Date: 22/12/07
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: Teen Challenge Park
Score: SW 3 - HW 0

Thanks to all the photographers for making this event memorable. Here are the pics.



HW Team

Internal Conflict

Anthony and me

Shoot!

Run!

Trip!

Dribble!

SW Team

Warm up!

I can only say field soccer is not for everyone. You get to kiss the mud, run like wild donkey, shout like mad, and you never get back the ball. But ironically, it's this feeling that I love, fighting hard (with friends) to achieve something which is not really profitable (doesn't gain anything much other than the scars and bruises), and in the end enjoy the process gone through.
It has always been my dream to play field soccer. So I wonder is there any dream left unfulfilled?

:p

Guys, L is back. Who cares about Raito, or the death note. Just the mysterious guy who snacks on sweet stuff heavily risking his life just to find out some top-rank crime investigations.

(2008.2.9)

Enjoy this funny little video...

I was watching CastAway on TV weeks ago, and I can say it's another classic by Tom Hanks again.

It started with a guy who was working for FedEx, but found himself stranded alone in an island after a plane crash. So he was left with some FedEx parcels in the struggle of his life. In the hope that one fine day, he might be able to return home, to tell his family about his stories. Survival seemed to be the only matter he could think of.

At times, he almost found himself insane with the lifeless days he went through with no one to speak to, leaving himself with loneliness and despair. So he created his friend in a volleyball, one of the FedEx parcels which ended up with him. He talked to the volleyball named Wilson, and at times quarrelled with "him" in order to keep his sanity in check. So when the day he ventured out to sea to hope for freedom from the desolated island, he made the greatest move which would determine the rest of his life.

Unfortunately, out at sea, it's a challenge against the big tidal waves, or rather Mother Nature. At the point where he felt chances of returning home were getting higher, he lost his best friend Wilson. Wholly devastated, he let fate decide his outcome as he threw away his paddler and ceased to hope. But alas, a cargo freighter came to his rescue.

He was brought back to his hometown, but reality sometimes proves to be the worst calamity. His wife remarried. He could only blame himself for going to work that day...

Okay, Im not trying to be narrator for wikipedia or what, but what has left a bitter sweet memory after watching the show is attributed to the following "stints" in the wonderful show:
1) Tom Hanks was back to the town, and describing all his ordeals he had during the years cast away. During this take, I noticed the Academy Award winnder for Best Actor spill out his sorrows, his emotional desperation, the hardship he went through and the hope which glimpsed in his eyes like a shining star. This take took about 5 minutes, and the focus was on him all along (meaning no cut scenes in between). From this, it reinforced my belief why he was such a good actor, even after watching Forest Gump and Saving Private Ryan.
2) The last part really summed up Chuck's mood (Tom Hanks). After he delivered his final parcel which he had kept for 4 years without opening, he knew that the parcel was the light that kept his days bright all along, as he wished he could one day return the favour by sending the parcel back to it's destination. So what after that? He definitely was lost, and might be mosre lost than he was at the island. No hope to cling to anymore, no families to be with, this finale really made me feel that a person is most vulnerable when he's lost. Christians will now thinkof the 3 words Faith Hope and Love.

Hopefully this will not be the last movie that I watched alone.

Guys, if you havent joined facebook, you might have missed out on some fun stuff which I admit even a 27-year-old like me will find childish, but just can't stop indulging in them.

Remember the retro games like Pacman? you can actually play them there, and it really is fun to be playing a game as old as you, with memorable moments coming back.. I remember the first time I saw PacMan was at Genting Highlands Arcade. Everyone was changing their notes into 20 cents (ringgit) and jamming in those PacMan machines. Of course there were other games like Contra and stuff, it really is a challenge recalling what I have played when I was 8 years old. Remember I spent a 50 cents on a mini-train which moves around in an 8-figure track, and it went on for 30 minutes without stopping! Nowadays when you play these kiddy ride, 2 minutes is all they give you, and halfway through the song, the vehicle will stop.

I am particularly impressed in the applications add-ons, and never knew that PHP programming can be so powerful. All credits to the staff who did it.

Also happened to find a group that was really interesting: "if you were born in the 80's in Singapore". http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2719435179
Here you can capture memories of the 80's, like the cartoons in those days, the panini stickers we buy to stick on the album book, the snacks we eat (Kaka esp.), and the electronic handheld games we loved (Western Bar!). So for people who want to collect all these stuff, you can probably post some comments there.

Feeling nostalgic? [0_0] Join Facebook.

October is ending.. Hereby wish all my october birthday friends a happy birthday! (Sounds a bit unsincere?) Would have bought all of you presents if I have not been broke these days. But I always was broke.

Hmm.. so what did I do this month? Oh yes~ I went to settler's cafe with all my retro buddies. It turned out quite fun, although we only played some boards games and stuff. But do not belittle the board games, they are not like the usual monopoly or aeroplane game you have at home (yes we still see some weird people going there to play monopoly). These board games cannot be found in those usual bookstores and some of them are not even local games and we needed the staff there to explain to us how to play them. But it's really cool for groups of 6-10 who want to shout out loud without getting shown the finger on the mouth. Here is the website: http://sg.settlerscafe.com/

Okay, these days seldom get to play soccer with my old friends. Guess all of us are busy (or half-hearted), so find a few hours in the weekend will be really tough. Really wanted to try playing field soccer to see whether my fitness is improved by my weekly runs. And it's feels much more professional than playing in basketball courts. So who is interested in having an extra midfielder like Steven Gerard in his team free, please let me know. :]

Okay going to find some illegal streaming channels so that I can catch Arsenal vs Liverpool.

Never did I realised I have PCC for 534 times up to today. Dun be mistaken. Play Chinese Chess! Won 199 times, lost 323 times and drawn 12 times. Hmm.. goes to show after so many games I'm still below par.

Chess is a funny game. You can be thinking of all ways to defeat the opponent. But if the opponent thinks 1 step ahead of you, most likely you are dead. A great chess player often has good in memory and at mathematics. But usually for us amateurs, even the slightest of distraction can cause the loss of a chess piece, and this usually leads to a defeat. But the kick of it is when you can win opponents even when you are in a handicapped situation.

Guess I have spent 8010 minutes(534 x avg 15 min.) or rather 133.5 hours, or rather 5.56 days playing chess. Not to count the previous games I have played with my friends and cousin, I wonder whether this is considered time wasting. Im not really a good tactician (or I would be playing C&C the whole day), but likes to exercise my rusty mind.

Okay, time to ciaoz. It feels weird being able to blog everyday. Hahaha.

Never expected October to come so fast. Got loads of friends who are librans. But I'm going to pretend I have forgotten their birthdays.

Recently realised that I'm quite obssessed with jogging. Because I have even bought an expensive shoes to prepare for my dream of getting gold in IPPT. Hmm.. but sometimes I really find it difficult to achieve the 10 minutes mark for 2.4km. How to? Would appreciate if anyone can provide any method which will surely work. The monetary award of $400 is not really that enticing when one has to train so hard and run till he drops before he can reach the end by 10minutes. But what is motivating me is that I have never gotten gold once. And the fact that I'm 27 means that the possibility of getting gold is getting lesser year by year. Therefore will give myself 2 months to reach the target which looks so impossible.

Hmm.. long time never meet up with friends. Never play badminton for some time. Or even soccer(tried jioing a few times and and all fly aeroplane last min). And maybe go overseas soon would be great. Anyone joining me? Myanmar looks interesting. :@

ZzzZZZZ

Some of you guys may already have made pizza before. But for a rookie like me, it really is surprising how easy pizza can be made. And fun too!

Ingredients: Bread, Green and red capsicums, pineapple cubes, mushroom, ham, mozarella cheese, tomato paste, italian herbs (optional)


Steps:

1) Spread tomato paste on bread or pizza base, sprinkle some italian herbs.
2) Spread the ingredients on top of the tomato paste, then add a layer of cheese on top.
3) Send to oven for 5 mins at about 180 degrees celscius. Longer if you are using pizza base.

Well, your pizza is ready!:@~~~~~~

If my project was not extended, probably I will be planning to go overseas these few coming weeks. Really needed a rest after all the stress and workload, I strongly believe that one engineer is definitely not enough to handle these much work. But the fact is, the company just think you can go on and on like this forever.

That's why I was rather relieved there will not be any upcoming project for my department. Still a bit sad that the effort our guys have put in have seemed to be unrecognized. But happy that no more scrutiny will come from those clients who do not know that we are actually not robots. And one thing, I hate to say that there is really no relationship involved in between our work. Therefore, I will never give way or do any "value-added" service anymore. Just a "yes" or "no" will be the answer to the clients whether they like it or not.

Hmm.. the worrying part is where my colleagues will go after this. For the ones who really want to build their career path here, hopefully they will be going to somewhere they can realise their potential. We cannot help much here, it all depends on the upper management now.

Break time!~ Needs to source out where I can go during this coming break. Hopefully I can recharge my battery then and also have an opportunity to rethink my career path.

today, someone actually called my starhub phone (used by my fren) and ordered me to go down for an investigation on a theft case. I was rather shocked, angry, and amused at the same time. He actually told me that I'm a suspect for the theft case. Well done, can't he do better?
Nevertheless, I guess I would have to obey the 'law' and waste a few hours of my time being probed. Anyway, this is not the first time, have went to Jur0ng Headquarters and C@ntonment before. The usual stuff: asking me why the culprit uses my identification and how I am related to him. But how the hell would I know? I guess they just needed some more words to their reports so that they can close their cases.
Anyway, I would like to 'thank' the person who got me into this fun. I should be an important person in his life. I usually would wonder what I have done to deserve this. But this time rather, I'm more concerned on whether there would be a 5th time. There must be some solution to stop me going to these places so many times to voice my innocence. I have in fact thought of one. Would propose to them that I create a database of people who frequent polic3 5tations. The fields would be: Case No, Name of victim, Name of person who sabo him, Reason for sabotage. With these, I might not need to go down for all these talks so frequent.

Okay, the reason why I started this post is because I sensed myself going to a period where I can really rest. Away from all the planning, executing, mentoring, reporting, and the other usual stuff I'm facing everyday...

We are supposed to talk about animals right? Right. Today, had the time to watch the news and happened to catch one which talks about a fish being fried. Actually being fried is normal, but it is being FRIED alive!~

Wait, now somebody might think: Ain't all fish being FRIED alive? Sadly, this has been happening in so many places that people did not realise that fish are actually killed before being FRIED. But the bloody problem now is..

THIS FISH IS BEING FRIED ON THE BODY, BUT THE HEAD IS NOT. THE FRYER INTENTIONALLY KEPT THE FISH HEAD AWAY FROM THE FRYING OIL SO THAT WHEN SERVED, THE FISH WILL BE BODY FRIED AND HEAD ALIVE.

WTH!~!~!~~ #@%&*(*% I felt an adrenalin rush when I saw the pathetic fish head on the food table with the mouth still gasping for the last few breath of life. The fish must be thinking: This is a total insult to my life. Fry my body and watch my being tortured expression makes eating me tastier? Fuck off!~

Actually my blog is supposed to be a healthy one (no vulgarities), but sometimes I couldn't help it. Looking at mankind now, I wonder why there is such a word 'mankind' to describe us. Maybe 'manevil' should pop up in our dictionaries soon to give the animals back some justice done to them. The monkey head cuisine is already gross, and now comes the treatment for fish.

The worse is when people ask me "Since you are vegetarian, can you eat fish?". That is how ironic it can be, given the education we had. In fact, we do not even need education to tell us that a fish is an animal. Watch it flap it's gills and swim around, does it look like a electronic toy to you?

Hopefully people will start to notice that animals who do not shout and scream when their lives are threatened are still considered animals.

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Okay now fish aside. I got an sms from fren. It says," Guys, I've got a golden retriever who had been abandoned for a week. SPCA will take but will put him to sleep if no one claims him for a week. Anybody would like to bring him home?"

You can blame me for being ignorant, but I only knew a golden retreiver is a dog about a month ago when I saw one in a pet shop. And a golden retriever is really adorable.

So guys, if you are interested, can sms 91505760 or email guntaobu@yahoo.com
Thanks!~

Death note anime is finally over. After 37 episodes of non-stop mind games, this classic story of a notebook by a Shinigami dropped onto earth just to kill some boredom ends the beautiful way, as expected.
It's just like playing chess, if you are not able to predict the next move by the opponent, you will end up being screwed. And that is what happens to all the lives manipulated by KIRA. L is being killed in a rather unfair way, because a Shinigami is not supposed to help the death note holder. But this time it does.
Near and Mello comes into the scene but really doesn't make that much an impact as L, although in the end they triumph with their powers combined.
Having mixed feelings here. A bit sad because I cannot anticipate anymore what is going to happen. A bit relieved because there are absolutely no fillers for Death Note. That's how an anime should be. Or it might spoil the rhythm of the story.

Okay, I'm going to grab the last episode of the manga just to catch a glimpse how different it was from the anime.

When i spotted this youtube clip on the net, find it kinda lame.
1) The way he danced was damn out.
2) The background look interestingly real.

But then I started to really like the way he dance, and realized he really went all the miles to those places. They were not artificial background. And he was actually paid for it. (Visit http://www.wherethehellismatt.com)

Wow, if I have this kind of job, I would definitely be a happier man!~ Just some lame dance steps and a few air tickets plus a camera (with a stand).

This messi guy is the reason why some basketball players switch to watching soccer.

Last week, our junior youth group went to the goat farm. It was my first time getting so near to goats, and they were really "soft". Meaning calm and endearing to people. Watching them nibble at the grass makes me wonder why life for me cannot be as simple.



Okay, let's look at some pics taken on that day..

Who knows how to solve this question?

Solve the equation 3sin2x + cos(square)2x = 0 where 0 <> 2pie.
(7 marks)

Reply by Tues (29/05/07) and you will get a free ice cream treat.

Yes.. 18 points. What a luck!~ Thanks to all the people who encouraged me and gave me guidance. Also, thanks to all the road drivers who steer away from me so I could catch a glimpse of hope when I head back to BBDC.

At first, I was thinking having to pool out a sum of money again for those usual practical lessons after my test. Because I was worst during the pre-circuit lessons. My instructor was yelling at such high frequency that the rest of the trainees seemed to be stunned in their vehicles when waiting for their turns behind me. Hit a few kerbs and was further demoralised and as the clock ticked away to 9am, I was trying hard to convince myself that the instructor was using reverse phychology on me.

And so I walked up to the room to select my test route. A girl was there explaining why she did so badly on the road during the TP. "Oh, I don't know why the person turn back and walk on the pedestrian crossing. Oh, because there was a car in front of me and I can't see the road well. Oh, because the car brake was rather poor.", she countered the tester time and again. I was just beside her and I would definitely fail her even if she was good. Yah blame the car some more. Yes, the tester finally told her," You go back and book more practical lessons."

Then was my turn to pick a test route. Wow, I managed to pick one easy one. Turn one round to Teck Whye, make the standard U-turn at the main road, and back to BBDC. I've been practising that almost every lesson~. The test coordinator told us to treat this as another practical lesson. And this advice really helped.

Circuit Test: Was doing well and really liked the moment. Because usually when I drive, my instructor would be giving me instructions all the way. And now, I'm by myself. But nearly suicided at the reverse parking. Failed to turn in the parking lot the first time, and was really surprised why I missed the marking. Tried another time, failed. Kerb was just behind me. Did another time and I managed to squeeze the lot. Phew.. I knew the tester was thinking," Next better player, hit the kerb man.." The rest of the obstacles were quite smooth and I realised alot of vehicles were very courteous to me, due to the double L plate I'm having.

Road Test: When I got on the road, I was really delighted as I knew my circuit really sucked. It was 9.30am and there wasn't many cars out there. Wow, I could change lane easily unlike my usual practical lessons at night, where my changing lane would definitely result in a reprimand from the instructor. It was really smooth and I never realised I was having a test until some of my secondary sch juniors were crossing the traffic lights and were looking and pointing at me as if I was some vegetable in a car. Maybe it's the double L plate again.

Evaluation: Tester ticked a few more errors in the evaluation form and said,"Vertical parking very poor. First time TP?". "Yes". "You got to improve in your driving." I was handed the form and first thing I saw was the 18 points. Double checked and it was actually a pass. I was going to ask him to do a 'real' evaluation on me, but upon seeing the results I was telling myself better not. In case he said, "Oh forgot to deduct 2 more points." then I would definitely would sign up as a japanese kamikaze aviator for my next job. 10 points deducted from parking. As I awaited for the video clip on accidents, realised more girls than guys (I'm not being sexist, this is statistics) actually passed.

Yes. I'm rather more relieved than ecstatic. No more tiring night driving lessons after work. No more money gone on practicals. And no more mental stress. But comes more responsibility. And during the first day I got my temp licence, I lost it. Champion. Got to wait for the real one.

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