Sports Camp Gift Exchange 31/12/07

Due to timing, our Sports Camp group gift exchange had to be held on the 29th, which is days after Christmas, but its damn cool! How so ... Check my post out... Pictures have to wait though.. .hahaha

Our Main characters, Danson and Kesh specially went to attend a "lesson" from Danson friend who is a chef (going to work in Meritus Mandarin Hotel). There he had prepared a menu that he wanted to cook for the whole group... Totally cool! Not forgetting Eugene who offered his place acting as the host for everyone of us.

I was able to meet them early after my tuition work and they had to prepare the dinner since 3pm... The main course, salad, dessert, soap... Totally professional... I a little lost on what to do, just spend time taking pictures of them preparing, helping out some simple chores, like peeling, washing... Well, i took them to research on how to get to Eugene's house though... His house is kinda out of the way in some sense... and its hard to describe how to get there since the area is mainly private estate. I had to search through streetdirectory.com (its a good site to find out how to go to places) and find out how to teach two girls (Crystal and Mei Qian) to come to his place.

In the end, i had to personally fetch them from the bus stop since there's a distance they have to walk to Eugene's condo. I picked up Crystal smoothly as she got off the right bus stop and i still managed to show her a very nice private estate near Walton street. But for Mei Qian, guess its was dark by the time she got here... She actually miscalculate the number of bus stops i told her to count and she went passed two bus stops over... haha... funny though,... when she was describing to me where she was from her hp... "Is it near some Singapore Hindi/dont know what Association..." Luckily, she asked the bus uncle and managed to get off quickly or else, she would have gone even further... So she had to walk back while i had to move forward to meet up with her... Luckily, I did not let Crystal to go down fetch her (when she volunteered to...) or else, two girls missing nowhere in Mountbatten Road would be funny !!!!

The gift exchange was great! Everyone seemed to be pleased with their respective gifts and in the end, we still took a group pictures of the gifts, surrounding Eugene's laptop as most of the gifts are related to the laptop in a way or another. Take mine for example, as seen from my previous blog, i got this eye massager from Mei Qian which is USB operated.

My gift was taken by Danson. I prepared a piggybank, bookmark, and my DIY cap.. hahaa.. .totally worth it to me... Jasper was hoping he got my present too lor... He was so envious when Danson got it and totally sian when he got Huss' present... Oh .. right... Huss made a special appearance thanks to Esther... Nice for him to come by and join our gathering...

By 10 plus, some of them had to go back home because of next day commitments while Me, Danson, Eugene, Jasper and Crystal decided to head to Mind Cafe ... whaahaha... We played there till 3am till the store close... Had lots of fun... playing those silly, brainless games... There's still plans to head there again next friday for more.... Can't wait man... oh... hoping for a ktv outing if possible.. it will be cool too... wahahaha...

Once i get pictures of this gathering.. i would post it... Yeah!

Full Battle Order 31/12/07

Oh... Look at that... ok.. i did this like 2 weeks ago... but anyway... This is my Full Battle Order (FBO) ... wahahaha... actually sian la... i got to prepare this in advance bcos sometime in Feb, there's a mobilisation that i have to go to and its a confirm thingy. Super sian! All the way to Kranji just to scan my card and go back home with these silly things and uniform. How dumb such army activity can be.. though its necessary...

I had to go and buy some of the army stuff that i lack and spent one night packing them. Ah!!!!! Why Why Why.... must we have to do this... why can't the world stay live in peace... Sickening...

Not only that, after the Feb Mob, there will be another one at the end of March, start of April...
Just hope all this silly army stuff do not disrupt my school work or project...

Christmas Presents 31/12/07

Pictures of my presents received this year for Christmas !

Though simple, but yet, cute, nice and interesting...

Got this from Jason during the poly gift exchange. Kinda irony, as i was pondering myself whether to buy this for the exchange too. Anyway, its from Mini Toons and its supposed to act like a fortune telling bottle where it could answer some personal questions... Havent really try it, well.. not sure how to too.. haha..

I like this. Got this from Berrie who bought this from Taiwan where she just went for her holiday. You Xin Le... Helpful for me and my grandma... hahaha... She thinks i'm old already... Bleh:)=

Another useful item from Mei Qian during my Sports Camp gift exchange. If you know it already, its a eye massager bought from Action City. Cute! Shall talk more in my Sports Camp gathering entry...

Christmas Eve 26/12/07

This year's christmas was simple... very simple...

Well, Jj still on clutches... so Tengfu and I thought.. hey why not just bring him out... meet up... since he have been at home for 2 weeks.. already... (a very rare thing to do when he is well)..

So we arranged to bring him from his home.... took a cab... to White Sands and head to coffee club for our usual talk cock session... We reached the place at 4pm...

Time went by as we stayed at the place... In the end, we decided to eat at there too... Gosh.... as time went on again... we decided to change location ... From Ya Kun to Macdonalds... By the end, we decided to head home... oh my.. it was 11pm... gosh.. was i shocked... this was a new record when we did this... our usual timing was just about 2 hours plus... never did i expect that we would spend 7 hours... just talking and chit chatting... Gay ah... with 2 other guys... haha..

Anyway... our usual topics... surround around the issues of studies, work, etc... What a way to spend a Christmas eve... Talking... keke...

End of Magical Christmas 24/12/07

In the end, it was considered a great success for Magical Christmas. Yesterday at the last day for the event, i was again doing flyer distribution. Being the last day, i did my best to give out all our flyers since after the event, they are considered waste.

The number of bags collected in the earlier part of the day was slow. As reported by Serene Tan, she was worried that we may not reach our target.

Just for info, our initial target was 600 over 3 days... but after the first two days, as according to Slyester, the manpower allocated by Red Cross is supposed to be for 250 bags per day. After 2 days of collection, we had around 480-490. Thus for the last day, they were aiming for a total of 750 bags.

By 2pm, the number was still around 580 bags. A little surprise by the number, i went down to check the situation myself. What i saw was instead full house at every station. It was crowded, but why the number was low was puzzling. So i tried to give assurance to Serene Tan, even if we do not hit the 750 target, we would definitely be close. I was confident of that.

In the later part, i was standing near the PS gantry giving out the flyers. There, i spent a lot more effort giving out, as time was ticking by. It was about an hour plus left before the end of the registration. There, also had a Prudential booth where the agents are doing their usual survey thingy. Luckily, they did not bother us.. keke.. one of them even went to donate blood. Kudos to them...

i managed to hand out all the flyers in the end. So for me, it was a personal mission accomplished. at 5pm, i simply walked around with Serene Toh, chit chatting. It was till then, we saw Karin! She really did come for the donation. We also get to see her bf.. haha... indeed a good body for a commando...

After seeing the doctor, luckily Karin could donate. When she was at the last station, i cheekily went into store and change into the blood buddy mascot. haha.. wanted to scare Karin...

Anyway, I was in it for a while... but managed to catch some ppl's attention while they are waiting for their turn. Some took the chance to take pictures with me..got one cute kid still came and kiss "me"... wahahaha... so Happy! When i went to Karin there... so easily, she guess it that it was me... so fast... No fun....

When i changed back, it was about her turn for the bleeding bed. I managed to get them both to sit together. Throughout the donation, she was nervous about it though it was her 2nd time. anyway... luckily, it was still considered smooth in the end, though the nurse had some trouble finding her vein intially. I managed to bandage her arm at the end too... Yeah!

Oh ya.. back to the number of bags... in the end, guess what... the final figure was 755 bags... well over our target... everyone was so happy especially Serene Tan... We then took our group picture... and began to clear out the area.

to me, beside the blood donation target, i hope this event have managed to spread the message around the importance of blood donation. I hope it is a platform to create awareness to the public...and to me, that's what the whole Magical Christmas is about...

Magical Christmas so far - 22/12/07

I had to be involved in the blood donation drive which was held at Dhoby ghout station control... Have been at there for the past 2 days...

For the 1st day, i was assigned to the Blood Buddy team... meaning i had to do the mascot and walk around... first time wearing such a big custome and i had to do all the waving, hand shaking... cute moves to entertain the public.. Think i wore it for a total about 2 hours ... We had to head into the trains and travel in it... from Dhoby Ghout to harbour front then back to Dhoby Ghout.... The mascot's head is really very big. In the train, i practically had to squeeze myself into the cabins. At times, when there are a lot of people, i could not move and had to simply stay put and wait till the next stop to reach before we get out ...

Being first time, initially, i did not really know i should do when im in it... i could not really imagine... soon, i got the hang of it and i just simply be MYSELF... i was jumping here and there... making funny moves around the station... my teamates still commented that im a super hyperactive mascot...

Maybe too active or fierce i dont know... at one point, i actually made 2 little kids cry... and they were both in the same cabin... Omg... and also i was bumped hard by a group of guys... they almost look as if they wanna rugby tackled me down... luckily i was alright...

anyway, today i was doing flyer distribution and i made my 6th donation...

Tml will be back to the blood buddy team again... More fooling around to do .. haha...

Desaru Trip Pictures - 18/12/07

Below are a few pictures taken during the Desaru trip.... Enjoy...

One of the first few pictures taken during our first day route. Look at the background scenery behind us... so much like Brunei ! All green... and the wind is very strong!


Managed to squeeze everyone inside for this shot... used the timer shot... on top of a bike or bag if i didnt remember wrongly.... keke

A random picture taken... look... me doing some funny face again.. i do that when im bored... here we were at a station resting before our long journey...

This is the poolside view of the resort that we stayed overnight at... Upfront is the beach... the waves there is a lot more stronger than the ones we see in Singapore.... Wow!

A photo taken during our trip route back to Singapore... It was definite a lot more easier than the previous day... But my Buttocks still HURTS!

Finally 1st ICT over - 14/12/07

Finally just got back from camp... this coming weekend would be busy with the Red Cross event. Have to be involved in the recruitment drive for next week's donation drive.

This 1st ICT have been a sort of gathering back with the old group of guys.... seen those familiar faces around was good...

Basically this week ICT has been quite relax overall. IPPT, a bit of training and we were given stay out on all days... I was able to stay at Kuan Thai's hostel on wednesday night. He was staying at NTU.

Finally, my training at floorball have paid off. I was able to pass my IPPT and it would be covering the whole new window till my next birthday... and also $100 from it.

Anyway, after coming back, caught a bit of flu again.. SUCK... today weather wasnt that good... in fact, this period of time wasnt been good at all. Better get better soon... still have lots of stuffs to do this holiday...

stupid cut on my finger! - 12/12/07

Freak accident on my finger... POOR Finger!

A test of my bandaging skill...
this is damn silly!



just now at camp when about to book out... it was raining heavily and on the way down from the building, i wanted to reach in my bag to get my umbrella out... who knows... inside where my shaver lies too... i went in to reach that instead and got myself cut on one of my fingers... and its pretty deep one... FREAK!



so troublesome now.. when bathing... and now im thinking when will i recover ... hope it does not affect my floorball game when im back from reservist... SUCK!!!!!!!!

Freak! Another ICT next June - 9/12/07

This is just great (ya, right.. ) Tml is my first ICT back to camp ... this first one have not even started, and i just got a call from Sim that we have another ICT again next june. FREAK! why are they so kan jiong... or simply im being in the wrong unit...

Again i cannot siam from it since it is during the holidays. Now, im hoping that it do not clash with any events that i hope i would be in... or else i would be cursing and swearing...

I am aiming to be part of the committee for a floorball major event which is held during the summer break and also hope to be a facilitator in one or two of the camps. Army better dont ruin my day man... it is so freaking irritating...

and the worst is .. i dont know what to pack for tml's ICT. No packing list, no nothing for us to refer to. There is a manning list... but how can a manning list be used as reference for ICT, it does not make sense... that we have to pack those standard packs for ICT. SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

The only consolation i can get from it is that at least i will be able to cover some of my 10 year cycle before i grad. i do not want to continue to go back when i am old in my late 30s or early 40s...

Magic... or is it... 6/12/07

sudden have an interest or rather curiousity to find out how some of the magic tricks work. happen to see a magic trick revealed in Youtube and i started to find out more from there...

pick up one or two simple trick and even tried on my mum when i just showed her for my first try. It was quite sucky (that is to me..) but i still managed to "trick" her... haha...

TOTALLY COOL!!! got to learn more... wahaha... its damn interesting!

Desaru Bike Trip - 5/12/07

I just got back home not long from my Desaru bike trip cum crashing floorball camp.

Monday i was at the biking trip towards Desaru resort. We had to meet at Changi Village to collect our rental bikes. We had to take a long ferry boat ride... 45 mins towards malaysia... Having motion sickness, the thought of being in it for so long give me some fright man... was hoping that i dont get any ill effects. Luckily, i managed to control it and was still alright when we reached the other end. However, poor Lingyi who also have the same weakness did not. In the end, she had to puke at our pit stop during lunch.

Our first part is to travel around 20 km towards Ringgit. Here, it was a straight road but my first and main complaint was that the bike seat was very uncomfortable. My butt hurts a lot.. and it was only just a few km... we had a lot more to go ... Reaching Ringgit at afternoon, we had a simple lunch before setting off.

The later part of the journey was the xiong one... there were upslopes and downslopes and they were pretty steep. that was not it. Strong winds going against us, plus the hot sun.... the road towards Desaru was not easy. We took about 4 hours when we finally reached Desaru resort. By then, it was 6pm. Almost everyone was shacked over it.

For me, i even had cramps on my thighs... first time i had cramps on my thighs.... happen when i trying to overcome a long slope.

For dinner, we had barbacue buffet, where we had fried rice, kuay teow, satay, chicken wings... similar to those that i had when i was Brunei during army.... brought back some memories ... haha... though some of us felt it was not that good.

I managed to chat with a few people after that before the debriefing... and we went to one of the rooms to play some cards. Knowing that i had to have the rest, i pulled myself to bed at 11 plus.

By the first day, i already had my shoulders and neck sun burnt. So i was hoping that there would be no sun for the return trip. Luckily, God was on my side. It was cloudy and even a slight rain before we set off. The return trip was much easiler because of the more down slopes (it was up slopes on the first day) ... Our progress was fast and we managed to reach 1.5 hours in advance back to Ringgit for our lunch again.

By the time, we reached back to the jetty, it was just 2pm. When we got back to Singapore, it was 430pm. Then i was already comtemplating whether or not to crash into floorball camp for the training in the evening. I was thinking it through all the way till home. finally i decided to go. Of course, it was met with disagreement from mum... she wanted me to rest...

I managed to reach Valhall (at kallang) for the training. Training was tough given the fact that i just reached singapore just hours ago. But it was still manageable in the end and i learnt some more of the games tactics and rulings... I went to SMU with the others for the night.

By the time i got back home just now, it was already 1 plus... shack...
Later in the evening, i still have to go to hospital to visit JJ who is undergoing his ligament surgery.

Hair back to short mode...

Upclose!!!

My Hair is gone!

Finally after months ... i have cut my hair short... havent take a pic of my short hair.. will post it once i take it..

hope no one come to me and say that i look like boy boy again... keke...