First day of the flood.

Peak of the flood. Training for work has started, 0800 to 1700 workign hours.. pay Rp.2.5 mil.. Broke Millionaire finally..

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

~Robert Frost

i totally agree

if i become nus staff u guys can buy laptops/desktops at 70-80% retail price off me, if anyone's interested, staff get discounts, think must book in advance, so let me know. yes this offer includes MACs!

i just realised that my presentation to the Building Authority Corporation is to the CEO!!!!!!!! OMG! boss didnt tell me earlier if not i would have started preparing already. pek chek, scared out of my balls

YO peeps! HAPPIE CNY!!! so fast another yr past liao...2006 juz past n now comes 2007...flash back many stuff happened in 2006...aniway it's history le...so dun look back...look into the future!! it's a new yr!!! new start! gonna be a wonderful yr!! regardless workin or studyin, all the best guys!!! tis yr is a special yr too...it marks our 1 decade of frenship!! rem 10 yrs back we were all still juz sec 1...tat was wen we all juz 1st step into GMSS..haha..those were the days...all the sorrow n joy...my goodness..10 yrs juz flew like tis...n i'm still so glad we all r still in close touch!! maintain the bonding pple! keep in touch alwayz!! okok..i goto go KUN liao..tmr goto go bai nian n collect ang bao...muahaha...nitez!! HUAT ar!!!

hey people!

we going to bai nian at one another's house on tuesday!
but i not sure whose place we should go first.
we have ben, xl, mj, chen, tharin, tian li(??), wk (??) and mine place.
so we got to decide soon!
Happy Chinese New Year!

hey boys and gals i won't b online for the next couple of days, i have to return 'home' for chinese new year. So just sms me or call me if got any problems.. nah i guess no problem.. but if u do have one, just sms me.. but chinese new year where got people have prob right.. but just in case u got any porblem, any problem also can.. the hong pao not thick enough, the feng shui not in ya favour, ya neighbour got hot babes visit or even if the oranges u receievd are of different sizes can also sms ok.. coz i'll be damn BORED!.. hope to see u guys really soon la.. before i go i wanna wish all of u skinny rats GONG XI FA CAI and MA DAO KONG CHENG and XUE YE JIN PU and WAN SHI RU YI . Not to forget this year is andreas year so i wish him CI DA PAO PAO (eat until full full).. last but not least HUAT!!!

Hello beautiful people. Work is kinda so so, dont know how to do, and i keep needing to redo my simulations cuz things change from day to day. indonesia is not supplying singapore sand so i need to re-calculate all the different types of materials that can be used in new buildings in the future. BoRiNg. dont think i'm very good at my job.

Anyhoo, mum got a promotion! hopefully that means more monies. I really should start listening to what she tells me to do. She just threw me afew books to read i guess i shouldnt second guess her. Since no one wants to buy our house, we're thinking of redoing the whole house. Not sure what the budget is, but its a big house, and it needs aLOT of work. we're thinking maybe after its done and if someone wants to buy it we might sell, but its hard to find such space and location with the price we will get. I like this house very much, dont want to live anywhere else. I'm next to ben/mj/tharin/xiaoling/wg/tianli. wah everyone is so near. I'm thinking of adding a roof to cover 1/2 the garden so it can be like bila bali like, can chill outside at night and drink poker, put the projector outside. so many dreams, not sure if there is enough funds to fuel it.

Painted 1 wall in my room, tried to be artistic but it doesnt really look nice, sad, but there are 4 more walls to go. Still waiting for my employment pass, with every day that passes by i feel as if my chances of getting one is slipping away. I really really want to be able to treat u guys with my first pay check, to mark a new era.

I'm still deciding which path in life to take. Now that i'm working in nus i keep thinking that i might end up as an academic. Dr Kelvin Tan or Professor Kelvin Tan. Sounds nice, but extra 5 years of research and studying doesnt sound too appealing. I'd like to work for a big firm but seems like my resumes sent are shredded.

Wah didnt know i typed so much already, so much on my mind. I'm still deciding what to do with my salary if i do get one. How much to give to mum, how much to give to bro, how much to save, how much to spend, how much to invest. aiyooooo, but at least i dont have to ask for money with my tail between my feet anymore. Whats a good amount to give to parents? do you guys give your parents some %?

I'm thinking.. hmm
10% Give mum
15% Food/transport
7% Tax (not sure how much)
13% CPF
50% Save and invest
15% Expenses
-----
100%
------

I really need to start becoming frugal. I should be spending in proportion to what i'm earning, so at the moment in not earning anything so i guess i shouldnt be spending? oh well. damn 2am. need to wake up early. so much to say and think about, so little time.

Oh EAT MORE GRAPES, they've been found to give the same effect as red wine on health/vitality.

To good health and much love my fellow beautiful people, nothing else matters much

i hate to say this.. but don't you guys think tharin looks like Obama of the 2008 American Presidency... Damn, he can be a double.... tharin, you're destined for great things in life man...

guys please change to the new google log in instead of the old blogger log in.. cause u might experience prob if u tryna blog using the old 1..thx

ya tian. basically my job is to come up with guidelines for building design in singapore. Before all buildings are built, they have to comply with the guidelines i help to impose.(singapore wants to make these guidelines tigher but doesnt know how tight to make it)

Singapore wants to become a more energy efficient country as it lags FAR behind other developed countries. We emit tons and tons of CO2. Bad. So the government wants to make buildings more energy efficient. To do this research is needed. this is where i come in. I take the parameters of buildings like the windows, wall materials, glass shade, etc and calculate roughly how much electricity will be consumed by the building per annum.

Yes if you want to save energy at home in your house, TINT YOUR WINDOWS OR GET CURTAINS. 50% of your aircon energy is spent removing heat from your house. and 50% of that 50% is from light coming in from your windows.

So yes, as per all researchers my hard work will be printed out and presented to a board of people in the building authority, their bosses will be happy, present it to the government, government happy with the bosses, government present to public, public happy with government.

But the most important thing is, at the moment WORK ROCKS!

andreas cant make it back for the party cuz he is officially employed and starts work this week, cant take leave right after you start work so he wont be here :(

on the same topic, i went for an interview this morning at the japanese embassy. no im not trying to work at the embassy (although i wouldn't mind), its a teaching job in japan.
i actually enjoyed the interview, the interviewers were nice; even the security guards and cleaning lady were really sweet. i just hope and pray very hard that i did well enough to secure one of the vacancies.
we'll see in one month's time.

hmmm... for daryl? yea... it's fine... then regarding the party...

1. those who has access to duty free, should buy hard liquor/wine/champange. yes. so, anderas, me, jen, can choose 2-3 bottles of each kind. therefore, we'll definately save heaps as tax on these 3 are usually the highest. compared to beer..

2. the rest of us, would then have to divide up the task of buying utensils, mixers, food. is food supposed to be included? i guess the utensils and mixers can be determined the night b4, or on the day itself. NTUC wouldn't become a defunct company. not in my opinion.

3. payment to ben. i believe this is the most important at the moment. EVRYONE, should pay ben BEFORE the thing. it'll be easier to pay him first to ease the payment of the food, liquor, utensils etc etc later on (the day after the party). worst case is that we confuse everything as there's cross payments to be made.

4. Friends, should not be allowed. freeloading is not very nice. even if they don't freeload, this party is about US, not them. when on earth did they ever become part of the group? simply, no blogger access, no invite!

5. spitting the bill shouldn't be a problem again. add, then divide (that's why outside friend shouldn't be invited. difficult to tell them what it'll cost. imagine being wacked with a $100 bill at the end of the day!). furthermore, as we want to keep the bill to the minimum as possible, we SHOULD, buy the expensive stuff duty free. and don't buy in excess. no point buying like 5 bottles of wisky when it's impossible to finish it!

6. MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL, i think we have to take a GROUP PHOTO. we don't have 1 FULL group photo! it's about time!

ok finally i am able to figure out what all the small tiny boxes meant when i was tryin to log in to blogger using my comp which unfortunately cant read anything else but english. so here i am with a school comp and now here's the deal all over again.

Vote on the Theme you'd like
ichi: Pajama Paaaartaaay
ni: Retro
san: Cartoon/Movie Character(s)
yon: Goth/Punk

Friends or Friend-less?
Yes this is our private little party to toast to our tenth-year friendship (even though we ALL know that's just an excuse to get mingjun and yourselves bubble over with 'high-ness' since it coincides with his birthday) so the question is: Do we invite our party friends too? The planning committee has defined the term 'friends' as those people we've already met or at least heard of their names so you wont be stuck spending the entire night entertaining them instead of having fun yourself.

So then the next thing is that everyone bring a little something something which by that the planning committee means a bottle or a pack or if you really must, then bring an entire keg. it's up to you. but we do need mixers and water and soft drinks and all that. we'll figure out how to split the bill. anyone has any bright ideas?

and so kelvin tan, please bring your poker set and cards. we'll be needing it!

one last thing, we each gotta split the cost of the room and so if you have any enquiries,
ASK BEN!
he's the overall person in charge since he's the one with the most time on his hands! thanks ben! :)

other little details we'll fill you guys in time to come. so long for now and see you at the paaartaay!

this is insane man.. i tried to buy tickets to this evening match between singapore and malaysiat the national stadium and to my disblieve the tickets were all sold out... yes all 50k of it.. i was kinda shocked though, for a moment it actually feel like the good old time of singapore soccer.
the fandi ahmad, the malek awad, the abbas saad, the lim thong hai, david lim, nasri nasir and not to forget super sub steven tan etc.. the cursing and swearing in the stadium, the school boys and ah pek that walk arund the stadium selling curry puffs and soft drinks and the kallang waves.. wat a distant memory man.. haiz.. too bad i suppose.. hopefully there's a next time

ps : oei dreas still sleeping ah?

I realised my TV is kinda small for watching soccer, so guess what. I got a PROJECTOR!! But dont have that white screen thing though, so for the moment can watch on the wall!

holy shit... imagine catching this whilst fishing...

Yes boys and girls its time again for..... DID U KNOW!

Did you know that...

1) you could light a fire with water?! just fill a clear plastic bag with water, and hang it in front of paper. It acts as a magnifying glass when the sun is up.

2) Fish in japan are now hypnotized before transported to restaurants, as their meat is more tender when they are under less stress. Fish can be hypnotized by simply pressing against a certain part of their spine. Its a company secret! no one knows

3) Chicken can be hypnotized too! just point their head to the ground and draw a line perpendicular to their body direction and they will stay in that position for alittle more than a minute.

4) Sharks can be hypnotized too! turn them upside down and they just lie there

5) Once a month when women are in the fertile part of their cycle they prefer muscular and more masculine looking men, and thats when they will cheat!

6) The north pole is continually moving due to the movement of iron in the earths core. True north is no longer the north pole

7) The earth's magnetic field is caused by all the iron in the earths core. Earth is like a big magnet

8) Generally Asians, Native americans have "Dry" ear wax, and caucasians have "Wet" ear wax. There are only 2 types of ear wax in the world. People with "Wet" eat wax have bigger breasts, and have smelly armpits

9) Dogs are excellent rock climbers! like goats

10) Did you know will be back soon!

Anyone interested in taking japanese language lessons? writing and speaking. no not because its cool, because japanese speaking jobs pay almost double. Let me know! i'll get the details soon

darryl

mj, jen n qihui

kel, ben n xiao

start off wif calamari~~yum yum...

dinner place~~

BDAE BOY!!! (p.s check out the lady to the right..hee..darryl took tis shot...cheeky boi...)

2/3 of the gang turns up...missin a few...

another yr older~~everyone's gettin more mature...

The funds requested for my research project has been cleared. The dean requested $100k for this years funding.

I get to buy a $4,000 computer and a $4,000 laptop for free~!!! all part of the funds!
And i was cleared $50k of that funds for my salary. dont think i'll get all of it because i'm not very qualified(but i hope i get more!)

Anyways, i need help from you guys, and i may be paid for it. I'm not sure if i'm going to be paid, but if i am, i'll distribute the funds for each survey form returned back to me.

Basically, i need to have about 250-500 people fill up a form for me. They MUST live in HDB/Apartments, and MUST have air con. Its a survey on people's energy usage in singapore. Think of me as the person who is making singapore a greener country hur hur. If everyone helps me with 30 forms each my life would be so much simpler, i'll keep u guys updated!

Thanks again!

Been playing poker the last few days, i think i'm getting better. hur hur.
Finished 17th in the US$10k tourny, the prize money is shit.
1st place is not bad. $2k, but 17th place is only $70 bucks lo.. what the hell, SOOOO CLOSE

i wonder what andreas is doing nowadays... no words from him ever since that day at brewerks .. hope he got the job, working for some indo bank.. can start to launder money..yeahh.. i wanna bmw m3 coupe.. thanks!


ps: ben where are the photos u promised to post?..

a lecturer from the department of sociology had a heart attack yesterday in the midst of a consultation with an honours student and died. i've never been taught by him since the soci dept is kinda kinda large but i was just as surprised when a classmate who was supposed to take his module told me this afternoon. his class was obviously cancelled.

i thought about how helpless the honours student in his office must have been when the lecturer collapsed out of the blue and i pictured the student with his eyes wide open and jaw gaping for possibly three seconds (which is a really long time in those circumstances. i wonder how the honours student is doing right now).

then i wondered if i would have had the sense to respond immediately. i think i would be rather traumatised by the incident and wondered if i had said or done anything that might have triggered the cardiac arrest. i think i might have felt responsible in a way for his death.
i think i would have felt guilty for being the last person to see him alive.

then i thought about the lecturer's age. he's not very old, probably around my mom's age, mid-fifties; and since the average life span has increased to 77yrs for men and 81yrs for women, his death can be considered premature. then i wondered if he exercised regularly while he was alive. then i started worrying about my mom. think im going to ask her to start exercising more, keep the heart pumping strong.

so, youpeoplewhomimeetonearth, take good care of your health.

I'm bored, so im going to do a "Did u know?" post! hah

1) Did u know if you put 2 cups filled with water, of same volume, with 1 at 80 degrees celsius, and 1 at 30 degrees celsius, the cup at 80 degrees celsius freezes first

2) Did u know that scientists have made a teleport machine, to teleport an electron/photon up to 3 metres away from its original destination

3) Did u know that children that grow up with pets have a 50% less chance of developing allergies

4) Did u know that swiss banks are not loaning money to ski resorts at an altitude less than 1500m due to global warming

5) Did u know that in europe, a single cow can provide fuel to run a small locomotive train for 30km. The shit from the cow is stored in a tank, after the cow has been chopped and all the meat/leather has been sold, the remainder of the cow(yes including the bones) is minced and poured into the tank of shit. The mixture produces methane which is then used to power the train.

6) Did u know that humans can smell as well as dogs, the common belief that dogs have a superior sense of smell is rubbish, its just that we havent practised in a million years. Afew practice lessions and we can be chase dogs

7) Did you know pandan valley is located almost dead centre from cq and jens house! Using google earth

8) Did you know that the Courts bonanza sale on home appliances rocks!

9) Did you know that your eye is least sensitive to blue in the centre, and most sensitive to red in the centre, whereas it is the opposite in your peripheral vision.

10) Did you know that did you know will make its next appearance soon?!

Sianz... tomorrow is monday... super sianz....
i hate the feeling of mondays....
it is so hard to fall in love with my job.
i feel like i am in school- with the CCA system and demerit point system.
i am being treated like a kid, not a working adult.

i was down with food poisoning recently. after the new year.
i think it was the oysters. and super suay la, because before that i had flu and cough. shitty.
anyways i was dying and i can't take any medical certificate (MC) to exucse myself cause if we miss 2 classes, we will be transferred/ if we end up missing an important class, we will be transferred. and so i had to drag my sorry ass to school.

i have mixed feelings about flying.
i have no idea how to put theory in practice.
yet i am excited about the places that i will be going to.

i am looking forward to chinese new year! long weekend.

see you guys next weekend!

Hello, haven't blogged in awhile, been slacking at home the past few days. I'm waiting to apply for my job and hopefully if everything goes well my Employment Pass will be approved in january and i can start working.

I'm working as a Research Engineer, the position doesnt reflect the real job though, im supposed to program a piece of software the calculates energy usages of buildings. Every single office building has to comply with energy usage standards and currently i think only 2 exist so the government is pushing NUS to further develop their software so they can say something nice to the public! haha.
People who don't comply with the standards set get a huge fine smacked on their ass.

So thats where i come in. i'm writing it! so if i fail all the companies gonna have a headache :S

I think its a tough job, but there are some plusses to it. The pay i hear is at least $2.5k a month, we may be looking at $3k? im not sure i sure hope so. And on top of that, if i work for them for 2 years, i can write a thesis and get a MASTERS! how good is that. paid to study.

But the down side is that i don't get cpf because i'm not singaporean. A normal singaporean worker has 20% of his/her pay deducted. But their employer will refund 13% to that persons cpf. so basically he is only taxed 7%. IM NOT SINGAPOREAN so i get taxed 20%. that sucks.

If i get my employment pass approved we're looking at me doing NS sometime soon! yes! ns! shit i thought i could escape. oh well, i hope i can stay in singapore. Australia pays well but no amount of money can buy friends/family and chicken rice. I'll update u guys soon!

hey guys! MERRY CHRISTMAS! in advance!

poor me... my Boyfriend has abandoned me to go clubbing at MOS. haha.
actually it is more like i can't afford to go clubbing. cause i need to study for my exams.
shitty. i thought i was over and done with exams forever.

the Exciting thing is that i will be going on my first flight in Feb! i will be going to Hong Kong(Sianz) and Auckland(yay!). but until then, i got to pass my stage one exams. there is really alot more to being a flight stewardess than the horrible makeup, the uniform and the red new polish.

anyways i was thinking, lets celebrate NEW YEAR together ya? Since almost everyone is in Singapore. Partners are invited as well. You guys can come to my place for dinner/poker/mahjong/drinks/karaoke. I book you guys first. and we can pop the champagne( i will try to get one) I will make sure that everyone is well taken care of- SIA style haha.

okie guys. MERRY XMAS once again. i am going to hit the books.

time to party!

hey guys and gals next year is going to be a decade since we know each other... so me n the guys were discussing at brewerks the other day while quenching our thirst on 4l of golden ale..that y not we have a party to mark the occasion.. we can get a room ( similar to that of ben's 21st party mayb abit smaller)that fit everyone of u niggas in.. tian suggested that we can purchase a party peg from brewerks.. which can feed us all the beer our small belly can hold... plus the other 'goodies' in our stash... so in order for that spark to turn into fire .. i hope that each and everyone of you contribute to make this thought become a reality.. instead of relying on others to do all the work and for you to enjoy.. cause that will show nothing of our decade old friendship.. No excuses, it boils down to how much you really want it.. so if you want it "MAKE IT HAPPEN WHoooHAaa"

**too bad Daryl you're also included!!

nono, don't get tempted... it's meant for the 10 yr anniversary...

surprise surprise i was at MOS last night as well.
and yeah there were tons of dickheads around.
went to THE CLINIC which was a new club opened by MOS as well. it has a much older crowd inside. And the toilets are so Clinical- haha i guess thats why it is called the clinic- duh right.
Saw some of my batch mates at MOS, and they are really different... in class everyone is so prim and proper. but once they are outside they are a totally different person!

it is so tiring to wake up for work at 530am and head down to STC (Singapore airlines training centre) which is at changi. by the time 830pm comes around, my eyelids will be closing. and i still have 3 more months to go man. my first test is coming up. got to start studying... sian... all the country codes and airport names- i am so not looking forward to it.

anyways i got free tickets to go party at 6 places at clarke quay. and free drinks as well! because of MTV. cool. but i don't want to see myself on television man. i sounded so fake. cause i had to say what they wanted me to say. i will cringe man if i see myself.

as usual mos was packed with more then enough bananas than oranges, i think the ratio is like 9 : 1. the results of having so much bananas surrounding you while you groove to the beat is the pushing and shoving, unwanted stares and an overdose of egos around. And i cannot stand bananas thinking they can get every orange in the club as and when they please.. saw alot trying to hard to dance next to orange only for the oranges to 'roll' into a more comfortable zone.. assholes!.. but on a brighter note this time around only yy got wasted, ron and his fren got checked out by ladies boy outside the club man.. they were like sitting on the curb hanging when 2 ladies boy went to sit beside them...hahaha... the 'gal' who sat beside ron actually looks super duper hot man... with big eyes, big breast and maybe a bigger d***.. she got an exotic look in her man, so wasted that she's in between..hhaa.. the one who sat beside ron's fren is not as hot but she basically show us like 3/4 of his boobs..and he tease ron's fren until he dare not move..ahahah..the thing is there like 20 ladies boy hanging there man.. n most r quite hot.. n they are all from thailand.. and the best part is when one of the ladies boy saw the police he shouted some thai words and in split secs u can see all of them from no where sprint out of sight.. amazing feat consider they were dress in short tight mini skirts and high heels..Unbelievable.. and this mexican gay like talk to us and ask us where got gay massage parlor... we hang man seriously..then yy told him to go geylang or orchard tower to try his luck..ahhaha.. so many weird pples hanging around the club.. not a very safe place to be in or out. the moral of the story don't try to pick anyone in the club, might have dire consequences.

the two hottest hotties in our group, and now best friends...
























now for the boysss...
















and what we should get for our 10 year anniversary...

tomorrow i'll be going to mos with my doggies n yy... hahah... probably 1 of the last few times hanging out with yy since he's flying to sydney to study in jan so hope we'lll have fun n don't get wasted (strictly guys only ... muahahahhahahahahah)

here is something for all u hangers to ponder about as everybody knows that the the arrow inside of the compass will always point to the north on one side and the south the opposite end. let say if you were to follow the direction of the north arrow and walk, where you think you'll end up at???.. lets assume that it eventually lead you to the north pole right, where will the compass point to now since you've already reached the northern end of the globe???

Xiaoling i thought i saw u in town, there was a girl that looked exactly like you, anyway u are indo at heart!

I got my results already, was expecting better, but i guess i got to settle for not so good results since it should be proportional with my effort. Anyhoo, i am now a graduate of University of Melbourne! with honors!!!!

im so happy to be in jakarta once again.
this place is starting to grow on me and im getting fonder of everything and everyone here.
i think i should explore the rest of indonesia with andreas.

see you all next year.
merry christmas and happy new year in advance. wheeeeee.........!

closing time, time for a new beginning



the corridor where i often sit outside


sometimes people change but memories don't



many battles were fought. all in the name of friendship and joy




4/1.... leave daryl and me out.zzz

old place, new faces

smoke weed everyday

the new uniform sucks man... we're lucky

now for comic relief lets invite thariiiinnnn tannnnn age 13..whohohoh

today while i was driving my sis from sch i saw this accident that happened oppsite of SIM....the lorry was facing in the wrong direction of the traffic with its belly up.. kinda brought back some unforgettable memories

There are officially toooooooo many food variety shows on the telly. overly saturated.
are there really that many good hawker stalls around singapore??
i wonder...

i am going to be an east side girl soon.
i got to wake up at bloody 6am from tomorrow onwards.
i have officially joined the "shang ban zhu"

http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/

New show in the states. If you dont start downloading it and watching it. you are missing out on the ultra best show ever. DOWNLOAD IT!

10000000000% kelvin tan certified