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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

- How Cheap can a Company get? -

This left me thinking for quite awhile before I decide to publish this post.

I received something from my ex-company, open it up and its like a summary of my Pay and my CPF thingy.. But there isn't any head nor tail telling me wat sort of form it is.

Till today, I asked someone via msn. I was told its my IR8A! I was like, "Huh? It doesn't look like an IR8A to me"

Was told that company wanna save money and therefore print on computer paper. The IR8A form cost $* per piece. Does this mean that a Company cant' even afford $* for each worker? OMG WTF BBQ~~~

Another news today, actually was yesterday's news but got more details today~
Someone throw letter again in my ex-company. The condition to take back the letter is to haf a $200 increment. Well, this method sure works at times like this where Ms N needs ppl. Good for the guy and as a matter of fact... He will be able to fetch a higher salary for his next job too~ Well Done... Hahahahaha....

But den again, when u tell someone that, they will say u got no backbone, 没骨气!! Cos usually if ppl really throw letter, the decision to leave is made and nothing will hold him/her back. Sometimes I really wonder, why did I not do this the last time? LoL~ JKJK... I wun do that. If I wanna go, I will go, personally imho, i tink that, if i decide to leave, means i have already given up in this Company or have already found a better job. For my case is BOTH. LoL~~~

I would like to take this opportunity to Thank Poon Ge Ge again for his help... I m very happy working in NTU!! =D

Good Pay, Good Job, Good Time~

As for my ex-company, a word of advise to my Friends in there: Dun stay too long...
Reason: Click on my post labelled Office to find out more~ LoL..

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Monday, January 28, 2008

- Y.E.S 93.3FM 18th Birthday Party -


Venue: Dragonfly @ St James Powerhouse
Date/Time: 26 Jan 2008, 3pm - 6pm.

Firstly, I would like to wish Y.E.S 933 a very Happy Birthday!!! May u always be the Top Radio Station...

Reach Vivo City and met up with Angeline and made our way to St. James. Its bout 2.45pm when we reach there and there is already a queue, not too long thou and we were given lucky draw tickets... Waited till bout 3.05pm den they let ppl go in batch by batch... Well, we r the 1st 180 therefore there is a goodie bag for us...
Consist of a SimCard Back up Device, I-Weekly and Angbao packets.. Forgot to take pic of that~ =(

Stage set up for the Show~


We were in DragonFly at ard 3.20pm, but the show only starts @ 4pm... Drinks were provided so we juz enjoy the drink 1st...

Its 4pm but the show haven start, everyone is getting impatient... Finally @ 4.15pm, we finally hear the Y.E.S933 intro music and where Cruz and Peifen came up to the stage, and following that, Catwalk of all the DJs...

Enjoy the Pics~


New DJ Jiafa, I tot he is an old man from forgot 958 or which other station, but saw him today and wow, he is a Yandao young boi boi~



There are total 3 特别来宾~
Joi Chua is the 1st Guest on stage...


Darren Tan is the 2nd Guest on stage..


He is asked to b the judge for one of the challenge between Yellow and Blue Team..


Final Challenge for both the Teams:
Yellow Team's performance...
Really creative.. The dance is choreographed by Chong Qing and the costumes are provided by WeiBin!!!


Blue Team's Performance...
Jeff Chang the 3rd Guest on stage...




Wooo Hooo... Yellow Team is the overall Winner!!!




PeiFen jie jie's Pictures~~~


Had a Great afternoon there, but 1 thing bad is we haf to stand throughout the whole event, and there are some aunties and unkers there which i tink it should b held in an auditorium or something, at least there are seats for them to sit down... My mum is also there, but well she is used to standing, so its still ok for her~~ =\

Once again, Happy Birthday 933!!!

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Friday, January 25, 2008

Heath Ledger found dead in New York

NEW YORK, U.S - Actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday, possibly of a drug overdose, New York City police said.

The Australian-born Ledger, 28, who was nominated for an Oscar two years ago for "Brokeback Mountain," was found dead by a housekeeper at his apartment in the trendy SoHo neighborhood, police spokesman Paul Browne said.

"We are investigating the possibility of an overdose," Browne said.

The housekeeper found Ledger at 3:26 p.m. (2026 GMT) and tried to wake him for his appointment to have a massage, Browne said. As far as he knew, only Ledger and the housekeeper were in the apartment, Browne said.

"There were pills within the vicinity of the bed," Browne said.

Ledger was nominated as best lead actor for his role as a gay cowboy in "Brokeback Mountain," but the award went to Philip Seymour Hoffman for his role as Truman Capote.

The handsome star was reported last year to have broken up with his longtime companion, actress Michelle Williams, who played his wife in "Brokeback" and was the real-life mother of the actor's young daughter, Matilda.

Ledger's other film credits included "A Knight's Tale," "The Patriot" and "Monster's Ball." He is currently starring in "I'm Not There," one of several actors playing a role representing Bob Dylan, and was due to appear as The Joker in the next Batman film.

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

- Blog on 晚报!! -

I was told by Irene on Monday that my blog address was featured on Saturday's 晚报 cos they have taken a Picture of mine on Jay's concert for their report!!!

OMG I was shocked. Was toking to ChongQing and he told me that too!!! Wow, really din expect that News paper actually used my photos!!! But the things is, why did they not inform me that they will b using my pic? But nvm... Free advertisement for my blog~ =D

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

- 《最长的电影》My Version -

Tis is my 2nd recording, pls comments be it good or bad.. Thanks!!!



Personally, i feel its bad~ :(
I will come up wif a better version!!!!

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- TVB Stars @ Causeway Point -

6 TVB stars appearing @ Causeway Point on Starhub Roadshow~!!!
They are:

  1. 郑嘉颖 Kevin Zheng
  2. 佘诗曼 Charmaine Sheh
  3. 黄宗泽 Bosco Wong
  4. 欧阳震华 Ouyang Zhen Hua
  5. 王喜 Wang Xi
  6. 胡杏儿 Myolie Wu
Its such a co-incidence, after Master Neo's talk on 十二生肖 @ TPY hub, made my way back to Causeway point as parents are there, so decided to meet them and juz walk walk lo....

Regarding 十二生肖 i will post a summary in my later post... Now lets take a look at the TV Stars!!! 佘诗曼 ish really beautiful mans!!! This is really an 阿姐 compared to u noe who~~ hahaha.... Some gals out there are crazy over Bosco~ so.....

Enjoy the Pics!!!



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Monday, January 21, 2008

- Moi hoots for Jay 2008 World Tour -

Jay's concert was great and I got 2 collectibles from the concert!!

1. Jay 2008 World Tour 公仔
2. Handphone Strap

The 公仔 ish from Taiwan total 5000 sets only~
Features dolls for all the location for his World Tour~ =D

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Sunday, January 20, 2008

- Jay Chou World Tour 2008-
18th January 2008


It was a great nite, Good Performance put up by Jay, making the audience and fans so HIGH and all stand up and wave the provided Big Green Hands and 荧光棒~~

Other dan there are quite a number of trailers wasting some time, the rest ish good, no sound system flaws and such....
Rate: 9/10

Below are the songs he sang:

Huang Jin Jia 黄金甲
Wu Shuang 无双
Bu Neng Shuo De Mi Mi 不能说的秘密
Ye De Di Qi Zhang 夜的第七章
Ting Ma Ma De Hua 听妈妈的话
Qian Li Zhi Wai 千里之外
Ben Cao Gang Mu 本草纲目
Tui Hou 退后
Bai Se Feng Che 白色风车
Mi Die Xiang 迷迭香
Ju Hua Tai 菊花台
Ye Qu 夜曲
Fa Ru Xue 髮如雪
Mai Ya Tang 麥芽糖
Niu Zai Heng Mang 牛仔很忙
Cai Hong 彩虹
Yang Guang Zai Nan 阳光宅男
Tian Tian De 甜甜的
Zui Chang De Dian Ying 最长的电影
Hei Se You Mo 黑色幽默
Zui Hou De Zhan Yi 最后的战役
An Jing 安静
Shuang Jie Gun 双截棍 + Shuang Jie Gun 双截棍 (New Melody Version)
Ren Zhe 忍者 + Ren Zhe 忍者 (Alternate Version)
Kai Bu Liao Kou 开不了口
Huo Yuan Jia 霍元甲

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Piano Battle with Yu Hao
Plays the Drum
Plays the 古筝

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

- My Very own 《蒲公英的约定》 -

Its been my dream to record a decent quality song for myself. And usually i will only use my Phone to record both at the same time. But thanks to Alex, he borrowed a Mic to me, making tis recording possible.

Of cos, i got the KTV version record it to MP3, Record my own vocals and merge the 2 together...

There u have it, My Very own 《蒲公英的约定》... Please leave some comments, good or bad..

Enjoy...

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

- 周杰伦 《彩虹》 @ Hong Kong Concert -

Was browsing through YouTube when Kelvin intro me to look at the 卡拉卡拉榜 I saw this video of his concert 2007 in HongKong, Was a superb performance, I cant wait for friday!!!!

Enjoy guys...



Some clips of 卡拉卡拉榜~
《彩虹》:


《阳光宅男》:


《牛仔很忙》:

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

- 1st hoot for 2008 -

Its been 15 days into 2008, wanted to post tis earlier budden is too lazy to do it as i m so into Darkeden again~ =.="

1st day of the new year, our family went for an outing to hunt for a LCD TV and a TV console for our living room, its time to change~ The old TV console too toots, and the TV sound is already out. Many attempts from my dad to bring back the sound din work, so well,its time to change....

Previously we did go to other shops like Courts to compare and view those LCD TVs. Different salesman are promoting different brands, from Panasonic to Toshiba to Sony.

Went to Gain City and the salesman there recommended Samsung. Personally i feel more comfortable wif Samsung as i m using their 26" LCD in my room and am satisfied with it. We told the salesman we are getting the 37" LCD TV and ask him to give us some advise. He gave us 2 models to choose from.

The 1st one, which he says is value for money..


The 2nd one, which is much better dan the 1st one, costing $320 more..


After much consideration and negotiation of price with the salesman, we got the LA37R81BX for $1,919.. This includes this TV and a promotion where we will get a 21" SlimFit TV and Samsung DVD player~ Quite worth it i guess...

After that we went to Brighton, the furniture shop @ Toa Payoh and search for our TV console. Saw 1 which the 3 of us like alot and it cost $799 b4 everything. On top of that, we need to add 7% GST and $50 delivery and installtion charge which adds up to $908.43. But after bargaining, we got it @ $820 inclusive of all charges. kekeke....

Total cos for both items ish $2739, amount to be shared among, my parents and me~ Chor sia!~~ >.<"

Both were delivered on the 4th...
There u go, the TV console and TV in my Living room~ :D

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

- MC King R.I.P, Celebrity-studded farewell for 'MC King' -

I was on the way home after work and heard on YES933 that today is MC King's funeral. Being a good friend of MC, Chong Qing wrote him a letter and read it out on air. Content was simple, describing emotions of all celebrities who went to send MC his last journey. One part of the letter reads, "maybe there are not enough Comedian or MC's(主持人) around in heaven, thats y they ask u up". Chong Qing nearly cried when he was at the end of the letter, following it is Teresa Teng's 《何日君再来》 which is 1 of MC's favourite song. I sms-ed Chong Qing, ask him not to be sad as MC is at a better place now, tears were rolling in my eyes but I m ok after a while.

I do not personally know MC King, but i haf spoken to him b4 during one of the Feng Shui seminar. He has no airs, and is friendly to everyone who speaks to him. A really good person. Sometimes it makes us really think, what will happen if any of our family members juz leave us. Are we ready for it? What happens after that? So REMEMBER to CHERISH ur Loved ones while they are still around...


Celebrity-studded farewell for 'MC King'
Hundreds of people, including 50 celebrities, turned up at Jimmy Nah's funeral

HUNDREDS of people turned up to bid farewell to Singaporean comedian Jimmy Nah on Monday at a funeral that was both tearful and filled with song.

Some 50 celebrities were there, including MediaCorp artistes Chew Chor Meng, Thomas Ong, Zheng Geping, Marcus Chin, Aileen Tan, Huang Shinan and Pan Lingling.

It was held at the void deck below his Cassia Crescent HDB flat near Old Airport Road.

Before the funeral started, the stars sang to Nah, serenading him with his favourite karaoke songs. Many artistes wept as they sang.

Nah, who went by the nickname MC King, experienced breathing problems while at home last Friday afternoon.

He was sent to Tan Tock Seng hospital where he died. He was 40.

Monday's ceremony of Buddhist rites began at 11am. At about noon, Nah left on his final journey to Mandai Crematorium.

There, stars took turns to go to the podium to pay tribute to their friend.

Nah earned the nickname MC King after a malingering character he played in the 1990 Mandarin sitcom Friends Next Door.

But in real life, he was nothing like his malingering on-screen persona.

A graduate from the then-Singapore Broadcasting Corporation Drama Training Course in 1989, he had appeared in more than 60 local Chinese drama series, English sitcoms, variety shows and stage plays.

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Friday, January 04, 2008

- 1st Sad News of the year -
Its a normal day at work, meet NCS Jones and Daniel as there was a handing over of IT labs and discussion of the New CS Lab 11 and 12. Gave training for Part Time Lecturers on use of TR AV equipments. After that return to office and Buttie told me the sad news. Its really unexpected, after hearing the news, i tot its a joke but NO! Its real and i really feel why is such things happening? Really affected me. Heard on Y.E.S933 on the way home that WeiBin saw MC King yesterday toking to ppl while finding a parking lot upon reach Mediacorp. A healthy person juz dead without any signs or watsoever. Is this really 命?

"Singapore celebrity, Jimmy Nah, dead at 40

SINGAPORE: Singapore celebrity Jimmy Nah, who is better known as MC King, has passed away suddenly. He was 40 years old.

His friends told MediaCorp Radio that Jimmy had experienced breathing difficulties while at home earlier Friday. He was sent to hospital but died shortly after 1pm.

It is not known if Jimmy had suffered from any health problems. But in the last entry he posted on his blog on 31 December, Jimmy had hoped for good health in the coming year.

Local director Jack Neo, who had worked with Jimmy on several productions, said he was shocked upon hearing the news.

"All along, he's very, very healthy. So, I don't know why. I seriously don't know why," said Jack Neo.

Jimmy had acted in a couple of local movies, including Neo's "Just Follow Law", as well as local drama serials. - 938LIVE."

Source: Channel Newsasia
Link: HERE

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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

- 2008: A New Beginning -

Its a new year and a new beginning, 1st day of work too~

Hope that everything will be fine for this year~
Things to be done:

  1. Work hard on my new job
  2. Slim down with Kevin's help
  3. Clear my Grade8 Practical
This 3 things, lol 2nd and 3rd might b hard, but I will try~

Went shopping for LCD TV and TV console yesterday for our living room, well finally got both and it will b arriving on Friday~(Will post pic when they come)
Cost is shared among my parents and me, cost a bomb =_="

Happy 2008 to all and
Wish all of u Good Health, Good Luck and Success in whatever you do....

I will continue to post updates on my Taiwan Trip, so stay tuned~ :D

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