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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

- The Gala Premiere -



Thanks to Kaima, we went to SPop gala premiere which was on 23 March 08, 7.30pm. its also broadcast live on Channel U. we as in, Mom and Dad, Aunt Jen, Weiwen, Vince, Steven Ryan and his friends and me...


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Its the 2nd time that i have been to a live show but the 1st time for such a big show...

Show starts at 7.30pm, but we went down early to have our dinner..


After dinner, went back to the car to put the coupon then proceed to indoor stadium..

Went there and is quite disappointed with the view... Seats are good, budden the big SPop sign is blocking our view of the stage!!!

Starting is not as grand as expected.. Some significant Singapore singers are missing. Who? Kit Chan, Yan Zi.. These 2 are the 国宝 budden both din turn up.. Sadded :(

Picture time...
This is where i sit...

See who can u spot in the audience~ Hahahaha...


Some Local Singers...


The only Lipsync in the whole show!!! Guess who? Its FANN WONG!!! Sitting on the moon and moving her mouth only. =.="
In the first place, din even noe y they ask her to sing?! Forever lipsync. Even YiFeng sang LIVE during one of the segment.. For a person who has even had 1 or 2 albums and Lipsyncing during performance, and ur lipsync is fucking obvious!! Wat a DISGRACE!!!


Some overseas Singers...
I would say 萧敬腾 is power!!! But sadly he can only sing, but can't talk...
Both Elva, 李圣杰 and 李宗盛 sang 2 songs each..


Now during live shows, wats home viewers cant see are those backstage heros... Lots of camera men, and some other backstage crew. The Band and 合音天使..


The End of the show~


The whole show lacks the MOOD... Commercial really spoils everything.. Everyone is so high after the singer sings but when it goes to commercials, everything dies down... Totally mood spoiler~ Totally different from concerts~

Enjoyed some parts only but overall, BORING...

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Saturday, March 22, 2008

- S-Pop Gala Premiere -


Grabbed from Ryan's blog~



I'll be attending the Spop Hurray! Gala Premiere this Sunday with Ryan, parents and 3 other friends. Front row seats! *Excited*

Thanks kai ma for the Tix!!! :D

And for this concert, i got myself a Wide Angle conversion lens from MS Color. Its not Original Sony but it still works fine...


Stay Tuned for Concert photos!!!! :D

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

- Tiring Week -

Hi all, its been almost 1 week since my last post. Had been busy these few days... Busy but meaningful~ ^.^

Some updates: Watched a movie, went to Ikea and Courts on Sunday to look for some furnitures for sis's room...

Work for tis week is much more and busier, running here and there... cos my upper is on leave for the whole week =.="

Today was quite a bad day... Ringo barge into my room again complaining bout the projector! Wat can I do? I have already ask the vendor, but they don't have any existing stock!!! WTF. den how?

Called vendor up again, and one of the maintenance staff still dare to give tis reply. "We already tell them it will only come end of march, now haven end of march wat?!"
WTF reply is tis?!!!
I jus shoot the account manager, "Ya, they can wait, but I cant!!! Everyday ppl complaining bout the projector!" He juz give me the purchaser's number and ask me to call and chase her for updates!
Luckily, wif Poon zeh zeh's help, Ringo borrowed a laptop and got a projector from my side and solve his morning lesson problem. And thanks to Magdeline, opened up ITLab5 for booking so that i can book the lab for his afternoon lessons for 3 consecutive weeks.

Went to LCC after lunch to fix up the Audio cable, so that they can get sound output from laptop and also did a demo for the usage of the camcorder to Cindi~

Went back to office and went to that disgusting ITLab wif the projector problem and try to find an easy way to hook up the projector... Heng can ar.. Thanks again Poon zeh zeh...

After that is helping Prof Shirley wif her recording...

Busy busy, nvm tmr is the last day of the week and will be on leave on monday~ :D


Movie Review
"Rule #1" aka 《第一戒》

Starring: Ekin Cheng, Shawn Yue, Fiona Xie
Director: Kelvin Tong
"RULE #1 traces the chilling stories uncovered by the Police Force's emergency calls centre. Everyday the centre receives 185 phone calls, 180 of them are about felonies rapes, murders, robberies, kidnappings The other five begin with "there's something strange in my house.."

RULE #1 tells the shocking and twisted tale of veteran cop Wong (Ekin Cheng) and rookie Lee (Shawn Yue) as they plunge head first into a series of spooky investigations
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Rating: 3/5

Not bad for a horror show. Some parts are quite unexpected and the ending is erm... Go watch it to find out. Nothing much from Fiona, she is playing wife of Rookie Lee(Shawn Yue), throughout the show, she is juz hugging Shawn, let Shawn hug and a bed scene. Tats about all =.="

Horror part, was shocked by it once during the whole show! But poor WW got scared think throughout the show >.<"

Its not bad lar, budden worth only to watch on weekdays~ :D

P/S: Thanks you Mr WW for accompanying me to watch a horror show~ =X

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

- Happy Birthday Mommy -

Once again, its Mommy's birthday... This year we got a pair of Diamond earrings from SK Jewellery for her. We as in Ryan, Dad and me. We bought a pair of Diamondo earrings for her, but it din seem nice on her, therefore she went back to SK and got another pair that requires her to top up. Tis pair is in the True Love Series which has a 2years 100% value. These happen on Saturday. 08 Mar 06.

Will take pic of the diamond earring and post it laters...

On the actual day, we decided to have dinner at Vista Point Kitchen. Asked Ryan and Lin along. Its a nice and cosy dinner and yea we joke around, laugh throughout the dinner, almost throughout the whole dinner... >.<"

Picture speaks thousand words, below is wat we had for dinner~


After that, go hm and its the cake cutting session~

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Monday, March 10, 2008

- ZhiSiong's Pre-Enlistment Dinner -

Its been almost 3 years since we last met... Wat m i toking about? Its about my Ex-collicks of Olio Dome factory...

There are 5 of us, the younster clique which consist of Raymond, Vince, Fazlin aka ah gal, Zhi Siong aka ah siong and myself. Those were the days where we do Christmas cookies packing, making Ginger bread and piping of the Ginger bread designs...

We were quite close and well always joke around and have fun during lunch time, but of cos, we are serious when working, least of the time.. LoL....

Tinking back was WOW so long ago budden its indeed nice again to gather all of us together for a dinner before Ah Siong's enlistment, but but but.... there r only 4 of us cos once again, Mr Raymond is our Aeroplane Flyer!!!

Met up at 6.30pm @ Causeway point before deciding that we will head to Swensens for dinner..



It was a great dinner... Tink everyone enjoyed it..

To Siong: All the Best to you bro, take good care of urself when u r inside. Please dun injure yourself like wat happened to me... It Sux...

Take care and keep in touch... :D

p/s: Thanks An De Ru for helping us take the group photo~ :D

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- Eventful Weekend -

This weekend haf been meaningful and eventful... Yea, one occasion on each day..
Sat 08th March 2008...

Its Ryan's 21st Birthday Celebration. Although his actual day is on 6th Mar, he celebrates it on Saturday, 2 days later @ Chevrons Zes Disco..

The Ushers with Birthday Boy..


Event starts at 6.30pm but we were there @ around 5.30pm as i need to set up the Video Camera to take videos of the event.. my 1st time thou... If video dun come out good, pls forgive me.. LoL...

After setting up the Cam, played around with the sound and lights system there.. LoL. Quite fun.. But seriously the sound system SUX!!!

Guest starts coming in around 6.30pm but mostly his friends. Then Mr Man the VIP came in and video it up...

Mr Man with Ryan & Family.


After that relatives and more friends came in.. But tis crowd came in quite late...



Finally the MC came.. Mr Chew is the MC for the day... Rush down from NTU after his show there... wondering who Mr Chew is? yea, he is ChongQing... Hahaha...

As soon as he finishes his dinner, Program starts... 1st is the clip done by Ryan's friend showing pictures from him in Kaima's tummy till the big boy he is today, and the Man that he has become...

While the film is shown, my tears juz roll down and not once but twice... =.="
Somehow it brings back lots of memories... We grew up together and were quite close, and yar, those pics really were 炊泪弹... Looking at him from a small boy and now he is 21!!! Kao, tok like i very old liddat, although i m 5 years older dan him nia... >.<" But some of the pics r really funny... Esp the pic wif my mum's exploding hair, Power!!! LoL... Looking at the clips~

After the clip is Game session where we played Bingo, sponsored by ChongQing and Cash prize sponsored by the participants of the game, cos all who wanna play haf to purchase the Bingo Card for $2 each~ LoL...

After that is Ryan singing 记得 and following that is free and easy KTV session...
But during tat session, only 3 person sang. Vanessa who sang 超快感, Zi Qin who sang 美丽本女人,勇敢 and me singing 阳光宅男.

After all these, its ending time where we start to pack up and guests starts leave...

Once again, Happy Birthday Bro... 长大了,好好做人。。。 Wishing you Success in everything u do and seeya soon in NTU.. LoL...

Next is Sunday where we haf a small gathering for Ah Siong before his enlistment...
I will blog about it in more details later..

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Saturday, March 08, 2008

- Its weekend again!!! -

Its been a busy week!! Meetings, to troubleshooting to giving training, to supporting... blah blah blah...

It finally ended...

Went to IT Show 08 on Friday, juz past lol... Its something new to me thou, able to go to IT shows during office hours... Great! No need to squeeze wif ppl on Sat and Sun, where usually all will bua each other while walking... Stuff and smelly =.="

Went with Alex and lots of things there... Sony alone got the 3rd floor, whole stretch of it!!!

Next is 4th floor where those Laptops, Printers, LCD TVs are located...

6th floor mostly accessories, from Keyboards, to mouse, to cables, to external HDD to Memory cards...

As for me, wat did i hoot for this IT show?

There are actually 4 things in mind..

  1. Altec Lansing 2.1 Speaker in mind which cost about $189.
  2. Keyboard with illumination
  3. Sign up Deluxe member for Hardwarezone
  4. Starhub Promotions for my Cable TV and MaxOnline.


Due to $$ constrain, 3 birthday ppl, 2 weddings which is on the end of the mth. Really not much money left. Buying a diamond earring for Mum for her Birthday.. Therefore cant get much...

In the end, i only got the Keyboard which is a Razer Lycosa @ $126.



After leaving Suntec, went to SK Jewellery to take a look again..
Finally got a pair of earrings for mum but it dun seem nice when she wears it..
Will be going back to SK to choose another one which looks nice on her...

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Sunday, March 02, 2008

- Eventful Saturday -

Its Saturday!!!

1st is KLunch @ Cine with Andrew and Wabbit!! Reach there at around 11am and got a room while Andrew and wabbit reach bout 20mins later~

1st KTV with wabbit, his voice is nice, gals hear le confirm melt!! But if he wans to increase the range, more training ish needed...

After KLunch is movie time, watched "L, change the world"... Not bad. Not really related to Deathnote 1 & 2 thou..

Thanks Andrew for watching it for the 2nd time with me... :D
谢谢干爹!!!

After movie its around 5pm and Andrew plan to go Gym for 2hrs before meeting Boon for dinner @ Hey Hey hotpot... So meanwhile i went to The Hereens to jalan jalan... But after awhile, Andrew called and say that there is no attire for him to change at tat gym therefore gym session have to be cancelled. >.<" So we went to Bugis in search for the bag he wanna buy... Cant find any, so we went to SLS as he wanted to buy External Hdd... nothing bought too.LoL... While walking, we met Kenny & Joey.. Kenny wanted to get a new Com but nothing bought too.. They decided to join us for dinner and we had a 3hrs dinner @ Hey Hey Hotpot from 7pm to 10pm... Longest dinner i haf ever eaten... LoL... Its good thou, its been a long time since we sat down and enjoy the dinner, tok cock, eat good food, laff out loud... Its really Great... Guys and gals, Hey hey hotpot is really Nice.. If you all like Steamboat, dun miss it... Enjoy the Pics...



Half way thru, someone's Tau Sa Bao got lost in the pot!!! LoL...
Had a hard time finding the Tao Sa Bao.. wakakaka....


Finally the Bill >.<"

After that its Home Sweet Home... Thanks Kenny for sending me home!!! :D

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