consists of a lot of pinching and beating. It goes like this: One person will start the ball rolling, can call out any names in the group. When this person A name's being called out, he/she can turn either left or right to beat the thighs of person B. Wheras person B had to pinch person C until person C shouted "Ouch!" Then person A can stop beating. Then after that peron D will just shout "OB! OB!", the person beside can then call out another person. To add challenge to this game, the councillors wanted us to sit alternate boy and girl so that we won't be soft hearted when it comes to beating and pinching. Evil, right? The below picture portrayed why this game is sadist:

Every game will always have 4-feets one. I got that lorz, so shuay, luckily for me, me and another girl had to do 4-feet. Guess what? They asked us to carry our flag and go around every group to shout "Luna, Luna, ..." So pai seh lorz...

I think my 4-feet is nothing compared to the poor "couple" who had to do 4-feet in front of another group:

After playing the introductory games, we proceeded back to the lecture theatre for a professor's talk and buffet lunch. After lunching, we played a few more other games like the animal games, ...:

After that, we returned to the lecture theatre for our dance practice. The councillors showed us an overview of the dance that we had to learn. Wow! It is really super difficult, this dance is Hip-hop dance with a lot of tough dance steps. haha... I don't know how we are going to master that dance. We were brought to one corner of NUS to start learning our dance:

Finally, after our dance practice, we started our food hunt around NUS. Every group had to complete 8 stops and the last stop at Sentosa's saphhire pavillion. Every stop would be at one of the faculty's canteen. At each stop, we would have to draw lots and buy food according to the condition stated on the paper and finished the food before going to antoher stop. Every group was given $50 to spend. The winning criterias are the group which spent the least and the group who reach the final stop, Sentosa, first will win.

I remembered we had white rice, chocolate eclairs, almond chocolate, 1 slice of tomato, mango juice, jap food and plain water. Guess what, our competition was quite tight as we met AQUA's group (Shuling's grp) on the bus and 2 other groups at Harbour front. So in the end, due to a lot of people on the bus, we were separated with some of the councillors. In the end, we became the 5th.

When we reached Sentosa, it is time for us to check-in with our luggages. Luckily, they didn't ask us to bring our luggages with us. The logistics team helped us transport our luggages to Sentosa using lorry. Our group had 8 girls so all were be squeezing into one room. After putting our bags in our room, we hurried down to have our dinner by the swimming pool:

The councillors also told us that they would be away, preparing for the fright night. After our dinner, we had our first interaction with our S.P. which means secret pal. We were asked to gather at the Sapphire Pavillion. Everyone of us was given a nickname. My nickname was "Trinity". Then the guys were taken to another location. Then the girls who remained at the Sapphire Pavillion, began to be divided into small groups. We were blindfolded and taken to the beach. We, girls, settled down by the beach, blindfolded, awaiting for the arrival of the guys. After that, the councillors were quite mean, they even forced us to hold hands while talking. Even worse, they asked us to share 1 strawberry pocky stick. Wow, first time sia, but never kissed as we got our hand to block. They even asked the guys to buy us rose and ferro roche.

After talking for almost an hour, I think I was bullshiting all the while, the guys were brought back to their gathering point followed by us. Then we were back into our groups to play games while waiting for our turn to go to fright night. Meanwhile the councillors were busy making up and getting dressed up, preparing for the fright night.

We really waited for a long time before our turn to go to fright night. Some said that the second group encountered some problem that is why for the delay. We played a lot of games for several hours. Until 1 am plus, then it is finally our turn to go for the fright night. It was rather a long and tiring night... We were lucky as they decided to use lorry to bring us there instead of walking. This indeed saved us from walking the long distances. When we reached our destination, we were asked to walk into the jungle. Afterwhich, we were divided into groups of 2s and 3s and one after another would start the fright night journey.

The route into the jungle was completely dark and eerie, we were only led by dim red lanterns and green light sticks along the way. I was with May fang and another guy, the 3 of us, clinging onto each other. I think the guy was quite scared because of us, 2 girls screaming lorz... haha... Poor guy has to open every door that was told to, since he is the guy... Oops... I think that practically all the house were quite scary and we were scared by those "ghosts" who suddenly popped out from no where... On the whole, I felt that the fright night was quite successful as it did scare the whole group of girls out of our wits. This fright night is like a finale for the first night at the camp, can you imagine we slept at around 2 to 3 am since we have to wash up...

Second Day of the Camp (18 July 06):

Early in the morning, we were all up quite early around 7 plus, we woke up already even though we only have to report at 8.30am. We even shared our scary experiences from the fright night, some was quite hilarious. After wash-up, we went to bring Serene to chalet as she could only make it on the second day of the camp. Then, we had our breakfast before we set off to our dance practice again. This time was quite taxing as they taught us the whole dance, a lot of dance steps, longer hours of teaching. However, I can only catch half of it or quarter. haha... Nvm, people dance in front I followed.

After our lunch, we started our main activity of the day which is Amazing race around Sentosa. Every group has to complete 7 stops all around Sentosa, those who reach the final pit stop first, will win this game. First of all, we had a sandcastle building competition. Each group would be given a picture and have to build sandcastle according to the picture. The judging criterias were the size of the sandcastle and how we present out sandcastle to the judges. The first 3 groups who win this can leave 5 mins earlier than the last 3 groups. We were given 30 mins to complete this sandcastle. So, let's go...

After 30 mins, our masterpiece is completed:

Our Presentation:

We only did a short Singapore wave and cheer, after that we went to kiss our masterpiece...

Sad to say, we were the last 3 groups to leave but that doesn't dampen our mood, we still dash to our first pit stop since it is not far away. It is at the Underwater world. Our first mission was to take photographs with different age groups of tourist. Plus a condition of posing as different characters. So, check it out!

(1) Superman Pose:

(2) Here comes the Ultraman!

(3) The bugs bunney also here!

(4) Bat Man!

(5) Spiderman!

We hurried to our next stop. I think it is at some hut thing. We have 2 tasks to complete. The first task is to count the number of blue dots on top of all the mushrooms found in the forest. For your information, got quite a lot. The second task is to narrate and act out the story shown below " Old Man in An tree."

Counting the blue dots on the mushroom...

The story goes like this...

After which, our next pit stop is near the merlion... So, we dashed across to our next stop. This stop is quite tough as our task is to get 3 different currency other than Singapore dollar and rupiah. So we got to thicken our skin and ask those tourists that we saw, wait also got time limit one, 3 mins.

Wow, super tough hor, we began to disperse and beg the tourists... Not easy as all the other groups in front of us had already approached those tourists before, so left only few tourists for us to ask already. In the end, we still manage to ask for 3 different kinds of currency: 1 ren ming pi (China's currency); french coin and spanish coin. (below picture shows one of our members asking from the uncle for ren ming pi...)

Ok, we hurried to our next stop which is somewhere got maze one. At that stop, we have to blindfolded one of our members then, she had to complete the bushes' maze without touching the sides of the bushes. Then, one of the guy will have to shout across the instructions to the girl who is blindfolded. It is also not easy sia...

We headed to our next stop which is at one of the beach, so we have to take a bus... while waiting for the bus, we took photos again...

On the bus, we headed to our next stop which is at Palawan beach. This stop is quite tough as we have to dig for bottles hidden under the sand in the sea. There were different bottles with different colour tags, so we have to find one which had black tag. So almost all of us went down to use our legs to dig and dig... It was quite a long search before we then find one and rushed off to another pit stop... Luckily, we found... It is really like "Hai Di Lao Zhen" lorz.

So, we hurried to our next pit stop which is at Tanjong Beach, at another end. For this stop, the guys in our group had to take off their shirt and roll over the sand. Meanwhile, they also have to find the Nivea products in the sand and take photo with the products:

So, after that, we headed for our second last stop which is a the other far end, Siloso Beach, so we decided to wait for the beach train...

On the beach train:

Finally, we reached our second last stop. The first task is to design a flag an draw it out...

Everyone crowding around to give ideas for the flag:

Our artist drawing the flag:

I proudly presents our completed flag, Nice ma?

Finally, our last pit stop is to find someone at an island. Our group and another group, AQUA were very close. AQUA group reached one of the island first to look fo that mysterious man but they cannot find it. So they decided to go to another island instead. However, we remained on that island, then guess what, we managed to find that mysterious man. So, WE WON the Amazing Race!!! haha... So cool!

Yeah!!! Hurray!!!

While waiting for other groups to finish the race, we went back to the sapphire pavillion for rest... Meanwhile, we went there to polish our dance steps too, as we had to perform the following day... Scary sia!

So after our dance practice, we had our dinner before we continued with our night activities... The first night activity was Speed Dating! haha... Our group girls and boys each one group. We had to go to 3 different stops, in each stops, we were get to know the other guys from another groups. For the first stop, we had to choose a balloon, inside will have the guy's name who we have to talk to. Depends on your luck, if the guy is nice, he will start the topic and talk with you. If he is not good, too bad, got to stay bored for the whole session. Luckily, this stop only lasted for 15 mins. The second stop, girls and guys will stand in 2 rows, then after that, they were be paired up alternately. The last stop, girls will be sitting inside a circle while the guys will form the outer circle. So the outer circle will rotate and we then get to talk to different guys... This speed dating quite ok, just depends on your luck. But we did manage to find out 1 other guy also from Ngee Ann Poly... So added into our poly gang... haha...

After our speed dating, we had our last night activity which is the Night Treasure Hunt! Each group would be given different pictures taken from signboards all over the 2 beaches: Palawan and Siloso Beaches. So we have to identify and find words and form clues to our final destination... So look out for what signboard we discovered: Those circled ones...

(1) Signboard of Trapeze (Swinging thingy)

(2) It is at some carparks. One of the signboard at the carpark...

(3) For this, they only provide the picture of this froggy... ok la quite obvious...

(4) For this picture, they provided us with the plate number of this bus. It is actually an ice-cream selling stall...

(5) For this clue is quite tricky as they only provided the mouth of this model, so got to match...

(6) For this picture, they wanted us to find out the manufacturer of this spot light in an offshore island... Luckily got bridge to this island...

(7) For this, they only provided us with a small picture of that signboard, only those with sharp eyes can spot...

(8) This is challenging as they only provided us with the photo of the scribbling on one of those huts. Can you imagine, there are how many of these kind of huts alongside beaches...

There are a few more places that we went to, however, our camera low batt so they used my HP camera to substitute. So the effect is not really good. After which, we didn't managed to find all the pictures, we left out 6 of them as we really cannot find. In the end, the word formed is Saphhire Pavillion, so we went back to our final destination. At there, we had to find our flag hidden somewhere in the bushes ardoun the pavillion. But luckily, we still manage to find and that marks the end of our this night treasure hunt game. Haha... We also reach there first unexpectedly.

All of us were very exhausted after a day of running here and there, playing all sorts of games, dancing,... really can slim down a lot after such activities...

We managed to catch some nap at the pavillion before we have to start our dance practice again until 2am... Cannot imagine, dancing in the middle fo the night... at that time, we were dying for a nice bath and a nice sleep... haha... So in the end, we did had a short dance practice, abt 30 mins of dance. But i didn't dance as my knee cap hurts so I just sit by the side to rest. After that, we did our wash-up before we get to sleep. Initially, I slept with serene side by side, but another girl who slept beside me, was quite tall, she cannot squeeze, so i changed place with her to sleep.

Third Day of the Camp (19 June 06):

We were supposed to meet downstairs for breakfast at 7.30am however, all of us woke up around 7 plus, so we hurried wash -up and rushed downstairs for our breakfast. After our breakfast, we had a short dance practice while our councillors preparing another game for us. Our first game was 15-min Challenge. Each group will choose 1 lane, along the lane, we had to complete 10 tasks. So I shall let the pictures show u all the tasks:

(1) First task needed 2 person, 1 person will throw facing backwards and another person have to use his shirt to catch the water bomb that was threw. Not easy sia

(2) Second task needed 2 persons too, 1 person will throw 1 small piece of bread and another person will have to catch it using his mouth.

(3) Third task required only 1 person. The potato chip will be placed on the forehead of one person then, the person will have to twitch his face as much as possible so that the chip can reach his/her mouth and be eaten.

(4) 4th task required 2 persons too, 1 person had to drink coke within 1 min and another person had to eat 1 piece of white bread with nothing on it. Seemed easy but when you try to do, quite difficult.

(5) 5th task is obvious as we had to hold hands and go through the Hula hoop provided.

(6) This task is quite challenging as it tested our accuracy. 2 persons were hold a string and at other side, all of us were try to hang our hangers on the string. Really test our patience and accuracy...

(7) The next task was to blow the ping pong ball from one bowl to another, total had to blow across 3 bowls.

(8) The following task was to stack cards like a 2 rows pyramid at least let it stand for at least 1 min.

(9) This task was to complete a puzzle. The puzzle is quite tough to fix. haha...

(10) Finally, it is the last task, that is to form a chinese words using us. The Chinese word is Cai, Rainbow, cai hong de cai hong.

After that, it were be our beach games. There were 2 kinds of beach games, we played the dry beach games before lunch and the wet beach games after lunch. fter playing so much at the beach games, we went back to bath as we were all covered with sand and drenched. Our last night main activity is the SP night dinner at a restaurant... Followed the night, were a series of events such as games played in the restaurant as well as our dance compeition. Due to some problems, I cannot upload the photos. So I shall upload them in my next entry.

Today is my last day working at Seacare!!!

2006-07-07T22:49:00.000-07:00

They really touched me today:

Today marked the end of my working as an admin staff at Seacare. And they surprised me with KFC lunch in as well as gifts from them... I am so touched and elated. Today I also took a lot of pictures with my colleagues:P I shall upload them asap.

I still remembered the first time coming here to look for job as here is an employment agency that helped people to find jobs attached to mostly schools. Haha... I was really pai seh, first time went for interview at Seacare with my mum. Imagine coming for job interview with my mother then after that we went shopping together. Then only a few days later, Adila called me up for job offer at Seacare building, attached to Seacare Manpower... So, here was I helping them to coordinate training for those workers under them.

Throughout this work, I really learned a lot of new things. I learned how to use mail merge and to link up powerpoint presentations... haha... I never knew that Microsoft Words and Microsoft Excel can do more than I expected. I felt satisfied, finished with most of my stuffs and handover liao. Looking back at those things that I have done. I sent out letters to the workers, called them up to ask if they wanted to attend this "free" training, printing out training materials for them and filing them up; in between did a bit of powerpoint presentation for them; designing some stuff for them and giving in some ideas... It had been a fruitful experience for me during this long holiday, managed to finish up with 7 trainings left 1 for my colleague to follow up. Thinking back, straight after I am done with my poly stuff, helped my aunt out for 2 weeks before I took up this job, so it should be time for me to take a break, relaxed myself before I go into uni to suffer:P

Below are some photos uploaded. Pls enjoy :)

Official Prize Presentation (Me and Mrs Tan, our manager)

It is Me with my perfume... CK brand one, so sweet and nice and refreshing the smell:P

It is me again with bag, they actually gave me a bag pack for my schooling days... This photo is terrible, I cannot believe Mrs Tan captured my ugliest moment, guess I was crazy then... haha oops...

Lastly, this is my card, a handmade card by Adila. Thank you so much, a beautiful rose it had and all your wishes for me... So touching:P

Last but not least, I would like to thank you everyone of you here in the photo... I am so glad and really surprised today. Thanks for everything that you gals had given me as well as thank you for helping me so much during my working days. It was terrific working here:) Rather sad to leave but I will be back to visit u gals...

Yumin's Farewell Dinner 2006!!!

2006-06-30T08:33:00.000-07:00

On tuesday, went out for a dinner gathering with ex-GSK colleagues, surpose to be 8 of us but only 6 turned up... However, it still turn out quite fun. We met up for Yumin's farewell... She is going to further study, quite shocking news at first. Guess what, we went to the indonesis riverside restaurant for dinner... haha... Quite obvious, it was me who organise one, as I found that place not bad sia, for a price of $10++, you can enjoy 6 course meal, this kind of place where to find...

When we settled down at the restaurant, we went straight to order that 6 course meal, actually, everything was almost the same as previous just that we had an additional Mee Goreng and 1 Tahu Telok instead of 2 Tahu Telok, as we have 6 of us instead of 4... And also we ordered chacoal grilled Sotong instead of chilli one, but it turned out not really nice as one side got burnt, so can taste the burnt smell...

Too bad no pictures were taken as we were busy eating when the food is here, we just ate and never take any pictures... haha... Guess we were all too hungry... Within 15 mins or so, w had almost finished most of the food on the table except for that Mee Goreng, we had to wait for almost 30 minutes before it was served to us... My friend was saying that they need to roll flour to make the noodles that is why took so long to cook one plate of noodles... Finally it came, after we rushed the waiter, we spilted into 6 portions and started eating... Actually, it turned out very nice, quite tasty, just that only had 2 prawns...

We were surpose to ask the waiter/waitress to help us take photos inside the restaurant, but they seemed very busy and our table is very ugly as our table was not cleared. So we decided to go out to walk walk and take more photos:P
Needless to say, enjoy the photos below ( I only uploaded some from my phone, more to come ba when I get them):

Blue lighting, I really loved that unique umbrella, Bravo!!!

Me and Serene with a terrific background :)

Me and Lee Ping in front of Swissotel, a bit dark as I never on the flash:P

Me and the main Lead of the night, Pangz... Acting cute, or acting like we dancing india dance???

It is time for you to open up our surprise for you:

That is all for that night's outing, really had a great time out, Yumin let's meet up again when you come back from Australia:P Now I still wanted to wish you Bon Voyage... You must really take care of yourself, stay strong and healthy wor:) Jia You and all the best for your endeavours...Also keep in touch and hope that you always remember me... haha... a bit mushy?

Wanqi's Birthday Celebration 2006!

2006-06-23T22:57:00.000-07:00

Today is Wanqi's birthday... Happy 20th Birthday to you!!! 2 days ago, on wednesday, we went out to explanade to celebrate her birthday... We really had a great time out there as we took a lots of photos, just like photo taking freaks:P
When we reached, we headed off to the explanade. We went to the rooftop to take a few shots:

Nice scenery as our background:P

The birthday gal

After taking a few shots, we went to Max Brenner to have our dinner. Without having any main course or what, we just ordered their dessert, CHOCOLATE FONDUE...

While waiting for our food, we still take a few shots and this is our nicest shot:

Finally, our food is here and that was our dinner:

I think it was very creative, 3 types of chocolate (Dark chocolate, Milk chocolate and white chocolate) heated by candles below. Dipped with strawberries, bananas, mashmellows and cakes... YUM YUM!!!

It is eating time!!!

Tasty and sweet strawberries...

Trying out different kind of food dipped into different kinds of chocolates.

A close look of banana dipped into dark chocolate, very nice wor:P

Take a closer look, the chocolate starts to bubble due to the heat below:)

After that, we ordered their restaurant's recommended hug mug. I ordered the white chocolate while wans ordered the milk chocolate one... I liked the shape of the mug, so cute and unique:)

We were slowly sipping that Hug Mug, mine was quite sweet, maybe that is because white chocolate is normally sweeter. But on the whole, we were really full after the meal, so chocolatety!

After our meal, we went back to the explanade rooftop to see the night scenery by the river:

The birthday gal

The both of us:) Although, a bit dark but at least still can see us:P

Enough of the explanade, we decided to walk to the Fullerton Hotel... On our way, we saw many people crowding by a artificial wall and painting for free, so I decided to join them and paint too:

I painted this Happy Birthday in Chinese for Wans, quite nice ah:P

As we reached Fullerton Hotel, we went to their toilet, gues what, we actually took picture inside it... Haha, but not as good, I was busy looking at my phone instead of the mirror:

After coming out from the toilet, we settled down at the comfortable sofa seats while I surprise Wans by giving her my present...

That's all for wans' birthday celebration, after which I headed for home while wans went out with her friends...

Clarke Quay Outing with Rong, Mui and Mandy!!!

2006-06-22T23:30:00.000-07:00

Finally, after postponing for a few weeks, we managed to go out together. It is a long time since I have seen Mandy, really miss her a lot:) Amazingly, the super late Queen, Yirong, was the earliest for our outing, really surprise... This was because we were all quite late, that is why she appeared to be the earliest, surposed to meet at 6pm, but the earliest turned up at 6.15pm... haha...

We planned to have our dinner at this Riverside Indonesia Restaurant, first time going there, luckily, we still manage to find this place. However, it was quite a long walk from the NEL, about 20 mins or so, this is because we were exploring Clarke Quay, trying to find the place:P

We settled inside the nice cooling restaurant, browsing through the menu, then in the end we decide to have the 6 courses meal... We chose BBQ stingray; chacoal grilled chicken; Tahu Goreng; Satay; Chilli Kang Kong and sambal chilli squid.

Finally, our food came, but me and muihwee were trying to take a snap shot of the table full of food while Mandy and Rong kept complaining when can they start to eat, haha... Too bad, take photos first... Blek!

Only this photo managed to capture all the food on the table...

Look at what they used to contain the rice, what a nice basket:P

The 4 of us with a table full of food, finally we can eat our food:)

We managed to sweep clean all the food, can you imagine the 4 of us clearing the whole table of food, wow, gain quite a lot after this meal, oops:X

We were actually behind a bar, the back kitchen had heir walls painted like a brewery, so we took chance of taking that as our background:P

The night scenery of Clarke Quay

After that we began to go around Clarke Quay taking photos:

Me and ah mui

Some candid shots:

Muihwee was trying to act eating at the table while Mandy was trying to point that woman at that picture...

Me and rong were trying to eat on the same table but don't really looked like... Got to work on ur acting skills:P

Yirong sending her beloved kiss to the woman on the wall:)

So that's about it, took quite a number of photos with you gals, haha... Hope that all of you have enjoyed as much as I did, also hope to see ya gals soon. Take care:P

Graduation Day 2006!!!

2006-06-17T07:57:00.000-07:00

2 days ago, on thursday, 15 June 2006 marked the end of my polytechnic life. 3 years just passed like that with tonnes of sweet memories and knew a lot of great and fantastic friends... It really triggered a lot of thoughs in my mind...

It somehow triggered a lot of thoughts in my mind...

I still remembered stepping in Ngee Ann Poly, the first day... Luckily I have Eunice, coming from the same Sec sch as me but we different class, same lecture... So, I still have to find my way to LT 51, but later then I found out that the route I took was a long route, got to climb slope somemore... So coincidence, when we go into the LT, we sat beside Maryam and another Eunice... Initially though that Maryam was a Chinese... haha... Then talked to her in Mandarin then realized that she don't know understand. Oops...

Afterward, I think it is ICBE first tutorial, still remembered Mr Chong let our class played introductory game. It goes like this: Everyone has to self introduce and say something about themselves. When one finished introducing, the next person has to repeat his/her name. I still remembered that I said: Hi, everybody, I am Cindi spelled with an "i". haha... Cos I quite disliked people spelled wrongly my name... But i guessed it was this game that we really got to know each other ba.

Moreover, I still remembered the first sentence that I asked Jaclyn. I asked her why her name is spelled in that way. Cos she asked us to pronounce her name as Jacqueline but her name was spelled as Jaclyn. That was how I got to know about her.

The next thing was taking the wrong bus to school during the first week of school. I though that the bus 989 would turn to another bus-stop instead, it went straight into expressway. So guessed where I landed myself, when I alighted from the bus, I realized that I was near Catholic JC, so far lorz. Then I have to call my friends and ask them not to wait for me. It was the first Organic Chemistry Lab lesson... I managed to find a bus back to Ngee Ann Poly, and have to go around the school asking for directions into Blk 40 that lab. When I stepped into the class, I was super late, and sat for about 10 mins so, we can leave already. This is the first Lab lesson, no practical stuff only briefing. What an unlucky day!

The next thing that I could remember was during our first computer lesson, our lecturer Mr Heng, was not here for the lesson as he was busy at some other stuff. However, no one told us, we waited outside of the computer room for almost 15 mins. Then we were discussing whether to run away from this lesson, waited so long but still no lecturer come. We were quite frustrated that we went to a Lecturer's notice board and looked for that Mr Heng's face. Of course, we did some cursing to him... Oops, cos he is at fault, first lesson already like that.

Our first class outing was going to Andrew's house for BBQ. The only thing that struck my mind was Maryam and Nurul were chased by Hidayat. That hidayat was very mischievous, threatened to poke them with his stewer... So poor maryam and nurul got to run frantically around so as to avoid Hidayat.

After sharing some of the vivid memories that I had in mind... That's all, so I shall share some of the photos taken during the graduation day:

4 best pals from Class O4. (From right Chairbreaker aka me; Maryam and Hidayat; Ah Ma aka Jaclyn) Don't mistaken I am not a chairbreaker, it was just coincidence when I sat on the bus the chair in front of me was spoiled and came up, so from then onwards that Hidayat came calling me that. Sobz...

Me and Maryam:)

Me and Shuling... The world is really small, she is actually Shu xia's cousin, so coincidence:P

Me and Mr Joel, the lecturer who always likes to make fun of us:P

Miss min and the 3 of us

Mdm Tan and the 3 of us

Me and Maryam with Mr Quinn. It was very weird for me as he never taught me before... Oops, a bit extra:P

The couple plus me and Mdm Tan

Maryam, Mdm Tan and me

Us again and our computer specialist

02 and 04 gals plus 1 03 guy:)

Shuling, Huiting, Me and Jac

Jac and me with Stephanie and Jennifer

The whole group of gals with a mixture of different classes:)

Lastly, I would like to express my congratulations to all the graduates of 2006. Hope that all of you will verge out into different pathways either to study or work or army... Wishing all of u all the best for your future endeavors:)

Going out with Hwee Teng

2006-06-10T21:15:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was out with Hwee Teng... I remembered the last time I went out with her was when I just finished with my school stuff and still haven't find my job. However, guess what I really worked as an admin staff for almost 2 months. So time really flies...

We were quite early for dinner time, so we went around to see where should we have our dinner. We walked from orchard MRT to Taka... Deciding between to go either Mache or Ichiban Boshi... Guess what when we go to Mache at Heeren, then found out that it was closed for renovation. So sadly, we went to Ichiban boshi. When we reached there, the waitress asked us if we mind taking the 2 seats near the entrance of the restaurant but we insisted on waiting for the counter seats. So, we waited for almost half an hour before getting to the desired seats that we wanted.

Inside the restaurant, we were browsing through the menu, deciding on what we wanted to order. In the end, we decided on ordering all the side dishes instead of having their main courses. Reason being got more varieties if we ordered their Ala carte, about $1.90 each plate...

Our starters:

First dish on the top right hand corner, it was the egg wrapped sushi. Beside it, was the peas. Remember for this peas, cannot eat the skin but eat the seeds inside it, first time tried this, quite crunchy and tasty... Then from the bottom right hand corner, it was chicken floss wrapped sushi. I particularly loved this as it was very unique, never tasted a sushi wrapped by chicken floss, really ICHIBAN! Beside this, was another of my favourite, it was LOBSTER toppings on top of fried yam pieces, what a weird combination but indeed it was very Shiok wor:)

Next dish was our main course, it was fried soft shell crab. I shall let the picture tells you how delicious it is:

After a feastful meal, we had our lovely cheese cake for our dessert, really cheesy as I expected. Meanwhile, enough pictures of food, it is our turn now:

After our meal, went around town area, talked and window shopped, before we sadly headed for home. Let's anticipate for our next outing:)

Chalet 2006!!! With Muihwee and her boy; and Rong

2006-06-06T00:54:00.001-07:00

I just received from Muihwee the photos that we took during chalet which was about 2 weeks ago... Hm... Quite miss that short chalet, although only 3 days and 2 night spent at Sentosa Costa Sand, but it definitely is a great one!!! This chalet on the whole was quite fun and interesting. On a whole, I shall rate this chalet 4 out of 5 stars... I didn't rated 51 star because we didn't *tong* the whole night. Surpose chalet cannot sleep one, then played the whole night out, but this chalet which was for 3 days and 2 nights, we didn't. We slept quite a lot especially someone. (Miss Lee)

First day of the chalet (23 May 2006):

Nothing much happened as since we can only checked into the chalet in the afternoon, so me and rong decided to go after our work. While Muihwee and her boyfriend went to check in first without us... After our work, suppose to meet rong at Habour front NEL however, she told me that she could take a us from her workplace down to my workplace, so that she can accompany to Sheng Siong Supermarket to buy some things. I waited for around 1 hour plus for her, as she needed to walk a long distance before she can get into the correct bus-stop and that bus took very long from orchard to reach my workplace here. Luckily, she came, otherwise I don't know how am I going to carry so many stuff to find her but those mosquitoes cause my scars on the legs... Sobz...

Guess what, we took cab into Sentosa as we were carrying so many stuff and furthermore, it is quite late already... When we reached the chalet, muihwee and Zhi Chang already finished their swim while waiting for us to have our steamboat dinner... We rest for a while before steamboat preparation. Look at our mouth-watering food on the steamboat... Got quite a lot of varieties: crabsticks, hotdog, Cheeszy hotdog, Yong Tou Foo, Needle-like mushroom, Vegetables, Chicken, Pork and fish... Yummy...

After a feastful dinner, very full, very soon, it is 10pm, my Chang Jin time. So no one shall disturb me during that time, got to shift all my attention to this show... Think I am like a TV-holic, being addicted to seeing show... But Sentosa, a small island out of Singapore, their reception is lousy, cannot blame it is off-island not in Singapore... hm... luckily, still manage to finish the show... After the show, Yirong went to bath so as to have a conference talk later with 7 people, crazy gal, didn't know that conference can 7 people together talk, just like a meeting, so cool... i tried before 3 people conference then already cannot differentiate who is talking to who liao, then this time round, she is tying to conference talk with 7 people, that must be really noisy and confused.... haha...

In the end, Yirong conference talk for almost 1 and a half hours, wow, ear must be real pain... That time was past midnight already, around 12am plus... It is time for my bathing... Then after that, we were deciding whether to go to stroll in the beach or go outside to walk walk... That was Yirong's idea, wanting to walk in the middle of the night down to the beach, the 4 of us??? hm... a bit errie... On second thought, we lazy to walk so far down the beach, we dropped that idea, decided to stay inside the chalet rot, talk and slack... However, some pig suggested wanted to stay up the whole night, fell asleep first. So, me, muihwee and zhichang played "Dai Tee" together... hm... Very coincidence as for every roung, muihwee always got the diamond 3, that is why she is always the first one... We have been playing for almost 7 to 8 rounds, but always muihwee got the diamond 3, think she is fated with that card... haha.... We only played till 2am, then sian already, turn on the TV and watch TV while lying on the bed. I liked the TV placement as it is at the top of the bed, quite cool, lying on the bed and watch TV, so shiok! Not really fun as we slept so early should stayed up, but that "pig" slept first made all fo us feel sleepy too:P

Second day of the chalet (24 May 2006):

We woke up around 10 plus, unwillingly, as all of us were lazing on the bed, refusing to get up... However, if wake up late, means less things to play... So we got out from the bed to brush teeth and wash up, get ready for breakfast. We had cereal plus milk for our breakfast. Then muihwee and zhichang thinking of making half-boiled egg using the hot water that we cooked. However, don't know is it the water is not that hot or what, the half-boiled egg turned out to be uncooked egg, so watery. However, we managed to make one half-boiled egg but a bit to the raw side, luckily we tried and nothing happened... Uur breakfast menu: cereal with or without HL chocolate milk; vegetable crackers, half-boiled egg and cup noodles... Quite a lot of stuff so as to enable us to have enough energy to play the whole day...

First of all, we went to play "luge". If we buy 2 rides, free 1 ride, so that means total 3 rides for $15, considered quite cheap... Can play 3 times of luge and chairlift... When muihwee and yirong saw that chairlift, they were shocked, but I kept persuading them to play as this was my third time playing this luge, very fun and anticipating... We played the luge ride under the hot sun, it was around 11am when we played. The weather was sunny and humid, we played chairlift first then luge. The chairlift and the luge were super hot due to the sun, they scorched our butts so we decided to come back in the evening to play the other 2 rides...

This photo is the best out of the 3, as muihwee's camera is sensitive to light... BEST PALS FOREVER!!!

After that, we were deciding whether to swim, to cycle, to canoe? Then if want to swim, I don't have my swimming costume... So I decided to buy a swimming costume, tried out quite a few before I made up my mind to choose one of it... hm... After that, we then want to go canoeing... We went to the booth by the sea then they only offered a package for us which allowed us to canoe for an hour, played 2 rounds of pool and played volley ball. In the end, we did have a great time canoeing at the sea, me and yirong one canoe while muihwee and zhichang another. At first, muihwee felt dizzy, but after that she got used to it... We canoe here and there the 2 small island inside the boundary; when we went to one of the small island, saw quite a lot of black seashells on it, guess what, those seashells were alive, they moved, so scary, no wonder no one want to pick them up... Haha, time flies, 1 hour was so fast but quite fun too, luckily none of the canoes capsized... After that, we went to play pool inside the bar, so pai seh, none of us really know how to play, so we anyhow play and gave up our ticket to another group of people to play..

The green banner given to us when we played that package mentioned above:

Can you guess which one is whose hand?

Soon, it was lunch time and our stomach started to rumble... It is time for food!!! We went back to our chalet. We had cup noodles each as well as tibits to add on... After that, we watched a little bit of TV while enjoying the Air-Con, then we went to play arcade just right below our chalet... Guess what we played? We played Daytona, Sega Car Racing, and the game that we got addicted was "Find the difference." In the end, we did managed to come to number 6, so great achievement... haha:P Time just fly without us knowing, it is about 5.40pm already, imagine, Luge closed at 6pm, we hurry dashed down the beach and run... Muihwee is so fortunate to have zhichang to piggyback her when we ran... Luckily, we did manage to be there in time for our 2 rides or luge and chairlift... Imagine the whole luge track only left the 4 of us, since we were the last, we decided to wait for each to have the photo shot:

I really loved this photo as you can see we all really can pose really well, both timing and coordination were quite good. Moreover, this photo was given free of charge, thanks to the handsome generous guy:)

Soon it was evening time, we took the bench train to 7-eleven where we shared a cup of Slupee, so cooling and refreshing... Then we went to stroll on the bench, when we started our photo-taking craze:

Don't know who is the one who took this candid shot of me without any warning... hm... Don't let me know who is it, snap the ugly side of me...

Look out for all those candid shots that we took:

Me and rong acting cute, rong said that she loved the background behind us:P

The 3 of us taking a few shots, trying to satisfy our photo-taking craze while poor zhi chang (stressed photographer) had to retake a few shots so as to make the 3 of us satisfy...

Enough of the 3 of us, it is time for the 4 of us to enjoy photo taking:

Trying to take a shot where everyone of us jump up...
But how come only I jump? The rest are slow...

Timing was not right, only muihwee and zhichang jumped but me and rong were only preparing to jump...

Oh no, everything were in a mess, weird hand signs...haha

This shot, we were all slow, due to someone who shouted the wrong timing lorz...

Finally, this shot seemed quite okie, at least everyone had their hands up...

Decided to change pose... Pointing left and right.

How about our backview?

Our Ultra Men Pose!!!

Trying to have a coordination...

I loved this photo... The effect was quite nice though...

Finally, enough of all those photos taken at the bench, time to ehad back to the chalet. Before we do that, let's take pictures in front of the Costa Sand Resort signboard:

When we head back to our chalet, we were hot and sweaty, time for a swim, cooling time, we then swam for quite long. Muihwee and zhichang went up first after 1 hour as they swam the day before, so me and rong continued to swim... We also talked mostof the time... After that we went back to our room and started to prepare our second round of steamboat dinner:

A top view of our uncooked food, was stirring the soap base:

It is cooking time:

The 3 cooks Say Cheeszy while someone just sat on the bed waiting for food to be deliver to her mouth...

Oops, the food is a bit on the burnt side...

That night, after our dinner, and after my Chang Jin time, we cleared up everything, washed up the utensils as well as threw away the left over food... Guess what, that pig was the first to fell asleep then she still say got to wake her up, but to no avail. After we packed finished, we sat on the bed and played cards again while watching TV... Then we also slept around 2am plus...

Last day of the chalet (25 May 2006):

Imagine me and rong had to work the next day, I woke up around 6 am to wash up and bath. hm... I still had to wake that rong up, she slept longer hours than me, still dare to sleep later than me... After that, we left the chalet around 7am plus, we walked from the chalet to the bus stop, quite far away... And guess what we took cab out to Habour Front again. Lazy to wait the bus and somemore got to change bus... Might as well take cab, faster and easier... We settled our breakfast (Nasi lemak plus a cup of soya milk) at the habour front interchange hawker center before both of us set off to work. On the whole, I guessed all of us had greatly enjoyed this stay. We yeaned to have a Malaysia trip next year perhaps to Sunway Lagoon... So start to save up:P

Sakae Sushi Buffet with Niece

2006-05-20T08:11:00.000-07:00

Today I went out with my niece for Sakae Sushi Buffet at Raffles Place, OUB centre. Really had a great feast as you can see for yourself...

Our wide spread of Sushi: California roll, Unagi Roll, Tempura Maki, Soft Shell carb Maki, etc... Various variety of fried ala carte: My favourite Hotate (Fried scallop cake), Tako Yaki, Kani Tempura (fried crabstick), etc...

And all times favourite Chawan Mushi which contains Crabmeat, fish cake, mushroom and few streads of shark fins hidden below the chawan mushi:

Time for desserts: 2 portion of watermelons and 2 portions of moshi ice cream. Yummy...

After a sushi buffet, I think I will suffer sushi phobia for 2 weeks or more... And also need to do some exercise to lose the fats accumulated today... Hopefully I will have the discipline to so that... :P

Poseidon (Outing with cousin)

2006-05-16T09:01:00.000-07:00

Today went out with my cousin for a movie, Poseidon. From then, I fell in love with this movie... Poseidon is the first movie which I find that is filled with actions, impact and unpredictable twist of stories.

Take a look at those pictures taken from internet, I foun that the plot was quite interesting, can you imagine, the whole movie was about how they got out from the capsized ship? Sounds nothing fantastic but that is how they so pro ba, such a simple outline of story still can make it so interesting...

I went online to search the photos of some of the actress and actors in the movie... To my surprise, they won't that suave and beautiful in the movie... However, their real person in photographs were so much different...Take a look ba...

After my eyes have a feastful time, it is time for my stomach to have a great time too... haha... I began to indulge in something which I really missed: Freshly baked piping hot waffle topped with hazelnut ice cream and caramel... Moreover, it is tuesday, waffle day, so half price for waffle... So cool, can satisfy my desire for waffle and save up a bit... haha...

Look out at the mouthwatering waffle:

After that movie, just took some photos on the comfortable seats before we went home...

Let's say cheese!!!

Hairdresser's baby

2006-05-15T10:16:00.000-07:00

I went to trim my hair yesterday and guess what I manged to play with the baby boy... Babies are such a nice way to start people. Friends who are close to me will know that I will get crazy at times when I saw babies. Actually, quite dying to give birth to one. However, must wait for my another half to come then can... haha He is really adorable, fun and interesting... I don't bluff you, don't believe take a look at the photos below:

Smiling happily as his mum says that he really likes to be handsome in front of a camera. Such a sweet and heartwarming smile to melt one's heart.

Oops, getting a bit not happy as he wants to try taking pictures himself using my handphone...

However, I manage to trick him with the TV remote instead... That saves my phone I guess...

A Rare Visitor...

2006-05-11T22:50:00.000-07:00

Today suppose to go to my company's function. However, my mum informed me yesterday that my niece will be coming today. Therefore, no choice, have to give up going to my company's function and go home to accompany my niece... A bit regret giving up free buffet waiting for me and substituting it with home cook food... Hope that there will be more com
pany's function next time...

Imagine we got nothing much to play and we played with sweets... Have you even see the soft candy with a shape like a row of teeth? haha... I remembered taking photos with rong and muihwee using that fake sweet teeth... And here I am again taking photos with my niece with that fake sweet teeth, hope that you can spot that teeth...

Enough of playing time...

My niece, isn't she pretty? Really envy her smooth face... Niece-ship forever:)

Shiyin's Birthday 2006

2006-05-07T22:08:00.000-07:00

Today is Shiyin's Birthday. Happy 20th Birthday!!! Hope that you have enjoyed your birthday, gal.

The pretty Birthday Gal:

I really loved her curly hair...

Yesterday, we had a birthday celebration at K-box for Shiyin. First time that I was the earliest and as usual Yirong was the latest. Don't really understand ah, Yirong stayed the nearest and she is the latest. Yirong is really a "Mrs Late Queen," I really pity her future boyfriend. Hm... Lazy to do the elaboration, so let the pictures do ba...

Our set lunches:
(i) BBQ Chicken Set

(ii) Deep Fried Fish Set

Shiyin with Yirong, look at Yirong's super big earrings!

Shiyin with Wen Jun

Shiyin With me

Shiyin wants to eat my toufu... haha...

Birthday Gal making a wish...

Birthday gal blowing out the candles...

Birthday gal cutting the cake...

It is our cake eating time... The cake looks ordinary from outside but the inside is really nice, got strawberry filling and peanut cream on top... Yummy... Good choice, Wenjun for buying this cake...

Lastly, this is our group picture, which turns out to be quite dark, maybe it is our room ba...

Outing with Ex-GSK Colleagues + GSK playback

2006-05-04T09:57:00.000-07:00

Today was the day that I had anticipated for very long time, finally, had an interesting and fantastic outing with my Ex -GSK colleagues. A great thanks to the great organiser, Caroline, for making it possible... Around 12 of us turned up for this dinner at Holland Village, Suki Tei. Luckily we were early, not much people yet, so managed to find seats for the 12 of us, quite a big gang. We were given seats upstairs, got to take off our shoes but luckily don't need to sit like japanese style, the ambience was quite nice and smoothing...

We really had a great appetite, each of us ordered a main course and quite lots of side dishes and shared here and there. Didn't take much pictures of the food except for one food which is the pork cutlet ( Fried Katsu):
Check it out... I am fascinated by the sauce beside it which looked like... find it out yourself...

A closer view of the sauce beside it...

I ate quite a lot of stuffs there. Me and serene shared a bowl of Nabeyaki Udon, which was our main course. Then we also shared soft shell crab, Unagi roll... Then Serene told us that someone told her that eating soft shell crab will become dumb one , but I think no logic one... so weird, but serene after eating the soft shell crab, her reaction was " if just now that was true, she says that it is worthwhile to become dumb after eating such delicious soft shell crab." In addition, I also ate 1 plate of sushi maki and 1 small cup of watermelon sherbet (which is actually watermelon ice-cream quite refreshing and not too sweet). Moreover, we also have free flow of green tea to digest our food...

Here are some of the pictures:

She is Caroline, our organiser, an attachment student from NUS chemical Engineering, attached under different department as us. However, we got to know each other through Serene as they came into GSK together but attached under different departments. I find that she is a very hao xue person, who always want to learn new stuff and dher English is quite pro also, can be my english teacher... Glad to have know you and also thanks for helping me to edit my essay for the NUS application.

She is Kang min, who is also an attached student form NUS applied chemistry and attached under the same department as us. I find that she could be very quiet and noisy at times, but her news is always the hottest, she don't know get from what source one, her news always the newest and hottest... haha... She is also very nice girl who would help me when I am in trouble.

She is Yumei, the cutest lao ren that I have even seen, looked like secondary school kid but already in early twenties already. (Can't tell from her looks, right?) She is also from NUS chemical engineering, she is from the same batch as Lee ping and Peifen. She can be a very good lecturer as she had impacted quite a lot of engineering knowledge to me. Thanks so much for keeping me accompany during my whole attachment in GSK.

She is Peifen, who is also an attchment student from NUS chemcial engineering, came in together with Yumei and Lee Ping. She is very outspoken girl who can be crazy at some times especially after she drank some alcohol. That explains her nick to be "jiu gui." I remember she was the first to approach me and talked to me, that time I find her very friendly but as you know longer, she will find that she can be real crazy and funny...

She is Lee Ping, who is also an attachment student from NUS chemical Engineering, attached to the same department as me and also under the same supervisor. So coincidence... My first impression of her was quite strict but she told me that time when I was first introduced to her, she was very stressed that is why she looked so strict. But actually, she is very good and helpful. Without her, I don't think I can survive... haha... As I was super afraid of one person in my team but it is her who always showered me with encouragements and always deside me helping me... Thanks so much gal...

She is Serene, who is also an attachment student from NUS, Chemical Engineering, who came after Lee Ping left. She saved me from my boredom... I find that she looked timid from appearance but she is actually quite bold one. She even dared to "suan" back the person who I am most afraid of. However, she is quite short term memory and she can even be given the title of 'Short Term Memory Queen.' Oops, but she too have an unique taste to like George Clooney. But she and I eyed at the same guy in the company too, quite handsome looking but quite cool...

She is Pei Ru who is a lab technician in GSK, same department as me. She use to used to sit beside me and would always offer me sweets to eat. She is a nice and sweet lady who took care of me very well when I was at GSK. Thank you so much...

She is Yumin who is also a lab technician in GSK, same department as me. I still remembered how she described our shuttle bus and the bus uncle to me, so detailed: " A bus with a green lines then in the middle got 2 orange lettered words." She was my good bus companion who always liked to disturb me and she singed quite well too, went with party world once with her. She is a very friendly and approachable girl, who can be quite talkative at times but she can be a good listener too...

After our dinner, some of us went to Eski Bar to have a drink. At first, I wanted so much to go there and have a look as heard from my friends that it was colder than outside, and even have a below 0 degree celcius room, sounded interesting. However, when I went there, I really disliked that they allowed smoking inside, as after that my clothes and bags were have the smell of smoke. Hm... but the photos I haven't received yet, so have to wait... I shall update asap.

During my days at GSK, I am very fortunate to know a bunch of good friends who were 2 batches of students from NUS; lab technicians at GSK, Chemical Engineer and chemists at GSK. It had really widened my friends cycle. Below is a little playback on the days at GSK...

Lee Ping's Birthday:

We celebrated lee ping's birthday at the our pantry, still remembered that vending machine which we don't have to put money inside, it is free one... So can have free flow of drinks... In the photo, there are 2 unfamiliar faces who are Haozhen and Pei xin sitting beside Lee Ping. They were also lab technicians from GSK but they went to overseas for further studies already...

Candid Shot!!!

There were also a bunch of guys who celebrated for Lee ping's birthday. From left to right (Ross, Lee Ping, Patrick, Venu, Chong Meng and Wilvan).
Venu is my supervisor, a chemical engineer, during my attachment period, he is really a super nice guy, very thoughtful and helpful. He really taught me a lot of stuff during my attachment period as well as took very good care of me and Lee ping...
Chong Meng who was a chemical engineer, he also had taught me a lot of stuff during my attachment period. And also thanks for his treat. Wilvan was a statistician who had helped in my project quite a bit.

The Birthday gal cutting her birthday cake...

Second outing was with Yumei, Lee Ping and Peifen to Queenway to have BBQ stingray... We went to the coffee shops opposite Alexandra hospital to have that, reccomended by Peifen and Yumei... Didn't really take any shots of the food but in the end we took pictures at the Mac in Queenway shopping mall.

Thanks to the photographer, Miss Peifen for having 4 unsucessful shots:

Then the following picture was the best shot of me and Lee ping... We gave Venu this picture so that he can always remember us...

Lastly, it is our group photo that marked the end of our outing...

Mother's Birthday 2006

2006-04-30T05:57:00.000-07:00

Today is my mum's great day, it is her Birthday!!! Happy Birthday Mummy!!!

My mum was so happy when she knew that Yirong wanted to treat her lunch... The night before, my mum even said proudly in front of my brothers that Yirong, her god daughter is treating her so she asked my brothers not to treat her... Haha she actually admitted that yirong as her god daughter... poor me to have such a god sister...

After our church service, me and my mum went to the restaurant called Gyu-kaku Japanese BBQ at CHIJMES.
Check out this picture:

The meat seemed delicious, was busy eating, never got the chance to take picture. There was a promotion, one for one set, we ordered 2 pork and 2 chicken set meals for the 4 of us, got mui hwee, me, rong and my mum... One set consists of a drink with choice of orange or grapefruit juice or hot tea; raw vegetables salad; rice, a plate of raw meat to BBQ; hot miso soap and a dessert. Quite lots of stuff in a set meal which cost $17.50 each but thanks to the promotion we can enjoy it at a cheaper rate...

After the meal went to shopping, due to the long weekend, most of the shopping malls had promotion and great sale... Yirong left after the meal and muihwee went shopping wiht me andmy mum... According to muihwee, it was her first time shopping in OG... Haha, think that OG is a place not for us younger generations one... but for me, it is not new, as i always accompany my mum and auntie to shopping... There were a lot of people in OG, due to the 20% sale, everything as long as it is the retail price, got a discount of 20%... so quite worthwhile...

My colleague told me about this magic thermal pot, don't need electricity nor heating under stove, then can cook the food and maintain the food's temperature. My colleague said that just have to half cook for example curry chicken, then put inside this magic pot, it will help to cook fully as well as maintain the temperature of the food. So cool... and this magic pot only cost about $49 with OG card, and it is made in Japan. So, asked my mum to go up and see see but sad to say that it was sold out within 3 days only. Instead, we went to see people promoting pots and woks. Then, we even got free pop corns and cakes to eat, haha... they are really nice somemore free one...

Our shopping results in me buying a pair of sandals and my mum buying her a pair of scholl sandals too. Don't understand why my mum insisted on buying similar black scholl sandals, haiz... anyway it is at discounted price, so worth buying...

After that, when we got home, my brother went downstairs to takeaway food and the whole family sits down to enjoy our food. At least my mum won't have to cook on her birthday...

This year, we didn't really celebrate with a cake, thanks to my brother for not buying the cake whom he surposed to. haiz...

I remembered buying my mum's first birthday during my secondary school days...

This winnie the pooh heart shaped bottle was my mother's gift. From the picture, can see that it was only 3/4 filled with stars... That was because I took out some for other purposes... oops...

From then, the gifts of my mum's birthday can ranged from ornaments to CDs. I prefered to buy ornaments for my mum as it can be a keepsake and for memory...

This crystal ornament was qutie bian zhi, inside got a dragon. My mum was born in the year of dragon, so I normally buy gifts related to that.

This is my favourite piece of ornament which depicts 2 loving swans, very sweet and loving...

This year I bought this dragon ornament which I think that it was quite a unique piece... The dragon was gold plated as well as decorated with crystals...

Maryam's Birthday 2006

2006-04-15T11:03:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was Maryam's 20 Birthday!!! Happy Belated Birthday, Maryam!!! However, we only managed to meet her today for a dinner as well as to pass her the present. As her actual day was spent with Hidayat and guessed that she had an enjoyable time with him... We were supposed to meet at 7pm, then i thought that I would be late, but I was quite punctual, reached on the dot and Maryam came earlier than me. This time, the usually punctual Jaclyn was late, so unexpected, Jaclyn seldom came late for meetings so we sabotaged her to treat us dinner... Is causeway point too far for her? haha poor Jaclyn... She is so nice to agreed to that, thanks jaclyn, and we went to Swensens for dinner.

I had fish and chips, Jaclyn ordered chicken cutlet and prawn fritters; Maryam ordered a spagetti. We all were too hungry and we gobbled the food down after they were served. Only managed to take pictures of our dessert which is Apple crumble hot plate:

Look at the smoke coming out!

Topview, it looks really yummy and delicious, first time try this, very yummy and fantastic!!!

Snapshots taken at Swensens:

After dinner, we went to find some place to celebrate Maryam's Birthday. We sat below the MRT tracks, found a secluded corner beside the escalator leading down to the bus interchange. We lit up the candles for Maryam and sang a birthday song for her...
Enjoyed those pictures below:

Maryam's cakes, 2 slices of coffee cakes and 1 slice of chocolate cake... Yum Yum!!!

Meanwhile, we insisted that she took out the tip of the candles using her mouth from the cake... haha, look how bad we are, to come up with that trick...

Tasting the cake, must be delicious, i bet...

Opening up her present, so everybody guess what is it inside? (Clue: Something that she can use)

Is your guess correct? It is a fila hangbag, lime green which is Maryam's Favourite colour...

This is my favourite picture , all smile so sweetly... Being together in the same class for the past 3 years through all the ups and downs, will miss u gals:)

Wen Jun's Birthday Celebration 2006

2006-04-14T11:28:00.000-07:00

Finally, the 5 of us managed to find a date to meet for Wen Jun's Birthday. An early 20th birthday for Wen Jun!!! Happy 20th Birthday Wenjun!!! Normally, the outing was organised by Shiyin, thanks gal for always taking the initiative to organise but this time, I would like to try to organise, don't wish to trouble Shiyin... Haha, met at Bukit Panjang Plaza for a dinner and celebration.

Me and Shiyin were early as we met after work, so cool haha, quite a lot to catch up with yin, same primary school, same secondary and now same polytechnic, this cannot be coincidence, I think that it is becos of the bond between me and yin... Haha... fated to be together... We have been thru a lot of happy and sad times, and she is always there for me, really glad to have such a great pal.

Wenjun came around 8 plus after her tuition. We settled for a meal at the food junction as all of us were quite tight. Me ate Tom Yam ban mian and Jun took mee hoon guey and Yin had Yong Tau Foo. haha... Supposed to be a surprise celebration with Jieying buying the cake since she would be the last to reach, but it was all exposed by Jun, so clever of her when she overheard Shiyin's conversation with Jieying. haha... When Shiyin was about to do secret cake transaction with yirong under the table, Jun almost saw that but Shiyin reacted fast by standing up and ran away with the cake. She settled in front of the stalls poking the candles and asking around the stallholders to see if they can lend her a lighter or what. Eventually, she managed to light up the cake, and walked back towards the table with eyes staring at her, quite pai seh, but worthwhile for the sake for Jun.

The Birthday Gal, 20 years old le...

Birthday gal with Shiyin

Birthday gal with Yirong

Birthday gal with Jieying

Birthday gal with me

Someone is missing... It is Shiyin who is our photographer... Nice shot.

Took pictures for memory as first time celebrating birthday at a food junction, quite inovative way... Hope that you gals have enjoyed yourselves and take care too.

All the best to you gals:

Wen Jun for your job interview

Shi Yin for your permanent job hunting

Yirong for your work

Jieying for your upcoming exams

CE Gathering 2006!

2006-04-09T09:17:00.000-07:00

Today is our CE's gathering at Sentosa. Thanks to Daniel for organising this chalet to allow all CE's people to gather before we all pursue our directions either in unis or armies or working society... Haiz... Time really flies and these 3 years in poly just passed.

I still remember the first day i stepped into poly with Eunice, the only sec fren, and thru her knew a lot of her class gals. Really happy that me and Eunice got closer and she got herself a sweet Bf. I remembered the first lesson in poly was organic chemisty inside LT 51, then Mr Mirko has to mark attendance using the photo on the attendance sheet. Then he went around with the sheet of paper comparing faces and seeing who is who... Quite funny... Moreover, I still remember Mr Chong first ICBE's tutorial when he asked us to self introduce and I said that " Hi everyone, I am Cindi spelled with an 'i' behind. " I really disliked people to spell wrongly my name but that can't helps as most people have the mind set that Cindi is spelled with a 'y' and not 'i'. Just a gentle warning, my close frens dun spell wrongly my name otherwise you shall get it from me... After that, Mr Chong is successful in bringing our class closer, we began to mingle although our class is more guys than gals, with a ratio of 13:4, the number of gals are quite pathatic. But we still survived... haha...

Let's change the topic to today's outing... I let house around 2 plus almost to 3 in the afternoon after watching campus superstar... However, cannot watch finish only watched abt half of it then got to go Sentosa, otherwise will get killed by someone... Was shocked when I saw the queue for the Sentosa Bus, I cannot imagine going to Sentosa on a weekend, can be so terrible. the queue was super long that I only got onto the bus on the third bus, can you imagine how long the queue was? Went to Palawan beach to find YY they all, I went to Sentosa last year end, cannot imagine that it actually changed quite a bit when I returned. When I returned to Sentosa, it seemed totally new and quite a lot fo facilities are seen already and the train station that linked habour front to sentosa was very big and pretty. When i reached Sentosa, they were playing volley ball at the beach then i chio them to go and played "Luge" which is a new ride in Sentosa.

I guessed we really enjoyed that, the photos below can be the evidence:
It is me and YY on the chairlift.

This is Jaclyn and Krystle also on the same chairlift beside us.

Group's Pictures:

Nice group shots, thanks to Smart turtle, Krystle the photographer...

Look out for another group of CE mates that is behind us, got Jiawei, Kelvin, Eunice and Zhiwei...

3 fantastic shots taken at the chairlift during our 3 consecutive luge rides:

As for our luge rides, we had to wear helmets, and that is how we looked like:

YY and Kystle

Me and Jaclyn

Enough of the luge rides, we had 3 of the rides consecutively, had quite a lot of fun and it is really shiok ah... After that, we think that it is still early, we went to take the beach tram, it changed from beach train to tram, quite cooling sia. I remembered that during my Primary 6 outing we went to Sentosa for our class outing, every other class either went to Science Centre or Discovery Centre, so other classmates quite envied us. However, don't need to envy as we only went to sit the beach train for one whole round, seened all the 3 beaches and that is it, nothing much either, as that time only beach train is free and the rest of the attractions at Sentosa need $$$. We wanted to cycle however, when we wanted ot do so, the bicycle shop closed already, that time was still early 6 plus only reaching 7pm, how come they close so early, quite wasted but never mind we went to the beach to pick seashells...

Me and YY picking Seashells:

Nice Sceneries of Sentosa's Sunset with credits to Krystle for taking those pictures:

After that we went to the BBQ and thanks to Soon Huat's mum for making such delicious things for us to eat again. All CE friends, Let's all still continue to keep in touch and all the best for your endeavours... See ya on graduation day.

Me and Wans

2006-04-07T09:03:00.000-07:00

Haha... Today, it's great opportunity to go out and have fun with my "pu siao" friend, wans... The reason for calling her that was once she started her laughter, it is quite difficult to stop it le. (I don't think you will believe it until you experience it yourself). Therefore, need me to tell her to " keep quiet" then she will stop her laughter. I guess this is how we click, one is crazy and another is more composed so as to balance it out. haha... friendship is an unique and special relationship ah.

We met at causeway point and settled for a burger king. Luckily, found out that the coupon expired the next day, on the 8 April 06, so we ate our cheap and economical meal. It is the first time that we tried the turkey bacon burger, which was highly recommended by my colleague, overall is quite nice plus my onion rings adds up to a sumptous meal.

After that, we jus went for window shopping and much more chatting. Moreover, we also took pictures:

Wans you looked nice this picture, must thank me, your skillful photographer... hee...ha...

This shot is not good as it showed my double chin... got to retake!

This is nicer... haha...Take care wans and friends forever!!!

Eileen's Belated Birthday Celebration!!!

2006-03-31T04:44:00.001-08:00

Today was a fun and interesting day! Today I did a lot of things which I tried out first time. Met up with Jaclyn and Eileen to celebrate Eileen's belated birthday. Got to apologise to Eileen as we all were too busy to meet up during your actual birthday , so got to make up...

To kick off, we had our dinner at the crystal jade in Takashimaya, jaclyn's treat, thanks a lot too... but i felt quite heart pain for you, quite an expensive treat from you, $75 for the 3 of us, but the food was very tasty and delicious. However, don't worry, I will definitely give a good treat too when i get my next pay...

Was too hungry therefore, forgotten to take pictures of our delicious food... Each one of us ordered a bowl of noodles and some side dishes...
After 10 minutes after the food was sent to our table,

Can't you see that we are really hungry?

Next, take a look at the leftovers on our bowl and guess who is the most wasteful of the 3 of us:

Lastly, only managed to take a picture of our dessert:

Inside is filled with very nice and sweet tou sa... A must try dessert:)

After the dinner, very full and our stomach almost bursted... Haha...
Guess who is the the Number One Great Eater? Her name starts with a ... J... I need not spell out so clearly liao, you all should be aware of this. Although she looked quite thin however, she can be a big eater... (I am so envious.)

Taking pictures of ourselves in Crystal Jade:

Me with the 2 best pals in polytechnic... (say "cheese")

A snapshot of Eileen opening up the present from me and jaclyn, hope that you find it useful and must wear ah... Eileen:)

Snapshots of jaclyn eating...

After our feast, somebody suggested that we go and have a drink. So, we popped into Meritus Mandarin Hotel, was surprised to find a bar there. The atmosphere was fantastic from the appearance and another I liked about there is that it was smoke free... I cannot stand smoky environment, I would faint...

First time stepping into a bar, knowing nothing about the menu, we just flipped thru the menus and wanted to order alcoholic drinks. However, after taking our orders, the waiter actually asked us if we were underage of not... Do you know what, he said that we looked like 14 years old only... But I don't really blamed the waiter, as it is always better to look younger than the actual age... haha:P

Our 3 different kinds of alcoholic drinks: Vermouth, Sherry and Blue Absolute plus one plate of "Wasabi" flavour potato chips.

Let's bottoms up!!!

I am crazy about taking pictures, can you all guess where i took the following pictures?

Is your guess correct? I took these 2 pictures inside a toilet, go and check it out at Meritus Mandarin Hotel.

This last picture shall marks the end of our outing... Hey best pals, do keep in contact no matter where we are, we shall always remember the memories and time during our poly's days... Friends Forever!!!