DESMOND's 21 too

Hey hey welcome to the R21 club brother. (As for ORD... Like the song goes "...long long way to go....") Anyway, all the same wanna wish u a happy 21st birthday and have a wonderful year ahead, most importantly do take good care (esp since u're in COMMANDOs) and stay Happy (^_^).

Field agent sending in the visuals from the "most happening" place in Taman Jurong on 25th Feb 2006......

Birthday boy in the middle, betw Boon and Fan, and flanked by the "B.O.S"es in white. (angels??)

Nice shirt?? Who cares right, the birthday boy likes it enough to change into it JUST for the cake cutting. (Operation D21, Success!! Refer to prev blog entry)

Desmond and 2D.
(the shirt he's wearing is from Cheng Yao, Hongda n Yifeng)

Desmond and 4F.
(需要那么Cool吗?? Presenting 超酷男人帮!!)

Desmond and 4F part 2 (insert Samuel)

Smilez. Ok dun say we're din come Desmond, got evidence here!!

(N.B. Cause e Birthday boy was swarmed by too many friends and love ones, we couldn't manage to get much with him. Nevertheless we had fun too, thanks Des!! =p )

Qns: Where's Mt Everest located at??

Ans: Nepal [Nipple]

(Trust ChengYao to come up with this d(- -!!!)b )

Last BUT not Least.... (as required by our S.O.P)

Operation D21

MISSION OBJECTIVE: Secure Desmond's 21st birthday present
LOCATION: Orchard, Singapore
DATE: 230206
TIME: 1930hrs
EVENT: Pigging it out @ Crystal Jade, Scotts Shopping Centre B1.
FIELD AGENTS: Leow, Yeo, Tay , Tan QE, Tan CY

MISSION LOG: Reporting to HQ, objective reached, target has been locked down and secured. Due to security concerns and the presence of many intelligence agents around, we will not be feeding in the visuals before the RDV Timing: 250206 1800hrs.

Sending in the visuals of the field agents......

At the time of photo-taking, field agent Leow Yifeng is M.I.A.


TARGET'S PROFILE

COUNTRY: USA
AGENCY: LEVI's
CODENAME: Shirt
NATURE: Long-sleeve
BUILD: Medium Size
COLOUR: N.A
VISUAL: N.A.
ALSO WANTED BY: THD, LYF

Agenda accomplished. Operation D21 successfully completed.

Weekend

1st stop this weekend, The Chinese High School!!

Above is my (母校), the Chinese High School.. Haven't return here in like 2 years, even the signages are new..

Huray, after so many months I've finally managed to find time for basketball with my old friends from secondary school. Haha, everyone seems in pretty high spirits as most of us are already clearing leave and offs and most importantly (of course la) in coming together back as a class and pitting against each other on the baketball court.

Time passes really quickly, the last time I've came back here was back in BMT days in 2004, and now most of us are already clearing leaves and offs and awaiting our ORD..
(haha, sorry Justin and Wilson, our Guardsmen. Dun worry your time will come soon enough, eventually =D )

Coincidentally, we meet another bunch of Old Boys, well not that old as us, a bunch of 19 yr olds from fresh from BMT (haha, ORD loh!!), sure brings back memories.. We had a few games together, in which some of us realised how much we've deteriorated in terms of fitness in barely 2yrs time. Luckly of us,we still had some tricks up our sleeves and our mo4 qi4 for playing together for more than 4 yrs helped as we brushed off their challenges (ok really not trying to be hao lian here, in fact I ADMIT we're quite poor too. It's just that they happened to be lousier hence we won lah).

Classmates and friends (everyone's in the same class from sec 1 till sec 4)
2001 TCHS 4C team photo!!

Thanks again d(^_^)b to the organising committee Chunlei (mastermind?), Boon Bing and Fuxiang for getting everyone (13 pple total) together again on the basketball court!!

2nd stop. City Hall.

Met up with Wei Ren for a quickie cell group message at BK. We parted ways shortly after he delievered a short but powerful message on "Personality for Success: Part2".

Here's what I've learnt:

F = Fustration (for a long period of time)
A = Aggressiveness (a product of too musch fustration)
I = Insecurity (feeling of inadequacy)
L = Loneliness
U = Uncertainty (no direction)
R = Resentment (result of anger which has turned rotten)
E = Emptyness (a symptom of poor self image)

These are the characteristics of a "FAILURE" personality, which I need to avoid at all cost (anyway, who wants to be anything listed there right, sounds really lousy doesn't it?) , to enjoy success in life = p

Dinner was at Thai Express at Citylink. Together with Lijin, Chengyao, Tuck andYifeng. Seems that Yifeng actually had sore throat today, so Thai Express might not really be that good a choice for him. However, he decided to go with the flow and decided to come along

(sometimes being together in a group meant sacrificing oneself to accomodate the crowd. Yifeng demostrated that very well in his "self-sacrificing" act here. Kudos to you bro)

Dinner was pretty fun, the expected standard with Tuck, Chengyao and Yifeng in the mix. And with Lijin and her comments to add to the trio's firepower, plenty of shooting going around at Thai Express. (side note: Yifeng is really good with SPICY/HOT stuff =p )

[Recommendation: Soft shell Crab with Curry. At only $8.90 @ Thai Express.]

Chengyao, Tuck and Lijin @ Thai Express, City link mall) Yifeng's e missing one..
(Observe Tuck's face. He din actually wanted to take this photo, cos he thought it's very pai seh. But he still obliged, as always so accomodating of his frens)

3rd Stop. Rock Auditorium, Suntec City.

The highlight of the day. NTU Annual Talent time competition, Impresario 2006, at New Creation Church's Rock Auditorium. Met up with Samuel, Lijia, Shuwen and Huijing at Suntec.(Hmmm, the girls are dressed up prettily today ; D ) Wow, the queue's frightening long (from the cinema till the arcade side and beyond) for the $10 tickets, and it's only 1800hr, the show's no gonna start till 1830hrs (this is another of Singaporeans speciality, patience. We can wait patiently wait up to 2-3 hrs just to get a better seat that's maybe 3 - 5 rows in front..)

Luckily for me, I've managed to get a $13 ticket. That means my queue is separated from the $10 one.. Thank God, the queue is much much shorter and I got in pretty quickly, and got a pair of seats in the 1st row!! (Oh yes!! =D )

IMPRESARIO is truly Impressive!! Haha, the 3 hour ++ concert is sure worth the $13, with extra value-added!! Haha, keep it up NTU Cultural Activities Club, I'm full of expectancy for next year's IMPRESARIO 07!

Be It. Live it. Believe it. IMPRESARIO 2006.
It's the best talent time contest I've been to, great talents and wonderfully commedic hosts (esp. SUPERHOST Li Teng from YES 933)

(Thanks again for the tickets Xiuwen!!)

Smilez, if you enjoyed the show =D

4th Stop. SAF Chalet, Cheeyu's 21st birthday celebrations.

Chee Yu's 21st Birthday @ SAF Chalet. (Cheeyu's the one in ARMY admin, grey, T-shirt)

Ops, din take any much photos here, cause our the 4C guys from my class left early.. The 3 latecomers (myself, LBird and Justin) were the only 4C representatives who stayed over at the chalet.. The others left early, before we even came (Lame laa), ok we've only got ourselves to blame for coming late.. Anyway, Cheeyu pretty much seem to enjoy himself with the different groups of friends which came to celebrate his birthday with him, so we're glad for the birthday boy too!!

Happy 21st Birthday to our one and ONLY Cheeyu aka CheeBird, all the best to you :)

Thank God Its Friday

Wow, yeah man it's finally friday, weekends are here again. After almost 1 month of Slacking 8-p at home, I'm back in business. Found a part time job as a promoter, more about that in another post, earning a meager $5.50 an hour (an I really so cheap??). Maybe I should really consider going for the swimming instructor badge, and I'm definitely going to start giving tuition (Give me a ring at 9835 7303 if you're looking for a tuition teacher for pri or sec school subjects. Prices are negotiable (",) ).

Well working sure makes the weekends more attractive, yeah finally get to take a break from hectic working life, this is definitely more challenging than ARMY work (Yeah SSU signaller is definitely a pretty good life for an army vocation, I thank God for that :p ). Thank God today is friday, I really needed the rest...

Below are some of the photos I took while washing cars at Glendale Park tonight. For $20 a night, I got 4 hrs (7pm - 11pm) to finish up 16 cars. Well too tired, so for the 4th time this week I gave up 1/2 my pay and enlisted a friend's help. Tonight's partner is Ryan (do I sound awfully desperate??), my 3rd "strike partner" for this wk. Tonight we took a total of (*gasped*) 1hr 15min to finish up 16 cars. Ok for the record, this is a new record, my fastest timing ever in finishing the job (no kidding, ok I'm pretty surprised too : D ). Seems like I'm getting better at this, not to mention also HUGE thanks to Ryan (I'm serious!!) for being such a great support, he's really very efficient and a quick learner to be truthful..

Since while we're at it, might as well take some photos of tonight's carwashing action since we've finished early tonight...

(Disclaimer: These cars are especially choosen and we're posing for the photos. Dun ever accept a carwasher's job thinking that u're gonna be washing all BMs, LEXUSes and MERZs.. TOYOTAs are still the most common car in sg. Also dun u think that u'll look this happy most of the time when u're washing cars, this I speak from exp)

My 3rd "strike partner" this week, introducing my bro, Mr Ryan Yap Kai En.

Mr Carwash @ Work. (Oooh, this is my dream car, BMW 7 series =D )

"Oei Ah Yang I got wash oso leh, take one for me oso leh"

Ok here it is, Ryan (^_^)
Ryan with the LEXUS GS 300.
(ok this is just for the cameras, we din actually wash tis car :p )

Posing with a BMW 760 Li. (SGD 400K ++)
(Think the owner will kill me if he sees tis ;-p)

Suck cock man!! Cleaning cars' a piece of cake for us!! (Ryan and Me)

Record car wash timing : 1hr 15m (16 cars)

Average time taken : 4.7 min per car

Weekends here We Come!!!! Yeah yeah yeah!! (^_^)

Oversleeping, Overeating, Overspending...
Oh what a Sinful Day

This was my bed for yesterday... Dun be misled by e appearance, it's really quite comfy...

Courtesy of my "Bra"dder, Mr Yeo Cheng Yao.

Still early go back to get some more slp 1st... So comfy dun waste...
Time is 12.45pm, 15 Feb 2005.

Look @ the time now... 1406hrs...

Bra, still DOTAing!?!! Haven't even got changed...
How are u gonna make it to Orchard by 1430hrs?? (Our original meeting time with Yifeng)

Alamak, so sorry to my bros.. Few weeks ago I told my grandaunt and granduncle that I'm free today, and I wanna give them a treat today, and I suggested that we go Sakae Sushi for Lunch.. Thinking (wishfully) that we're gonna be eating at Wheellock place's Sakae Sushi, so I asked (ok perhaps abit more like to pleading lah) my bros to bring me go along with them to shop in town, Yifeng wanted to get a coat from Zara, while my agenda included a slingbag from ZINC to go along with my former wear for Sundays when I need to serve in the usher ministry.

[Note: If u happen to be at EXPO on a sunday morning, u'll probably notice alot of teenagers, youth in pants and shirts, wearing like business excutives but with the coloured hair/ ear rings and hair styled like one of those taiwanese pop idol u see on tv betraying their youthful exuberance. They will probably be greeting and smiling at u and pointing u to EXPO Hall 8 or directing the traffic. Yes, these are the CHC Ushers, just like yours truly here.]

Well things don't always turn out the way u plan in real life (that's why there's the Murphy's Law). As things turned out, my grandaunt called and arrranged to meet at west mall instead, at 4pm. How to be at Orchard at 2.30pm and turn up at West Mall at 4pm.. So then I went West Mall to meet my grandaunt and granduncle, leaving my brothers to shop without me at Orchard (of course it took quite alot of internal struggle to for me to finally decide to abandon my bros. Ah-ber-than, I dun wanna pang seh u all unless I really can't help it!!) Cause I figured that I do really spend very little time with my lovely grandaunt & granduncle, who brought me up, I gave them the priority. As things turn out, Tuck oso cannot turn up, leaving Yifeng n Cheng Yao(bra aka B.O.S) (Murphy's Law strikes again. :p) As it turn out Tuck was given a tipped-off that the camp may call to check him at home, as he's on MC today (poor guy) , so he can't turn up too..

Haha, surprise surprise, there's a ZINC outlet here in West Mall too!! I went in to shop, little did I know I spent the next 45 minute here (wah lau feel abit like a za bor shopping sia). Took out 1 after another bag to try in front of the mirror, finally decided on the one u see on e left. (Oei, dun tell me it doesn't look nice, cause I think so too! I LIKE it can?!) Wah kao, wasted an extra $3.60 on the bag. Y? Cause yday Bin Juan wanted to lend me her ZINC member card (10% off!!) but I told her to pass it to Tuck (the conifinee) instead, thinking I would meet him today (as Yifeng would probably says "Ah Yang Ni3 Fan4 Jian4 lor")

My new bag from ZINC, $35.90, no discount.


Tea Time Buffet @ Sakae Sushi, West Mall.

Time: 1600hrs

End-of-Meal..

Time: 1715hrs

Grandaunt Betty : )

My lovable Grandaunt Betty & Granduncle Charlie and Me..

(Actually we're already struggling to even sit properly, apparently overate..)

30 plates of sushi + deserts + 3 green tea + ice cream + fruits + 2 bowls of udon
Total Bill: $55.09

Pretty worth it I would say (at least got back my $ worth :P )


SPECIAL feature:

Murphy's Law

1. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
2. You will always find something in the last place you look. (Unless u carry on searching. That of course is simply fan4 jian4)
3. No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper. (Just stop looking!)
4. The other line always moves faster.
5. In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don't need it.
6. Anything you try to fix will take longer and cost you more than you thought.
7. If you fool around with a thing for very long you will screw it up. (fan4 jian4!!)
8. If it jams - force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
9. When a broken appliance is demonstrated for the repairman, it will work perfectly. (true, OCTs always come to us with perfectly working signal sets, esp in Brunei.)
10.Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it.
11.Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
12.In any hierarchy, each individual rises to his own level of incompetence, and then remains there.
13.There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over.
14.When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate. (aka shooting arrows or da taichi)
15.Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
16.Murphy's golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.
17.Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
18.A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
19.In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
20.Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.
(1 of Tuck's famous lines. Ok BinJuan, Lijin, Lijia we shan't argue with u sisters)