Just Shooting my thoughts OFF My Mind , So Fast I SomeTimes Shoot my foot.

Musings for August & September 2009 ..

2009-09-09T00:46:00.010+08:00

One thing I really hate abt Blogspot nowadays is the bloody lousy feature of uploading fotos .. It cant do multiple foto uploads like Facebook does , and its a bloody pain in the ass when you dont do programming ..

Celebrated National Day with a big buffet spread that wasnt that fantastic , but didnt cost that much .. S$22.90 after 44% discount .. so .. NO promoting the So So mediocre food @ the hotel

A pleasant surprise came on 7th August 2009 from my RSM, who rang me to ask if I wanted tickets to NDP 2009 .. ITS BEEN MANY YEARS SINCE I WENT FOR NDP!! and It would be the first time Sunshine and myself go NDP together .. What a pleasant Surprise! Its really touching when "uncle RSM" thinks of me when he has something good ..

The power of Canon G10 .. Not a bad prosumer camera , considering there is no tripod ..

Finally graduated on the 27th August 2009, attended the convocation like after many months of work life .. it just feels weird to be going back to school .. Someone asked me , so whats the feeling standing on stage , receiving the degree ??

My answer >> Like that lor .. No particular feeling .. just hoping that the event end soon so that I could go home and sleep .. No particular pride as I wondered how I got through every semester ..

Looking back at all the endless studying sessions @ AMK Garden Mac, studying til the wee hours of the morning with Calvin.. end the session with breakfast and searching for the "Dua Bui Sai/ Aka Da Bai Sha fat ass weirdo who sleeps naked on the pavement every night , before catching the 1st train .. and for me .. cycling back home ..

It will be difficult to forget those sessions .. the talk cock .. the stoning outside .. the cycling in the rain back home .. the morning crowd .. But I am glad those days of hell are over ..

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Been learning driving for 3 months plus .. learnt alot through Uncle Steven .. the Ah Pek instructor .. Gone through some funny training like driving through Geylang, driving through the Lorongs .. avoiding Ah nehs and Ah Tiongs .. Drove Bedok, Siglap, Geylang, Kallang, Potong Pasir .. and best , even making use of the learning car to drive to return the convo gown .

Ahh .. the conveniences of a car .. and the benefits of flexibility of a private driving instructor .. he nags in the beginning but slowly lets u drive at ur own leisure .. I have been allowed to drive at 80km/h for certain stretches of road although the official limit for learners is 50km to 60km.h .. and I have always been given the flexibility of choosing whichever lane I liked , perhaps because my speed wasnt that slow to obstruct traffic.

Steven has always been a nice guide on board the car and it feels assuring to have him sitting as passenger. Come 5th Oct .. I hope I can get used to driving without him .. and PASS ONE SHOT !

Wish me Luck !

Mambo XMG out ..

Updates Updates Updates

2009-07-27T01:05:00.006+08:00

And so , its been quite awhile since anything was updated ..

Busy with work , life and love and all the nitty gritties in my life .. Haven gotten the motivation to update until now .. also the inspiration was lacking , to start typing until today ..

Work has been overall good .. Very nice and supportive colleagues .. Didnt get my commission for my 1st quarter due to some stupid billing .. Into my 3rd month .. starting to settle down in my job .. hopefully can pull more sales in for the company

One of my KickAss Colleagues cum EGUARDIAN Paintballer , Royston .. who's a friendly guy who is ever willing to lend a helping hand and shares the same birthday date as me .. GOOD TO KNOW !

EGUARDIAN Company Gathering + KTV ... Bosses' treat for Good crabs and KTV ! Each Crab was 2kg in weight !! Had a whale of a time ...12 of us , 20+ jugs of beer... Bloated ...

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October 5th 2009 - Big Day Coming Up ! My TP test ! Dragged my driving license since promising to get it in Year 2000 ... finally got the motivation to learn driving .. Driving has been smooth generally and getting the hang of it .. Love the Gear shifting .. but hate the half-clutching and the crazy traffic during the 7pm peak hours

Drove in Geylang Red light Districts through the brothels and along the whole stretch .. Been to Bedok , Lavender and other weird streets .. the benefits of a private instructor .. Lolz .. allows me to practise my filtering skills and through crazy Foreign-Worker-infested roads..

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Let me find time to blog about my good food philosophy ... I hope soon ..

Mambo XMG out

A Hectic and Busy Month Of May

2009-05-30T12:20:00.016+08:00

Its been a Hectic and busy month of May .. 3 weddings ... 2 baby showers .. and loads of work.

Work has been progressive .. meeting up with more valued partners, having lunches , interaction , getting to know more people.

One thing worth looking forward to was JR's wedding .. We did a mini bachelor night that saw JR and myself zonked out by Flaming lambos (2 for everyone, 3 for JR) .. 2 Jugs Long Island tea and Jagerbombs for everyone .. @ our usual Mambo Jambo Zoukie .. It was the reunion of the JLC faithfuls .. that brought Phil, KX , JR and myself back together.

Special thanks to Phil who sent JR and myself back .. Couldnt remember anything else , except him telling the uncle "$$$$$ IS NOT AN ISSUE , IMPORTANT is to SEND MY 2 brothers back !"

Talk about brotherhood! Something the gals wouldnt understand ...

Copied this pose from Alan .. who was trying to eat " tofu" with his "friend" .. so there .. it looks good I must say .. from a $2700+ DSLR ..

KX .. who is always there when You needa make someone drink .. Gone long way back with this JLC kaki .. back to the days where JR , Phil , KX and myself went drinking every friday and saturday when I book out ... to our fav haunt called JLC @ Tanjong Pagar , opened by Quan Yifeng's former brother-In-Law ..

The F4 + 1 ... The Flamboyant Phil , Funny Me , Free-flowing (alcohol) JR , Fucker Alan ( what else) and Family-Oriented Wilson. Guess whose the happiest ?

The Original F4 - The Fucker 4

Me and My Sunshine .. Nice dress ..

The Overall Coordinator/Bouncer Wilson , The Emcee/Bouncer Marcus and Cho Bo Yam Seng "brother" Phil.

Everyone had allocated tasks and duties for the day lah .. Except ALan .. whose main duty was to entertain his "friend".

Happy Lah ! It was a good event !

AS THEY ALWAYS SAY .. BO TAH BO LAM PAR!

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Operation Blue Skies turned out well .. good weather .. cloudy skies though we still felt the heat .. as compared to Operation Phantom Thunder .. Knnz .. the thunder, lightning and heavy rain came.

The SG/ Malaysia Contingent .. They were damn experienced players .

The SIngapore contingent ..

Body Count for the day was 7 kills .. Had a couple of good kills without Alan , who always fails to turn up when you need him .. Sprang surprises at the enemies who were busy attacking the objective ..and kept pinning down the enemy and shooting on the move .. these are things that i always crave for .. and the satisfaction of getting a kill while executing these tactics gives me immense satisfaction.

Highlight of the Day would be the vehicular rescue/Assault . We were tasked to rescue a downed pilot trapped behind enemy lines.. I became the GPMG gunner with full auto A5 while Red Storm covered my back on the truck .. We moved down the hill juz like in Black Hawk Down .. where they moved in convoys ..

We soon took heavy fire and we returned fire generously full auto .. The truck took alot of paint and so did I .. but only a headshot would take me out ..

We still got pelted and we lost the vehicle .. The pilot was captured .. BUT WHO CARES ? It was a great game.

Mambo XMG out ..

Its Gonna Be A Busy Week Ahead!

2009-05-20T00:52:00.002+08:00

Sorta settled in @ work , getting accustomed to all the customer/ vendor / reseller meetings, slowly getting into the thick of action ... taking on more responsiblities and getting ON TOP of things, albeit still trying to get on top ..but no where near.

This week would be a short workweek , with JR's big day on friday .. applied for my 1st "Leave" @ Work .. gotta say they were quite nice to allow me to take leave, considering I am still under probation. Cant wait to get confirmed and get more familiar with my product ... Yet I know its gonna take time.

Gonna be fetching the bride Joanne from JB ..into Singapore ..... Been a brother for many of my bros .. Ronnie , YongQuan and other friends ... this would be the first time that I would needa bring my passport along ..

Met up with rest of the bros , including F4 people like Wilson and Phil ... and we are gearing ourselves mentally for JR's big day. It just feels good when a bro gets hitched and good to see the other bros supporting each other in terms of contributing $$$ , time and effort just to help our bro for the big day. It happens for every bro's wedding... unless the guy happens to be an arsehole. Heh.

Emcee responsibilities for the evening dinner also falls on my shoulders ... Would be speaking in mandarin .. Although I am effectively multi-lingual , it just seems weird to communicate with everyone in mandarin. I hope I dun screw up, otherwise I would switch to Hokkien and turn it into a 7th Month event .. Whahaha ...

Scenario Paintball > Operation Blue Skies this sunday ... SG vs SG .. Hope it will be fun !

Will be back with more photos!

Mambo XMG out .

Overwhelmed @ work ..

2009-05-06T20:11:00.005+08:00

Its been a busy day .. started the day late, went to meet up with partners , enduser and vendor.. WHOLE day ...

so shagged, stressed and overwhelmed.. Had alot of difficulties trying to remember names and faces .. Followed by a sumptous but stressful lunch with bosses and managers and partners.. Stressful.

Kena a sudden surprise during the afternoon meeting. Kena bombarded with cheeem technical questions by enduser .. really feels damn stupid when you have nothing but a WTF face for the customer..

I need enlightenment from the Product Guru soon. Bless me man

Mambo Out

Into the world of Work

2009-04-29T23:40:00.003+08:00

Begun working .. officially stepped into the world of work .. Been busy burning up product manuals then drinking the ashes .. understanding the product knowledge ..Job scope very different from what I used to do for Microsoft . More responsibilities on my shoulders now .

Colleagues have been very nice and happening .. been to 3 paintball games with them so far .. I cant exactly say I have been enjoying paintball lately .. due to some fucked up reasons .. Gotta decide what next soon.

Til then .. fuck blogspot .. coz it just hung on me and didnt allow me to upload fotos.

Mambo out

JB Go-Kart trip + Seafood + Earth Hour

2009-03-31T01:37:00.009+08:00

This blog aint dead .. Just didnt get enuff inspiration to update , too much events .. too much thoughts to pen down into writing .. finally got motivated to share some good food and fun in JB .. apart from Paintball . Johor Tourism Board should thank and sponsor me man .. I wouldnt mind some FOC paintballs..

Went Go-Karting .. Went to the Go-karting circuit in Johor Permas Jaya .. Only to find out it shifted to Kampong Plentong .. 9km Further inwards from the old site .. with last 3km very challenging terrain of rocks and potholes ..

Cab Fare from JB customs = RM$35 .. totally reasonable considering the freaking long journey and the bumpy roads ( last 3 km) require alot of efforts from the cab driver ..

We finally reached the Ulu Ulu new circuit @ 1800H ... nearly sunset ... but we quickly jumped into the action .. Some minor hit and kena bang accident happened .. I always the suay one .. kena banged by other go-karts .. happened previously with CK .. and now .. our shawna..

But nevertheless .. Heng no need to compensate this time round and they still provided good service to us even after the minor accident. Fantastic.

We were raring to go !!!

Sunshine and her #16 Car .. Oh .. she wore shorts .. so nothing to get disappointed over the mosaic ..

It was saturday .. and It was Earth Hour .. Jusco Tebrau gamely took part in the Earth Hour Event.. Most shops gamely switched off the lights ..

We went back to our favourite Taman Sri Tebrau Food market for fantastic seafood as usual . wen Ji as usual is our favourite stall .. with the friendly boss borrowing 2 big crabs for us when he finished his supply of big crabs. Small sotongkias deepfried , veg , Crayfish deepfried with cereals , egg Omelettes, Stingray .. total damage only S$17 each. SONG enough for me .

Just Check out the Kick-Ass Crab pincers. GOOD STUFF !

will be back with more updates soon.

Mambo XMG out

Facets of Mt KK

2009-03-11T23:35:00.001+08:00

Smooth Start to the Niu 牛 Year

2009-02-10T03:32:00.007+08:00

Its been a smooth start to the 牛 year ..

Started off the 1st month with a mini worktrip to HK .. coupled with some Airsoft wargames that really kicked ass .. ( not mine of course) .. with 7 confirmed ( some godlike enemies didnt die) kills and 6000bbs expended ..

Up next was CNY 2009 .. very very smooth I must say .. won $340 overall .. and finally brought SunShine over to See my 101 year old grandma .. and held yet another successful annual hse opening for my NPCC buddies , close friends and Fucker4 and partners ..

Have been doing this since 2006 to provide a venue for everyone to gather, eat n have fun ( read: gamble). Honestly isnt easy when you have to scratch your head and wonder how to buy food and what to provide for 28 pax .. and thats only preparation.. The aftermath is always a headache after everyone leaves ..

But wat makes it worthwhile is the smile on everyone's faces n the fun and laughter for those few precious hours we share , to catch up on the previous year's Happenings.

The invitation list got bigger and But the exclusivity wasn't lost. Some lost their invitation rights ( Oh Yeah) while others got theirs this year and I wasnt kidding when I said seats were limited and I had to reject people. I can only say I only have limited capabilities and I am sorry if you werent invited .. If you were invited .. It wasnt an accident... and thank you for coming.

Spent sunday fooling around Clarke Quay since Sunshine was out of town .. went for Wargh!dogs team training .. Comms training with practical sessions around BQ and CQ .. ran around tracking targets and characters .. walked , ran and seeked up and low for the elusive targets .. to practise on our communication skills on the walkie talkies ..

Call us siao, crazy but it sure will come useful on the fields when we spot tangoes and do the proper comms to our team.. @ least @ Bukit Ramly ..

Ended the training with an interesting Lou Hei by the river ... yelled huat ah to our wishes of more gals joining us in woodsball ( Disappointed ? Hahah ) .. more headshots to our enemies .. cheaper paintballs and more powerful markers for our pickings... HUAT AH !

Damn We entertained the tourists for quite awhile.

Presenting Wargh!Dogs 2009

We shall grow bigger n stronger this year ... in Malaysia ..

Mambo XMG out ..

Bad Food wastes $$$ and spoils the day ..

2009-02-04T15:29:00.002+08:00

Ever looked forward to eating some nice food like Hokkien mee or Char Kway Teow .. and when it got served to you .. U look at it with disdain and when you taste it .. you simply feel like you are full and no longer wish to eat it ?

In my opinion .. such food are a waste of time, money and simply a waste of ingredients .. for what could have been a fantastic plate of Hokkien mee !

Just ate some hokkien mee that tasted bland .. and char kway teow that was totally disappointing.It really riled me to know from my auntie that it was some Ah Tiongs who cooked the Hokkien Mee and Char Kway Teow ..

BOYCOTT THE MILLION DOLLAR FISHBALL NOODLES STALL @ BISHAN ST 13 KIM SAN LENG !!!

Both local delicacies like the Hokkien Mee and Char Kway Teow have been desecrated like graves that have been robbed of their valuables ... with the damn bloody tiongs Ah 中 anyhow stirfrying the noodles like how they wash their underwear .. No proper condiments added .. then they anyhow dump the soup stock in to cook the hokkien prawn mee .. HOW THE FUCK YOU get good fried Hokkien Prawn Noodles ??

The only good Fried Hokkien Mees I ever tasted are @ Bukit Batok near J's place .. *damn miss the Hokkien mee there .. And the Food Republic Hokkien mee @ Suntec Convention Centre @ a freaking $4.80 for a small plate . And for the record .. its cooked by Ah Tiongs.. Praise that Ah Tiong .. or rather praise the prawnsoupstock.

As for our other local delicacies .. we are in danger of losing these nice food thanks to our foreign talented cooks who come in and start cooking our food with THEIR WAY OF LIFE. FUCK.

Call me racist ..discriminationist or whatever .. but we all have eyes to see how these FTs are slowly turning our country into Chinapore .. Just Check out Geylang , ChinaTown and all our hawker food.

You can screw around in my country .. but DUN EVER SCREW AROUND WITH MY FOOD !

Mambo XMG out

Food for Thought.

2009-01-22T23:46:00.003+08:00

Suddenly inspired to blog .. inspired to share my thoughts to help spread the message .

Just finished helping Sunshine with her CNY groceries shopping when it suddenly dawned upon me that we were buying quite a fair bit of titbits .. without much of a hesitation ..

The festive mood was in the air no doubt with the depression looming .. but everyone still had to spend.

I suddenly remembered the beggar I met on the streets of Hongkong last week. It was a cold winter afternoon and it was my last day in Hongkong.This lone figure sitting in the middle of the roads caught my eye. He was slouched in a bundle and it wasnt difficult to see the begging cup nearby.

I hesitated over giving money .. as stories of how they should go work and earn their own keeps .. and how they resorted to tricks to evoke our sympathy. But the sight was still unbearable.

I decided that this man was worth helping .. as probably no sane soul would risk his "face" begging on the streets in the Cold .. as "Face" is valued in the chinese society.. this man probably had a real need for financial help.

Deliberated over HKD$10 (S$2) or HKD$20.. decided on HKD$20 .I was glad I made the decision. In his begging bowl, I only saw 3 coins , worth less than HKD$10 .. I put the $20 gently in his hands and mumbled the only few cantonese words I knew .. to ask him to " sek di ye" to buy something to eat.

He mumbled thanks gratefully a couple of times as I walked away. Why S$4 ? Leon asked. I told him that going over to HK was already a paid trip and I was blessed to be on the trip. Also , Giving HKD$10 wouldnt have helped the man as he would still have to beg for HKD$10 more before he could afford a proper decent meal. Who knows How long more would he have to endure the cold ?

Now back in Singapore , I still think of that man .. and also wonder how are our elderly and lonely folks in Singapore coping for the Chinese New Year? Are they able to buy themselves a proper meal ? Are they able to buy new clothes for themselves ? Or will they silently pass the New Year like each other day ? We wouldnt know.

Lets help them out whenever we can.. 2009 is gonna be a tough year .. sadly.

Meanwhile .. Wishing all my friends and readers a Happy Chinese New Year.
Gong Xi Fa Cai..

Mambo XMG out

Hongkong trip + wargames + updates

2009-01-20T01:44:00.003+08:00

Seriously .. What Have I been up to ? Since graduation ? Seriously .. PLAY. nothing else .. went on a mini work trip with Leon to HK .. and got into an airsoft wargame .. Sheesh.

Maintaining this blog is really boring.I realised that my blogging directions have changed much .. and it has become a pain to blog. Not when I am no longer verbal-bashing people or issues as much as I wished to.

Pictures have become meaningless when I realised that it was no point telling everyone where you been and what you have done .. and how fun it was . when others were not there to share the same feelings.

I rest my case. I shall blog again when I feel inspired. I hope soon .

Cheers
Marcus

The Dust has Settled ..

2008-12-16T15:04:00.002+08:00

Its been awhile since I updated .. Many events have come and gone ..

Worthy of Mention would be my exams results .. Finally graduated !! Scored 2 Distinctions and 1 Credit .. Was a big surprise .. considering I thought I would fail one module .. ended up getting a Distinction for that ..

Whiled my time away in November .. moping around for the results .. now that the results are out .. Its time to wipe the settled dust off .. and prepare for a new Chapter in life -- Work.

Got welcomed into the working world with a big HooHaa. With Recession looming .. everyone is preoccupied with keeping their ricebowls .. with no one daring enough to tender and shake legs at home. So I gotta do the shaking !

With Savings Dwindling everyday .. and Pink Bombs popping up my mailbox every other day .. Its getting tougher and tougher each day. This period of time is really the poorest period in my life .. apart from the $24 balance in my account during my ORD days ..

With XMAS and CNY coming .. with so many necessities to buy and a shoestring budget .. I have nothing to look forward to .. Little to Give .. and alot to hopefully receive.. So sad ..

Mambo XMG out

Operation Red Vs Blue 23 Nov 200X

2008-11-25T14:32:00.012+08:00

Went up to JB on Sunday for a Malaysia-Singapore Friendly Scenario paintball game under the Wargh! banner..

Reached late with Kelly and Alan due to the terrible jam @ Woodlands Checkpoint .. but reached there with a pleasant surprise awaiting us .. Our favourite Bukit Ramly was transformed into a warzone .. with very well organised admin tents and nettings ..

There were at least 50 others from Singapore , Malaysia , Philippines , Australia? Mexico already there .. and we had missed out on the 1st mission where we were supposed to play defence.

2nd Mission was to attack up Bukit Ramly .. aka Hamburger Hill .. our "section" of 7 were to advance along the bottom road .. but were soon pinned by snipers and heavy "auto" gunfire .. It was a painful long wait before Alan and myself pushed up the roads while our Pinoy teammates bashed through up the slopes while we covered them.

Pushing forward .. we were engaged and a hail of paintballs rained upon us in the bushes.. and *piak* One ball exploded on my kneepad .. and Damn .. dead ..

Some of our Friendly counterparts ... This group was less than half the Actual size ! The rest were busy eating , gearing up ..

Some of us Singaporean Participants ... before the game ...

Mission 3 was my most enjoyable Mission .. teamed up with Kelly, Alan and Andy to take up high position @ the shack ( refer to pic ) .. while Gordon, some of our Pinoy comrades n malaysian comrades took up positions below by the trees .

As the "air raid" siren wailed to signal the start of the game.. everyone tightened their grips around theirmarkers to brace for the assault. The attackers had already struck fear with their full-auto paintball guns.. but we couldnt care more .. Barricades have been set up .. and we would have to be the last stand ..

It didnt take long for the first shots to ring out .. and Soon enuff , everyone was yelling directions to engage at enemies.. Paintballs flew to and fro fast and furious .. splattering in all directions. Our shack took a few direct hits ( What the hell , the enemies came THAT CLOSE )

The pontianaks must have hated us soOo much because we "painted" their trees orange, sending hails of paintballs towards the enemy positions.. while they skeltered for cover. The hilly terrain and slippy ground made it tough for the enemies to advance while the high rate of fire from the enemies posed very dangerous threats to our defenders Being formidable opponents .. they didnt stay long at one location .. and darted around to distract our defenders. The pinoy defenders fought valiantly and traded their "lives" to hold their positions.

Both sides took heavy casualties. We were kept constantly on our toes for somewhat seemed like hours .. til I heard the crackle from the marshal's walkie saying 5 mins left .. We defended our stronghold yelling out 5 more mins .. to encourage everyone to HOLD HOLD HOLD at ALL COSTS ! ...

And soon after .. Victory was won .. Kudos to the Defenders .. and I Salute the attackers for their determination and gumption to take down the objective at All COSTS.

Fantastic Experience .Worth every bit of trouble crossing the causeway juz to play with Passionate Wargamers

Dinner was nice @ Ulu Tiram Indra ... Shiok .. Thats all I can say ...
Mambo XMG out

Filming@ Singapore Sports School

2008-11-12T05:12:00.011+08:00

Had the opportunity to help Leon for his videoshoot program today @ Singapore Sports School .. Quite an eye opener .. 1st visit to the SSS and it sure was impressive. Entering the school compounds .. Got the impression of a very stylo Condominium-styled architecture.. The inner foyer consisted of 2 Olympic-sized swimming pools .. And Yeah .. There were many "future Olympians" swimming in it.

Tagged along with one of the groups to do filming today .. And surprisingly these kids were actually very friendly and courteous.. They werent rowdy or bolsterous .. unlike many of the typical Ah beng sec school kids in other Sec schools nowadays.

Filmed 2 scenes today .. and on the set was one talented malay boy named Fahim .. Who was really well-polished in acting skills .. He only required 2 takes to complete the scene .. while another girl took 17 takes in another scene to complete it. So it turned out that he was acting with Mediacorp in Suria .. Talk about wealth of experience..

We went to their Recreational Room .. Totally Heavenly .. They had Pool tables .. LAN GAMING stations with Counterstrike , DOTA , WOW and all that shit .. all Free ... XBOX stations ..

Thats their hostel grounds on the left ... Condo styled hostel .. with 4 or 6 in a room ...

YES ! Para Para Machine .. Daytona II .. Air Hockey ALL FREE !!! LAN GAMING free .. We played CS with the kiddos after our lessons @ 2pm .. Heh .. its been donkey years since I played CS .. lost touch and definitely lost to the young kiddoes ..

Played pool with a 13 year old Xiaomeimei who was rather shy but still friendly enough to chat.. found out more from her regarding SSS .. They had to stay in mondays to fridays .. wake up, train , have lessons 9am to 12noon , 1 to 3pm , training from 4pm .. and Study time @ nights .. No going out of school at all times .. and only recreational time would be the weekends when they go back home to their parents...

HOW SAD ... And she said many of them missed home for the 1st few months.. Lolz .. Just reminds me of National Service .. but this was definitely more Welfare ..

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Exams are over ... been relaxing at home for a week .. Time flies fast and there is no money coming in.. Starting to feel the heat and urgency in finding a job .. I hope I made the right decision to reject the offer ...although part of me is nagging at myself for being stupid when the market is poor now.

Went to pray@ Waterloo Street Guanyin Temple and had my prayers answered .

Have You ever Wondered How divine it was .. to have your questions answered through a divination lot that is "selected" from hundreds of bamboo lots ... and the parables and fables linked to the lot ACTUALLY RELATES TO YOUR QUESTIONS ?? This ... to me ... is divinity . I believe in it .And Yes .. the divination lot wasnt bad .. I hope it will come true again.

Mambo XMG out

2 down ... one last one to go ...

2008-11-01T02:54:00.002+08:00

Been having diahorrea very often these few days , due to exams stress .. Its been happening every semester.. and I have gotten accustomed to it .. I didnt even get these symptoms when I was going into National Service .. probably due to the fact that I wasnt very bothered by it .. So it just proves how important passing the final semester is to me ..

$1300 per module isnt cheap ..and to repeat a module is really a pain in the ass.. going through the same chapters , listening to the same shit is really a torture.. Anyway, Crossing my fingers .. I just hope we all successfully graduate this semester and start our careers ..

** Update >> Finished 2 papers .. So far seems ok .. chances of getting a PASS and above seems reasonable . Cross Fingers ..

Will be back with more updates and photos soon.

Mambo XMG out

Cant wait to finish my last exams !

2008-10-28T04:32:00.002+08:00

Been Living the life of a NightOwl lately .. for the wrong reasons ... Exams coming very soon .. 1st paper on wednesday .. but I have been slacking like mad .. I started revision early .. but progress was slow due to complacency in starting early .. and procastination ..

I was never an early starter of revisions due to low memory space in brain and due to the inability to memorise .. So this final sem was a complacent one, filled with many other activities much more fun than exams revision ..

Procastination is also a big factor .. as Tomorrow always seems like a better time to revise .. and the bed always looks sooOoo inviting .. Looks like it was a big mistake to add more pillows and "cosify" my bed ..

Now .. starting to panick .. Issit too late ?

Mambo XMG out

LongTime NPCC bro gets married ..

2008-10-20T15:00:00.005+08:00

18th OCT 2008 marked the beginning of a new chapter for my longtime NPCC bro , BoonHeng ..

Got lucky and feel honoured I guess , as only Jack,Azman and myself were invited to the solemnization Ceremony. It was later that we found out that we would be activated for gate-crashing as brothers at a later date. Hurhurhur We are the experts for the job man ..

The "soon to be evil" sisters , the Garang Brothers and the newlywed ..

All in all .. a Happy event. Short and Sweet .

Mambo XMG out

Defusing the Pink bombs , Defusing the Economy...

2008-10-14T17:03:00.005+08:00

Have been defusing pink bombs since End of August 2008 ... Defused 2 pink bombs so far ... one at Pan Pacific Hotel , One at M Hotel .. and 3 more to come ..

Received 3 more pink bombs for this year .. and next year .. with more expected to come my way .. Quite abit of thoughts .. and quite abit of stress ... and hellyeah its all linked .

1stly. Pink bombs aka Wedding Invites.. Many of my friends are getting married. GOOD NEWS! I am of course happy for them ... The bad news is .. I am a student. Full-time. With limited savings now that I have stopped working part-time ... means that I have limited ability to wrap big ...

Definitely there is stress in trying to keep up with all the invites and keep up with the $$$ involved .. but I guess I have to keep looking for $$$ .. Its tough but these $$$ cannot be saved ...

At the end of the day ..Its my blessings to them that counts ..

2ndly .. Many of my friends my age .. are getting married /engaged ... I start to panick .. and wonder how the hell I catch up ... in terms of finance , CPF and all that shit .. I wonder when will I save enough to pop the question to Sunshine ? We have been discussing things on a casual basis .. And all in my mind now are question marks on HOW to give her Financial Security and Stability ... WHEN I DUN HAVE A JOB yet no roof over the head .. and that links it to the current Financial Crisis ...

3rdly .. The Bloody Financial Crisis seems like a prolonged Pain in the Arse ... Every government is trying hard to salvage it ... prevent a big fallout .. but everyone else is juz bracing up for it ... and its like 2 groups going in 2 different directions.

Every Economics student worth his salt knows that we have to spend more to keep the economy going .. but Human Nature dictates that We all save our money for the big Stormy rainy day ... So .. Companies start to fold ... No businesses ... No company wants to employ ... So what the Fuck do I do when I graduate ?? No job for me = No $$$ = No Savings = NO guts to propose to Sunshine = NO family startup ! = No kids = Government's plan for more Pure Singaporeans go haywire..

Maybe the Gahmen should have a plan to help sponsor Singaporeans like me

Damn ... Saminathan our Econs Lecturer would be so proud of me ..

Mambo XMG out ...

WoooahOoo Mama Mia ..

2008-10-05T23:14:00.008+08:00

Currently Listening to Mama Mia's OST -- AWESOME !

Its been a week .. The bruises and swellings are gone ... The stitches remain ..but back on solid food again ..So glad to be chowing down solid food again ..

The feeling of stepping in A&E wasnt good at 4am plus on a sunday morning ... The fear, the uncertainty and the numerous jabs wasnt pleasant but guess it was a necessity. The long wait before the sulturing/ stitching didnt allay my fears either , only made me Kanchiong Spider even more.. wondering how was it like to be stitched up in the mouth.

The only comfort was that she was safe and sound .. and it was finally over ... I dont regret my actions and would have probably done the same all over again .. just to prevent any injuries to my loved ones.

So we all learn through pain and experience .. and We shall only get better .... AND SMARTER. HEH.

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Its been a hectic September... Projects .. F1 race ( not that I raced .. but I was there to enjoy the free entertainment ) ... 3rd Anniversary ( I realised How important she is to me ) .. Pete and Diana's wedding ( which I made new and firm friends with) ..

I have decided to type less , describe less ..BECAUSE >>> there is no point describing HOW wonderful the food was , HOW FUN the event was .. HOW Enjoyable the Company was.. because If you were not there with me at the moment ... You probably wouldnt know how I felt ... But of course .. if the food was good .. the place is fun .. i would still recommend ...

Our 3rd Anniversary 25.09.08 on the F1 track ... ON THE TRACK !

Got soOoo Pampered this year .. Cupcakes and

Cologne from Sunshine..

Recently got back in touch with Diana .. my former SiS colleague ..Got to know his friendly and nice hubby too! Helped them with the wedding montage .. and even became their "ah gu kia" .. opened the car doors for Pete , since Diana said she treated me like a lil' bro ..

Nana and weewee got happier of course , since they have always been close to Diana ..

Pete and me enjoying Sharksfin Champagne flute style after their 1st wedding dinner. For the record .. WE WENT TO TWO of their wedding dinners ...

After their 2nd wedding dinner ... They were shagged but sweet enuff to carry on KTV and celebrate my birthday for me ... Its been awhile since I had such a crowd .. and it was certainly great having so many new friends in Pete , George and Jerry celebrating my birthday for me ..

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Exams are coming again ... Here We go again ... Macdonalds ..

here I come ..

Mambo XMG out ..

Goodbye SiS ...Goodbye ...+ Malcolm's POP

2008-09-13T14:58:00.010+08:00

Its finally over... 12/09/08 would always remain etched in my memories as an unforgettable day .. The day I had 2 buffets in ONE Day .. The day I had a fantastic dinner with my 2 pretty Microsoft Ladies .. and the day I finally leave SiS ..

Started the day on a low mood, knowing that it was the last day .. wrapped up all my work , called on my resellers to try to close deals and then thanking them for the support shown to me ..and informing them of my last day at work ...

These resellers were one main reason why I enjoyed my 2 years in SiS ... the sense of achievement they give me when I manage to close deals with them .. the appreciation they show when they thank me for helping .. the sense of satisfaction I get when they remember me or specifically ask for my help ... All these matters to me ... even as a part timer ..

Went for Lunch buffet @ Rajah Inn with the SiS Microsoft Team .. It was the 1st time we had such a big team .. as we had a few newcomers .. And it was a great feeling ... Hahah .. to have the whole team sitting down and enjoying a lot of food @ Cheap prices $7.90+ per pax.

Ah Pat on my right and Bitchy Tiffy on my left .. She loves it when I call her a bitch .. They are part of a bunch of FUN-loving Colleagues that I have ...and used to have ,since many more have left ..

Jessie ... My newfound Mambo Kaki ... We didnt click @ first , as she seemed quite aloof and gentle when I first said hi ... But when my hp rang and those mambo Tunes came out .. the ice broke and we were mumbling Mambo More than You could Say Stop !

Evening time was a special treat from my 2 pretty Microsoft ladies, who took time and effort off their busy schedules ( it was a friday night and everyone was definitely tired) to bring me to a dinner of my choice !

It was meant to be a treat for me as we Won "BEST MICROSOFT DISTRIBUTOR FOR THE YEAR 2008" , 2 years in a row ! but It ended up being a farewell treat for me as well ...

We had quite alot of different dishes like chawanmushi , sashimi , ebi tempura , Shabushabu hotpot, Unagi , Ika Tempura and MORE ! MUCH VALUE FOR MONEY ! Less than $40 per pax and the ambience was great! Quiet and not crowded.. and the service staff were attentive and efficient.

Himawari Japanese Restaurant ( Mount Faber SAFRA ) >. Go google it lah

We had a great dinner .. and a great time chatting about everything under the sun ... It really dawned upon me that we had soOoOO much to talk about as compared to the times when we were all so busy in the office that we didnt get as many chances to interact ...

I would really miss everyone in SiS ... Miss all the jokes , the laughter ... the babes OH yes there are ... and the reseller friends that I have made over the 2 years ... After my exams .. I shall seriously think about the offer ..before deciding if I should start my Career back with SiS..

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After 2 months of training ... My little brother finally passed out from his Commando BMT phase ... Madness .. the training shrunk him by alot ... Not to mention the slimming down ... His Officer Commanding MWO Jeffrey Happened to my SISPEC PC ... So It didnt take me much to imagine how much brainwashing my brother was gonna get ... How much tekanning he was gonna get ... for MWO Jeffrey was one helluva patriotic Commando Warrant who expected everyone to do their best to defend our country .. or we would be labelled as Communist Bastards.

Looking at my lil brother marching past the parade in a funny fashion .. it then dawned upon me that my lil bro has grown up ... from a irritating bugger .. to a young soldier.. he has definitely learnt alot more and I am sure MWO Jeffrey would teach him how to be a man , either through learning or through pain .. as I had previously encountered ...

Now , its time for him to grab his red beret .... in another few more months. Cool. At least he has the opportunity that i didnt get to have.

Mambo XMG out ..

KuKu Jiao ???

2008-09-09T01:54:00.006+08:00

I Must be Crazy , Missing Taiwan so much ... uploaded many of my previously unreleased Photos from all 3 TaipeiWalker trips ... Miss the Food so much ...

Definitely Must Recommend My Favourite Stall Above ... KUKU JIAO !

YES !! KUKU JIAO TEMPURA !!

Its Our Favourite Tempura and Calamari Treat everytime after we finish shopping @ WuFenpu Shopping Area !! Fantastic and Crispy Calamari and Tempura , doused with a generous dose of spiced powder ... always accompanies us on our taxi rides back to Hotel ..

SO DUN FORGET KUKU JIAO TEMPURA & CALAMARI when visiting WuFenPu.

Another worthy stall to eat from is Ah Lang's Tempura ... Fantastic and crunchy to the crisp .. also with a generous dose of Spiced powder ...

Tell Ah Lang ( or any other hawker ) " Xiao La" >Literally translated > Small Spicy for less spice or La La La !! for extra Spice ! No joke ! We learnt from the locals who go Xiao la all the way unless they wan the extra kick ...

So Where the Hell is Ah Lang's stall located ?? Like the Hell I Know ... Ah Lang runs around and pops up like little mushrooms all over Taipei ... Last I ate from his stall was 2006 ....

SO BEST BET IS STICK TO KUKU JIAO TEMPURA @ WuFenPu !!

( WuFenPu is CHeap Clothes shopping Area Mostly for Ladies ... Just Opposite SongShan Train Station .. KukuJiao Tempura is directly on the other end .. near a temple .. Good luck Searching for KukuJiao !! )

mambo XMG out

I miss Taiwan .. I miss the food ...

2008-09-08T00:29:00.004+08:00

Been Looking at my Taiwan trips' fotos , from TaipeiWalker I to III ... I realised how much we 4 have changed through each trip ... Attire , hairdo , sizes ( ahhaha ) and all ...

Each trip has been full of fun , laughter and joy .. and Not to mention the nice people we encountered , the yummy food we tasted , all the things we seen and all ... so drastically different

I swear I done little photoshop on the glistering Yummy Unagi except the black border .. I didnt even play with the contrast and brightness settings ! The Unagi sticks sold @ Jiufen , Taipei .. was really really that yummy and gOod !

Check out this Siao Char Bor Auntie @ Jiufen too ... when we went in Year 2006 , she was already there .. with her Funny and Hilarious attire ... And when we went back in Jan 2008 ... the same Auntie was still there selling her Taiwan sausages ! Still with that hilarious outfit and bubbly character !!

She did the " Tai-Ke" dance with us n others , to the beat of the radio blasting loudly outside her stall .. and obligingly took photos ! NOW THATS WHAT WE CALL GOOD TOURISM SERVICE !

Would be planning another Taiwan trip for 2009 ... So damn looking forward to going back to Taiwan again to enjoy and bask in the warm and friendly hospitality of the Taiwanese .. and Not to mention Seeing our friendly Hotel manager again.

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Time waits for No man ... and October , the month of exams are gonna be here again .. And it also marks the end of my part-time stint @ SiS .. been there for 2 years On and OFF ... gotten to Know many good colleagues there .. Definitely wouldnt bear to leave them .. but I just have to .. because it is time I ventured out to seek my own pot of gold .. Received a job offer from SiS .. but I guess I have to figure out what I truly want..

Mambo XMG , signing out

Have you Kena the Durian bug yet ??

2008-08-08T17:26:00.002+08:00

Yeah , Durians are in Season and Oh boy , TRUE BLUE SINGAPOREANS would never ever give up the chance to snap up some good D24s , Mao Shan Wangs and the Crazy $0.10 Durians ..

Had durians continously over 3 weekends .. with Good Dimsum from Wan Dou Sek ( Lazy to snap fotos and cant do it as well as ieatishootipost.sg , might as well refer to that fantastic food blog! ) ... btw the dimsum there is really great , except for a little unpleasant 2nd experience where I smelt some unfreshness in the Siewmais ... The kind of Ammonia Smell when you Eat Frozen Crabs .. If you kNow what I mean .. but overall , a fantastic Dimsum place !

Yeah .. We had DimSum on both weekends , followed by good durians !
The $0.10 durians are totally bullshit , promotional Gimmicks to attract Durian lovers to the stalls , THEN DOWN COMES THE NET ... You are trapped in their ploy .. and they quickly offer you the $10 per durian , $20 per durian range ...

At the end of the day ... Its the Luck, the bargaining skills , the Skill in choosing durians and the bloody Honesty of the Durian Sellers when you eat a good durian ..

Will be back with more updates over the weekend ...

Mambo XMG out ..

Finally , time to take a short break

2008-07-01T11:54:00.009+08:00

Finally ended my Microsoft Quarter with a big bang .. Achieving our set targets ... Had a good relaxing monday clearing some paperwork .. then enjoyed a good Korean BBQ lunch with Veron , Yanlin , Symon and Zhiwei ...

Veron threw me the big task of finding a good authentic Korean Restaurant that was near office .. I was craving for the Yummy BBQ Beef Hotplate and "Korean-styled" Bak kut Teh that Sunshine, Weewee , Nana, Ah Boo and me had that time @ Mario's Kitchen @ 8 , Liang Seah Street .. So I recommended that we visit the place during Lunch !

Luckily, everyone enjoyed the meal as the seafood soup was good and the portions were big! Veron loved the seafood soup and freeflow side-dishes .. while I loved the Seafood pancake and the hotplate beef ! Was a very good meal ! Would recommend this place to anyone who wants some nice hotplate beef and steamboat.. Endorsed by the "Not-so-easy-to Please" Sunshine, Shawna and Weewee ..

Bowling on Saturday with some of my SiS Colleagues ! Damn fun loving and friendly people that I would miss! It would just be so different popping by to work here and there during school days ..

Bowling that day wasnt that heng for me .. The Elusive X strikes X kept evading me .. I had at least 6 frames of 9 Pins cleared .. when I tot it would be a X .. but ended up having the Solitary pin standing in corner .. DAMN! I could only manage to Spare the frames..

Gotta practise more as as some of the guys are really really good ! Especially Uncle Lehbit... Who always managed an average of 160 - 180 per game ..

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Went to visit the Toy And Comic Fair with SunShine, WeeWee , Nana , Ah BoO and Desmond ..The figurines @ the fair didnt really catch my attention .. neither the comic characters..

What caught my attention was this guy, who dressed up as one of the soldiers in TRANSFORMERS .. he was fully decked out in Multicam uniform .. same as mine .. but he was definitely FUCKING well geared !! I WanT HIS GEAR !! but upon calculations .. that would probably blow at least USD $500 from my account ..

His M4 Carbine was fully mod with accessories .. the damn joker had the cheek to lie to me that it was a toy from TaiS*ng when I wasnt that blind to see that his selector switches werent fake and the details and engravings were more than authentic than some bloody plastic fakes..

I want his gear !! Arghh! ..

Ended the day with some good ice-cream @ MOF Bugis .. Lazy to search and type out the address .. so Heck it .. heh .. No free advertisements ! But the Mango Ice-cream was good with nice customised mango sauce ..

Ended a good day with good colleagues , good friends, had good food , good fun .. and good ice-cream ! GoOd Life !!

Mambo XMG out

Yet another Quarter over ...

2008-06-28T11:47:00.004+08:00

Yet another work quarter over ... friday 27th June 2008 marks the end of yet another Microsoft Promo .. and the end of my regular part-time job @ SiS again ...

For the past two years , I have always been going back to SiS to work during my hols .. to earn some extra pocket money for the next semester ... Going back has always been fun , as majority of the colleagues are fun-loving and friendly , quite little politics , or should I say I have been lucky to be able to clique with most of them .

We have hit our targets this round, Me and CY hitting our VAR target , and the sales teams hitting their Revenue targets .. Its been good news for all of us yesterday, with the last minute grab for sales ..

I always enjoy the adrenaline rush .. the mad frantic grab for sales last minute . having continous ringing phones . To me , its akin to fishing ... Every Call / Lead I made .. is a fishing line ... when its time to close the deals .. u reel in the lines to see if there are any fishes ... Yesterday alone , I reeled in 9 "fishes" .. a very fun experience I never seemed to get tired of ..

The experience is very rewarding .. to have a deal closed .. and to assist the sales teams in their targets .. to have everyone achieve their targets .. its juz solid ..

Going bowling with them later .. gonna enjoy their company coz its not gonna last anymore as I will be going back to Sch soon .. Although I will still be working once or twice per week, the fun will just be less intense.

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Operation Crystal Gate - 22060X

Operation Crystal Gate broke another record ... with more than 30 Singaporean participants from Wargh! and other groups from Singapore .. Same old place , different adversaries .. different gameplay , different strategies .. it wasnt boring ..

The morning thunderstorm did not dampen our spirits as we still pressed on through the JB customs .. "Bukit Ramly" became super muddy , adding to the challenges of our missions.. Our guys started to warm up and have a little orientation of their weapons .. and brushed up on their skills .. while waiting for our "opponents'' to arrive ..

It was a world of a difference , as we were well geared in our BDUs , vests , personal masks and gears .. while our opponents were casually dressed in bermudas .. Sleeveless T-shirts , One hero boy even wore a singlet.. What the hell were they thinking ??

To be fair and to balance out the disadvantages , We became the attackers , taking the tougher job of Chionging up the hill , with the enemies outnumbering us .. Given this scenario , we had to fully utilise our Comms sets and our knowledge of the AO ( Area of Ops) ..

No prizes for guessing who won the games .. but to be fair , they got better each game , while the slippery muddy terrain made it much tougher for us to fully take advantage of the situation ..

The paintballs were truly "seeker" paintballs .. They seemed to love the Singapore flags .. I had one on my left arm .. and One on my chestplate on my vest .. both times I got killed , I got hit on the flags ... HurHurhur .. No one Loves Singapore .. Not even the Singaporeans who were firing @ ME !! ..

The end of the holidays are coming soon ... time to fully enjoy whatever time that is left , before going back to school again ..

The Reunion Of the Mambo Faithfuls ...

2008-06-15T23:44:00.003+08:00

The title says it all ..

Its been so long since I enjoyed a good mambo night .. or should I say , gone for a mambo night .. Gone for 1 session 2 or 3 weeks back .. Would say it was a crappy session .. waited all night for Summer Rain ... And JUST AFTER I LEFT .. The bloody Summer Rain Came ...

BUT ALL IS NOT LOST !! 11th June marked the reunion of a few of us "Mambo-Faithfuls" .. especially with the special guest Appearance of JR ... who has sworn off mambo .. to adopt chilling out as the new option ..

It was a great night out .. meeting up with KX aka Marina South Girl (MSG) , SX , Sharon, JR (ps: Alan is a regular at Mambo) .. so NO big deal Wahahha .. while its been awhile since "MSG" , Sharon, JR and myself met up for some good mambo Jambo ..

The music was Not too bad ... the crowd was overwhelming .. I guess the JC kids were out in full swing .. coupled with probably half of Pulau Tekong in Zouk ... with lots of chao recruits and bunch of guys who behaved like they had to fall in and dance in syncro with the Mambo regulars..

Oh alritey , I was once like them .. hehe .. Saw one poor NSF who was obviously new to Mambo nights , struggling to figure out the dance steps and the songs , while his buddy beside him was trying hard to impress him with his knowledge of the songs ..

Gave him a friendly tap on his shoulder and told him to enjoy while he can while he is in NS !! Gotta "give a little respect" to the smart marketing fellows @ Zouk for making Wednesdays Ladies Nights , it sure attracts the ladies/girls/ aunties .. Hell yeah ... saw 3 aunties who were in Line Dancing attire , trying hard to fit in ..

Highlights of that night included 3 X Summer Rains .. What I missed the previous time round , the DJ made up for it .. had a great time "dancing with you in the summer rain" many many times .. and I am really convinced Summer Rain is definitely a crowd-Pleaser ... with the crowd yelling the familiar 1 ! 2! 3! 4 ! countdown to the chorus .. and the very standardised hand movements of Summer Rain ..

Wrapped up the night in true GOOD OLD JLC fashion , with "MSG" and me treating JR to Two Flaming Lamboghinis .. as a belated birthday treat !! Heh ..

People always tell me , Mambo is for Kids ... To them I say Bullshit !!... Mambo Jambo is for FRIENDS ! I enjoy Mambo for the music , for the Camaraderie when everyone sings together , I enjoy the company of JR , Alan , "MSG" , Sharon during the songs , the look of JR getting into the mood to "boogey"

It was definitely a good Mambo meetup ... A pity our dear Mr Phillip was Missing In Action .. Whata pity ..

Mambo XMG out

A short trip to JB ....

2008-06-02T23:59:00.006+08:00

An impromptu decision on Saturday to make our way to JB for good seafood ... and novelty in shopping and soon we found ourselves stuck at the Singapore Customs and Excise Checkpoint at Woodlands at 3plus 4pm on a Cooling rainy Saturday afternoon..

It was a mad rush for the queue at Singapore Customs as everyone struggled to keep in line to clear the customs ... Would recommend Singaporeans to try out the Biometrics Scanner on the left hand side of the checkpoint.

NO Pictures to show of the area as Photography is restricted. Some dumb ass Singaporean defied the No photography sign , took photos of his girlfriend in the area and promptly got screwed by the security personnel.

The queues for the buses snaked out into messy lines that were absolutely confusing ...but we took little time to figure out that all the buses went straight to JB customs and that was all we wanted ..

Surprisingly .. reached JB customs only to find out that there was a very short queue ! We cleared JB customs in less than 10 minutes.. What a pleasant surprise to the start of our trip ..

Went to City Square to shop around ... much more shops and more variety in shopping items .. accompanied the gals around to shop for shoes , clothes , but I ended up being the 1st one to buy and ended up buying 2 polo tees ...

An incident worthy to note : Saw a competition at City Square , organised by NEW STRAITS TIMES , some SuDoku Challenge.. The time came for the Champion and First runnerup to be announced. And a Chinese man and a Malay man both Malaysians .. got called up to the front of the stage.

In front of me was an elder malay man with his wife. When the chinese man's name got announced .. the malay man booed loudly , much to his wife's "amusement" or astonishment. His wife asked him what was that for , and he sort of mentioned that they should support their own race.

When the malay guy's name got announced , the malay encik cheered loudly.. This little incident sort of left me in deep thoughts ..quite bothered to know that there were such sentiments existing .. Not that I dun know it exists .. or rather to see it squarely in the face , is thought provoking.

** Race , Religion and Nationality are always sensitive issues , especially between Singapore and Malaysia... I am not trying to play any nationality or racial issues here .. just saw something that I thought I would wanna share here ...

Ended the day with our favourite seafood at Taman Sri Tebrau , at our usual stall ... Ordered Chilli Crabs , Deepfried BB SQuids , sambal Kangkong , StingRay , CrayFish and Fried buns for Dinner ... But Not before having Auntie Annie's Cinnamon rolls , Shihlin Deepfried Cutlets and Tempura at City Square...

The Food this time was a little disappointing ... The Chilli Crab was still good ... The Crayfish have shrunk in size .. The Stingray was bloody Charred and badly burnt .. Had a good mind to reject the stingrays .. but the girls reminded me that it was JB and Not Singapore ..

Well , I would believe in talking with reason .. I believe that if we asked politely as customers for them to replace the badly burnt stingrays .. any honourable restaurant would and should gladly replace the obviously burnt Stingray ...

Saw a handicapped uncle selling tissue for RM$1 ... We sort of rejected him .. but soon regretted it .. He left 2 packets of tissue for us to "consider" and we soon decided that we should help him out as a gesture of goodwill ... Personally I felt that the money wouldnt mean anything much to us but could possibly help him in a small way ... And he was making an honest living.

BUT ALAS ... somehow the uncle forgot about the tissue and We waited in vain. I tried looking around for him .. but to no avail. ** On a side note , a little contribution was made to another handicapped uncle in Singapore to "compensate" for the lack of help for the Uncle we met at Tebrau..

Overall , it was a good trip to JB , glad to be back to visit JB for some good food .. good visit .. and no hostility .. Looking forward to visiting the JohoR Go-karting park again ! If Only I could visit JB more often without feeling worried about safety and other issues ... Wouldnt it be nice ?

Mambo XMG out

What else is there to Argue over ?? The Facts are out

2008-05-27T23:40:00.003+08:00

Seriously ... what else is there to argue about ??

The Facts are in our faces .. ICJ voted in Singapore's Favour ... and both countries have agreed to take it in their stride ... Nobody likes to lose ... Not especially when they lose to someone whom they perceive as weaker , smaller and less powerful than themselves... but its just amazing when Sore losers come up with baseless accusations based on their own warped opinions , and insist that it is the truth that others must accept .

Is the ICJ ruling Fake ? or is it Not recognised ?? And shouldnt it always be the case that when you argue a case , you argue and make statements based on facts , supported and substantiated with proof , instead of making baseless comments that makes you look stupid and in this case , Sore ?

Good example of a Singaporean using good thinking , eloquence and facts to rebutt silly accusations ... Totally impressed with his systematic way of thinking, rebuttal and concise points.

http://www.mr-endoh.com/singapore/malaysians-unhappiness-over-icjs-pedra-branca-verdict/

Enough said ... Now its over , Nothing else further to insist about ,unless they wanna claim Pulau Tekong and Ubin as well ...
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Other matters :

Its really amusing how my blog "revived" in a matter of entries ... I always thought my blog wasnt read by many , except for close friends ... but it must have attracted a higher viewership due to the keyword "Pedra Branca" ..thus drawing Flak from our malaysian neighbours ..

Well , I offer no apologies as I have only stated the truth and my own point of views...

All are welcome to read my humble postings and views .. Would also like to take the opportunity to acknowledge Calgar's presence , if thats the Calgar I am referring to ... I have no intentions to mince my words nor flame him in my blog postings ..Just stated my opinions and personal feelings in my blog that I do not like certain things at all ... As for going to RD's fields for a visit .. maybe .. for a Confrontation ... Nah .. Dun hate you to that extent.

Mambo XMG out

Pedra Branca is OURS !! WA LANG EH !!

2008-05-23T23:50:00.003+08:00

After all the big HooHaa ... Pedra Branca is finally officially ours !! Some of us may ask whats the big hoOoHaa over an island .... In fact , I took the trouble to ask my surrounding friends and colleagues whether they knew what was "Pedra Branca" ... but sadly more than 80% of my friends thought it was a movie/ Product/ some holiday destination ...

DO We SINGAPOREANS GIVE A DAMN ??

Somehow I am juz glad that the Singaporean Government took substantial steps and measures to solve this bilateral issue on a diplomatic front. To have managed and maintained the lighthouse for So long , only to have Malaysia suddenly declare the whole island as theirs ... was simply too ridiculous and should be too hard for any Singaporean to follow...

We Kiasu Singaporeans would probably Say: Damn , that bloody lighthouse is built with my tax money and maintained with the GST revenue that I contribute to everyday .. And Damn you are taking my lighthouse and island ?!

Its like you spend money planting a mango tree in your garden , spending effort , money , time grooming and nurturing it ... Suddenly One day your neighbour declares the garden ( with the mango tree bundled in ) as his ... and you are left dumbfounded ...

Anyway , it just disturbs me to know that So many of us dont seem to be bothered with such sovereignty issues ... We are all more concerned with the daily bread.. the daily ERP deductions and our chase for our 5Cs ( Car , Condo , Career, Credit Card , Cash) ...

All in all , I am so damn glad we officially got Pedra Branca back .... They can have the 2 bloody small mounds ... for all I Care .... but to Have Pedra Branca lost to Malaysia would have long and hard Economic and Military repercussions on Singapore in the long run ...

Enough said. Time to Celebrate !

Exams Aftermath ...** Photos Intensive

2008-05-19T13:49:00.014+08:00

Greetings to all , who still happen to bother to read my blog

Admittedly , I am guilty of not updating my blog regularly, lack of pictures and all , and all other excuses that sound like perfectly suitable reasons ..

Yeah ... Exams are over and I am back at work @ SiS again .. Why SiS again? Simple reason being my holidays are a short 1.5 month period .. I find no point uprooting myself to find another job and get accustomed to it for a short 1.5 months .. and simply put, I would never get that kind of rates at another new company ... as I have slowly built up credibility and customer database over the 2 years at SiS .. so all that helps me in my job in trying to grab more sales and for the ultimate aim of getting a good commission ..

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Been really into Wargh! activities recently .. purchased alot of crazy stuff that most of you wouldnt bother to .. but then again , its my hobby , my passion .. and I actually spend lesser if Not as much as some other hobbies like Golf , Wakeboarding ( Not that i Know the actual amounts ) ... Wargaming is a sport, and to me , its a unique and special sport .. that I would like to continue playing in ... and btw ... Wargaming is NOT = Loving SAF ! Wargaming is the fun and thrill and adrenaline rush , while SAF represents alot of other stuff that some others may curse and swear about ..

Bought this entire set of Multicam uniform @ $200+ , matching Plate Carrier (vest) @ $unknown amount , New V-force Grill Paintball mask @$100 ... Where did I get all the money to pay for all these ??

I am proud to say I earned $250 for a 2 hour Photoshop assignment that was kindly introduced to me by Rachel .. so that really helped to pay off alot of the debts that I owed..

Went for Operation Red Sparrow @ JB once more ...Same terrain , same location , different ballgame every time ..And I was more than Happy to commission my new mask , new vest , new uniform , new gloves and new self-sewn watercarrier bag into operational status this time round.

It Seems Multicam is really adapting itself to the environment very very well .. 7 kills for the day .. and it was really really tough searching out other enemies under the trees , in the long lallang .. had alot of fun , excitement waiting , ambushing , prowling and attacking all the day

The point-blank shot was courtesy of yours truly .. which was quite a hilariously funny yet dangerous situation that could have really turned out bad ... but then again ... heh .. that would teach the booger not to use the paintball gun behind my ass again ..

This is part of our Multicam (Singapore) army , which we are trying to build up ... heh.. Multicam camou being NO COUNTRY's uniform , NO official armed forces's uniform .. makes it suitable for us to wear it , without any sovereignty concerns .. and even Special forces around the world are adapting it .
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Mother's day outing ...

Celebrated Mother's day early , with an outing to ECP with the gals ... brought Weewee and sunshine to the little Dim Sum kopi tiam along Aljunied road .. Weewee was looking forward to a dimsum restaurant .. heheh her jaws dropped when she saw the kopitiam-style .. hahah ... the food was yummy enuff for its price .. we had all these food for a great total of S$19.80 only !! That came up to $7 per pax with drinks inclusive .. Siew Mais , Har gaos , Yamballs , Yamcakes , fried carrot cake black and white , Charsiew buns , Tau Sar buns etc ...

We then went to ECP to cycle and rollerblade .. while waiting for nana to finish her work .. so poor thing .. had a lot of fun enjoying the seabreeze , windy and cloudy , little sun ... and everything was good fun ..

Taught Nana how to cycle ... and spent the whole day repeating " the pedals will always be there !! Wahahah

Spent the evening with family ,wife , gf and mistress at Rajah Inn ... brought mummy and family to the gals' favourite Steamboat restaurant ...

ordered loads of good ala carte "zi char" food to go along with the steamboat menu .. since its all included in the buffet pricing ... Super worth meal !! Everyone was praising the reasonable pricing and good range of food ...

** Will be updating more regularly ... so be sure to check back more often !

Mambo XMG out

We love D.B.S

2008-04-18T05:18:00.006+08:00

Calvin and I have a friend .. We affectionately call him D.B.S .. aka "Dua Bui Sai" or "Da Bai Sha" .. The Great White Jaws !! ..

Nothing fiery about our friend .. Nothing Scary ..he has been our friend for as long as we have been studying at AMK Garden Macdonalds ..He has been by our side ..or at least near us .. never left our sides whenever we were studying for our exams ..He has brought us never-ending joy and happiness whenever we see him after our revisions ..

Managed to take a picture of him while he was asleep .. as we didnt wanna disturb him ..

Never ever chatted with this DBS .. The very first time we saw him , he was spitting phelgm and saliva on AMK Macdonalds's floor .. And he stank really really bad .. For the past 3 semesters that we have been studying = 1.5 years .. this area has always been his favourite sleeping spot .. and his trademark half naked belly .. almost recognisable from 300 metres away ..

He never really disturbed us .. but we just so love to see him happily sleeping away in his Forever blue pants ..that we have seen for the past 1.5 years .. bet we will miss him after we finish our final exams ..

Mambo XMG out ..

That Time of the Year again ... Only Exams

2008-04-17T06:13:00.006+08:00

This Song , recomposed .. specially dedicated to my Study Buddy , Calvin ..As he always Says .. Much Lurve ..

Sing to the tune of "Only Love..."

2am and the rain is falling
Here we are at Macdonalds once again
You''re telling me you''re so confused
You can''t make up your mind .. Is this AMC ? ( Advanced Marketing Concepts )
You''re asking me ..

But only Geoff " (Pronounced as "Jeff" Geoffrey Da Silva, AMC lecturer) can say .. Try again or walk away
But i believe for you and me We sure "High D" one day
So i just play my part Pray you''ll have a change of Luck ..
But Geoffrey'll make you see it through
That''s something only he can do

Eat Breakfast( thats what we always do ) as the dawn is breaking
Face to face ( we sit opposite each other ) and a thousand pages apart
I''ve tried my best to make you see There''s hope beyond Credit ..
If we give enough If we revise Fast ..

But only Pat ( Service Quality lecturer ) can say
Come again another Day ..
But i believe for you and me We'll clear SQ today !
So i just play my part Pray you''ll have a change of Luck
But Pat can make you see it through That''s something only Pat can do

I know if I could find the words to fill the pages wide
You''ll give my paper just one more chance
To let this be our last Revise !!!

But only LC ( Marcomm lecturer) says IMC ( Integrated Marketing Communications ) is here to Stay
But i believe for you and me IMC is Ok ..
So i just play my part Pray you''ll have a change of Luck ..
But LC'll make you see it through
That''s something only she can do

~....................That''s Nothing only we cant do...........................~

Original sOng : Only Love
New Title : Only Exams

Mambo XMG out ...

When Everything seems so disillusioned ....

2008-03-20T16:36:00.002+08:00

More than 3/4 through my 2nd last semester ... everything passed by in a blur ...

Exams are coming again very soon ... and the very dreaded month is here again soon ... April ... Jan and February zoomed past with so many events to look forward to ..

Jan - Ex TaipeiWalker III
Feb - CNY 2008 with friends gathering at my place ... the 1st Jungle Paintball Scenario ..Seemed like all I ever wanted to do ...

March is now here ... and about to pass .. and with a few projects submitted and a few more to go ... really tired of all these nonsense .. Dun feel very involved in the projects .. as the team dynamics is vastly different .. with all kinds of working styles ...

Being the outspoken one , I used to want to have everything done properly and fairly .. but this time round , I chose to work passively only .. taking on juz watever was thrown to me ... without putting in too little or extra effort . Somehow just feel detached from it all . I dont know why .

Everything seems so disillusioned ... and even hobbies are changing soon ... less airsoft , more paintball and Wargh! ... for a simple reason of Fucking bad management at the Airsoft club .. which I am looking forward to April ... Whereby everything will either carry on or stop for me .. at the club .. Its all up to whatever decision is made in April ...

Other than that , its back to Macdonalds again for mugging mugging mugging ... Sch life sucks ..

Marcus .. out

A lil update and a lil apology

2008-03-12T23:04:00.007+08:00

I guess I really owe apologies to some of my friends .. who either :

1. are concerned about my life and wellbeing , looking for my updates

2. too free in office or trying to slack around , looking for Edison Chen fotos on my blog

3. or simply juz wanna know where did i go for my 3rd Taiwan trip and Wonder is Taiwan that

Fun ?

Been occupied with many activities after coming back from Taiwan ... CNY .. School , Paintball at JB , Mas Selamat , School again .. all the ding ding dong dongs ...

Miss Taiwan very much ..and very eager to share the 10GB of fotos and videos .. but really too much and too many to show and tell , though i remember all the funny jokes and stories to share for the 3 trips ..

Attach some fotos of my activities .. will try to post more again with more stories ...

CNY 2008 Gathering with all my friends and their partners ... Whale of a time ..

Operation ViperTorn - Scenario Paintball in JB ... 1st time playing paintball in this helluva Hill with bunkers , long lallang ... had a great time running around the hill with commandos and a Naval diver .. coordinating and teaming up with them .. outflanking and suppressing enemies with loads of paintballs ...

School is stressful and boring ... alot of theory on marketing that I never knew .. and its abit too much to swallow ... No pictures of school ... it sucks anyway ..

Mambo XMG out ..

Ex TaipeiWalker III - Day 1-- Updated

2008-01-24T03:22:00.000+08:00

Alritey ... after such a long delay .. been 2 weeks plus since we came back from Ex TaipeiWalker III ... Finally willing to blog about the trip .. accepted the fact that we are back in Hot Hot Hot Singapore again ...

Back to School .. Back to Work and Back to reality ..And we are all facing the Taipei Withdrawal symptoms .. Just too difficult to kick the cravings and habits ...

Ex TaipeiWalker III - Day 1 Singapore >>> Taipei CKS International Airport ...

Woke up super bright and early as per usual habits when going to Taipei .. Cant sleep the night before as always .. excited to be going back to Taipei again .. and Excited to See Zu(3) ren(4) again ..

Checked in the Luggage and proceeded to buy some Singapore goodies for Zu(3) ren(4) ... Like pandan cake , Tiger Beer .. but too bad Kaya couldnt be brought onboard .. together with other drinks .. Damn the rules .. Why ? I tell you why later .

I think I was quite Suay .. Borrowed a super tall camera tripod from my daddy , only to have one of its legs broken at Changi Airport ! Damn .. Haven even start the trip .. Nin nia eh .. the tripod leg breaks .. probably due to years of storage without usage ...

Didnt cook "ai xin" breakfast for my 3 women this time round .. so we settled breakfast at BK .. No $ for advertising their name .. So heck it .. Chowed down the burgers and drinks asap before proceeding JUST IN TIME to board the plane .. We have a habit of utilising time til the very very last minute .. gets stressful in Taipei especially when we have to catch trains ..

Another 4 Hours plus trip ... everyone is well prepared since its our 3rd trip .. and we planned games , Movies to kill time ... but but but .. We all somehow slept like logs !! And we were lucky juz like the 2nd trip .. having an empty seat beside us ! that gives us additional space and of course more privacy and its worth the $$ !! 2 persons sharing 3 seats !!

They didnt allow drinks to be brought up .. instead sold us mineral water @ ridiculously high prices .. and the goddamn bottle wasnt even the normal sized ones ! Got quite pissed coz it was obviously capitalism ! I dun mind $3 , but I would expect to get a decent sized bottle . And I DID "feedback" to the pretty Stewardess , who could only manage to give a "Lan Lan , I also bo pian" reply .. Zzzz.....Z...Z..ZZZzzz.......

After 4 hours Plus ... We reached our 2nd Home again ! The temperature dropped to about 18 degrees ... And Zu Ren was there to fetch us personally again !! AhhHHahhh .. So Happy to See him .. Yakked and Yakked and he showed us his newlyborn daughter's fotos ..

He insisted on treating us to dinner , saying that he would be busy and would hope to have a good meal with us , as a way of welcoming us to Taiwan again ... Brought us to Beer 346 Factory .. a taiwanese beer Factory that served Local chilled beer and local delicacies ...

He also brought along a Taiwanese lady Ms Xu .. Who was very friendly and artistic .. but she hated to take photos ... We all had good food, LOTS of good beer that made me pee 5 times in 1 hour , good chats , good catchup on the latest situations in Taiwan .. and Zu Ren's all time favourite Ghost Stories that freaked the gals out ... and his little Ciggie Ash trick that he taught me at the toilet , to trick the girls ... Heh .. Missing him like crazy .. Juz look at him .. Ever the funny guy who is always friendly and ready to help ..

After dinner , He jioed us to Taiwanese KTV ! He Even introduced his male friend Mr Lim *Yao Ting to Nana ... who was supposedly a shy guy who doesnt smoke or drink ... but Lolz ... when he came in , he came in with ciggarettes blazing .. and drank along with us like nobody's business ..

It was a KTV buffet and we were stuffed with more food .. and the beer started to flow again .. with at least 20 cans of beer opened again for games .. and Shawna was the one who showed the "Singapore Merlion" to the Taiwanese .. And after that ... MORE beer .....

It was One Helluva of a first night in Taipei .. totally different from our 1st 2 trips .. which we went to Shihlin Night market ... Totally interesting Taiwanese nightlife ..

Hours Clocked : 18 hours
Too Many fotos and videos to show.

Mambo XMG out ..

Wat a great way to Start 2008 !!

2008-01-04T02:32:00.000+08:00

This time ... We tio bei pio !! $60 ... but nvm gOt win can liao !!! How did we get this number ?? Sunshine dreamt about it ... told me .. and we decided to try our luck again ! ... She dreamt that Some guy told her a set of numbers 9999 and 8888 and she somehow derived 9988 and 9998 ... And to my amazement ... We tio !! Lolz ... i didnt even bother to check ... until she called me giggling and asked if we had bought the numbers ... Lolz ... Si bei heng ..

Mambo XMG out ...

I could have been $10,000 Richer .....

2007-12-12T00:19:00.000+08:00

A 4D ticket speaks a thousand words , but is unable to describe the immense heartbreaking pain that i still feel .... its the pain of 1000 women's period cramps ... the pain of being kicked in your nuts 10 times in the same area .. NOPE , I am not exaggerating ...

Sunshine was inspired by our Ex TaipeiWalker III date 08/01/08 to 14/01/08 ... that she suggested we buy 0814 ... So we decided to combine her luck and my 4D power for Saturday and Sunday's 4D ..

Saturday results came and we saw no joy ... and I delayed my checking of sunday's results til Monday afternoon ... when I checked the results ...

My Eyes nearly POPPED OUT when i saw 0 , 8 , 1 , 4 , top , prize , then i blinked and blinked again ... GODDAMN SON OF THE BEACH , What the FoOOking DingDong Phui Chao Nua ... it turned out to be 0841 instead of 0814 !!

THE CLOSEST EVER I GOT , to winning a 4D ticket ... and the amount came to $10,000 should I have won it !

Yakked , yelled , butched about it in office, jumping up and down , cursing and swearing at the ticket .. and mulled over the results ... really really ta ma de ....

If I had won the $10,000 >> I would have split $5000 .. Things I would have considered doing :

Give some $$$ to parents , brother and auntie ($800 )
Allocate $$$ for Taipei trip for the 4 of us .. Sunshine , WeeWee and Nana ..($500) .. the extra $$$ would have come in handy ..
Donate to Charity ($500 ?) , I believe windfalls come with some catch .. needa donate some of it , to return the favour to whoever bestowed the luck
Buy an MP5 Submachine gun at the range .. and enjoy the joy of having an AEG thats mine mine mine ! ( $$$?? )
Have a mini gathering for close friends during Xmas ($300)
Propose a Fixed Deposit account with Sunshine with the rest of $$$ ... time to start thinking about future ...

But then again ... Damn it ... couldnt even smell $10 .... damn it ...

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SunShine has been bringing me luck , CNY 2007 she won $180 for me in BanLak .. Last Saturday she won $28 for me , 1 player win 3 players ... while I sat behind her watching and nagging at her wrong moves ..Lolz ...

And Now .. the close encounter with $10,000 ... Ahhh ... She said that Year 2008 would be a good year for Dog-Pig Couples ... Would be Lucky in Wealth and Health ... So I hope we will have a gOOd and prosperous year together next year !! Huat ah !!

For now ... I think we should think of more 4D numbers to buy .... Wahhah to prepare for next year !

Mambo XMG out ....

Mega update

2007-12-03T23:33:00.000+08:00

Alritey ... May not be official ... but results are out on RMIT webby .. so I guess it should be firmed up already ... And HERE WE GO ....

Buyer Behaviour -- Distinction ...totally unexpected ...I tot I would get a Credit at most for my nonsense ...

Management Accounting -- Credit .. Thank all goodness for the credit ...Flunked this module last semester .. finally pulled 1 back this semester .. In retrospect , I realised that if I had put in slightly more effort to understand each chapter .. wouldnt have spent unnecessary $$$ on this module.

Distribution Channels -- Credit ... More than glad to pass this module .. super horrible module that I had faint or little idea on what I was studying .. but quite glad I got a credit for answering all the "underdog" questions ..The amazing thing was that It was a 2 hour paper and I left the exam hall just after 45mins ...

Market Research -- Credit ... Another tedious module with a project that I think was super tedious .. slightly disappointed at the results .. but I guess I did what I could for all the papers ..Considering I left the exam Hall in 1.5 hours when it was a 2 hour paper.

All in all ... I am just so glad to pass this semester without any drama and go happily to Taipei again with Sunshine , weewee and nana ...

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Back at SiS to work again ... This time with KokFai and Calvin ... Things are much better with KokFai and Calvin around .. at least I have company .. otherwise .. SiS is becoming a boring place to work in .. The good people are gone .. and there are lesser friendlier people around this time round . Some of them seem so fake that I cant tell if they are sincere or real at all. Luckily , I sit beside a joker , Kevin .. who always has something funny to share for the day .. and I think we happen to be on the same frequency ... So jokes are easily understood .. and continued ..

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Activities ...

Sunshine has graduated !! Now hopefully as promised ..so Ex TaipeiWalker III seems like a good chance to have some quality time together with Sunshine ... also with my mistress weewee and girlfriend Nana ... hopefully we can spend an enjoyable and memorable December this 2007 .. before she starts work ... Afterall .. stepping into society is full of uncertainty .. and I foresee that we will both meet challenges , and I may possibly face competition from other guys and lesser time from her side due to her work . I guess we would both need to mitigate these factors in a delicate manner ... .. I realised that Whatever will be ... will be ... So Just try my best to keep this relationship in the best that I can .. I treasure this r/s alot ..but .. the rest will be fated ..

Went for SHOW Luo's concert 2007 ... Felt that the performance was slightly over-rated .. as much as he tried to bring up the mood .. the atmosphere was only cordial .. and at most 75 degrees celsius , if you know what I meant ...

Went with Sunshine , WeeWee , nana and Nana's sister Ah bao .... We were sitting at an angle .. where we had quite a good view of the whole concert , although it was juz $98 .. Bah .. Not worth the $98 in my own opinion .. maybe coz I wasnt really a big fan of his ..

He was humorous and lively .. but maybe I felt he was just too commercialised .. and following SOP standard concert guidelines .. that it didnt feel real anymore ... every sincere word turned insincere .. and every effort became something preplanned ..

Went for supper for the gals at Bugis "Chuan Yi Pin" Steamboat buffet ... starting to hate that place .. service getting worse and the food is starting to suck.

We reached at 11plus .. paid full fare for the buffet .. but the food on display were all 3/4 or even empty ... The food variety was limited .. and we were left with very little food for choice ... The ugly situation came when the gals wanted Ice-cream .

To Our dismay , the freezer only contained a Jackfruit tub and a 98% empty peppermint tub. Out of courtesy and somewhat expecting some service from the staff , I approached one of the Cheena Ah Tiongs ( bloody ATs ) staff to ask if they could open up more tubs since the peppermint tub was 98% empty .

The bloody Ah Tiong told me they were not going to open up new tubs and it was company policy not to open new tubs after 12 ?. I asked why .. he told me that There were only 2 flavours in the freezer anyway . I walked back to the freeze and checked through the freezer. To my displeasure , I found more than 1 tub of STRAWBerry Flavoured Ice-cream unopened ...

Nana wanted the strawberry Ice-cream .. I was unhappy with the lies and bad service , I decided to open up the Strawberry icecream tub. HEck the Ah Tiongs. We had paid in full , they even made us pay up earlier .. and They HAD the CHEEK to deny us of the full range of food and desserts. I mentally ran through possible scenarios ..worse scenario being the cops called in , and I made sure we had our receipts . I am a sucker for good service and I expect nothing less than reasonable service .. for the 10% Svc Charge that we pay .

To have a bloody ah tiong lie to me , and provide such bad service .. is totally intolerable .. and Whatmore .. we paid in full , but received much lesser than we deserved. In the end , the Ah Tiongs just looked and stared as we happily enjoyed our strawberry icecreams ..

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Wargh ( Pronounced as "War")

Monkeyed around @ Classified Location in Bukit Panjang ... ( so obvious ) .. playing Wargh .. tried it out for the first time as a civilian ... Of course had loads of all these jungle warfare thingy during my NS days and SISPEC days ... But this game had a different feel to it .. It was fun , no pressure , only loads of excitement .. as compared to my NS days whereby we faced possible punishment for stupid mistakes made ..

Felt great and excited , bashing through bushes and vegetation .. definitely reminded me of my SiSpec days .. chionging objectives , fighting gunfights .. all the Section movements ... Uniform was complimentary of Mike , who lent me his ACU ...I am quite happy with the outfit that I was wearing .. with all my new gear , vest , Walkie talkies which didnt fail me .. together with my hydration pack .. different feeling ..

Made new friends who had similar interests and hobbies .. and Oh yes check out their attire and gear ... They really knew what they were doing .. all the Covering fires and tactical movements .. they sure knew their stuFF well .. enjoyed playing with them ...

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Project C

Really getting into the swing of things .. after knowing my results are ok this semester .. starting to indulge myself in all my favourite activities ... shooting being one of them ... Project C has officially launched .. and we are currently training some Level II shooters and also co-training with them .. to have some coordination and common understanding of skills and tacticals ..

So far did some Hallway Clearances and room clearances .. with our heavy realistic shields which really weigh more than 10 KG ... to enhance the experiences .. and we shoot within a safe and controlled environment .. It really pushes us past our limits ...

Communication and trust is really of real importance , although we are using airsoft guns instead of real guns ...

December 2007 and Jan 2008 shall be a fun and fulfilling period , as I embark on my quest to enjoy myself with SunShine .. indulge in my favourite activities like shooting , wargaming , Prawnfishing and more ! Stay tuned for more photos and updates !

Mambo XMG out

No mood to blog ...

2007-11-21T23:56:00.000+08:00

No mood to blog ... boggled down by work and emotions ... hopefully regain my blogging powers soon ...

Will December be a good month ? Hopefully so . November 2007 Sucks .

Mambo XMG out

Why am I not feeling any better ?

2007-11-21T23:43:00.000+08:00

Life can be such a pain ....

2007-10-29T06:15:00.000+08:00

4 X Sausage Muffin Egg meals, 6Xapple pies, 7X Large Lemon Teas , 4X Bah Chor Mees ... total damage done during my revision hours overnight at AMK Gdn Macs so far ...
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Perspiring heavily from the walk back home from AMK ... My mind heavy with thoughts from the previous day and night's events ... The walk back home @ 5.15am in the morning is a refreshing one ... with the rain cooling down the temperature .. making the walk back home a chilling one ...

Finished yet another night of revisions at AMK Gdn mac ... Into the 2nd Paper ... Mind cant seem to aborb much .. quite bothered by a sad piece of news that happened to one of my bros ...was really quite shocked to hear that he had broken off with his girlfriend of nearly 4 years.

We were all quite shocked as they were perceived to be a very compatible couple amongst the group .. and everyone were very envious. So the breakup came as a bombshell to me. Incompatibility was given as the reason , which made me scared and worried . Even CK got troubled by the news.

We were both worried about the uncertainties of life .. and also the uncertainties of reality .. that laid ahead in our love lives .. Incompatibility is a common reason or excuse for breakups ...or so it seems ..

but .. when 2 people are in love ... is it for the long haul ? or short term pleasures ?I would think its the values that the couple hold .. and the foundation that they have built together as a couple ..and the communication and understanding that they have for each other ... that bonds the relationship .. I would think that If in love ... the onus is on the couple to Communicate and maintain the relationship ... and take an active approach in solving issues and problems calmly and rationally .. for the good of the relationship .

Any unsolved issue that is continually cast aside .. would only strain the relationship ... impeding the growth and progress of the relationship ... I strongly believe it is fate/a chance to be together as a couple ... and the value of Love shouldnt be reduced to nothing more than an excuse to end the relationship .

As the chinese saying goes , It takes a 100 years to cultivate a chance to take a boat ride together ... It takes 1000 years to cultivate a chance to share a bed together. Alrite .. People are more liberal now , theY sleep and bonk easily ... but it is those who See the meaningful purpose of being together ... they are the ones who will cherish a relationship .

They say people change over time. I believe that if a couple change together over time, they will move on and change together as a couple, growing together and progressing together in the relationship .

I will try to bear that in mind. Hopefully Sunshine feels the same way too.

Mambo XMG out

Its Been awhile ...

2007-10-15T00:58:00.000+08:00

Its been awhile since I updated anything .... since our 2nd Anniversary ... Everything went well and smooth ... although it deviated much from my plans ...

Had a nice dinner with a classy ambience at WakaShaChiya , A Japanese Curry Udon Restaurant with 64 outlets all over Japan , and ITS FIRST INTERNATIONAL OUTLET in Singapore !

Ordered the Grilled Unagi Set with 4 different types of eating the grilled eel @$18 .. while sunshine ordered the Curry Karaage Udon ... with rich and thick gravy .. NICE !

Bought my Sunshine a little sumthing that was within my means ( its real diamond ok ! Dun play play ) ... + Handmade Chocolates moulded inTo shapes of Hearts and Teddy Bears ... May not be worth much .. but promised her a better one next time when i got more $$$$$....

2nd attempt was better . First attempt failed , with boiling Caramel hardened .. So hard that it could be a bulletproof material ... Buy Chocolate to melt .. DUN BUY CARAMEL !

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Recently completed a 2 day abseiling course ... gained alot of confidence in heights .. and the confidence in gearing myself up for abseiling .. and having the guts to abseil down 4 storeys height ...

The abseiling part is easy. Stepping UP to the parapet and OUT OF the parapet is the gutsy part .. and it was really Confidence-boosting .. to be able to do it . One Challenging part was the Lock + Thigh Wrap ... which I struggled during practice , but managed to do it Juz in one attempt during the practical test !

Mike told me that he was amazed that I did it within 1 attempt when I was struggling during my practice. I simply told him ... SImple ... Desperate Situations Call for Desperate Measures ... Do or DIE ! hahah .. but it was really much easier doing it while Hanging off the wall ...

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Exams blues are coming again ... Not much of a mood to revise ... and with the shadows of a repeat module haunting me ... its really scary ... I cant find motivation to face the failed module .. and having to retake the exams ... is quite a daunting task ...

Probably wun be updating until after Nov 9th ...

LOoking forward to November ... for Work back in SiS again ... earn some money ... and GO TAIPEI for the 3rd Time again in January 2008 !!! Taipei ... Here I Come again !

Mambo XMG out ...

We are 2 years old !!! 25th September 2007

2007-09-25T12:13:00.000+08:00

Yes We Are two years old today !

Was loOking forward to this meaningful day ... thinking back on those days before we got together ... the 1.5 years of her ignoring me and the relentless pursuit of her hand ... it was really a mind-blowing experience , one that really tested my patience and my determination as a guy ...

Now that I have got her hand ... I am more than thankful to have her in my life ... Nothing can describe my love and feelings ... Juz gonna let this continue forever to the best of my abilities ...

Happy 2nd Anniversary , Sunshine !!

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Encounter of the Ah Siao

Was going past Bishan Bus Interchange yesterday , when an auntie approached me. Intuitively , I knew she wanted money .

Auntie speaking chinese : Xiao Di , Can you help me pay for newspaper ? I wanna

read newspaper but I got no money .

Me got amused , decided to "sponsor" her newspaper.

Me speaking Chinese : ok what newspaper u wanna buy ? u select. *point to Newspaper stall* we then went to the newspaper stall .

What amazed me next was the auNtie didnt know what newspaper to buy . She asked the uncle TO RECOMMEND the newspapers for today ?? wtf ... Uncle pointed to the Straits Times.

What Happened next totally Rocked my Socks ....

Ah Siao Auntie then decided to take the Straits times ... AND PROCEEDED TO TAKE 2 COPIES OF STRAITS TIMES !! and then asked me to pay !

Me Speaking Chinese : Why are you taking 2 sets of Straits times ?? 1 Copy not enough ??

Ah Siao Auntie's Million Dollar Reply with a Stoned Look : OH because I very bored ... So I wanna read two copies of the ( SAME !! Straits Times ) Newspaper...

WAT THE FUCK !!!

It then dawned upon me that this auntie was an ah siao like what Calvin would say.. I wouldnt mind paying for 2 copies of Different newspapers really ... but to give me a stupid reason that she is bored and wanna read two copies of the same newspaper ... Really amused me so much .

I then told her : Har ?? Then I Dun have $$$$ liao ... Then Ah Siao Auntie got more amazing .... " Xiao Di .... then 1 copy lah ... i read 1 copy can liao .. the OTHER COPY I dont read ...!! "

Wat the WAt ThE WAT THE FUCK !!!

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Enjoying the simple pleasures of life , shopping on a weekday afternoon...

Walked around Marina Square 3 times... juz to LooK up and down for a present for my love ... Marina Square on a sunny weekday is really much different from the weekend crowds ...

The pace of shoppers is very leisurely and the sales staff are really more attentive ...

Went inTo Lerk Thai for an afternoon lunch @ 4pm .. had the whole restaurant to myself ... the service crew were very attentive and eager to serve ... Ordered Fried Beef Kway teow and Iced Lemon tea ... TooK the longest Lunch in my life ... ate sOOo slowly , enjoying every moment and savouring every morsel of the beef . The food wasNt that fantastic .. but the mood was juz relaxed ... and LoOking @ the window view above ... Life can be so relaxing ... Partial reason was also my relief in getting something for my Sunshine ...

Best Part was the meal costed me only $6.70 for a plate of fried beef kway teow and Lemon tea + 10% Service Charge and 7% GST ! .. NOrmally , this meal would have set me back by $12 !! What a Pleasant Surprise !!

A simple shopping experience on a weekday afternoon can be so relaxing ...

Mambo XMG out ....

An enjoyable day

2007-09-24T01:09:00.000+08:00

Its been awhile since I did something really enjoyable ...

Last friday was one of the days that I looked forward to going for classes ... Nah .. Not a studious guy ... it juz happened to be the 3rd report submission for my projects . Cleared 3 out of 4 reports ... went through some tiring moments .. but we managed to pull through, thanks to Jennifer and kOkFai for their initiative and hardwork as well ...

KokFai , Shuiyi , Jenn and Me - Distribution Channels Group

The Distribution Channels project was a fairly heavy and tough assignment weighing 40% of our total marks ... the 4 of us went to Causeway Point a few times juz to do the project and we encountered our fair share of problems.

To celebrate our clearing of our major projects , KoKfai , Jenn and myself had planned to go KTV after submission ...because its been awhile since we all went singing together .

In the group , Kokfai , Rae and myself love to sing , bowl and play pool together... and friday was the perfect day to unwind and relax ...

Calvin , Myself , Jenn and KokFai @ Vila'ge

These few people are the good friends that I often hang out with in school ...Calvin being my SISPEC platoon mate ... Jennifer being my Product Design schoolmate in Poly ... and KoKFai .. someone that I never knew I could mix so well with ..

Calvin is my study buddy during exams .. always making time for me , coming down all the way from Woodlands to study with me @ AMK Gardens Mac until 5am each morning ... talking cock and sharing all his goOd stuff unselfishly .. "spreading his love"always ... never selfish ... and a very practical guy who is always able to tolerate my nonsense ...

Jennifer is the most diligent gal in our group ... never fails to complete her revisions, tasks and projects on time ... always giving me reminders on when to hand up tutorials and what work is to be done ... Seen some changes in her since poly ... and its probably due to her SQ days .. that changed her .. Yeah She was an Ex SIA stewardess .. unbelievable hur ?? haha we couldnt stand the sight of each other in poly .. and its sort of ironic that we become firm friends now ... And differing views we still do have ... but its how we learn to sort things out and draw clear lines...

KokFai ... my singing , pool , KTV buddy ... easy going chap who really will suit weechen ... LoLz ... the Mr Nice guy labelled by Minming ... I really got to know KokFai better during my SiS stint .. and this made me very comfortable with mixing around with him .. talking cock everyday during lectures , after lectures , during lunches . And it isnt always that someone can actually catch the joke and CONTINUE the joke ... he has this ability in him to prolong my jokes and thats how we actually come up with more nonsense each time , to while away the boring lectures ...

Anyway ... Jenn , Kokfai , Calvin and myself went for lunch @ Vila'ge to celebrate the submission of our project reports ... ordered some gOod foOd like Crepes , Seafood baked rice , Calamari rings , Pizza , baked chicken ( Yucks .. dry like hell) , Pork sausages and more !!

Enjoyed the lunch with them , sharing our food and talking more nonsense ...

After lunch , we went for a pOol session while waiting for another KTV queen , Wanhsien , whom we juz got to know this semester ...

Evening , Jennifer , kokFai , Wanhsien and myself went for KTV ... it was a slow warmup .. but We soOn broke the ice with songs ... laughter and some super orchestra performances by KoKFai and Wanhsien ...

It was one of those enjoyable evenings and overall a very enjoyable day ...

Mambo XMG out ...

Of Horoscopes and GroupMates

2007-09-11T05:21:00.000+08:00

Its really amazing How Horoscopes can really get accurate sometimes .

Friendster Horoscope for September 10, 2007
Libra (Sep 23 - Oct 22)

The Bottom Line
If you are stuck in planning mode today, make it a group affair. Get a consensus.

In Detail
If you are stuck in planning mode today, make it a group affair. Getting a consensus about dates, locations and agenda items will make everyone feel a part of the bigger picture -- and it will set a much more positive tone for your upcoming event. Other people will be able to suggest things that you hadn't considered before -- and they will also think to include all the small details that make a big impression. There's no question that a group effort is the best effort.

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Totally hit right on the head of the nail. BUT Do they see that a group effort is the best effort ?I have 2 Urgent Ongoing reports waiting for final submission these 2 weeks .

Progress is considered smooth for 1 project while the other is a passive act with everyone waiting for someone to open the golden mouth to initiate a meeting and no one getting into the act of things.

Best of all , there is a groupmate who disappears overseas for work for the critical 10 days , whereby MOST of the work is to be done during the 10 days. Comes back with only 1 page of Microsoft Word for 10 days worth of absence , worth lots of self-conjured information that showed obvious signs of NO research. Loads more of nonsense to tolerate from him. And he is the two project groups.

Deadlines are set for Fucknuts as nobody sticks to it faithfully. With less than 2 days left , we are still only @ part 3 out of 5 ... and the various parts are still dangling out there with NO news and updates when repeated reminders were sent out to have them submitting in their parts properly completed with sentences instead of points while KF and myself were to rush out Part 4 and 5 . And KF and myself have already done Part 3 and 1 respectively.

Should really have seen it coming and just learn from previous lessons... Right from the beginning, Nobody gave a Fuck , Nobody bothered , juz waited til last minute, someone would definitely clear the shit. It seemed that other projects were more important to them and for the overseas groupmate , it seemed to me that he simply cannot be bothered with the projects , knowing somehow he will be able to clear it by riding on the Cheap ( not free since he did "some" work) bus ride. Someone would definitely clear the shit.This time , the arrows juz got to KF and me ..

Enough is Enough. No more grouping with these people.

Mambo XMG out.

Are they plain stupid or Am I too Witty?

2007-09-05T10:52:00.000+08:00

It Seemed like my acerbic tongue was very active yesterday ... my friends said i was alil cranky yester-morning ( new word ) ..

It all happened so naturally ... a chat session during lecture break with Calvin outside school resulted in the 1st encounter... I was somehow holding onto my cup of tea behind my back , and it juz spilt over my legs . One of the girls ( quite pretty ) nearby saw the boOobOo and excited squealed in excitement and told her friends.

I was embarrassed , but somehow , I juz opened my mouth and told her in a big smile ... " Oh Never Mind, Shit Happens... Oh Btw, juz a suggestion , The next time you wanna laugh @ other's misfortune , you might wanna make sure you laugh behind their backs , Not in front of them."

IT WAS HER TURN TO BE EMBARRASSED !! She managed a sheepish smile @ me and seeked some cover from her friends ! So stupid to get caught laughing at others. The tables were turned on her, she ended up more embarrrassed than me.

As What Calvin said , so stupid to laugh so near the "victim" , and GET CAUGHT for it .

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2nd Incident happened soOon after we weNt back into Class ... One of the Geeky LOoking lecturemates sitting directly in front of me brought his S*msung Laptop in a laptop bag with the WORD S*MSUNG Staring @ everyone ... OH Ya .. It had a big Padlock on the bag. LOlz

The Cockster was stupid enough to lay the Laptop bag behind him , directly @ my feet .. ( I was wearing slippers) .. and He saw his bag touching my feet ... STARED @ my feet , STARED @ his Bag and Stared @ my feet again Like a mechanised Robot head !!

I got pissed off and i asked him politely " Do you wanna shift your bag to somewhere else because i am afraid I will kick it " ..

The Cockster picked up his bag , didnt know where else to put his lappy bag ( when there was ample space JUST beside him ) ... He ended up hugging the Lappy Bag on his lap. What an idiot !
My legs were Not sticking out of place , he was simply stupid to place his bag out of his rightful space and had the cheek to stare @ me and my feet , hinting that i should remove my feet from his precious bag?

Two little Fiascos in the morning made my life more interesting with new experiences gained in handling silly girls and stupid fools .

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Mambo XMG out .

Where to go In Small Small Singapore ?

2007-09-03T23:28:00.000+08:00

It isnt easy keeping girlfriends happy ... having to find new places every weekend to go shopping .. go eat .. go find new novelties to do ...

I often wonder where to bring mine to ... on weekends ... on weekdays ... what can we do ? No car ... no licence .... and the timings are tight ...

AnyOne reading this can suggest Interesting places and nice food/restaurants to go ??? Luckily i already have my 2nd Anniversary night dinner planned out .... But then .. there is always the next Year's dinner (hopefully )

Keep the suggestions coming !! and more updates with photos coming up !!

XMG out

Operation Wildboar 260807

2007-08-28T23:51:00.000+08:00

Operation Wildboar 26080X --- Mission completed ...

Was LoOking forward to this whole Paintball event ... as the hardcore ones actually went to make ourselves new tactical vests ... bought ourselves walkie talkies communication sets ..

My Comms Set + Modular Tactical vest

My 3rd Tactical Vest , Communications Walkie & My Callsign ( Mambo ) were officially commissioned into Service on 260807

Started the day briefing the guys on the area of Operations , Communications protocol ( How to properly use / speak through the Comms set ) ... Wasnt really acting like a professional .. more like a sharing session with the guys who haven been through NS , or tying down communications procedures with the other guys like MIke , who was in SPF ... Then "Destroyer" Leonard took over the Infantry Section movements brief ... LoLz ... we did all the briefing in Long John Silver , Yishun ... where everyone stared @ us , guys with big bags of gears and Walkies , as if going to war .

After gearing up , everyone gathered for the briefing ... before indulging in a mini Fashion Show ... Lolz ... Even the Paintball guys were impressed with our vests and gear ...Alritey .. the comm sets were ineffective in the fastpaced games ...

You Feeling the Blues ??

The green green vegetables Team

In Summary , We were split into 3 teams ... and Our team ( "Destroyer" Leonard , "Magic Man" Christopher, "Fireball" Clifton , "Mambo" yours truly ) emerged victorious !!

Through strategies and tactics , Destroyer conquered the important bridge , with trusty Magic Man covering his ass , while Fireball was fast and Furious with the trigger @ the Sniper Tower ... While I was @ the centre , LoOking out for Sneaky Opposing Forces trying to grab the Ammo Boxes ...

A video can convey millions of words ... Do Check out the last part of the video , featuring a Final Showdown between Myself ( Mambo ) Vs Pinky ... a duel that was long overdue ...

Long Story Short , He Has been telling me almost Every Thursday Since a few months back , that he wanted to ShOOt my ass with the guns @ the club , and the Paintball guns that he always claimed to be goOd @ ... especially with all his special training with professional Paintball gunners in Johor ..

He wanted my ass ... and I gave him a chance to take his best shot ......

The End Result >>>>>

9 Bruises with 3 Bloodied Ones ... Inclusive of 3 Big bumps on his head ..... Zero Hits to Mambo.

I did shake hands with him after the game ... but NOT before being welcomed by the other guys and ladies who cheered me on , all the highfives and bearhugs ... It was really quite evident that they wanted his ass badly , for all the past taunts and disturbances that he caused to the others ... I felt the feelings of the warriors in the Movie "TROY" , where the Victor steps off the battle arena alive , leaving the opponent injured , maimed or dead on the area ... It was a goOd feeling , having fought and defeated the opponent who challenged me , without suffering any shots at all .

I also apologized to him later for the "aggression" that I showed on the paintball field . I explained to him that it was his challenge to me , + his incessant disturbances & taunts to others and myself ... I was only responding like any human being or animal , turning on the defensive and aggressive posture when forced into a corner...

he admitted that he didnt expect the paintballs to land on him fast and furious ... and he panicked when he got hit continously ... and he thought he was bleeding .. and said he nearly blacked out ... that was when he decided to surrender.

Final Score : Mambo Zero injuries vs Pinky 9 Bruises and a very bruised ego

All in all ...... The Showdown ended with everyone happy , probably except for him who was probably embarrassed by his own claims of being professionally trained

We ended the Game with a goOd dinner .

** moral of the story :

Respect Others Like How you want them to Respect you. Never Look down on others ... You never know what surprises they could give you .

Mambo XMG Out .

Who to Blame ? "Supply Curve or Demand Curve" ?

2007-08-24T01:21:00.000+08:00

Full Story Here . Credits : www.stomp.com.sg

Summary : Some enterprising people have banked in on humans' basic nature -- Lust , ( Ok , mostly men ) as the ladies would argue .. created a website promising clips , pictures of Singaporean , HongkOng , Malaysian women exposing themselves in public ... Guaranteed good pictures and videos ... even promising to try to film the faces of the women , to let the customers bring their fantasies to a higher level ...

Yup .... managed to track down the site ... haha dun ask me how .... saw one of the pictures as from Sim Lim Square ... So alrite lady friends ... this threat has been real , super real and is now @ the doorstep .

WHO TO BLAME !!!???? THE Girls wearing the short Skirts ( Supply chain ) or the Men ( demand Curve ) Leering @ the frills of the short skirts !!??

Ladies would probably argue , what the hell .. why cant we wear mini skirts? Its You guys who keep looking .. Where is our rights to dress as we wish ??Whatever we wanna wear , its none of your business ... Hell Yeah ... you are right !!

But then again !Who to blame ?? The guys for LOoking ? Yes , to pay to view such clips of innocent women exposing themselves is definitely immoral ... but then again ... NO WOMAN CAN BLAME US MEN for lOOkING @ YOU in MINI SKIRTS in person !!

Every day i go to school ... I get flooded with distracting scenes that make me uncomfortable ... Everywhere i go ... I See beautiful women .. all dressed fashionably ..and many .. Sexily .. JUST for Classes ! I see Ample cleavages , girls in minis , girls in super short hot pants offering their buttcheeks , peeking out cheekily from the seams of the Hot pants ... I See accidental exposures of undies while sitting inappropriately during lectures . WHO CAN TAKE IT ??

Taking the escalator is an embarrassing and uncomfortable experience , especially when a girl in a miniskirt or hot pants is riding the escalator as well ( up above you ) ... I am always forced to FACE the walls or lOOk down @ my shoes , just to prevent accusations and to brush away the ever-nagging temptations to take a Long LOOk @ offending meat-parade right before my eyes.

TO SEE Is Human ( male ) , To Ignore Boobs and Butts is Divine ( or insane ) if you ask me ... I can go on and on and on about all the research studies about How Humans ( guys and gals inclusive) all love to Look @ beautiful things ... WHo The FoOk can ignore a beautiful girl wearing a hot pants/ miniskirt in front of you ? Every guy in the right frame of mind ( as you girls would insist) would definitely wish to take a longer lOok @ the girl's face , figure and YES , the elusive panties under the skirts ! There isnt a need to hide behind a false mask .. Its Just Like tempting a person to commit a crime on the spur of the moment..

Damn it .. every guy ( except the gays ) would gO Crazy when a pretty girl walks past them , dressed to kill ... The flash of flesh ( pun intended) is just an added bonus to the guys , making the IMH patients pale in comparison ..

SO ITS FREAKINGLY UNFAIR to INSIST that we cannot stare or LOok / Gaze Longingly / ogle @ girls just because they wear sexily or provocatively !! Because you are opposing Human nature and causing righteous guys to LOok away .. Defying Human needs !! And it is selfish ! You wanna dress provocatively ..and yet insist Guys Do Not ogle or leer @ you ? Dah.. then I Dun know who the girls would wanna dress up for then ?

So Dear Ladies who are reading this entry ... You definitely have the right to dress up in whichever way you wish ... and I would always appreciate a beautiful lady in front of me ... I would still try my very best to Look away should you offer an unintentional invitation to me , to lOok inTo your precious assets ...but please do not blame me If i cant take my eyes off you ... because it would be too gOod to be True ( Lolz)

For my dear lady friends who still love to play the game of peekaboo , show-you-show-you-not game ... here are some tips for you to make the guys gO even More Crazy :

When bending down to pick up stuff , use your hands to cover your bosom. If You are wearing a short skirt .. use your hands to cover the seams of whatever is left to cover your modesty. If You are wearing a short skirt and showing OooMph Cleavage ... Please use Common Sense to get someone else to help you , or you can try looking like a clown covering your ass and your bosom together .
When taking the escalator , be vigilant of who stands behind you . Occasionally turn around or pretend to Look @ the surroundings. For Upriding escalators , you may wish to sling your bag behind your butt to "take cover" . For down-riding escalators , Swing it to the front . If You have nothing and yet you wanna Cover ... CLOSE THE GAPS between your legs ! Open LEgs are a great temptation for them to sneak a camera in between !
In changing rooms , toilets , fitting rooms , be aware of the surroundings. Keep a lookout for blinking lights , weird objects @ weird angles , telltalesigns like wires. Dun ask me about two-way mirrors... I know nuts , and probably no one bothers abt the mirrors anyway .
In swimming pool toilets or public female only areas , do be careful of other persons using camera handphones near you . Although they may be female , they may juz cash in on the situations . There WERE PREVIOUS CASES OF WOMEN helping men do the filming ....

Be Prudent and Save yourself some embarrassment. Be Nonchalant and maybe, just maybe .. you may just become a Super(porn) Star . Guys will never stop ogling @ girls.

If We cannot stop the demand , We either increase the supply or we CUT off total Supply , making demand die down... whahaha

As for me ... I would just be contented with the occasional Peekaboos that come my way.

XMG out ..

How to be Happy Singaporeans ??

2007-08-03T17:09:00.000+08:00

Its 3rd August , 6 days away from Singapore's 42th Birthday ... This picture taken today 3rd Aug ... Hurhur ... sure reflects the mood of Singaporeans .... Either that , or my block is full of Foreign "TehLans" .

How to be Happy Singaporeans ??? when ........

GST increases from 3% to 5% to 7%
Comfort Delgro increases fares from $2.40 to $2.50 ... and quietly throw in alot of $2.70 Cabs to slowly increase all fares to $2.70 ?
Up and Coming Confirmed-Guaranteed-Chopped Approval for Fare Increments for SMRT & SBS TRansit
ERP Gantries Increasing prices ... Erecting Gantries @ strategic locations to "seal up" Loopholes ... You wanna gO town ? Pay . You Wanna go by slip roads ? No way . PAY !!
When We have to pay $0.7 million dollars juz for a 4 /5 room flat ...And those who sell , realise they have to PAY MORE to get a decent flat .
Traffic on the roads are neck to neck , bumper to bumper , ass to ass , No car , Envious .. Got car , Curse and Swear at the slow traffic ...
When We squeeze on buses , MRT and we start to hear foreign "TehLans" yakking and Yakking away ... Especially the Aunties ... Damn .

Need More Reasons ?? We can go on and on and On ..... Then That would mean being even less Happier ....

Oh Happy Birthday Singaporeans !!

XMG out ..

National Day -- A time to wonder whether its worthwhile staying in Singapore ...

2007-08-02T15:56:00.000+08:00

I juz realised that its been duno how many Donkey Years since I took the initiative to hang the flag outside my Corridor . I still remembered when they announced the GST increment from 3 to 5 % .. there was a newspaper article stating how We Singaporeans got Pissed with the Gahmen and decided not to hang our flags out to celebrate National day ... And to think , now its 5 to 7 % ... HurhurHur ... That probably explained my un-patriotic act ... but rest assured , i will still celebrate NDP as a proud Singaporean

Speaking of Increments ... the Public transport Companies are @ it again .. I am amazed @ the reasons they can give , as an EXCUSE to raise costs . Public Transport is meant to serve the public Our public transports like SMRT , SBS transit can report Healthy profits of Millions ..but yet cite rising costs as their bane ?? My foot ! Ridiculous reasons conjured up to cover up their reasons for MORE PROFITS ! And who can verify how much is their actual energy costs ? Dont we all know the simple trick of magnifying costs whenever we want bigger budgets?? NKF was a damn good example... Granted they have rising energy costs but is that a good enough reason to increase fares ?! Shouldnt they be cutting costs like maintaining their buses more regularly and doing the other necessary stuffs to cut costs ?The Public transport Companies are already reporting already healthy profits of $mils every financial year , so is it public or private transport ? Public transport in other countries do not even earn profits since its public transport .. Commercialisation of public transport

The ones affected would be working adults & Poor SIM students like myself .. who are not enjoying the concessions from the PUBLIC TRANSPORT Companies ... Arghh .. Enough Said .. I believe I am not the only one grousing abt this ... We all have grievances .. but We all know that this request to increase fees , will get approved again , Juz like all the other GST Hikes , ERP implementations ( Oh , they juz increased the ERP fares @ Orchard gantry today)

On all fronts , it seems to me that everything else on the road and in the tunnels remain pretty much unchanged .. except for the increment in fees and fares .

ERP was introduced for what purpose ? To ease traffic ? Issit really working ? They Implement ERP on busy stretches .. to discourage overclusterFooking .. Motorists Flock to other roads to get through .. and the cycle of erecting more ERP gantries goes on ... Personally experienced it 1st hand ...This measure to ease traffic jams seems to become no more than a tool to generate more revenue for the Gahmen .... COE Prices drop ... more cars on the road ... then we get more traffic . COE Prices increase , The $$$ goes to the Gahmen Coffers ... we peasant citizens cant drive . Either way , we pay .. its a matter of HOW MUCH .

Are our Public buses gonna arrive on the dot after the increment ? I doubt so . They can leave the bus terminals on time .. but can they roll on the roads unobstructed ? With all the other private cars on the roads in the morning and evenings ... Fares will increase ..but Bus Services aint gonna improve.

Hurhur .. SMRT ... Fastest transport around to all parts of Singapore ... but it comes @ a Squeeze literally ... try taking the trains in the morning ... The experience is HORRible ..

enough said . Juz Pay. And. Pay !! Tired of all the nonsense ... Foreign TehLans , Pee Ar Cees .. Fare Increases ... Lack of Space ... Aiya ... Happy Birthday Singapore ah ... Lets see whether we will all mutate into pathetic claustrophobic pheasants ( lack space in a cage ) or into a really-world-Class -everything-Must-pay-Society

** I feel so distraught , I dun even think I am structuring my thoughts well enough. Simply wacked all my grievances and unhappiness as a young Singaporean . I see a bleak future for myself and my future generations of authentic pureblood Singaporeans.

XMG out ...

Life will never been the same again ... with Mitsubishi Electric ...

2007-07-11T23:52:00.000+08:00

Oh yeah ... back with updates updates updates ... i do feel guilty that this blog is neglected .. juz that without knowing what to write .. i juz cant pen anything down ...

070707 -- LIVE EARTH Day Saturday ... I felt it was really a ridiculous event that defeated the purpose of this whole event . By linking up the whole world together with concerts , stars , You wanna get the human race to rethink what they are doing to the environment ?

Totally bullshit. Those jet-setting stars flying around in private jets are harming the environment more than 10 of us put together ... The energy and fuel spent to power up the stereos , the satelites and communications devices dont need energy ? Ridiculous ... All these done juz to get us to be aware of Global Warming ?? Hell Yeah ... we are warming it up more on o7 July 07 ... Juz another bloody gimmick... Maybe someone could try convincing China / USA to stop all their industrial pollutions first ... especially China , whose people have the most amazing way to harm the environment ... One full village full of the world's electrical Wastes ... One whole country full of cars emitting carbon ... one whole lot of evil capitalists who think nothing of creating Fakes & then stamping down on piracy again .. what do they do ? They create Fakes , Clamp Fakes and Burn them .. anD Create more fakes again !

Anyway 07 July 07 was an important day for my family ... We did something deemed environment Unfriendly ..We installed Aircon !

Aircon may sound like no big deal for many of u ..but I have endured the Heat for 20 bloody years in Bishan ... and Finally ... my room is complete and breathes new life into me !! Repacked and rearranged Furniture in my room ... bought new accessories for my airconditioned room from Ikea ... something I have been wanting to do for many many years ! and finally I can sleep in peace .

I consider myself Environmentally friendly .. i reject plastic bags when I am @ the shopping malls , I reduce and reuse waste in the office , I am not one to waste resources as compared to many others . I have implemented a self-imposed rule on my room , to have the aircon switched on for maximum 4 hours , juz to cool it for Zzzz ... instead of running it the whole night long ... and Will impose it on my parent's room soon ... Such practical actions are probably more effective than some bloody concert ... and Probably the Mitsubishi Electric Airconditioner would really save electricity and the environment ... It better ...or Jack Neo is gonna be a sinner .. Coz I BELIEVE in HIM ... paid for his commission & fat paycheck by deciding on Mitsubishi Electric

Sunday 080707 --- Sentosa trip with Sunshine , Weewee and Nana..

Woke up early enough to go to Siloso beach with the girls to "suntan" Hahha Lucky bastard huh ? Oh Yeah yeah ...But No fotos to post of the girls in bikinis .. simply coz they didnt wear any bikinis wahhaa .. and even if they did .. I would get slaughtered for posting their skimpy fotos on the blog ....

Alan ... I am so sorry !!!

It was definitely relaxing ... soaking in the seawater ... drifting along with the waves ... enjoying the sun sand and sea ... and with 3 girls accompanying me wahaha ... but definitely miss those beach volleyball days with Phil , Fionie , Eric and other #NPCC channel people ... those overnight camping trips ... the early morning beach volleyball games on the beach ... Woah ... Miss those days ... will wanna organise one outing for beach volleyball soon.

Went tram-travelling.. enjoying the tram rides to and fro ... before we saw the Street Luge and the very interesting Skyride .. that resembled the electric cable pulleys pulling chairs carrying skiiers to the top of the mountain to Ski down ..

Thats the height we were @ ... kinda freaky .. sitting in midair and juz dangling on a seat ... but everything was tranquil and peaceful ... and silence ...

The view of Sentosa from the Skyride ... apologize for the lack of photoshopped fotos .. not in the mood ... and the fotos are tough to edit as well ...

The Street Luge was fun ! we zipped down the slopes , cutting corners @ relatively high speeds... too bad it ended quite fast ... and Of course ... Marcus reached the endpoint first .. because Marcus was good in manoveuring the Luge ... and because Marcus was the Heaviest ! haha Gravity Pulls !

We got Sun-Kissed . rosy rosy cheeks from the Sun . ..

Managed to take a nice shot of the setting sun as our background ... ahhh .. its been awhile since I had nice fotos on my blog and friendster ...

We ended the day @ vivocity ... which was really quite relaxing ... Had dinner @ HK Kim Gary ... Food was still ok ... done reviews on it before .. but the food is getting boring ... not forgetting I nearly once swallowed a piece of chipped glass from that very restaurant and they juz brushed it off with a sorry . Damn.

Went Shopping @ "Jiao Da Niao" chinese translation of one of my favourite shops .. Why advertise for them ?I liked this black grey blue striped shirt ... while Sunshine saw this pink Collar T that she said she would wanna See me wearing this ... so 1 intended purchase became 4 T-shirts . I bought the shirt on the left while Sunshine bought the black and Pink shirt for me , and the blue shirt for Malcolm ... Shitz I think she dotes on him more than me . Anyway it was a happy day !

Monday -- 10/07/07 1 major Surprise !

Remember my Ex Taipei Walker II 2nd trip ??

I was @ Bishan Bus Interchange on Monday Morning ... and to my most Pleasant surprise ... i saw someone that I thought I would NEVER EVER SEE again in my life !

What was the probability of you going on a trip and having a nice tour guide that made u enjoy your entire trip ? very small rite ?

What was the probability of you seeing this tour guide if you went back taiwan , Hualien again ? even Smaller rite ?

NOW WHAT IS THE PROBABILITY OF YOU meeting YOur Taiwanese Tour guide from Hualien in Singapore ?? Even Smaller than Small rite ?

And he Exactly arrived in Singapore and he appeared @ my homeground in Singapore !! It was really amazing ! Such a coincidence ! And he remembered us ! He remembered that we went last year and we were part of his group ! He remembered us ! It is a pleasant surprise !! He invited us back to Taipei again !

Wednesday Today -- Went KTV with KokFai & Rae after school .... They were nice enuff to accompany me to collect my glasses @ queensway .. then we proceeded to KTV .. Alot of new songs to sing ... and i found worthy singing partners in KokFai & Rae .. quite a mind-blowing day ...

XMG out ..

Finally Feel alive

2007-06-19T23:53:00.000+08:00

Dripping from Perspiration .... Its been awhile ... since I jogged .... since I blogged ... It feels great to be in a mood ... in a mood to do something ... and I did two things in one night ... things that I haven done for a long long time .... and finally I felt alive for once .

Dun wanna set resolutions , will juz see how things go , since my resolutions end up as blank cheques anyway ... Will try out different ways of motivating myself ....

Haven been blogging coz I wasnt in the right mood ..and my favourite digicam is down and out ... left in a corner .. no fotos , half my mood is gone. I juz love good fotos.

Results are out as follows and that explained perfectly why I haven been blogging ..

Management Accounting -- A Fantastic NN = Failure ..Totally blew my mind out
Commercial Law --A PASS with 1 more blerdy mark to hit a Credit . Damn
Business Statistics -- A PASS , I was very happy I passed , but was expecting another Credit
Prices and Markets -- A Shocking PASS , when I was expecting a DI or a Credit .

Have been trying to come to terms with the Fugged up results ... especially the double blow of a failure and other results falling much below expectations ...only comfort that I could draw was from the packed room full of people who failed 1 module or more ... Even that couldnt bring me much relief ... from the thought of having to repeat the boring dreadful module together and having to pay $1200++ more for the module ...

I juz dun wanna think about it anymore . I need More Discipline next semester ... and the $1200 will probably be nagging @ me for the next whole semester .

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Work has been great , back @ work for over a month ... brought in KokFai and Rae to work in SiS ... And we have been hanging around together during work Oopz .. toilet breaks .. and lunch ... Feel glad in a way , coz got to know the guys better and bond , apart from being in school .

SiS is still the same , high turnover , people come , people go ... Veron has been kind to me , taking good care of me , introducing extra incomes like the IT Show , and also taking care of Kokfai and myself in our Microsoft Team . She has grown up abit , more steady in her new role as Product Manager .

I still feel the satisfaction from this job , having known the resellers since 2005 end , and have made friends with many of them. The feeling is great when they approach you for pricings , and give you deals .. having promised you that they would look for you. It may be no big deal to many , really .. the satisfaction of them remembering you ... heaping compliments to you for good service and most importantly , giving you the deals as promised .... its a win win situation .. and I feel happy and thats probably the reason and answer to many SiS people's question of why am I still coming back to SiS every Quarter ...

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My Love has been great generally , apart from the occasional "pickering" as what Sunshine says , and the Occasional Bickering as what I corrected her ...hahah everything is fine . As a couple , we encountered many issues , and many recurring ones ...and I am quite glad we still manage to iron out the creases @ the end of day/or many days .. haha

We are suffering from Taipei withdrawal symptoms , and have made a determined resolution to visit Taipei AGAIN in december ... Other than that , a Short Kuala Lumpur trip maybe ? Life is Short ... Love may be even shorter ... Would love to spend time with my love as much as I can .. for no one can predict the future . ..

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Was reading Phil's freshly updated blog ... Yeah , like mine , badly maintained and lacked updates til now ... I hope this bro of mine is starting to pick up his pieces like me , although I believe he has it worse..

On the topic of my friends ... Gavin got married to Edna , we went to his dinner .. met lots of old NPCC seniors , friends and comrades ... a good feeling ... Jack got his dream house , which was really quite fantastic with a walk-in wardrobe , movie room and all ... JR's belated birthday bash was a smash , haven got so wasted for awhile , although I didnt puke .. but kudos to the Barcadi 151 ... which fuelled the mambo King the whole night long

Enough of yadda yaddaa without pictures ... Shit .. life is so boring without a camera . til the next update .. which i hope is soon .

XMG Out ..

Dream or premonition ?

2007-05-25T13:53:00.000+08:00

Woke up in cold sweat ...jumped up in fright after a surreal dream ... Dreamt that I flunked both my Management Accounting and Business Statistics .. Holding Onto a piece of paper which stated : "NN" ( Fail ) for both MA & Biz Statistics ... I juz sat down in disbelief ... The handwritten "NN" was staring @ me in the face ...

After waking up .. I was more than relieved that It was a dream ... KokFai was telling me Dreams are opposite of reality ... and that I would pass both modules then . How I wish I could know my results now ....

2pm ... back to Work ...Yeah .. I am back @ SiS to work again ..

XMG out ..

Multi-Racial Marcus

2007-05-16T23:49:00.000+08:00

* Uncle , Bishan Shi San Jie ( Bishan St 13 )

The Uncle lOok @ me * blur *

Uncle : Bishan Street what ? >> Malay Uncle

I apologized immediately .. and joked with him .. " Saya boleh Cekap Melayu " ... He was pleasantly surprised ! haha , he immediately asked me more ...

We spoke about Singapore's multi-racial issues , the common misconceptions between Malay and chinese and other races ... He was very very enthusiastic and excited to know how a chinese guy like me could hold a decent conversation in Melayu and have positive thinkings about his race ...

I explained that I had many good malay friends in NPCC .. especially Azman , Ismadi to name a few .. and race wasnt a barrier to our friendship ... I told him Hari Raya and CNY gatherings were a yearly affair , and race and language wasnt any barrier ...

He was beaming with pride , calling us the "Hamburger Generation" of kids , who are well educated enough to push aside Racial Discrimination ...

Haha , I juz hope this little gesture will bring racial harmony to greater heights ...

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XMG out .....

The feeling of Fighting to Save $1200++ ....

2007-05-08T06:01:00.000+08:00

Ever played a game whereby you have to win the game or U stand to Lose $$$ ??

Welcome to my game of Exams ... where You either pass the module ... or fail and pay ~$1200 to retake the module ...I have been playing this game for 2 weeks++ liaoz ... so far played 3/4 of the games. left 1/4 or the last paper to play ...

Feeling ? Totally intimidating and Ball Shrinking ...

Yesterday was one of those days whereby I felt the real fear of failing my exams ... As I picked up the Exam script to read .. my hands were really trembling ... I had grossly underestimated the fatality of Business Statistics ... The feeling of having only 20% confidence in the module when you step into the hall ... was really terrible ...

I was ill-prepared for the module ... underestimated the difficulty of the module ... ended up having Sunshine and my younger brother CRASH-COURSE the past year exams to me all in a period of 12 hours ...

Prior to this , I had only revised 2 out of the 5 structural Questions and touched none of the MCQ questions ...

Sunshine was really really sweet to go through the entire formula sheet with me , telling me how each formula worked ... and she only went back home late into the night ...

And Malcolm was nice enough to help me solve and explain certain questions ...

So How ?? Business Statistics Paper was still tough ... But I would Say this was really a fluke chance ... As the exam questions were almost what I prepared and practiced the previous night ... so I juz vomitted whatever I had absorbed ... onto the answer booklet ...

Probability of Passing Business Statistics = 0.60 or 60% ..... I crossing my fingers ...
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Really reminds me of Guodong's blog name > Constant effort is Life's greatest Shortcut ... while my behaviour is a case of Last Minute Effort is Exam's greatest Shortcut ...... Kids , DUN TRY THIS @ HOME ... Great Percentage of Risk involved ...

Last Paper = Management Accounting ... This module is worse ... All we did each lesson was to listen to the old Hag named Mrs Bean Ng ( YES SHE LOOKs and Dresses like the female version of Mr Bean , and her Name is Really BEAN ! ) ...

She is a bore to listen to ... She juz speaks in a monotone about each chapter ... and juz flashes answers to the previous tutorials .. and juz carry on speaking in her ----------- monotone------- voice .... Its a vicious cycle each lecture ...

So each lecture , we juz go there to copy answers to questions that we have no idea of , and listen to her telling you more about peanuts and cashew nuts ... and all you understand is ....... Nuts ... Smart ...

So here we go again .... Thursday shall be the last game of chance to save $1200 ... Pass and Go on to Year 2 ... Fail ?? Pay $1200 and repeat module ... Damn .. sounds like Monopoly ... Oh Shit did I mention

Prices and Markets ?
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6.19 am , 8 Iced Lemon Teas , 5 Extra Value Meals , 3 Apple Pies , 7 bottles of Chicken Essence and counting ....

Time to revise in LaLa Land ...

Btw , Chicken Essence is really potent ... I had only 3 hours of sleep ... Drank 2 bottles of Chicken Essence in 10 hour intervals .... Lasted a total of 27 hours without sleep ... and no Shag !

XMG out ... shagged ...

5 Iced Lemon Teas , 3 Apple Pies , 2 Breakfast Meals and Counting ....

2007-04-28T04:48:00.000+08:00

Its 4.52 am ... early " release " from revision tonight ... Both Calvin and myself juz not in the mood for revision ...

The Macdonalds @ AMK Garden is really quite nice ... Nice --- Ala Villa Bali style .. with water features .. waterfalls .. PlanTs and lush greenery surrounding the tables .. with the sound of water flowing continously ...gives a sense of calm when it gets into the wee hours of the morning ... ie : 1am onwards ... when the crowd thins and the cows go home to zzz ... And thats when we get some peace ...

Been hanging out with Calvin @ the Mac .. where we have seem to find our comfortable spot in a table with good lighting over our heads ...

5 Iced Lemon Teas , 3 Apple Pies , 2 Breakfast Meals and counting ... so far clocked this amount of food from MacDonalds , while Calvin clocked 2 additional cups of Cuppucino... It juz gets worse when we get bored ..

Comm Law is over ... I would say I didnt fare too well in the paper ... 3 hours to tackle a total 4 main questions with Sub-questions ... and I realised that I did miss out on quite a few points ... Heard some other coursemates yakking about themselves not completing the Law paper on time ... not completing this question .. totally ignoring that question .. "white white" give away 10 marks ... I can only pray our marks get moderated , to push everyone up 1 notch ...

3 more monsters to kill ... and its much tougher .. because its been a horrible Sem ... mentioned Management Accounting and Business Statistics as my jinx modules ... and they are coming right up .... Slowly slowly understanding Business Statistics .. but still blur on many of the questions ... cant help but wonder if i can survive this semester without "ta-baoing" any modules ...

Sunshine is also taking exams ... she also stressed ... Its been 6 days since I met her ... I miss her of course =( ..

Oh Please please please ... Please Po Bee me and my sunshine... bless my ass ... Rock my Sock , shoot my foot ... whatever it takes for us to pass this sem safely ...

5.06am ... time to retire ... XMG out ...

Pre-Exams Rantings

2007-04-25T02:04:00.000+08:00

Hello ... Sorry for the lack of updates ... simply so much to revise before the exams ...

Been a bloody slacker for the bulk of this semester .. failed to realise my solutions made last semester .. to prepare in advance ..and revise early for examinations .. probably due to the 4 modules that I am taking this semester ... totally Sucks ...and totally of no interest to me ... Yet I have to trudge on ...

Had a little sweet success in last semester ... with 2 distinctions (B) and a credit ( C ) ... didnt get any high distinctions ( A) .. but who cares ?? the 3 modules were totally out of my imagination already ... and thus this semester .. I had the same desires early in the Sem ... to try to maintain a proper record of reasonable distinctions ... but ALAS ...

Management Accounting Sucks --- Lecturer Sucks .. topic Sucks .. I was totally weak in Accounts .. and that was the Credit ( C) that I got for 1st sem ...And Now ... the Killer module has nearly wiped out the whole lecturer hall ... for the 2nd test ... My last module shall be this killer ..

Business Stats --- SamiNathan , the Guru of SIM MacroEconomics was teaching this module .. but sadly .. I failed to work magic under his guide .. clocked my 1st NN ( fail ) for this sem ... Biz Stats shall be one of my toughest modules in my May exams ... argh ..

Prices & Markets --- Microeconomics ... Not exactly my strongest module .. but surprisingly ... I fared well enough with a High Distinction and a Credit for my 2 tests ... this module shall carry the most of my hope in getting @ least a DI (distinction ) for this Fuggedup semester ...

Commercial Law --- Oh My god .. Language language Language .. Sunshine Says I shld be strong in this since I am argumentative ( @ least with her ) Lolz ... but I guess i was gOod @ Summarizing the whole question , instead of elaborating ... and my results juz came out .. got a PASS for Law report ... got me sumhow dumbfounded ... and finally realised my mistake ... with only 2 days to rectify my writing style .. to suit the Fugging Exams this thurs April 26th ...

Conclusion ... This semester is a terrible nightmare with 4 modules that I have the least interest in .. yet I know I must @ least trudge on and get PASSes in order to go onto the next Year .. Cannot afford to "Tabao" any modules .... Juz for the simple fact that if I "tabao" .. things will only get Harder for me as Shit gets accumulated ... and paying additional amounts of $$$ through my own future earnings .. isnt exactly my fancy .. So I say Fug the distinctions ... Come Wat May ... failures Not withstanding ..

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Sunshine is also having her exams , and having similar modules as mine , although hers is more indepth ... Cant wait to See her graduate ... and yet having apprehensions @ how our relationship may change as she steps into the working world ...

Spoken to her about it .. got my assurances in a way .. but admittedly .. Nothing stays ceterus Paribus forever ... And I only hope that our relationship can stand the test of time ...and my fiery temper @ times .. although I must admit I have mellowed .. and have tamed my own temper from previous years .. Infront of my sunshine ... somehow juz cant bear to Yell and make a BIGGER HoOHaa than I used to behave ... but oh well ... as she mentioned , there is always lots of room for improvements ...

There are so many things that I cannot afford right now ... Cannot afford to fail my upcoming exams ... Cannot afford to lose my sunshine ... ( been through heartbreak before ... I know How I reacted that time ) ... That feeling was terrible and felt like tonnes of granite enough to supply Singapore ... Weighing on your chest .. Oh Sheesh .. Expressed to my Sunshine shamelessly that I couldnt and can never afford to lose her ... but as we both agreed ... No one can guarantee the future .... We can only ride the waves and storms together ...

So much more to rant about ... can go on and on ... but Sheesh ... I needa Zzzz ...

2 more Days to LAW / WAR !!!

XMG signing out ...

Mind-blowing Clip --- Guys, If You dun watch , YOU REGRET !!

2007-04-14T02:34:00.000+08:00

Courtesy of Alan Chong ... Thanks AH !!

This clip left me totally speechless ... OH My gawd ... what a sight ... 4 babes ... Oh manz

its a good break to take ... away from exams ...

Argh !! The Lucky Bastards ... look @ them pawwing the babes !! ARGH !!!

Heez ....

XMG .. signing out ..

Time to hug Buddha's Legs again ...

2007-04-11T00:37:00.000+08:00

Hugging Buddha's Legs >> Ling shi bao Fuo Jiao ... >> Doing things last min , then start to panick ..

I think I always do that ... have been doing that for like duno since when... I dun know why .. Juz dun have mood to study early .. end up cramping late

Anyway .. Exams are here again ... Probably gotta postpone blogging about Day 06 of Ex Taipei Walker II ... and other stuFFs until after exams .. or when i need a break from exams ..

** On a lighter note , upon recommendations , another group of friends have gone to OneStar Hotel in Taipei !! Jean and Daniel are happily enjoying their 4th day in Taipei ... Chatted with her on MSn for awhile ... and Zu Ren was by her side !!! hahah .. We miss Taipei .. too bad not gOIng back this June ... Damn .

XiaoMaGe , Signing out ...

Suicide Drama ...

2007-03-28T01:54:00.000+08:00

So Damn Drama yesterday ... I regretted not Wacking that bastard with a broomstick ..

Yesterday ( monday night ) ... I finished bathing .. Heard a commotion downstairs ... sounded like a kid crying and yelling : " Don't die !! " numerous times

I thought it was a traffic accident downstairs ... and wanted to take a look , all prepared to Call the ambulance ...

I Opened my door ... and WAS SHOCKED TO SEE a 50++ year old Indian man with one leg over the parapet !! He Shouted down : I die !

Immediately I closed my door and Called the Police ...

** my neighbours walked past soon after .... and the Police and Fire brigade soon arrived ** ... I opened my door and Saw NO ONE @ the parapet ... but of course ... No suicide ..

By then , 2 police officers and a few firemen came up to my storey ... and I informed the cops that i was the one who dialled for them .

The situation was tense as everyone was trying to find the "suicidal" idiot ... I described his looks ( botak , 50 ++ years old with shorts ... ) It was juz a one second glimpse ... as I was shocked to See that Indian Guy with his leg over the parapet .

*** Closed the door soon after ... and left the cops to do their job *** but apparently that was it .

** After Action Review **

My mum chided me for bringing the whole Gingang of Fire brigade and Police in .... Small issue blown big. I felt otherwise . She completely didnt See the Bigger picture ...

If the Bloody Selfish bastard jumped :

resale value of our whole block of flats would have plummeted. My block is a very valuable block .. 5 mins walk from Bishan Bus Interchange... with facilities all nearby
Emotional trauma caused to whoever saw his dead body downstairs ... whoever was nearby and witnessed his fall to death , and my whole block of flats ... I bet everyone will be jittery ..
Ghost stories are sure to surface ... and Fuck ... I go home late every alternate day ... I Dun wanna see his spirit stuck @ my parapet .. forever jumping off in infinite loop .
My auntie has already been so frightened that she never stepped out of the house today ... Effects are already showing .. exaggerating but true ...

We will be the ones suffering if he really fell . I think I was right in calling in the cops . I cannot afford to wait for him to fall to his death before I call in the cops to do the cleaning up ... too late by then. I cannot afford to let such a thing even happen.

Wilson was right to say luckily he ran off . Better to have him run off , then to have him really stuck @ the parapet with the police coaxing him for hours ... or having the cops busily pickingup his bits and pieces of grey matter under my void deck .

Fucking selfish bastard .

Ex Taipei Walker II -- Day 05 ShenKeng + DanShui Lao Jie

2007-03-21T23:33:00.000+08:00

Day 05 Finally Up !!!

**** Okie Dokie , here comes the narration ... So many evenTs happening .. but stuck @ Taipei Walker II ... Cant blog abt them ... Shooting , School , CNY , Phil's birthday bash @ dbl O ... OMG ... ++ Exams coming up ... probably gotta Pang zui Lau ( let the water flow ) ...***

Ex Taipei Walker II -- Day 05 ShenKeng + DanShui LaoJie

I remembered We had ample rest after being shagged out from Day 04 , total 16 hours non stop action ... Taipei is really too fun to be missed ... Perhaps is juz me and my 3 ladies ... but I think we really had a lot of fun in Taipei , to go back twice in 2006 , within a short span of 5 months.

After Breakfast ... Zu Ren ( Yes Yes Our Favourite Manager , You will See him later in this entry ) drove us to ShenKeng Lao Jie ... a place famous for Sibei Smelly Tofu that tastes really gOod !!

Here You can See my 3 princesses @ the enTrance of ShenKeng LaoJie ... The Morning air was chilly and we were greeted by the aromatic Pong of the Smelly Toufu .. ( contradicting ) but TRUE !! very very Nice !! Very Very Smelly !!

It was only abt 1040am in the morning ... and ShenKeng was brimming with people ... So crowded yet we enjoyed the "ren qi "

ShenKeng Lao Jie was somehow Similar to JiuFen ... Seems like an old street that has existed for probably more than 50 years ... Signboards everywhere ... Good food @ almost every stall ... Yummy goOOdies ... I had a lime Sorbet & Mango Sorbet ( refer to pic above ) ... We also tried the Wild boar Kebab/ Satay .. Hmmz .. I love pork , wild pork , ALL THE SAME !! but Sunshine got alil terrified about the wild boar satay . Too bad theY dun have ketupat and the peanut sauce.

Ahhh ... For those of you who have heard alot abt Singapore Pulau Tekong's wild boars ...but have never Seen one ... this is a mini wild boar .. This boar is quite tame ... but the ones we NS guys encounter @ Pulau Tekong , are bigger , wilder ..and more ferocious . I prefer the wild boar on a Satay Skewer ...

We went to try Tofu Icecream next ... Innovative people ... they actually freezed their tofu into ice-cream ... so novel ... I still remember the taste ... could still remember the "burnt Chao Tah" taste of the ice cream . bland but healthy. Nice .

The 3 girls outside the Tofu Ice-cream shop. Hahah ... these "aunties" bought alot ... We even bought some Milk guavas from a guy who looks Like " DongLi Huo Che " , PowerStation , a taiwanese duo ... The milk Guavas are nice !! because they are crunchy ..and there is TASTE OF MILK !!

HoHo !! It is always enjoyable to Eat Hot Crispy food in chilly weather ... Highly recommended especially @ Shih-Lin night Market ... Try out the very very Cheap $0.50 Sotong Balls ( NT$10 per stick ) ... for 3 sotong balls . And You MUST COAT your balls ( Oopz ) with the very spicy chilli powder and spices . Guaranteed to warm you up nicely !! and its cheaper than our Old Chang Kee definitely ..

ShenKeng has loads and loads of Taiwanese Local Produce ... their Biscuits , their peanut candy , their EVERYTHING IS NICE !! YES !! NO JOKE ! simply delicious ... Almost every stall Seems to Sell GOOD biscuits ... we tried our luck @ this particular stall ... the lady assistant was very kind to give us an extra biscuit hahah .. Not That we asked for it lah .. Rather because we all bought from her stall ...

We were attracted by this Black Toufu Shop ... that really looked and sounded like a Pirates' Den ... Very old old feel .. the lighting in the shop was warm ..and cozy ... and the furniture was really befitting of the theme .. very old stools and benches ... like those you See in ancient Taverns in the movies ...

Haha ... Shenkeng Famous for Toufu , Of course we ate toufu !!! We had hot spicy Toufu in soup ..( abit like Tomyam ) .. Deep Fried toufu in Sauce ... and fried toufu again ... hahah with Rice .. Verdict ?? I remembered that the TomYam Toufu and Crispy Toufu was nice .. with the sauce ... Yummy ..

Nice Feel in the Shop huh ... With Sammo Hung Poster ... as "Bruised Lee" ... kekeke So Different from Restaurants in Singapore ... YOU will NEVER GET SUCH an Ambience in a Singaporean restaurant ... I bet my ass on it . Ok .. maybe yes... but STILL ... the authentic place is HERE !

Anyway , we left Shenkeng Happily ... with nice memories of that place ... Rushed back to OneStar Hotel to meet up with Zu Ren ... he Said he would drive us to take a ferry down to Dan Shui Lao Jie ...

On The way back .... We Saw this Cute Looking Incinerator Chimmney .... WHERE THE HELL WILL YOU SEE THIS In SIngapore ??

Zu Ren Drove us to DaDaoCheng Wharf ... a pier that lOOks suspiciously like a dam , to Guard against the big waves of the Sea ... but very very very nice place .. romantic for couples to stroll along the wharf ... windy ... Saw lots of cyclists ... We quickly gOt our tickets for the ferry thats gonna set sail @ 1600 H

We were set to sail from DaDao Cheng Wharf .... to Guan Du Pier ... then switch another ferry to DanShui Lao Jie ... HoHoho ... Sailing Upstream !!!

DaDaocheng got Cafe Somemore !! Got AuntiE selling fried dough+ Hotdogs .+ Nuggets .. + AngMor Kopi !! Good CoFFee on a GOOd windy Day to Keep one warm .. and Chirpy ...

View of the pier ... and the Sea ...

We were So DAMN UNLUCKY OR LUCKY ? >> we were slow in boarding the ferry .. ( as usual hahah we take photos everywhere and anywhere , dillydally ) ... We were slow .. there werenT anymore seats in the ferry !! So where did we sit ?? WE SAT ON THE DECK !!! Yeah ... No safety issues , the taiwanese boatman said ... gO ahead ... it would be chilly and cold !! but what the heck .. we were more than willing to take in the scenery , the breeze .. and everything !! And guess what ... we blocked out the view of everyone who was in the cabin.

All they could See from inside ... were 4 happy Singaporeans taking in the seabreeze and the fantastic scenery.....

The view from our position ... totally Shiokz ...

Along the way ... the boatman chatted with us ... and the blerdy buaya came to chat us up ... and his focus was largely on Nana ... hahah .. the blerdy buaya from Yilan expressed his undying love for Shawna !!! OoOoO The buaya boatmen tot we were still students ..and Called us "Tong Xue" the affectionate way of Calling classmates in Taiwan ... and Shawna was the Senior ... Lolz ..

Out of 4 of us ... Shawna was the Senior Classmate , WeeWee was the quiet one ... SunShine was the studious one .. and I was the playful one ... Or so assumed by our buaya Boatman ..

Upon Arrival @ Guan Du Pier ... He requested for Shawna's address , Name , and even gave us his address in Yilan .. On his OWN ACCORD !! He "begged" Shawna to send him a letter .... which was never ever gonna even leave Singapore .... hahhaa .. Poor guy ...

Happily took some videos of the whole boat journey ...

When we arrived @ Guan Du Pier , it was turning dark , although it was only 4.45pm ... but as it was winter .. everything turned darker faster ... More cyclists ... went for a Pee break in a mobile dirty toilet which was damn dark , eerie .. and You couldnt See where you were peeing ....

And SoOn we were up on another ferry .... this time it was too dark to sit outside , as there were safety concerns that we might fall overboard and no one would know ... So we guai guai sit inside with the lifevests ...All 4 of us fell asleep ... Yawnz ....

It was nighttimE .. or evening ... when we reached Danshui Lao Jie ... It was different from Danshui Yu Ren Ma Tou ( Danshui Fisherman Pier ) that we went in July 2006 ... This Lao Jie was full of shops ... novelties .. food as usual ... very very Boat Quay-like ...

We Passed by a novelty shop ... exhibiting reptiles , snakes , amphibians ... and some other weird creatures ... took a quick FREE look ... No pay money ... Snap some photos .. and Viola ... we were considered to have been there ...

Some other Shops were displaying funny items ... like Ferris wheel models ... and This cute shop had a cute little boy with a cute little ass in the glass display ... Oh Yeah ... i Spanked him real hard ....

A view of Danshui Lao Jie ...

We stumbled upon this Teddy bear shop selling thousands if not millions of teddy bears .... and the 3 girls went ballistic .... Totally gaga over the bears .... king Kong bear .. KongKing Bear .. Carebear .. Sunbear .. Watever bear You want ... they probably had it ... and yes they were cute ...

Every xiao meimei chose their own bearbears to take photos with .. but no xiaomeimei bought a teddy home to Singapore .. because each Teddy bear came with a hefty price of @ least $100 SGD ... So Juz Hug .. Touch .. and Say byebye !!!

We had an appointment with Zu Ren ... Who was so kind enough to suggest a get-together meal with us ... He Said it was gonna be a simple Dinner ( to welcome us back to taipei again ) ... and also a farewell dinner since it was the last night of our 2nd trip ...

So we rushed back by MRT ... then Cab to OneStar .... before Zu Ren packed us off into another Cab to this Wonderful Yummy Restaurant ....

It was another 80's themed restaurant which Zu Ren seemed to love coming ... and he was very much @ home there ... and he sure knew what to order for us to EAT ! His Treat !!!

First to be Served was Taiwanese beer ... and I reckon we had 6 bottles between us 2 men ... madness ... he was like a thirsty Beer guzzling Camel ... and one thing i learnt was never to be too Ke qi with him ... He pour .. U drink .. He pour again !! The photo shows 3 bottles of beer .. but I tell You 3 more bottles were cleared away ..

Zu Ren also ordered their famous prawn noodles , which was a tasteful delight .. the soup was clear and Sweet ... Fermented Eggs with Wine ... SharkMeat Sashimi ( cold and soft ) , braised tofu with soya sauce , Damn Nice and crispy grilled Unagi ... Crispy Fried Sotong Head and Scary but very very nice Duck's Tongue ... Very very addictive Ducks Tongue stir-fried in Sauces ... Simply Yummy ..

After Somewhat Many many beers ... Zu Ren let his hair down ... and we heard many personal stories about him .... his " fierce Dragon" tatoo on his chest ... his youngster Gangster Days ... Oh Yeah ... hahah .. He was a really Cool guy ...

The meal came up to NT$1680 (SGD$60++ )... but Zu Ren insisted in settling the bill ... saying it was his way of welcoming us back .. and also for helping him to advertise abt their hotel ... AwwwWWw ...

Damn ... Sounds SO gay ... but We all miss him so much ... Simply a very nice Taiwanese friend that we have met during our 2 trips ... It guess it is fate .. and Even the 3 girls who are normally very dao ... also like him to bits ...

The night was still Young !! Zu Ren accompanied us to Shih-Lin to Play !!! Hahaha .. After the beers ... he is SoOOoO MUCH MORE FUNNIER !!! and there you go !!! Our Taipei Bodyguard ...

Taiwan Ah Cheng ( His name really got Cheng ) ... Our Zu Ren ... Our friend .... kekek .. He played Mahjong pairing games ... Shot Airguns with me ... and we won ourselves Minnie Mouse ... and more ... And he finally got tired .. and left for home .... WhiLe >>>>>>>>>>

While >>> the girls continued playing !!! $0.50 Game can last them SoO Long !!!! Lolz .... They played like mad because it was gonna be probably @ least another few months ??? before we were coming back to Shih-Lin Night Market again ...

Total number of hours clocked for Day 5 : 16.5 Hours ...

XiaoMaGe , Signing out ...

a little peek @ Day 5

2007-03-13T02:06:00.000+08:00

So much to update , inclusive of shooting & CNY pics .. slowly slowly lah .. take my time , since these are not important , compared to upcoming tests and exams . Sighz .. flunked 1 test ... my bad my bad ..

** Day 05 pics almost ready ...

XiaoMaGe , signing out

Ex Taipei Walker II -- Day 04 Taipei LongShan Temple + XiMenDing

2007-02-27T12:57:00.000+08:00

Ex Taipei Walker II --- Day 04 LongShan Temple + XiMenDing

Day 04 was rather relaxing and less hectic , Compared to Day 03 's travelling up Yangmingshan

We had covered most of the "siong" destinations that required lots of energy , like Taroko Gorge in Day 2 , and YangMingShan Nature Reserve in Day 3 .. So Day 04 Was Rest & Relax in Taipei ...

After Breakfast ...Zu3 Ren4 ( Hotel Manager) sent us to LongShan Si ( very very old Temple with long history.). We passed by the Presidential Building enroute to the temple

Everything was back to normal , compared to the "Red Army's Tian Xia Wei Gong movement in August . Then , the common people of Taiwan gathered around , dressed in Red , and surrounded the Presidential Building , Demanding that their Allegedly Corrupted President Chen Shui Bian Step DOWN !

Zu3 Ren4 was Forever So pissed and passionate whenever he talked about kicking Chen Shui Bian OFF his Seat. lolz ... He told us alot more stories of the Red movement .. and we were thinking How fun it would have been , to be in Taipei during August to Sept 2006. Lolz ... Go there be Kaypoh , Support Zu Ren and other Taiwanese , HOW FUN !

Security is less tight now ... only Military Policemen with their Taiwan versions of the M-16s ( TK-91) and other barricades. Zu3 Ren4 said that they used to ban vehicles from driving near the building and they used to have CCTVs and Snipers positioned @ strategic positions. Now the snipers relax in one corner ...haha .

Reached LongShanSi .. nothing Impressive on the outside ... But Nei You Qian Kun .. ( more than meets the eye) ... The interior of the 100+ Year Old temple was very majestic...LOoks much better than our WaterLoo Street Guanyin Temple ...

It was said that during the Japanese occupation In taiwan ... The Allied forces dropped bombs on Taiwan .. a 200kg bomb dropped on the temple .. but miraculously .. the main temple didnt suffer any visible damages ... I had wanted to come here during the 1st Taipei trip in July 2006 , but could only come here during the 2nd trip in December 2006... Finally got to See this Majestic temple near Hua Xi Alley where all the snakes are ...

They had a nice mini waterfall with lots of Japanese Koi ... and we took some nice nice fotos there ...

We then proceeded to walk down the streets of Taipei ... to Go Xi-Men-Ding ... Their Much more Hip Version of Our Boring Orchard Road ....

It Was Their Polling Day for their Taipei Mayor Elections. LoLz ... Taiwan Politics and Politicians are juz SoOo interesting ...

Caption on Picture above with Baby : Let the Taipei Women bear children without worries or Fear ( about being unable to raise the child ) ... Let The Taiwanese Mothers See the Future. Hidden Message ... Vote for the #17 Candidate ... See the #17 @ the right bottom Corner.

Hahah .. They focus on one particular issue that hits most Taipei Residents .. then promise to make changes to existing policies ... Juz to get that vote . SoOoo DiFFerenT from Singapore ??

Candidate #17 Du Shu Guan Calls herself " Tu Shu Guan " Library .. in order to get voters to remember her name .. and also uses The former President Lee Teng Hui to endorse her ... roflolz ..

The 3 girls were very excited ... as After our 1st Taipei trip ... They Decided that they must dress More "Hip Hip Hurray" the next time they come back to XiMenDing ...

All are Hiao Hiaoz liaoz ...Indeed Xi Men Ding is one of the most happening places to go in Taipei ...its one of their most trendy places to go , where Stars & celebrities hold their CD launches .. performances , where Taiwan hosts like XiaoZhu , XiaoGui , Wu Zhong Xian and some other hosts go to interview people ..and play games on the streets .. Indeed a very vibrant place to be in ...

We knew Xi Men Ding well ... And we went back excitedly to try out our Favourite TaMaGoYa " Dan Dan wu " TaMaGoYa Egghouse ... an egg-themed restaurant with lots of nice food.

The Food was still quite Yummy ... and we tried new dishes ... Hahah ... There was a cute cute weet U weet Waitress with a Damn "Cute Kawaii neh !!" voice ... soOOooO Damn Sweet that You could get Diabetes from hearing her voice. She looked juz like a anime Character + her sweet voice ... Oh ma god ... I think she fits well into a Hentai Anime ... will blur any guy silly ..

Updated a Video Clip on Youtube .. to Show how crowded XiMenTing is ... Uber Happening .. Uber Lively .. So many more videos to upload ... but lazy lah .

This Old Busker really really talented . He made his own musical instruments , tied the cymbals and drums via a string to his feet. With every tap of his foot , he danced to his own beats, with the Erhu , he entertained hundreds of us with old traditional songs.

REally Respect this old man ...playing non stop ..Super good stamina , dancing and singing in the cold cold weather .. Oh yes it was cold ... Yet he played on , to the requests of the audiences , who rewarded him with NT$100 notes. Tough job man...

** Btw .. the big sized guy in green vest in this video is siao siao one .. I think we saw him @ Shih-Lin one of those nights.. and he was smiling @ everyone , staring @ their food .

We walked around , stumbled upon a Drama Serial launch , by CLUB 183 + MingDao .. I recognised their faces , but dun know who is who , Who is MingDao ?

Anyway , the queue was damn short , numbered @ most 100 fans . We joined the queue easily... waited 10 mins and the "Stars" came. And in less than 5 minutes , We got ourselves into the shop to get their signatures.

Damn Bloody LOUSY celebrities .. So Hao Lianz ... They Juz Came ... Gave fake Smiles ... and waved to Nobody in particular ...

We purposely delayed til we were the last ones to sign .. but they still didnt allow Nana & WeeWee to Take photographs with them even though they said they were Singaporean Fans/ Tourists .. All they gave was a reason of "Copyright" .

What the Hell . I was so pissed that I told off one of their staff . I told her in Fluent Chinese ( haha ) that I can understand if We took photos of them as a group alone .. to sell to fans . But If The photographs INCLUDED the girls ... Who Would wanna buy the photo ? How to call themselves Artistes ? She got dumbfounded.

Anyway ... 2 happy girls with 2 CDs by a BooBoo Lousy Group .

Walked around in XiMenDing In search of the famous Ah Zong Mee Sua ... Finally found it and we realised Weewee's dream of Having Ah Zong Mee Sua in XiMenDing .

It was really crowded and the queue was long . Everyone was standing around the stall , having piping hot bowls of MeeSua ... Made a dare with Weewee to Squat and eat by the roadside if we found the stall ... and We SQUATTED !! Hmmz .. Not so bad .. but not that fantastic either ... hahah , I am not a fan of Mee Sua ...

The Night wasnT over Yet!!

Because ... Because ... WE WENT BACK TO SHIH-LIN NIGHT MARKET again !!

We have been to many night Markets in Taipei before :

But the best that we love is Shih-Lin ... Yeah Yeah Yeah ..

Went back to the Shooting Stall . The skinny ah lian Stall assistant had found what I had requested her to find a few days back ! In July ... I was @ the stall shooting down balloons , and won "Si Gin na" back for Sunshine ... and this time round , she recognised me and excitedly told me got new "Si Gin na " ... but I told her I wanted the popular MOnoKoroBo for SuNshine ...

And We got it !!! Hahaha ... the stall assistant happy ... we also happy nehz ...

Went around with Shawna's taiwanese friend Andy ..... Played some more games ..like trying to shoot balloons with bow & Arrow ... Baseball throw ... and trying to shoot down a toilet paper holding a NT$1000 note . LOLz ... Now u know why ShihLin Night Market is So fun ?

Day 04 Total Hours clocked = 16 hours .

I Miss Taipei !!

*boring ... CNY coming to an end soon ...

XiaoMaGe Signing out ...

CNY 2007 is Good !!!

2007-02-20T12:27:00.000+08:00

I tell You ... this CNY is Good !!! really really Good !!

Huat ah !!! Photos of food , loved ones .. coming up soon ! + Day 04 Taipei Walker II ...

Warmest Regards ,
XiaoMaGe HUAT AH !!!

Ex Taipei Walker II Day 03 --- YangMingShan

2007-02-17T00:36:00.000+08:00

Ex Taipei Walker II Day 03 -- YangMingShan + WuFenPu

Sorry to everyone ( those who scolded me to update my blog ) ... Sorry for delaying Day 03 ... been busy with tests , Shooting and packing my Pig-sty in prep for CNY ... So been delayed ...

Anyway ... DAY 03 !!

After Day 02 's 17 hour Madness , we had a good night's rest ..to recharge for Day 03 !

Woke up @ 9am ++ to enjoy our 1st OneStar Breakfast of the trip ....

Things have changed ... OneStar now has a pantry .. and a buffet-style breakfast !!!

They used to "ta bao" breakfast to our room ... but now they have western breakfast and Chinese-styled porridge for us to choose @ the pantry ..

There is also a computer terminal for hotel guests who do not have a Laptop to surf in their rooms ... ( but we did ! we brought our own laptops ... and enjoyed surfing every night !! )

Our dear "Zu Ren" Hotel Manager was planning to take the day oFF ... to drive us on his own free time around Taipei .. but he couldnt ...

So he used OFFICIAL TIME to drive us ( out of his boundary ) ... he drove us all the way out to YangMingShan .. and drove us to the Hotspring to enjoy an early morning Hotspring bath !

Along the way , we saw hardworking people eagerly pulling votes for the Taipei Mayor Elections ...Damn passionate people ...

Zu Ren drove us up to Liu-Gu ( 6th grade ) HotSpring bathhouse ... Got 1st - 7th grade bath houses ... 1st grade is the lousiest grade ... @ the bottom of the hills ... They have nice nice views .. but the hotspring water is actually filtered hotspring water from the top of the hills , from other bath houses ( 6th & 7th grade ) ... They just add sulphur powder to enhance the smell of the sulphur to make it more authentic ... Now We know ..

The indoor hotspring bath was really cheap @ NT$300 ( S$15 per room ) and you could soak as long as you like ... Compared to the other low-grade hotsprings using recycled water charging @ NT$3000 ++ for a nice view + recycled water ... this was really the common Taiwanese Hotspring Bathhouse ...

You can see two partitions in this picture ... the one I am soaking in ... is HOT spring water ...stinks of pungent sulphur .. and the water is really milky ... milky from the sulphur ... while the other pool is for bathing ..and the water is DAMN COLD !!

I gek kiang ... soak in hot water .. immediately switch to icy chilly mountain water .... Wah ... I felt giddy and light-headed ... buay tahan ... could really feel the blood running anyhow in the vessels .. half hot half cold ... cannot make it ...

After a good bath .... we decided to Go YangMingShan .... And we ACTUALLY DIDNT REALISE that we were already @ YangMingShan ... near the YangMingShan National park !

Enroute to YangMingShan National Park... we climb climb climb .. based on instinct ... with no map for reference ... But a kind-hearted motorist kindly showed us the way up ...

We stumbled upon "Generalissimo" Chiang Kai Shek 's hill-top Office .. a series of nice cottages for him and his bodyguards ...

The cottages have been converted into an art museum and some art studios for the local artists .. I guess we were really quite lucky to stumble upon this quiet arty place ..that holds historical value ...

After some much climbing up a slope ... we managed to find the entrance to YangMingShan National Park !!! It was a sunny but windy day ... ( Note the HOT Sunny weather now ! )

We walked around and explored the uber big National Park !! OH MY GOD !! Big Big mountain ridges !!

To our pleasant surprise , we found a statue of " Uncle YangMing " ... Mr Wang Yang Ming ... YangMingShan was simply fresh Air All around ...

We saw a little squirrel , we saw a little stream with really cooling water flowing down ...( so cooling I was tempted to slurp it ) ...a garden full of falling leaves in anticipation of the coming winter ...

The bright sunny yet windy weather was really enjoyable ! and the girls enjoyed the unique tapioca , peanut, lime ice-cream ... Really Yummy !!

The Ice-cream auntie told us abt the YMS waterfall ... and so We went in search of the waterfall !!

After the waterfall , we managed to grab a bus up to the peak of YangMingShan ... That was the REAL ADVENTURE !!!!

The Busfare was NT$15 per person ... and it sent us right up to the peak !

The Journey up was really REALLY REALLY SCARY !!! As the bus drove up the winding roads of YMS ... the fog started to blur up the road ahead !! There were only 4 of us + the bus driver ... and we started to get worried !!

BUT THE UNCLE DIDNT SLOW DOWN !! Instead ... he accelerated !! and the girls started to chatter and yak yak yak nervously !!

The Fog was getting so bad that we couldnt see the vehicle DIRECTLY in FRONT OF US except for its tail-lights .. but the driver STILL DIDNT SLOW DOWN !! We then realised he followed the road markings blindly on the road ... to guide the bus up ...

We finally reached the peak of YMS , @ a place called XiaoYouKeng ... It was really really cold and misty ... vast difference from the bottom of YMS ... and I finally had the chance to use my windbreaker .... 811 metres above SeaLevel ... Foggy , Cold , Misty and EXCITING !!! ( Fotos are original and unedited ) ... Zu Ren even told us that if we were lucky ... It would actually Snow on YMS !!

After some much enjoyment up @ XiaoYouKeng ... it was time to go DH downhill ... as it was getting dark @ 1600H ++ ( early dusk during winter ) ..

We GOT CAUGHT IN A BLOODY JAM FOR 1.5 hours ... that really got us all shagged ... and we took naps on the bus .

We were SO HUNGRY we decided to alight @ Shih Lin Night Market again !! hoHoHo !! It is really our favourite NightMarket in Taipei !! With the best food , best entertainment Taipei has to oFfer !!

ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS HOTPLATE Beef steak , Pork Chop Spaghetti , that comes with a soup and drink @ only NT$120 Only !! S$6 ... and it is yummy !!!

Took their MRT .... really really impressed ... We saw a PHENOMENON that would put us Singaporeans to shame !! OH MY GOD !!

The Taiwanese actually queue up in orderly manners to board the train !! BOARDING THE train during Peak hour was a breeze ( 1830 Hours PEAK hour ) ... They waited for the passengers to alight before they boarded the train ! Everyone juz stood within the demarcated zones !!

And there was this life-saving gantry that our Dear SMRT time and time refused to install , that clearly prevented people from falling / climbing over .... Oh man .. with such order and civic-minded in Taiwan .. who would wanna jump traintracks ??

Anyway ... we went to WuFenPu ... the Most Scariest Place that I hate everytime we go Taipei .... The 1st Taipei tripin July 2006 , we went to WufenPu and Got stuck there in the Typhoon weather for nearly 4 hours ??

This time round Dec 2006 was slightly better because it was winter season ... The gals had lesser choices to choose from ... So they spent about 2.5 hours there ... and Poor Marcus juz stone there everytime ...

The girls' Heaven became Marcus's Hell ... Lots of women's clothes @ Uber cheap prices ( 1 whole set of clothes @ S$5.00 only ) ... and very FASHIONABLE !! Just like what you would See in Bugis !

Total Hours Clocked for Day 03 >> 14 hours

** XiaoMaGe wishes Everyone a Very Happy and Prosperous NEW YEAR !! **

HUAT AH !!!!!!!

Ex Taipei Walker II --- Day 02 Hualien County

2007-01-30T14:05:00.000+08:00

Ex Taipei Walker II -- Day 02 Hualien County

** Disclaimer -- Super duper Long Entry . Please do not proceed unless you are free @ work , "Jiak Bah Bo Sai Pang" nothing to do , or you just wanna kill time while waiting to knock oFF. **

We bloody clocked 400++ photos just for DAY 02 alone !! That doesnt include the many short clips and videos of Hualien & Taroko Gorge we took along the way to Hualien !! Now that explains how long I took to edit all these photos for just DAY 02 alone !! Terrible nightmare !!!

Woke up Super Duper Early , after 3 hours of rest from the previous night ... Rushed like mad to Taipei Railway Station , to catch our 710am train. Super Precise timing I must say ... the train reached @ 0710am on the dot .. and left soOOon after .

We had Yummy Yummy "Ba Zhang" Pork dumplings that "Zu Ren" recommended to us the previous time round .. FINALLY we remembered to try this dumpling on the 2nd trip . Mr Liu , our hotel receptionist was damn kind to warm up our Dumplings the Traditional Way @ 0545am!!! He insisted that we tried traditional warmup instead ( I suggested Microwave to save him trouble in the morning)

** The dumpling must have been really filling , So filling our "fellow passenger" knocked out ( refer to photo above ) **

But we didnt miss out the beautiful and "mouth-open-big-big" scenery along the 3 hour journey ... We travelled along the coasts , along farmlands , through caves , over water , crossed bridges , Can really Say its "you Shan Wan Shui " ... The scenery was juz breathtaking and a refreshing change compared to the concrete jungles of Taipei...

And Oh yes ... the train was very very clean ... Cleaners would come collect trash @ every alternate station !! Even the toilets were clean ... but can be a shaky experience if you wanna pee or "bomb the base" .. Coz the train can get really jerky and your " fountain stream" will start to swish & sway all the way .. and of course .. Squatting on a jerky shaky bowl and bombing accurately will take some skill.

After Somewhat 3 hours ... we reached Hualien County @ 0937am ... " Zu Ren " had helped us liaise with our Hualien Tour guide last night .. and we were to look for him @ the entrance..

Our transport WASNT these normal cabs !! We had a Toyota WISH as our transport for the day !!
The Weather was good ... bright and sunny yet windy ... It was a Good start to a Fantastic day !!

Mr Chen GuangFa ( best Hualien tour Guide ) & his friend Mr Huang ( who drove our cab ) brought us to See the famous Betel Nut Ladies ... WooHOoO .. Really really skimpy clothes ... and I swear i shld kick myself in the balls for being such an idiot .. I was so stunted & paiseh by the Weet U Weet girls , that I forgot to switch on my cam to snap some shots...

Mr Chen then brought us to eat the local purple Tapioca , Sweet Corn @ his expense !! We only paid NT$2000 ( S$100 for 1 car of 4 passengers ) ... and he paid the rest !!! Together with another car of Malaysian tourists driven by Mr Chen , we enjoyed our local delights in the morning sun ...

Our First Stop was @ the Entrance Of Taroko National Park ... Taroko Gorge is a world Famous nature Reserve with alot of scenic & beautiful rock Formations & other Wah Wah Wah scenery ...

Next , we proceeded to ChangChunCi ( Longevity Temple) ... Taroko Gorge was developed by the Japanese during WWII , and the taiwanese continued the dangerous & often Fatal development of roads & tunnels into Taroko National Park .

ChangChunCi Temple holds the names of 200++ engineers , workers who lost their lives while building these roads , blowing up holes in the mountains for tunnels. The temple commemorates these brave workers who gave their lives to this beautiful reserve .

2nd Place we visited was YanZiKou ( swallow Grotto ) ... a favourite roosting place for swallows .. and birds' nests used to be harvested regularly in these many natural caves .. until it was banned .. We could still see swallows , bats flying around ... entertaining themselves ... haha

Every stretch of road presented a different scene .. as the rock formations never failed to amaze us ..

Mr Chen was very professional ... @ every interesting location , he would hold laminated photos and point out interesting facts , funny jokes or Stories abt the locality ... juz like these red indians above ... Totally natural ...

Uber Chio windy roads hugging the terrain tightly. Tour buses are the most scariest transport @ Taroko as the passengers can actually overlook the cliffs ... During Typhoon Weather & heavy Rains ... Taroko National Park is closed to all traffic and tourists ...So WE were So HENG HENG there was no typhoon or rain on such a nice day !!

Met Fellow Singaporeans along the way ... and tsk Tsk ... they both paid the same amount NT$2000 as 4 of us .. .. and the tour guide juz left them to walk around .. without telling them abt the interesting spots , stories !! OMG!!! We were lucky to have Mr Chen with us !!

And Mr Chen was a real joker... he brought us to a spot facing a fast-flowing river ... and handed all of us stones to throw !! And we had to throw the stones to Hit a big and flatbed rock !! ( Refer to photo above ! ) He also made us look up in the sky .. and we were pleasantly surprised to see a map of Taiwan , formed by the MOUNTAIN ridgelines !!!

Lunch was a little boring ... Ate some bamboo rice which was juz SoO--Sooo .. and fried-rice that totally lost to Shih-lin Night market's fried rice HANDS DOWN !

And After lunch it was the tour of all Suspension bridges ... Visited one with a Guanyin Temple ..... Goddess of Mercy Statue in White above us on the mountains ....

We then visited CihmuQiao ( Kind Mother Bridge literally translated ) ... JiuQuDong ( Tunnel of 9 turns ) ... Tunnel of 9 turns took us 30 mins to walk through ... it was really really amazing ... the winds in the tunnel was very very strong compared to the open space ... and it was really freezing .. ( Mother Nature @ work again ) ...

Next was the Suspension Bridge @ YueFei Pavillion ... where we met a big big big dog ... that scared WeeWee so much ... hahah ... but managed to take very nice fotos of us on the bridge still ...

Oh yes ... Mr Chen GuangFa & Mr Huang were not only Great tour guides , but also quite Good photographers ! not surprising .. Our group fotos were mostly taken by them ... Extremely Good tour guides .

We left Taroko Gorge @ 1600H ++ and it was already getting dark , due to their early dusk ... But it wasnt the end of our trip yet !!!

They drove us to a very beautiful beach filled with pebbles !! and big big stones !! The waves were also very very strong ... Instead of fine sand greeting our feet ... we were greeted by loads of pebbles , stones , rocks and even Marble !! The mother of all pebble beaches !!! Just look @ the mountains , the inviting waters and the ..... PEBBLES !!

I really had a good mind to bring the bloody rock back to Taipei ... but didnt think it would be smart to lug a rock around and burst my luggage limits ... so I just took a small and beautiful rock .. that was sanded down to a smooth texture ... ( Yeah Yeah ... I know I am lucky ... 3 girls ... haha my SunShine , My Girlfriend and my Mistress , Ya Ya Ya ) ... hahah

We were also lucky to See 4 F-16 Fighting falcons taking OFF !! and they flew towards the Pacific Ocean right behind us !! Simply an awesome sight !!

Later I realised that We were very very Near FengShan / JiaShan Airbase ... and God Damn it ... Their Airbase was really really quite open !! We drove past their Aircraft Hangars , parking Aprons !! separated only by a low wall and a fence !! Here you can See their two F-16 A/B models relaxing in one Corner ... hahaha ..

We then went to this Small Fishing Port ... for SUPER DUPER CHEAP SEAFOOD !! We opted for the MOTHER OF ALL SEAFOOD DINNERS !!!

Mr Chen Was So Damn nice , asked us out to take photos with our Lobsters .... Super Bouncy Fishballs that could bounce on the tables as PingPong Balls , Maguro Sashimi , Spicy StingRay , Clams and Veggies + 4 Lobsters only cost us S$25 each !!!

Every Man worth his salt knows that You CANNOT even get a proper fresh lobster @ S$25 in Singapore ...And there we had 1 lobster each. And Mr Chen provided the ultimate service ... by helping us to shell certain parts of the "lobbie" for MORE flesh ! Wah .. pure Food Orgasm ...

We ended the Hualien trip @ 6pm to catch the 6pm train back to Taipei .... but not before taking a Group shot with them ... then it was OFF to catch the 6pm train !

BUT IT IS NOT OVER !!! We reached Taipei @ 9pm .... and it was OFF to Shopping @ Taipei New World Shopping Centre

It is really crazy editing all the photos ... and I am damn lazy to carry on posting photoshopped ones ... So bear with it ...

We went to the Underground shopping centre , passed by yummy cake Shop to buy some egg desserts and a yummy Chix Pie ... and Weewee bought a box of very sweet fruits @ very EXPENSIVE S$5 (NT$100 ) ... but the Food was really really up to standard ...

We then went over to RaoHe Night Market @ 10plus ....One of our favourite Night Markets apart from Shih-Lin Night Market ... full of nightlife ... vibrancy ...

So vibrant that we saw some candidates pulling votes for the Taipei Mayor Elections ..hahah ... Funny people ... friendly like anything when they wan your votes !!

RaoHe was Great as usual ... and WeeWee couldnt resist her Basket-ball Game ... and LOOK WHO WE SAW !! We saw the Same Butchgal ( in green scratching her head ) ... who set up the basketball Stall in Shih-lin in July !! We Saw her in July for our 1st trip ... and We saw her again during our 2nd trip !! OMG ...

We ended our long Day @ 12plus 1am in the wee hours of the night

... Total hours clocked = 17 hours straight... and it was only the end of Day 02 Ex Taipei walker II ...

XiaoMaGe Shagged , Signing out

Are You Paying for unneccessary Comfort ?

2007-01-23T00:23:00.000+08:00

*** Disclaimer -- This entry represents the personal view of the blogger. Views & comments are based on web research , personal experiences & conversations with NUMEROUS Taxi drivers & deductions were made based on personal analysis & thoughts. ***

Was taking a cab back home ... when I noticed a new Hyundai Sonata Taxi in the familiar colours of a big blue blue market player .....

It was new & fresh out of the Garage ... Everything was spanking new ... Abit Too new for my comfort ..( pun intended ) ..

What caused more DISCOMFORT ... was the starting fare of $2.70 !! I was dumbfounded !! Didnt THEY take lead in Increasing our Cab Fares to $2.50 recently ?? Why was this NEW Hyundai Sonata Cab charging $2.70 ??

Uncle kindly "enlightened" me on a few issues :

*** 1. They are allegedly ( Allegations remain assertions without proof, only claims until they are proved. ) going to slowly phrase out all the $2.50 Toyota Crowns ... slowly increasing the supply of $2.70 Cabs .. subtlely increasing the fare again !!

( If Uncle is right , We should observe more Blue Hyundais on the roads , and lesser Toyota Crowns on the roads .. Uncle Says lesser $2.50 = more $2.70 , simple logic. ) They currently have more than 15,300 cabs from 3 companies plying the roads .

*** 2 . Uncle & another few uncles also allegedly claimed that prior to the $2.50 Fare increment .. they all gathered and an Intention to rise cabfares was announced , and they were asked to vote . Results was that majority of the cab uncles objected to a fare increment ... and they were told to go back ... And Soon the $2.50 adjustment was announced on the news .

IF IF IF IF , I Said IF this voting session indeed took place ... what was the use of asking the cabbies to vote when they were GOING AHEAD anyway ??

*** 3. Mercedes Cabs are allegedly also gonna increase their prices from $2.80 to $3.00++ ... So whats the reason for increment since there are No further improved features to the mercs ??

*** 4. Uncle said COE prices have dropped , and it was cheaper to buy cars ... So He thinks that they bought more cars with options to buy more ... And with the slowly but sure increase in $2.70 Hyundais .. the Toyota Crowns are sure to go !! And the Rental prices of the NEW HYUNDAIs have increased to $99.75 , compared to the $92 for the Toyota Crowns ..

*** 5 . They Allegedly have lots of cars for rental , but not enough drivers to go around . There were rumours of engaging foreign talent for the job ( Rumours yet to be confirmed.. Readers Please take the rumours with a pinch of Salt ) ...

The media release cited the New Hyundais as being more Environmentally-Friendly , will have more boot space & Leg Room for passengers ..

Personally , I am surprised @ the reasons for the change . Are the Toyota Crowns very cramped ? I personally think they are much more spacious than the previous cabs ( forgot the model ) that we had . Boot Space ?? How often do we need to utilise the boot ? Ok , lets remember our very important tourists from all over the world ...

Environmentally Friendly cabs we enjoy .. but where are the 5 Year Old Toyota Crowns Gonna Go ?? 3rd World country ?? Can the 3rd world countries be bothered to maintain the cabs on a regular basis , unlike our cab companies who have nice maintenance workshops ? So are we gonna enjoy Fresh air in SG , while other countries can just be less environmentally friendly ?

If the Toyota Crowns do not go to 3rd world countries , I can only think of alternative place : Scrapyard .. to Scrap the Cars . So to be more environmentally Friendly , Are we gonna Scrap cars that is only 5 years old and generally well-maintained ?? Is

I took the effort to check their media release corner to check for updates on the new $2.70 Increase .... I only saw their media release on Fare adjustment to $2.50 ... but no fare increment to $2.70 for their new cabs .

I cant help getting a feeling that they wanna keep the $2.70 increment a hush-hush , saying its only for the new Cars .. but It is obvious they will start scrapping all the Toyota Crowns and Nissan Cedrics over time ( since their intention is CLEAR to make all their cabs under 3 years old ) .. So OVER TIME , we will have all cabs charging @ $2.70 ... without the public making a big fuss like the $2.50 adjustment !!??

This low-profile replacement of cheaper & older cabs Seems like a smart & calculated move , to reduce the Public Relations Damage in the face of 2 Fare increments over 5 months , and will surely increase Company profits ( Low COE price , higher Rental charges )

In my own opinion , Good Service from a friendly taxi-driver driving a Toyota Crown definitely beats a new fancy cab that charges more $$ , yet offering more or less visibly the same features as a good old Crown ..

XiaoMaGe Signing out ...

Ex Taipei Walker II -- Day 01

2007-01-17T01:53:00.000+08:00

Ex Taipei Walker II Day 01 -- 06 Dec 06

YES !!! The 4 Of us went to Taipei AGAIN !! First in July 06 , Then in Dec 06 !! Taipei is Truly an Amazing and Fantastic Country to Visit each time !! Full of Fun-filled surprises , Full of Friendly people ... Language isnt a Barrier unless You are a Potato-eater ( Jiak Kan Tang ) ... Marcus is NOT ... Marcus is Multi-Lingual .. so No problemo !!

After checking in our luggage , we wandered about Changi Airport again !! Went shopping , Went to Look around our World Class Airport ... to look @ the World-Class Xmas Decorations !! OoOOoo .. Full of Xmas Spirit ... and Festive Decorations all around the transit and departure lounges ...

We went to the Smoking point to check out the runway , the views ... Quite windy and sunny .. nice weather to fly !! We were ecstatic !!! The view of the runway was GoOd !! Snapped some shots there ... then we proceeded for a lunch !

A Lovely Ai Xin Lunch For My 3 Lovely ladies ... My Dearest SunShine , My "Mistress" WeeWee , & my "girlfriend" Nana ( Titles & appointments were decided amongst the 3 ladies )

My Ai Xin Lunch for the Day was " spicy diced pork with fried mee " .... Similar but Much Much Nice wor ... than the Xin Wang Cafe @ Cineleisure ... Juz Look @ the gals' smiles ... keke

Flight for the day was JetStar 3K 522 ... the very same plane we took in July . And to be Exact .... We WENT BACK TO TAIPEI almost EXACTLY 5 months after we went in 07 July to 12 July 06 !!!

We Reached Chiang Kai Shek International Airport @ 1720 ... and it was already Dark ! We eagerly looked for our Hotel manager ( We Call him Zu3 Ren4 aka SuperVisor " ) .. who promised to fetch us Personally this time round ... Hahah ( OH ... Blerdy Hell , the previous Driver Mr Chen who fetched us around , had quit his job for greener pastures ... ) So Zu Ren had to fetch us personally ... Hahaha ..He Recognised us almost Immediately .. and soon we were on our way ...

Yakked and Yakked and Chatted on the way .. catched up on news in Taipei ... The Chen Shui Bian Corruption Scandal , Jokes on Zu Ren's attempt to sell White Tee Shirts with Anti-Bian Slogans .. only to have the Organisers declare all to wear RED Shirts .. ( he lost big $$$ in white Tee Shirts ahaha ) ... Very glad to See Zu Ren again .

He was nice to send us to Taipei Railway Station to collect our Train Tickets to Hua Lien , and even Liaised with our Hualien Tour Guide ... asking him to Take care of us in Hualien in Day 02 ... WooOHoOO !!

After Settling down in OneStar Hotel .... ( AhHhhh ... Still the Same Cozy Hotel that we Love ... ) ... We WEnT to MiRaMar !! Ferris Wheel !! I was SoOoo Envious when I saw Pamela's photos of the Miramar Ferris Wheel !! Coz we missed out the Ferris Wheel when we went in July !! Die Die Must Go !!!

Tickets were @ NT$150 each ... and the ride was about 15 minutes per complete revolution ... Had a rocky and wild ride inside the cabin as WeeWee yelled , shrieked , Screamed , Whined whenever the wind blew or the Big Big Marcus moved about ... THE CABIN SWAYED and SWAYED !! ... hahah .. Beautiful View .... BEautiful Taiwan ...

TheY had a big big Cinema and other attractions around Miramar too ... We went Carrefour to Shop ... nothing much though ...

IT was Late already ... BUT WE WERENT ABOUT TO GIVE UP !!! We Went back to Shihlin to settle Dinner !!

Shih-Lin Night Market -- The Mother of All Pasar Malams , Night Markets

Our Favourite Night Market In Taipei , Taiwan , and Possibly the Best Night Market in Asia ... We went back eagerly .. to Eat All our Previous favourite foods !! and The Cold Cold Weather made all the hot & Crispy Food taste Extremely Yuppy !! More than 100 types of " Xiao Chi " to try ..

We had a great time trying out our All Time Favourite Hao Da Da Chi Pah ... So Big Big Chicken Cutlet ... Authentic ONLY IN SHIH-LIN !! .. Singapore's version can kiss my Arse .. And we also tried out new stuff like fried shitake mushrooms , golden mushrooms deep-fried to a crisp ... Damn .. the taiwanese sure know how to enjoy GoOd Food !!

Reached back Hotel only @ 2am in the morning ... and We Had a train to Catch @ 7pm to Taroko Gorge , HuaLien the next Morning !!

** STay Tuned For Day 02 , Ex Taipei Walker II **

XiaoMaGe Signing out ...