26 Nov NOC BBQ

Last Sunday was our NOC's BBQ cum Farewell party after so much postponement. The BBQ was rather impromptu as some of us met earlier to get all the BBQ stuffs. Thanks Daniel for transporting the stuff and us to the site.

Reached the site and it was raining heavily. Only managed to reach the site around 730pm.



Weng Fai mobilizing the rest of the people to come for BBQ, with Rovin.



Ex and present colleagues.



Our chef for the night, Mr Tabrez.



Food we bought.



Chi Wei, Daniel and I (Both of them no longer in NCS).



Bo Tao and I very gay




Are you eating marshmallows or smokemallows?



Grilled mushrooms very interesting.




Everyone helping out in starting the fire again.



Rovin and Bo Yin



One special dish, grilled Mussels, our number 1 dish taste best with Tabasco sauce.



John, Rovin and Bo Yin.



Me abit special.




Group photo.



Mark, Willy,Bo Tao, David (Standing)
Me, Denis, Rovin



David, John, Bo Yin, John, Denis



FT David, John, Bo Tao



Bo Tao and I trying to act fierce.



Bo Tao and I trying to look very happy.




Denis and Bo Tao playing.



Mr Tabrez proposing a new game.

Rules

Each person hold their card on their forehead without seeing it. Then they raise each stake by making a special cocktail for the loser. Diamond is the smallest and loser had to drink the special cocktail with a modified straw. The straw towards the top portion have holes, I don;t know whats the purpose. It seems you are bale to get HIGH easily.



John our first victim.



Tabrez you are in deep shit LOL !!!



2 cups of special cocktail for you !!!

Personality Analysis

You Are An ISTJ

The Duty Fulfiller You are responsible, reliable, and hardworking - you get the job done. You prefer productive hobbies, like woodworking or knittings. Quiet and serious, you are well prepared for whatever life hands you. Conservative and down-to-earth, you hardly ever do anything crazy. In love, you are loyal and honest. If you commit yourself to someone, then you're fully committed. For you, love is something that happens naturally. And you don't need romantic gestures to feel loved. At work, you remember details well and are happy to take on any responsibility. You would make a great business executive, accountant, or lawyer. How you see yourself: Decisive, stable, and dependable When other people don't get you, they see you as: Boring, conservative, and egotistical

What's Your Personality Type?

WAH ZHUN AR !!!
So who going to hire me as accountant or Lawyers LOL!!!

The extreme opposite

You Are An ENFP

The Inspirer You love being around people, and you are deeply committed to your friends. You are also unconventional, irreverent, and unimpressed by authority and rules. Incredibly perceptive, you can usually sense if someone has hidden motives. You use lots of colorful language and expressions. You're quite the storyteller! In love, you are quite the charmer. And you are definitely willing to risk your heart. You often don't follow through with your flirting or professed feelings. And you do break a lot of hearts. At work, you are driven but not a workaholic. You just always seem to enjoy what you do. You would make an excellent entrepreneur, politician, or journalist. How you see yourself: compassionate, unselfish, and understanding When other people don't get you, they see you as: gushy, emotional, and unfocused

What's Your Personality Type?

Don't seem accurate

Your Career Personality: Idealistic, Service-Oriented, and Future-Oriented

Your Ideal Careers: Alternative health practitioner Architect Environmental lawyer Librarian Magazine editor Museum curator Novelist Nutritionist Photo journalist Playwright

The Quick and Dirty Career Test

Life's Destiny

Recently, my ex-superior Weng Fai invited me to attend a BAZI seminar.

As i was curious what is BAZI about and how it could affect me, I attended the seminar.

Apparently Weng Fai had been taking my courses to learn about reading BAZI and Palmistry.

Based on my guess, BAZI is calculated on the date and time you are born. The results derived is based on the 5 elements. Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth.

Met Weng Fai 7pm at Tiong Baru MRT and headed to a room located in PSB Academy. Though it was early, the room was crowded with people.

This seminar was organized for the senior members to try their hands in reading BAZI and palmistry for guests. By paying $10, you can let as many seniors analyse for you.

First I had my sister, mum and my BAZI analysed. After calculating my BAZI they asked me these questions.

1) Do i always have stomachache?
2) Do my feet cold?
3) Do i like cold drinks?

Wah spot on leh, remember i never met such people before.

They told me i was a Earth Element, but very strong water element instead.

I need more fire to burn off the water to produce earth.

I asked them if wanna change career how. They told me to avoid water career like (IT, Logistics), but got into Fire industry (Sales, Marketing) or Earth(Property agent).

Keep myself associated with color of red. They say would be hard to find job for now and 2 more years of suffering as too much water.

Quite true, been so many interviews but did not get selected for second round or offer any appointment. Those companies went to were IT , Shipping and Logistics(closely related to Blue).

After the short analysis, there was a short refreshment. Soon after the short refreshment, the BAZI teacher gave a minor presentation. The teacher wrote some BAZI of people destined to be Fengshui master or similar aka, links to Gods. He wrote BAZIs of religious people, terrorists, loner, nurse, surgeons similar. Quite interesting from his analysis.

After the 2h presentation the event ended at 10pm. Weng Fai brought me to 1 of his seniors who was skilled in palmistry.

Just by looking at palm he can tell that I am a person who is

- very worried about the future.
- setting high goals for myself.
- Not confident.

Healthwise

-problems related to heart (Bad)
- just by looking at my finger tips can determine I had many joint injuries.

Spot on when I was young always sprained my ankle from playing soccer.

Later we chatted along the way to the MRT.

Superstitious or not, its just a guidance and advise.

20 November Wedding Dinner @ Regent

After the tea ceremony on 18 November, the wedding dinner was scheduled on 20 November at the Regent Hotel.

That evening took a taxi down and along at Raffles City area, a 4 lane road had been closed to only 2 lanes. There also so many police officers and Gurkhas due to the ASEAN Summit.

We were the first to reach despite there was a jam. Soon my eldest cousin family came. Earlier on my mum bought KFC cheese fries for the kids.



The 3 treasures enjoying the side dish before the dinner started.

Soon the rest of the relatives arrived and there was alot of catching up. We were arranged to sit with my 3rd Uncle's family and 3rd Aunt's family.



Realtives and close friends being invited to the stage to YUMMMMMM YUMMMMM YUMMMM SENGGGGG!!!




The young couple popping the champagne.



My mum feeling very excited, but we no idea which camera to look at.





My cousins and I. We belong to the similar age generation so used to be very close. I wonder if i can dig up any old photos for the 3 of us. Hehe !!!



My 3rd Uncle with cousin's younger son, Yang Yang.



Surprisingly, the last dish was a western dessert. Consisting of almond and chocolate cake with fresh raspberries and black berries.




Picture with the Xuan xuan before going home.


I wish the newly weds

Bai Tou Dao Lao
Yong Jie Tong Xin
Zao Shen Gui Zi

Kuai Gao Zhang Da, LOL!!!

18 Nov Cousin Wedding tea ceremony

18 November was the date when my cousin i call him Ah Seng korkor would be having the traditional Chinese tea ceremony.

Apparently he had engaged with his wife for a few years and had been living together.



The handsome groom and gorgeous bride.

Seeing his elder brother getting married with 3 kids, him married and his younger brother getting married, makes me feel very old.

It was just like yesterday when they were around my age and I was still young studying primary school.

Last time no PC, PS2, Xbox, Wii, PSP, having a Super Nintendo System playing Mario on 2d graphics was godsend. Most of my toys were also given by them. Toy cars and Legos.

I think kids should play Legos and lesser electronics stuff. Lego is cheap simulate the brain o be creative. Well that was the yesteryear.



The young couple are dog lovers and during the Lunar Dog Year, they brought their dogs to bai nian. LOL!!!









More pics of my eldest cousin's treasures.

Last Day of work at NCS 13 November 2007.

Time flew so fast as i had already worked in NCS for a year and its time for me to say goodbye.

The reasons for leaving was primarily looking for a more hands on technical approach position. The location is very far, my journey to work is 1h. Despite being 1 year on shift i could still not adapt to the timing. I guess I am still more suited to office-hrs environment.

Cons
1) Pay
2) Job scope
3) Location

Pros
1) Lot of offs
2) Nice staff/ colleagues
3) No need wear formal to work.
4) Caring and understanding team lead.

People whom I like to thank for their teaching and guidance throughout the year.

Team Colleague

Weng Fai - my dearest and caring team lead who never shown his anger to anyone. Thank you for your kind guidance and patience to my work and mistakes. It was great having you as a superior and also a friend which i can share my woes with.

Tabrez, Denis - NOC's CSM thank you for you strict teaching and guidance which allowed me to grasp the operations to be able to work independently and confidently.

John - Thanks for always sharing your retirement plans and financial stuffs. Hope you can retire early as planned and reap what you earned.

David - a dream colleague to everyone, friendly, approachable, responsible ... Hope you can graduated with flying colors.

Izal, Rovin, Willy, Bo Tao, Amin, Bo Yin, Siraj and rest of the NUS cluster. - it had been great working together working hard, play hard and slack hard.

IS Team Chi Wei, Koon Peng and Firdhaus - thanks for always sharing your transformers and hobby stuff, missed the time where the skinny man was not in office.

Autobots transform and roll-out !!!

SOC Team, Chris, Glen, Kenny, Steven, Alex, Raymond, Melvin... best wishes to you guy. And Glen wish you have lesser health problems and find a China wife soon. LOL!!!

Rest of the engineers and Louis, thank you for always being my savior so willingly leading me out of darkenss when I am lost. Hope you can graduate soon and find a career you desire. You are a hidden talent.

Thanks all again and wish you good luck in your future endeavors.

Happy 23rd Birthday Yan Cai !!!

Deepavali

Kai wanted to eat the shark meat and jellied pork trotters at Jalan Besar, as recommended by ieatishootipost's blog.

Saw on the site the stall closes at 3pm, therefore met Lavender MRT 130pm.

Finally found the place after walking 15mins from Laavender MRT. Its the hawker centre along the Jalan Besar Road. Reached the stall and saw their prices, $5/ $10/ $15 wah sibei exp leh. They specialized shark meat, jellied pig trotters and mixed meat, even for the special sauce and topping would cost you. It was said that the boss handmade the sauce using plum.

We ordered $5 of shark meat, $5 or jellied trotters and another bowl of turtle soup opposite the stall.

Exotic man!!!



$5 worth of shark meat, cold and funny texture.



$5 worth of Jellied trotter, again cold and funny texture.
Lao Liang

After a very exotic lunch, headed to SLS to walk around. Then went to Queensway to look at shoes.

For dinner Kai ordered Ba Kut Teh and me Vinegar Pig Trotter at ABC market. He recommended the Avocado Juice which is very nice. I tried it, $2 or a sweet, fragrant creamy drink is cheap. Sorry no picture, 1st mouth half cup gone.

Birthday Eve 10 November 07

Missed the birthday party where I organized 2ys back when i was in camp. My friends came over to savour my mum's mee siam and other delicacies. ent again, but th thought

Wanted to replicate the event again but when the thoughts of cooking, invitation i sianz liaoz. As my campmates are dependent on each other.

e.g. You invite A to go, A will ask B got go? B will ask C got go .. goes on. When u tell A, B&C got go, he will ask D&E leh. KNN

In the end told Xiang Xin and Jimmy lets eat dinner outside. They would able to make it. Jim got classes and can meet around 6 and XX got a training cap at Yishun which would end at 7PM.

My craving is Jap food. So told them either Wisma or Central Square where we can eat Ma Maison or Tom Ton. Met Jimmy earlier and walked around Orchard. In the end we chose to go central as more choices. Ate at Ton Ton as could not find Ma Maison waited a short while before given a seat facing the river.





Side dish Salmon fish head in Teriyaki sauce. Yummy, wacked till not a morsel of meat left. LOL!!!



XX's order black pig fillet, very different from the rest.



Jimmy order of some pork fillet with egg. I ordered my favourite Sukiyaki again, for the fantastic soup, its worth scalding my tongue LOL!!!


After dinner wanted to eat Ben & Jerry as dessert but no outlets near Central so we walked around and went to Clarke Quay. Clarke Quay was crowded with mainly ang moh.

Tried the turkish ice-cream for the first time very special with many flavours. Walked around and saw this unique pub/club called Clinic C. The patrons sit on wheelchair and drink from the drip bag. Too bad the waitiress does not don a nurse attrie. Next time must try, then we can have a wheelchair race.

Walked til MOS and saw a Aston Martin with a car license "TJM". Is this allowed? Sorry no pics. After walking around decided to eat at Hagen Daz.



Choc chip cookie, mango ice-cream with 2 pieces brownie.



Macademia nuts, lemon and strawberry ice cream with waffle. $5 for an additional scoop. Their top flavour is strawberry, where you could even taste the flesh. But after eating Hagen Daz, STILL LOSE Ben & Jerry. I don't know how to explain could be the quality of the ice-cream. Ben & Jerry ice-cream don't melt easily and flavours are more interesting.



Very cool Jimmy after eating so much ice-cream.

Chill till around 2am where they were closing. We took the nightrider back. The whole street was filled with taxis.

Thanks bro for celebrating birthday with me.

Birthday 11 November 2007

Mum mentioned very long eaten steamboat, so had steamboat lor. Steamboat has a very strong significance, eaten during cold seasons with the round shape representing warmth and reunion. Thats the reason why people eat steamboat for reunion dinner.

Kai called to meet for dinner as he had not eaten a single meal LOL! Crazy. Met him at Haig Road still queuing for the famous Putu Piring as recommended by ieatishootipost again. No pics as the food was eaten on the way to find another dish recommended by the blogger. Hor Fun.

Putu Piring

I think Kai queued at least 30mins. The skin is very soft and gula melaka filling sweet and fragrant. We finished the putu piring while hunting for the Hor Fun.

My top food irregardless of ranking.

1) Hor Fun
2) Mee Siam
3) Chicken Rice

I am very fortunate my house has a stall selling great Cze Char. I wonder the food is so cheap and delicious why doesn't it have any accolades or awards. Despite not being famous, be prepared to wait for 30mins - 1h on weekends. Its $3 serving is equivalent to $5 serving sold outside.

I tried Crystal Jade's Hor Fun which costs $12 dammn exp but delicious. I was really excited in trying this stall's quality.

The stall is located along Joo Chiat. When you reached the Dunman Food Centre cross-junction turn left towards Geylang Serai. Its stall is Yellow and Red.

We ordered Hor Fun, Hey Zou (Like Wu Xiang but with prawns) and a soup.



$10 Hor Fun with mushrooms, pig liver, pork, pig kidney and even sea cucumber. The kway teow not really good compared to the stall at my house. But there's the rest of ingredients to backup.




Sea cucumber located in the background.

Hor Fun
Changi Lor 108 Fei Lao Seafood
229 Joo Chiat Road
63464116
11am to 2pm
5pm to 10pm

After dinner went to meet Zhi Qiang, Zao Hong and Hong Jing at Katong Laksa. After that we went to Bedok 85 for supper.



My birthday present self bought. Ah Bing Ge Gua Tia Xiu Part 4 in DVD cheap. After viewing it, not as funny as part 1 and part 2. Did not bought 3 as the cover doesn't seem tempting.

Visting my cousin and his 3 treasures

Some time back went to visit my cousin new house at Tampines and also to see his eldest son and younger twins.

His new house is a HDB masionette overlooking a very nice view. Previously was staying at Punggol.




His eldest son, Chong Chong savouring the KFC cheese fries we bought.




His twin son Yang Yang, very cute. 1 big cup of coke shared between 3 people, father, brother and him.




His twin daughter, Xuan Xuan very funny character LOL.

Damn funny video from YouTube

sad computer spoil

Would be a long time before i start blogging again.

Anybody wana sponsor me a laptop?

LOL!!!