Sunday, July 22, 2007
hello hello. I've moved.
4:57 AM
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Astart
A new skin, a new start.
It's the holidays and I'm sick. Just the right mood and amount of boredom to accompany the ressurection of my blog. Updates for the holidays, I am over and done with yelling at primary school kids and handling molest and potential abuse cases there. A new chapter unfolds as MY DARLING TAX PROF TEH CHOON HWEE has referred me to her ex employer KPMG. And Thank God, I made it without even going for an interview. Hello Tax! I'm so ready for you. I'm going to count my blessings this time round and go in with a super positive attitude. Plus, to make things better, most of my frens - Ade, Zhirui and Wills will be in the vicinity so I have a lot of lunch Kakis and the fact that they are just a stone throw's away is enough to make me smile to work everyday. *Beams* Dear God, please make this internship a fruitful and purposeful one for me, that I will learn more about taxes and be able to build up a network of friends (it'd be even better if they were genuinely nice ppl and not slave drivers) I believe God chose this internship for me after rejecting 2 big internship opportunities for me. (Maybe they were gonna make me do a lot of shit and God decided that I was made for other things) haha.. ok, I'm sounding a bit egoistic and crazy but I'm just a little unwell.
On a sidenote, I love the baby rabbits to bits although they arent very clingy to me...always go helter skelter away from me. And they arent mine... I just their nanny...
8:23 AM
Astart
A new skin, a new start.
It's the holidays and I'm sick. Just the right mood and amount of boredom to accompany the ressurection of my blog. Updates for the holidays, I am over and done with yelling at primary school kids and handling molest and potential abuse cases there. A new chapter unfolds as MY DARLING TAX PROF TEH CHOON HWEE has referred me to her ex employer KPMG. And Thank God, I made it without even going for an interview. Hello Tax! I'm so ready for you. I'm going to count my blessings this time round and go in with a super positive attitude. Plus, to make things better, most of my frens - Ade, Zhirui and Wills will be in the vicinity so I have a lot of lunch Kakis and the fact that they are just a stone throw's away is enough to make me smile to work everyday. *Beams* Dear God, please make this internship a fruitful and purposeful one for me, that I will learn more about taxes and be able to build up a network of friends (it'd be even better if they were genuinely nice ppl and not slave drivers) I believe God chose this internship for me after rejecting 2 big internship opportunities for me. (Maybe they were gonna make me do a lot of shit and God decided that I was made for other things) haha.. ok, I'm sounding a bit egoistic and crazy but I'm just a little unwell.
On a sidenote, I love the baby rabbits to bits although they arent very clingy to me...always go helter skelter away from me. And they arent mine... I just their nanny...
8:23 AM
Saturday, January 06, 2007
in the boat takin attendance... wind in my face
11:31 PM
aileen, what are u trying to grab?
11:30 PM
8 people sitting in the tuktuk like a tin of sardines
11:27 PM
bad tau huay ju
11:25 PM
phuket trannies shakin their boottttay!
11:24 PM
miss body beautiful.
11:23 PM
leopard shark molested by us.
11:21 PM
giant Moray eel
11:20 PM
doesnt this lil fish have ernie's eyes?
11:19 PM
little shrimps meet yellow seahorse
11:18 PM
you are my sunshine...
11:15 PM
can this movie be played?
11:14 PM
me , dive master, cherie
11:08 PM
one of the divers with turtie.
11:05 PM
A different view of the mantis shrimp... i cant believe i ate such a disgusting looking thing
11:04 PM
The unique fish unique to manado. its an unidentified swimming object for now
11:02 PM
the mantis shrimp ... did u noe we ate mantis shrimp at a seafood restaurant in the town that night after seeing it in the water?
11:01 PM
Pygmy seahorses in the camouflage. Doesnt it look like a small merlion
10:59 PM
the amazing electric clam. too bad we didnt capture any electricity in this shot.
10:58 PM
Giant Pufferfish. Wonder how it looks like when its puffed up...
10:50 PM
Nudi Branch / sea slug / sea snail which lost its shell.
10:50 PM
Pom Pom Crab to me but boxer crab is its name.
10:48 PM
Lion Fish... quite a beauty huh...
10:47 PM
the luminous garden eel. have nothing much to say about it....
10:45 PM
New movie release: THE REVENGE OF THE FROG FISH
10:44 PM
The terrible, horrible frog fish. See how it camouflages with the coral.
10:43 PM
Another picture of the puffer without my glove now. You can see its cute little fins and poutty lips and bulging eyes.
10:41 PM
I puffed this puffer... my very first time! Doesn't it look cute as a ball? It was trying to bite me when it was puffed up.
10:33 PM
This little bird-fish cant swim very well. Neither can it fly. It crawls on the sea bed.
10:28 PM
Dive Master put a Nemo into his mask so that Nemo can get a new pespective of his home.
10:26 PM
Monday, December 18, 2006
hi blog
welcome back , me. Great taking a break from blogging and least to say, the exams. Not complaining about my grades since my GPA went up by 0.1. Came back frm the manado holiday weeks back and it was a blast. Since I am too lazy to log in my dives, I shall write about the experience here and maybe someday I revisit it.
Touch down: 7:15pm or so, the sky was already pitch black like 10pm in Singapore. At the airport baggage belt, there was no sight of trolleys. Soon after, a few orange-top men came with trolley in hand dispersing towards each tourist. We didn't ask for their service but they came anyway knowing that they were looking at the tips they were gonna receive. One trolley was not enough for us so we asked the porter to get another trolley but he was so reluctant about it because if he was to leave and get another trolley, he wont be able to push 2 trolleys and if we call another man, the tips would have to be split. So we just called another of his fren over so that all our 8 baggages and dive bags could be towed away towards the van bringing us to the resort. Their job= help to lay the baggage on the trolley and push the trolley for about 50 meters. SIMPLE. So my dad handed them 500,000 Ringits, 10 singpore dollars.
In ducktours sense, for 1 hour of taining, a tip of 10 sing dollars would make me smile the entire day. But no... the porter demanded that it was too little and wanted double the amount. It was then I realised the bad side of tip giving. Makes ppl greedy and utterly gross.
Our resort: Kima Bajo, the Ritz Carlton of resorts. The price is really high and it was stylised in a romantic getaway fashion, a place where many would wanna visit for honeymoon. Because of its price, the place is very quiet; only 2 other families were there at the resort. (SIDENOTE: mom wrote into straits times to drhols asking where to find cheap accomodation in manado and we only got the reply when we got back from the trip. ha x3)
First day: 3 dives: saw some amazing corals decked out in the blue waters, almost like dream. Sea urchins were a rarity and we thought we saw a family of dolphins from afar but as it turns out, its just a school of gigantic fish we didn't quite recognise. Saw a number of giant clams lined up in a row, and we did some feeding there as well with bananas. Fish there were rather shy and not so used to hand feeding like in tioman and saw a couple of gobies hiding in their holes. Dive master used their metal pointers to tickle the sand holes and the angry looking gobies came out to find out whose knocking at their doors. It was funny coz the gobies wanted to bite the metal pointer after getting awakened.
Second day: went to lembok island, and realised that I had diarrhoea. Fancy getting diarrhoea and realising that the boat doesnt have a toilet so I had to get primal. I mean c'on where else could i have done it??? Had to wait for everybody to board the boat after the dive while i paddle quickly to a distance away to poo. First time being half naked amidst nature. Almost felt at-one with the sea. Saw many strange marine life like scorpion fish, bird fish, frog fish,mantis shrimp, lion fish and families of this unknown species of fish which is unique to Manado. Cant be found anywhere else. And I also puffed up my first pufferfish. Because they are quite slow swimmers..(I dunno but the ones at Manado were slower swimmers than those in Phuket) .. they were easy to catch and so they managed to get puffed . Hope these puffers dont die of a heart attack after that. :X Went to a shipwreck and saw many sharks hiding under it. The wreck was a Japanese Cargo ship which got bombed by the US forces in WW2. An interesting historical site home to many fishes now. Also saw many giant turtles on the 2nd dive of the day and dad happily rode on one of them. Each of them are as big as a big boulder. ok, thats not very helpful is it. Its height is about 1.7 or more. Taller than me n a lot of us. I love these turtles. They are always so graceful until my dad tries to ride on them.
On the 3rd day I cant quite remember wat we did or where we went but the last dive was the most beautiful of them all. It was a wall dive and the corals were just amazing. A wall of corals full of colour just awaits us from below the boat and each metre down was a different nook and crannie where different animals lived. We managed to see a huge blue lobster and a small octopus hiding in their own coral homes. Absolutely Magnificent. Haven seen anything like it in my life.
At night for 2 of the nites, we played with fireworks, my dad being the main master of fireworks, lighting them up and running away when they malfunctioned...i.e. they failed to launch themselves into the sky and popped on the ground. I feared for my dads life but he was okay. I really enjoyed this holiday that I think I wont be able to study when I get back to school.
Getting tired trying to recall... so ill just post up some more pictures.
As for the Phuket trip, the highlight was getting to pet the leopard shark at Shark Point. Thats about it...after manado, phuket is sorta boring but Aileens company made it fun. Ate Pad Thai and fried rice almost everyday there. I like their version of Pad Thai though. Very authentic and moist..almost like hokkien mee here in singapore. Loved the coconuts there too and Mango Shake. Sadly there werent any nice thai desserts where we had dinner. :( WIll remember the tuktuks there and aileen bargaining like a pro at the tuktuk drivers and the stall aunties there. I love love love the prawn mee and beef noodles at the road side stall. Did I also mention that I had diarrhoea this trip too caused by soya bean milk and fried dough fritters sold outside the thai oriental inn. I've got a weak stomach. More pics up soon.
1:45 AM
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Whoa gosh...Ive never been so tired and busy in my life. These few weeks were crazy. Coming up from school at 11pm and starting lessons at 830 really makes me sick man. SMU is really getting me ready to become a slave to my job next time. Project works, reports, presentations, mid term exams, quizzes, before class readings... the work never ends.
But, some indulgences are worth living for..
celebrated my bday at Shang Ri La Hotel the other day coz sis had free stay
had a superb lunch celebration at Shashlik serving Russian cuisine and excellent food n desserts like Escargots, pork chops, Bomb Alaska and Orange Brandy Crepe,despite the oldness of the place. Parents dated there long time back. Alas, my butt is growing. Need some great ole exercise man!
sleep... the ultimate form of escapism which I badly lack now but had sooo much of it on my birthday. I completely knocked out 1/2 the day in the hotel.
New flavour on the Ben N Jerrys menu: Peanut Butter Cup - the first time i had a taste of it, i saw hearts in my eyes.
Gonna treat myself to some sleep now...coz I deserve it!
and God thank you for saving me for my mid terms. It's a miracle.
6:57 AM
Sunday, September 24, 2006
im expecting jonathan leongs face splashed on the front page of the straits times tmr! I think he's made it already. God can u help him win???
I'm gonna die for mid terms... only God can help. God can you help me??? GOsh, im helpless.
5:29 AM
Thursday, September 14, 2006
bakies
Making London Cheesecake and muffins make me grin
8:28 AM
little shrimps meet yellow seahorse 
can this movie be played? 
Lion Fish... quite a beauty huh... 
the luminous garden eel. have nothing much to say about it.... 
New movie release: THE REVENGE OF THE FROG FISH 
The terrible, horrible frog fish. See how it camouflages with the coral. 
Another picture of the puffer without my glove now. You can see its cute little fins and poutty lips and bulging eyes. 
I puffed this puffer... my very first time! Doesn't it look cute as a ball? It was trying to bite me when it was puffed up. 
This little bird-fish cant swim very well. Neither can it fly. It crawls on the sea bed. 
Dive Master put a Nemo into his mask so that Nemo can get a new pespective of his home. 
Making London Cheesecake and muffins make me grin