Looks like i have to give my days of playing mahjong and badminton and trekking for the coming month of july cuz i am gonna start work tmr!!! Count it a blessing when i need the cash but a pity that i cant join in the fun with my best pals. Well well i have rotted for the past 2 months and it's time to get the brain cracking.
What a small world. I'm gonna take over the job of my fren, Sally. Haa.. so conincidentally i got the help from Amber, from Kelly Services to introduce this position to me. Thanks to Amber!! Oh then i went down for interview today and found out that Sally was gonna hand over the work to me. Everything is not arranged but i met my fren and im taking over her job.. haha.. Hope the job is gonna be manageable. I may have graduated with a degree in accounting but im still quite fearful of handling the big numbers and accounts. Blame it on the syllabus of NBS that neglected the technical side of accounts. Oooppsss... hope that they review the syllabus for the benefit of my juniors.. haaa..
Collected my transcripts today.. not that it's that fantastic but at least it's really an accomplishment for myself and i think my parents quite happy that i finally graduated le.. afterall only a child.. to be able to see me thru so many years of education and after so many storms from being an almost ah-lian to a graduate.. i finally make it le!!!
Anyway met many of my frens whom i haven seen for donkey months!!! The nanyang audi was kinda chaotic la.. cuz the queue was long and we waited like almost 45min to get our papers. There were so many stalls set up for the plaque and the photo taking.. goodness.. my wallet emptied after the collection lo... and we stood at the Clubhouse counter for close to an hour listening to 3 NUS students promoting for the newly set-up NTU Almuni Clubhouse. Well was almost tempted to sign up tho the membership is $800 over 24 instalments and $40 monthly subscription from Jan 2006 onwards. Really they are not alot when we are earning money but then it's too far from my place le.. the clubhouse is gonna be ready by Jan 06 and located at Buona Vista.. travelling will take a long time and i can only mak eit in the weekends, somehow dun think i can make it to Buona Vista after a tiring week.. Dont think i will set foot in the west that often after i graduated except if my clients are gonna be there or there's special reasons.. abit out of the way leh... Luckily i didnt sign up on the spot on impulse bcuz of the free Bangkok air ticket... haaa... if not i will probably be regretting now.. anyway i seldom regret on the things in life.. if it's a bad choice at most accept it lo.. always believe that things will take a turn for the better.. haaa
then i fly Ping and Jiayi kite lo.. supposed to have lunch and go shopping with them after collecting transcripts then Miao suggested bringing up tues lunch date to today since all 4 of us are out.. best lo i fly kites! really sorry to Ping and Jiayi but we are meeting soon right.. haaa... dun scold me la..
Went to Waraku again!!! haa.. this time took the $14.80 set lunch promo and they are very beautiful in terms of presentation lo... haaa... Dar served us and gave me a shock, how he knew we ordered potato mentai... haa.. and he prepared the potato mentai lo.. so there's extra sweetness in it.. lol.. and naughty Dar gave us extra tuna and kimchi... haaa... should have give us sashimi or more meat ma... lol.. but know he is in a difficult position la..
Me with my tempura set lunch
Thia looks cute here
Mh with the most presentable set among us.. all sets look good..Where's Miao's.. she didnt send me!!!!
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Finally a group pic.. Dar took for us de after three tries.. haaa
Miao perm/ curl her hair.. at first find it quite weird cuz a sudden change of image but gradually find that it looks good on her.. will be a good start for her career...
The pics are not very sharp cuz taken from camera phone but not bad already.. mine is worst lo.. lol.. Credits to Miao's samsung hp...
Dun think will be going back Waraku anytime soon lo.. cuz too ex liao.. paid like $20 for today's lunch.. sigh.. broke.. utter broke
Hmmm... haven been blogging for couple of days liao and things have began to take a twist and i hope it will be for a good cause in the long run.. i give you my word - i will try my best to make open up.
Went to tree top trail on wednesday and it's the first time i trekked macritchie reservoir besides the usual cross country run we usually have during the secondary school and jc days.. now then i realise that bukit timah reserve is actually linked to macritchie.. haa.. call me mountain tortoise if u like but is determined to discover this route sometime in the future.. think the entire journey is more than 12km. Anyway Wed we walked at least 11km in the entire macritchei and took us 4hours to do so. The HSBC Tree Top walk is just so so only.. not exactly very high and scary as expected except that the guys kept jumping (purposely one la) and made the entire bridge swing. That's probably the only scary part but apart from this the walk is very short.
Route taken to the Tree Top
Only 3 girls turned up. Standing on the HSBC Tree Top Walk (wonder why HSBC wana sponsor it, why not make it taller and more challenging???)
Me and Miao @ beginning of the trail
Me and Meihua at top of a tower in MacRitchie
Look like modern Sir Stamford Raffles? hahaa
Acting seh.. haaa
Finally a group.. but.. opppsss.. Weiming not in.. cuz he's taking pic la.. duh
After the trail we all went J8 for sakae sushi buffet.. haaa.. we were splited into 2 tables cuz we have 10 ppl.. too big to fit in one table le.. and our table was like hungry ghost... kept ordering food as if we just arrived from Africa and super deprived of food for donkey years.. haaa.. and in the end almost puked!!! think 6 of us ate at least 70 plates of sushi.. *puke*
Nevertheless it was fun la.. long time never had such a great laugh liao
But some misunderstandings happened and think it has blown out of proportion.. just a small matter only ma.. dun take it to heart la.. sometimes people dun mean what they say right... only in a fit of frustration.. no wonder people say tongue is the most powerful weapon of destruction
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Anyway rest of the week was spent giving tuition and shopping around.. haa.. finally got the mood to shop liao.. have been suppressing the mood cuz no $$$.. now start to see some $$$ flowing in feels abit tempted.. so y not right... esp when the sale is still one.. haaa.. stupid excuse...
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Jiaxin didnt get thru to the next round of Superstar. Feel so ke xi for her. She was the second best in terms of the score given by the judges but she lost in the sms voting. She doesnt deserve such result lo..but whats done has been done. Hope she will do better in other competitions in the future.
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Called Mh, ZL and XR played mahjong at my house today. And sigh... shouldn't have done that in the first place. XR drove and after mj i suggested go eat prata at Thomson but didnt expect that the parking there is so bad today. Then we found this place near the private estate and i didnt see any yellow lines so i thought can park there and suggested to park there. But who knows, the place we parked is near the white dividing line and we cant park there!!! After dinner we saw a small rectangular piece of paper at the windscreen. Best lo.. summon la.. what else!!! And i tink the fine is $50-$60 lo.. goodness!!! Feel so bad.. shouldnt have suggested parking there. Arrghhh... anyway decided to split the fine when the letter from URA arrives at XR's house.. sorry leh.. Think the TP must have hid at one corner and issued the summon after we got off cuz the timing is just too coincidental already.. just after we walked away.. GRrrr... stupid TP
Collecting my transcripts tmr... gonna be the second last trip to NTU...
Utterly pissed now and think it's gonna stay like this for the rest of the day.
Before i woke up, or rather while i was still in my slumberland, my mum scolded me for forgetting to switch off the living room lights last night. Really cant blame her for scolding - my fault for forgetting to switch off the lights. So that's the first blow.
Then came the shock when i jumped out of bed!!! Literally jumped out!!! Supposed to have tuition at 1030 but i woke up at 1032!!!!!!!!!! Arggghhhhhh.... this is so terrible la!!! It would be easier to arrange for maybe noon time tuition if i had no plans for afternoon. Now i have to settle with an evening tuition and gotta end the day late, tuition at Chai Chee somemore!!! So pissed at myself. Why i so lazy to wake up, why i couldnt hear the alarm clock rang!!! Dumbo me la!!!
At this moment in time, my mood is super no good. And im gonna watch a movie i didnt really feel like watching and didnt intend to watch at all. I really feel like watching Mr and Mrs Smith or Monster-in-Law, especially on a day like this when everything seems to have gona out of place and against me. BUT i cannot watch la. If i can, i wouldnt be fretting now la. Just bcuz he had downloaded Smith and watched the first half. Fine la... i find someone else to watch with me!!! Deeper thought into this just made me even more pissed. And monster-in-law has limited show times already, meaning it's gonna stop showing in theatres soon!!! Arrrgghhhh... can't i watch a show i FEEL like watching??!!! Doesnt matter that the show fell short of expectation, just let me guo4 ying3 also cannot.
Really dunno what other piss-ful things can happend for the rest of the day. Just praying for the best that can happen.
Haven been blogging for a long time.. Have been working ove the past few days and it's really very very very tiring!!! Since Sunday, I have been working for the CommunicAsia 2005, an exhibition held at Raffles City Convention Centre. It's only for 5 days and that means tmr is my last day!!! Yea.. haven been working for a long time, tho tiring i enjoy the work alot!! Think i have grown up and improved much .. haa.. in terms of attitude and mentality, i dare to say i have matured!!! haaa... anyway my colleagues have been real fun and easy-going and yes we enjoy each other's companion. We worked as a group and haa... our chemistry was too good to be commented!!! Oh did i mention that i am actually the oldest in the team of temp staff??? haa.. ya... only me and another colleague are the same age while the rest are 1-2 years younger than me.. but not the slightest feeling of age catching up instead feels young with them cuz we had lotsa fun!!! hehe.. even my supervisor is younger than me manx.. but she's a contract staff there and gonna proceed to uni this coming august but she looks so experience lo..
Learnt so much during this short span of 5 days and they are the preclude to the working society which will begin in aug 15 for me. Had worked temp jobs before but this time round i do find it a valuable learning lesson from my supervisors and my fellow colleagues. And i think im quite cut for events line manx.. haa... perhaps can consider approaching this industry after audit... hmmm...
Anyway... today has been rather slack at the counters today and after lunch 10 of us have been lazing around the counters, stealing food from the refreshments tables for the delegates and chit chatting!!! haa... ya.. and made a great discovery - one of my colleagues is planning for marriage next year or latest the year following next!!! Really very happy for her!!! Felt like i was listening to a fairy tale and so envious that she found the first and only love of her life cuz it's too wonderful and sweet!!! They have been together for 6 years and have been saving up for their marriage under a joint account, had their goals in mind, common goals for the future and have been looking out for furniture and things necessary for their new home though it's still on the way!!There doesnt seem to be anything that can separate them. And they are the same age as me!! Yet they had it all planned. She said that she and her bf often discuss over their future and she feels that it foster bonding between the couple. Absolutely agreeable!!! BUt that's provided you have really found the one u wanna spend the rest of your life with. Happiness was written all over her and she's just too happy and yes she is really xing4 fu2, all 9 of us can even feel her happiness lo.. what can you say..
After hearing her fairy tale, there's so much that was going through my mind. I am even more clear of what i really want from my life partner and yes i am sure of what i want and how i should go about searching for one. I guess as one grows older, esp for a lady, as she grows up, expectations of her life partner change and it tends towards one who is mentally and physically more mature than her, can take care of her, be her shoulder to cry on in times of upsets and a shoulder to share happiness with, needs a man who knows how to treat a lady the right way, let her feel treasured, feel loved, feel being noticed and feel pampered (but not all the time, women sometimes cannot be overly pampered), let her feel being placed at the top of the priority list. And these are just the pointers i have been looking for and will continue to look for them, will only say yes if a guy has the above listed valuable traits. haa.. sounds stringent but these are just the basics that bfs ought to possess. Dont mean to sound sexist here but i must admit, in a contemporary society we are in whereby people are talking abt gender equality, there are still many limits posed on a lady. It's too taxing for a woman to be taking care of all matters for the bf all the time and she taking on the roles of a bf. No matter how ambitious a woman is, there's bound to be some xiao3 nu3 ren2 (literally mean little woman) desire in them, meaning to say, they wanna to be taken care of, like to whine to their loved ones, and feels pampered (BUT please dun over do it la, get super pissed off manx, even to girls). While listening to the wonderful fairy tale today, i feel even stronger that in a relationship, it is so important to give and take and accomodate each other. One party must be willing to take the lead and initiative and the other one must be willing to listen. A relationship is not about yourself alone - it involves inviting another person whom you have no absolute understanding into your life. And when talking about marriage, it involves alot of changes. In fact i think changes should begin to take place while dating. If you feel that you are not ready to let another person to enter into your life or you are not willing to sacrifice and make changes, please leave your partner alone and do not continue hurting him/her. Really amazed by how much i learnt today. I even earnt to be more tolerant at work today.. especially when you feel that you are not in the wrong. Haa.. i am rather bull-headed la.. so when i saw that happening to my colleague today and how she had handled it, i feel so guilty and learnt the lesson - rebuke only at the right moment and when is the right moment, use your own discretion. Sounds meaningless but i am sure you will understand it along the way and i am being to take these lessons to heart and kept them at the bottom of my heart from today onwards.
Yes another lesson learnt!!! my phone bill is a staggering SGD200 for the month of may!!! And because i had not paid for my bill in april, and that totals to $289... Arrgghhh... im gonna be so so so so broke for june!!! MAybe can consider having grass for meals ya.. Singapore is too green already.. $133 goes to my phone charges during the 5 days while i was in HK lo... Darn!!! I swear i didnt make many calls but the re-routing or whatever it is for IDD is just too ex already!!! The pay im getting for my 5 days of work is not even enough to pay my bills la!!! Gonna start work soon, which means i need clothes for the new life, but all my pay goes to bills and there's nothing much left for shopping, esp it's the GSS now.. DAME... Gonna think of the possibilities of digging money out... sponsors out there... did you see this??? doubt there's any in the first place la...
Found this Chinese quote quite reflective of life, but just somehow the chinese characters couldn't appear properly.. With my best ability in translation, it goes like this:
When One is busy, One yearns for a break; When One is having holidays, One thinks of the future.
When One is poor, One hopes for wealth; When One lives in contentment, One fears that happiness won't last.
When it's time for One to make decision, One is indecisive and fears that the result may not match expectations; When One looks back, One regrets not being decisive enough.
One always yearn for something that doesn't belong to One.
This quote is just so apt for all earthlings. Life often revolves around working for life (or do we live to work???), desires, wishes, wealth, fame, happiness, sadness, fears, regrets, expectations, decisions and many many more... so many things to balance.. that's just life ya...
Enjoy to the last moment!!!
Tomorrow is the annual Rice Dumpling Festival. It's a chinese festival that falls on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month and many Chinese will make rice dumplings during this festival. My mum does it almost every year. But this year is my first attempt to make rice dumplings. Haa... cuz im super FREE (or rather im super BORED) haa.. nevertheless i still learn something out of my freedom (boredom).. the first few dumplings i made were HORRENDOUS.. haa.. it's suppposed to be some triangular shape but ended up in some quadrilateral shape.. haaa!!! Apprentice la.. first time learning it.. but fortunately as the afternoon went by the dumplings i made looked kinda decent (considered that i learn it in 2 hours time) haa... but still can differentiate the ones that i made from the ones that my mum made..
My mum told me that she started learning when she was only 15 and she learnt it all by herself... Here's how she did it.. after eating the dumplings, she will keep the leaves and examine the shape and tried to work backwards on how to twist the leaves and make it into triangular shape... What an ingenious mum i have!!! (wonder what happened when she gave birth.. missed out passing such genes to her daughter).. All the time she has been tasting the yummy food from restaurants and hawker centres and back at home she will try to figure out the seasoning ingredients and stuff like that so as to improvise on her cooking.. So one conclusion - my mum is a GREAT cook!!! haa... that's why my dad became a fatty after marriage (he used to be a bamboo.. haa).. and i become quite critical with food.. Anyway still very thankful that my mum has a flair in cooking... will learn from here in time to come.. haa... when there's a urge maybe.. hee
Feel so guilty today.
Supposed to go for tuition at Bedok this afternoon after my badminton session but in the end decided to change to tomorrow because im lazy. Hee... well if the boy had better attitude towards work then i may have the determination to make the trip to Chai Chee... But.. sigh.. when will he ever learn??? Oh well.. i shouldn't be making excuses for myself la... Will adhere to the schedule tomorrow.. haaa
Yes supposed to have a badminton session with my gfs this noon... In the end it became a elementary badminton sesson for Cyn's cousins who are aged 5 and 10. Haa... 3 of us became nannies and Cyn's house became a temporary childcare centre since her cousins came over to stay over. SO SO SO noisy manx!!! I wonder how can Cyn's mum stand the noise level made by the 4 kids. Goodness.. if it was my mum ar..she would have screamed her lungs out already.. haaa... cant blame her cuz she has been facing only 1 kid (who can hardly make noise at home cuz there's no one to fight with) for her past 21years of life. It's kinda understandable why she can't tolerate noise at home.. haaa...
Sicne i decided not to go for tuition, i stayed and played Monopoly with the younger ones.. haha... so fun!!! I was the winner, the property queen and so loaded!!! It's been ages since i last played Monopoly lo... Looking at the younger ones playing happily and enjoying every moment of their holiday, i was thinking how i wished i had such fun when i was young. Being the only child means lotsa loney moments and i seldom get to play with my cousins like what Sammi they all did... It was Cantonese drama serials and some cartoons for me. Kinda pathetic childhood but i learn my way along the way. Will make sure my children enjoy their childhood with each day as a learning lesson for them, be it good or bad, they must get to taste life as young as they can.. of cuz must enjoy la.. Mh was saying 'wonder what she was doing when she was 10 years old' haha.. we all age .. no no.. we grow old.. no no... we MATURE as the years go by.. haaa... that's the correct word. Anway have been dealing with kids quite often during the hols.. Martin was so cute, then came some of my mum's fren's kids and grandchildren, then Bjorn whom i met at Jiayi's dad's exhibition opening.. haa.. then today there's Sammi and Ah Ming... wooo... kids discovery period for me... haaa... Will continue to learn more about the life of the innocence.. Kids are still the most innocent ones around..
Have been meeting up with frenz for the past 3 days... Gathering and catching up... bet i can only have time for all these catching ups only when im on hols or rather clearing leave and time off next time when i officially step into the society and become full time adult.
Met up with KS for lunch on sun... he gotta return me my Maths file and i gotta lend him a story book.. legitimate reason to meet up.. haha
then came mon.. met Ping and Qin. Long time never see Qin already!!! Too bad busy and future lawyer Winnie cant make it.. but nvm we will meet up on the 20th or 21st again. Shared alot over the table... never know that Qin can be naughty naughty kind.. haaa... and some course mate of ours actually boasted about the JC he came from.. haaaa... biggest joke of the day manx.
Today had a treat from Yang (im really super duper broke la.. no job no $$$). Brought me to new branch of Waraku in Marina Square. One of my favoruite restaurants!!! Anyway he's working there so got to know of the promotions going on. It serves jap food and it has very ethnic ambience and taste (for the food of cuz!!!) Oh yes.. and they have very special tatami rooms for the customers upon request. Have only sat the tatami room in Cuppage branch. Next time shall try the Marina Square one. haha!!! LOVE the Potato Mentai (not sure if i spelt correctly). Anyway who cares about the spelling as long as the food is GOOD!!! It's basically salmon (which has been somehow melted) mixed with cheese and baked together!!! It's HEAVEN manx!!! Provided u are a cheezy person.. haha.. lame sia!!! And the soup!!! 2nd Heaven!! haha.. it's a must-order each time i visit Waraku. Always tried the miso soup base (though there's other choices like clear and spicy) but miso base is too good to be foresaken so i always order miso base. But then ar.. think they add alot of msg la... always feel thirsty after the meals. wonder how many strands of hair i have lost because of Waraku soup. Shall send Yang as my spy to find out the ingredients and the msg content and the method of cooking the soup and mentai. haha... also tried the promo set lunch. ordered cold soba, 1st attempt.. hmmm... abit tasteless without the cold sauce... and the katsu don set.. goodness.. they are too generous with the serving already.. the chicken slices were so thick and big la.. haaa.. from a customer's point of view that's value for $$$ esp when it's a promo.. haha... Service wise is good la.. exceptionally good lo... cuz served by his colleagues ma... haaa... Anyway.. Waraku has 3 other branches in Spore... East Coast Parkway, Cuppage and in Katong Village. Im not receiving endoresement benefits k!!! But it's a pity that the lcoation of the Marina Square branch is not too good. It's big name is kinda blocked by some pillars forming the structure of Marina Square Shopping Centre. And it's located at the end of the building.. shoppers would have taken their main courses in some other restuarants in the building and come to Waraku for their desserts. Worst.. they may not even walk to Waraku that side.. sad la.. but Waraku has its ardent supporters (like moi) haha... need the $$$ to eat there lo... when i start earning steady income yes sure go there again!!!
Just accidentally found that a HE + art = Heart... It requres a He (can be God or any human being, im not being sexist here) and it is an art to learn about the affairs of the heart. Haha.. sounds rather corny but doesn't it sound logical...
Anyway found this while reading Hari's blog... source http://www.blogthings.com/keystoyourheartquiz
And the outcome is:
- You are attracted to those who are unbridled (i.e. unrestrained), untrammeled (same as unrestrained and unbridles), and free.
- In love, you feel the most alive when your partner is patient and never willing to give up on you. (this is so true!! never give up on me!! Need a lot of patience to understand)
- You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change (Loyalty and faith are the foundation of relationship.)
- You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. (er.. quite true la.. cuz they are v unpredictable.. i can't stand.. be consistent!!!)
- Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything... no secrets. (That's so me!!!)
- Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. (risk of cheating is zero... auditors are governed by code of conduct!!! haaa...)
- You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. (Everyone oughtta think so. Make it once in a lifetime committment. Think twice before saying 'Yes')
- In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily. (I am not thirsty for love now! haha)
Having experienced the incident of rumours spreading made me believe that the tongue is the most powerful weapon in harming a person's reputation and interpersonal faith and trust. I was in a state of shock and mess when I heard the news. I have no idea who to trust, whose statements to believe and who is telling the truth or who is interpreting the news differently. After some deep thoughts into the possibilities and confrontations, I chose to believe the person whom I almost doubted in the first place. My understanding of this fren plays a large role and I am quite sure that he will never distort facts. However, as I grow older with the days, the line between angels and devils is blurred with skepticism, dishonesty and distrust. Almost everyone is likely to wear a mask, some even have multiple masks, and how are we going to identify each and every one??? The lessons in identifying the hypocrites can be very painful but that's just how life works. Life is never fair. Lesson just learnt will serve as a stepping stone for me to protect myself from the likely blows I may encounter in time to come.
Finally managed to put up the photos and yes im here with the details for all 5 days and some of the significant incidents!!! First of all we all stayed in a hostel for the 4 nights and it's called Dragon Hostel in Mong Kwok. Stanley, the person-in-charge for the hostel is superbly good manx!!! Very helpful and thanx to him, we managed to find the yummy wife cake and nice and cheap dim sum.
A pic of the journey metre
Then the terrible thing of locating our hostel is one big problem manx!!! Buildings in HK don't usually have their names placed outside the building.. like in Spore u can easily see the word Wisma Atria outside the building. That's the reason why we had a hard time finding our dear Sincere House. Will has to run many streets asking people where is Sincere House but stranglely, the Hongkies dun quite know the area well huh... And the rest gotta carry our luggages around, crossed the streets which are packed with human traffic and it was a Sunday you see, the crowd is inevitable. Oh while asking for directions, some people were really nasty manx... either they ignored us or pretended to know the direction but ended up leading us to the wrong way. What's more comical was that we actually waited outside Sincere House while Will asked around for directions. If only they have clear signboards for the buildings...
Anyway.. after unpacking in the hostel then we headed to The Peak via the tram!!! Woo.. spectacular view while on tram. It was all the way up to the hill top and it was really steep!!! But the view was splendid manx!!! So many HK drama serials were filmed there and reminded us of some of the nice shows.. haha.. especially JY who is our drama serials database. We visited the Madam Tussaud wax museum which is located at the Peak. Most of the wax figures resembled the real ones.. not that i have seen them in person but ya.. when u walked near them u feel excited u see... haha.. and some i felt abit scared especially the late ones liek Anita Mui, Leslie Chueng... hehe.. im timid la
Moi dearest Andy Lau.. 
Singapore's father.. MM Lee.. Felt like holding the hands of moi grandpa...haha
We have great photography skills manx.. Taken while in the lift.. One and only shot..
Taken at The Peak. Isn't the scenery spectacular???
After that it began to drizzle and so we made our way back to Mong Kwok and started abit of the shopping. Most of us were rather tired by night time and decided to rest early for the day. But the fun continued in the hostel room. Haha... Me, JY and Will wrecked havoc in the room la.. and all of us got so crazy esp JY who went so high that she can't sleep.
Tai-O is a very rural village, specializing in producing prawn paste. Life there resembles the kampong lifestyle we used to have in Spore. Memories of the kampong life were so vivid when I visited Tai-O. If only life could be as slow and less competitive as in Tai-O where people can take their time to do their work, watch tv at leisure yet with better furnished houses than those in Tai-O, it will definitely be a pleasure. Life in Singapore is getting too stressful and competitve already.
Evening sea view in Tai-O 
Devotees making their offerrings. Very ingenious way of placing their joss sticks in fruits.
Do we look like cheerleaders??
Took many exciting rides which were progressive in terms of the level of courage one needs. Our last ride was the free fall!! Woo.. was not scary at all. Had a splendid view at the top and it felt like flying while descending. Don't think i will ever committ suicide by jumping down from building .. haha
Eeveryone splitted up shopping after Ocean Park. I spent the evening with Jiayi at Temple Street and Woman Street which is just opposite our hostel haha.. so lucky!!! And i bought the yummy wife cakes from Heng Xiang and it was really good.. not too sweet, just nice for my taste bud cuz i don't have a very sweet tooth!!! But in the end it started raining in the night and everyone of us gotta cut short our shopping trip and returned to hostel. Some minor misunderstandings but glad that all was all resolved.
Farewell Day - 19th May 2005
Well well.. all things must end. We have come to the end of the trip. My sandals broke in the morning and i had to settle with my Betty Boops flip flop slippers for the rest of the day.. so funny to wear that with jeans haha.. and my hand luggage handle broke while at the airport.. haha.. too many things were broken la..
Anyway..morning was spent in the dim sum restuarant we had onthe 3rd day. This time i can enjoy the food le without vomitting and discomfort.. haha.. though we missed the morning breakfast dim sum price, lunch was still as cheap which came up to be about S$10/pax and we paid about S$6/pax for breakfast on the 3rd day even though the prices for lunch dishes are almost twice as much as breakfast prices. Great thanx to Stanley for the good recommendation. He recommended the wife cakes also.. haha
At the dim sum restuarant.. everyone looked tired
Willie posing for the special set meal that we prepared for Stanley, as an appreciation to him for being a good host.
Then out of nowhere WW went to find his dream girl but to end up in disappointment cuz Joan was on leave. Haha... Joan was a shop attendant at this gift shop and we happened to meet her and Flora, another shop attendant on our 2nd night in Mong Kwok Shopping Centre. The shop sells very unique bookmarks and gift items made of wood and Flora is the only one who can do engraving and with her artistic way of drawing and fine wokrmanship all turned out to be very very beautiful. Bought alot of bookmarks and Trina's birthday present from the shop. In the end, Will, WW, Ping and me bought so many gifts there and Flora gave us discount. We sort of made frens with her. So next time when she or Joan visit Spore, we will play host and bring them around. WW managed to get hold of Flora's email so that he can contact Joan. Wondering if he had taken action... haha...
After that i made some last minute shopping in Women Street but ended up lost inthere. I was alone in the street and all the stalls looked the same. Kinda scary to be lost in the crowd especially in a foreign land. Thank goodness I figured my way and checked my bearing with some friendly policemen along the way. And i managed to get back to hostel in time to set off for the airport.
One final photo at the hostel, with Stanley (next to Willie)
Then it's time to set off for the airport. Our flight was delayed for almost an hour and eventually reached Singapore at midnight.
Final group pic at the Hong Kong International Airport
Well well.. all ended safely and happily. There were happy and also some unhappy incidents but all were resolved in time. Felt sorry for some of the comments i made. Whether you guys get to see this anot, I insisted in giving my thank you speech... Thanks for all the support from Jiayi, Ping, Louise, Willie and Wen Wei when my camera was lost. Will, it's really not your fault k. On the contrary, i gotta thank you for being a responsible personal maid... oh no no.. attendant for my belongings, a porter for all of us and being so patient and bully-able all the time... Bleh.. Thanks for waking me up in the morning even though waking me up is the toughest job. Thanks for compiling the pictures every night. And I didnt mean to keep things from you, just that i needed time to construct my thoughts coherently. Know you will not take it to heart right.. hee..
Sorry to WW for snatching your $$$. It's a classic joke and i am not forgived. Haaa.. Have been a great porter for us too!!! Feel really bad about it but nevertheless still appreciate it. Thanks WenWei!
To Ping and Louise, really enjoyed the lame jokes you all provided and it's the companion that i really appreciated.
To Jiayi.. really enjoyed the heart-to-heart talk we had at night while Will was deep in his sleep and got woken up by us at 4am. Haa... Really appreciate the advice you gave me that night. They served as reminder to me for the trip you know. Things in the future may be different from what I told you that night but i assure you that I will give it some serious thoughts. In fact, we all get to know each other better after this trip. On the whole, it was still a very happy and fruitful graduation trip.