30th Oct, 2008(Thu)

Sorry to keep everyone to wait for so long, I'm BACK!!! From 13th Oct( till today, I was busy preparing for my 'O' level retake exams. And........

Finally, my 'O' level retake exams had ended!=> Today is the last day of it... I took the last paper, E Math paper 2, today morning from 8.ooam -10.30am. Math paper 1 on 21th Oct, Eng paper 1& 2 on the 21st Oct... This was a LONG battle.

These 'O' level retake exams were important to me, BUT...... I will not forget my friends!
On the 15th Oct, I was invited to attend Shane's piano presentation at his school, Lasalle - SIA Collage of the Arts, which was built at Bugis area. By right, he should be performing at the basement theater of his school, where the sound system was very good. But don't know what happened, the performance had changed to a classroom last minute and the sound system was not good enough. Before the performance start , Shane brought me to a practice room where the students could have their practice because it was stil for the performance...There were a few people jamming inside the room already when we entered the room. The one wearing black with a hat in the photo was the box drumer of Shane's performance. I believe that most of the people will feel strange when they hear "box drumer", as everyone know what is drumer but sheldom or may never hear "box drumer". Why I called "him box drumer" and not just "drumer" because the instrument which he would play in the performance was not a drum set but a box drum... What is "Box Drum"? Box Drum is a customade hollow wooden box with a hole at its back that can produce the sound of Snare and Bass drums! Hahaha.... Amazing, right?
After 20minutes later of waiting, the performance had strated finally and it was fantastic and successful performance.
After the performance ended, we met Share's girfriend for dinner before returning home. We went to the "Long John Silver" fast food restaurant opposite Bugis Junction shopping center, just beside Bugis Street. We ordered the Hari Raya special meal, there were fish, chicken, prawns, french fires, cheese source, a bottle of F&N cherry etc.... it was delicious. We returned home after the dinner.

I didn't forget the health of my body, I still had a morning run with Chee Han on the 16th Oct (Thu) morning... I saw a few very Cute kittens on my way to East Coast Park. But I didn't see the mother cat, and I had a good run with Chee Han after that...

I would return home straight after the run normally, but I suddenly had a feeling of going to the second-hand shop,Cash Converter, for a walk. When I reached outside the shop, I saw something that made me feel that it was really my lucky day that day. I was a set of drumset cymbals(Hi-hat, Crash & Ride) from the window of the shop, and it was selling for $60 only!! I had been looking for 2nd-hand drumsets cymbals that were cheap with not bad quality, because new cymbals were very expensive. Unfortunately, it was not a easy task, because it was rare that people sold just their cymbals only. My drumset was made in China, and the drums were still alright but the cymbals were really lousy... So I walked to the counter and bought them home.
In the evening, I had SingVOICES practice as usual. I picked up a wallet after the practice when I was on my way home. There were a few membership cards of some shops, a Ez-link card , name cards... etc in the wallet, there wasn't any money left inside it. I decided to send it to the nearest police post, which was the Bedok South Neighbourhood Police Station, to make a police report.

On the 25th Oct, I was invited to Andy & Xuelin's wedding dinner. It was held at Novotel Clarke Quay Singapore (Formerly known as Hotel New Otani), the dinner was served at 7.30pm. It was really a joyful day for this couple.

12th Oct, 2008(Sun)

Today, I went back home straight after church, it was to get reay for where I would be having in the night. I was invited my Best friend, Shane(we are as close as brothers), to watch his band, INKband, performance at DRAGONFLY in St. James Powerstation (St. James Powerstation is just beside Vivo City). His band performance was from 2030-2130.
The performance of Shane's Band was good...
I was planned to leave after his band performed, but Shane requested me to watch the following singers.. They are the full-time singers of DRAGONFLY, they were really good and experience. It was really an eye opener to me.

10th Oct, 2008(Fri)

Today was a important day, which I had been waited for it to come... It was because the result of my BMT (Basic Music Theory) test would be out by today. This test was giving by Qiu Nan, who was the head of SingVOICES, in order to check whether we had remembered what we had learned from the BMT class.
We had organised a DIY BBQ in church (Just for the information, I'm a Christian and the church I used to go on Sunday is Queenstown Baptist Church.) and the result would be anounced at the end of the BBQ. Originally, we planned to had the DIY BBQ at the roof top garden of a multi-levels car park which was near to Qiu Nan's house. Unfortunately, the management didn't allow us to do so, because it was a fire hazard.

Vivian, Jason, Terry and me had went to the NTUC FairPrice in Tiong Bahru Plaza to buy the food and stuffs that would need for the BBQ in the afternoon.It was more Fun to have a DIY BBQ than a ordinary BBQ with a store-made BBQ pit!! (You need to build your own BBQ pit, set it up with what you have...=>)

After the BBQ, we need to put off the fire and cool the charcoal before we throw them into the trash bag... When we shifted the charcoal away from the tile below the aluminium container, which we used it as our DIY BBQ pit (we place a tile below the pit to prevent the floor from getting burned), cracked by itself due to the height temperture of the burning charcoal!? It cracked so NICELY that as if it was a piece of puzzle originally!!

By the way, I had passed my BMT test, I got 25/30marks!=>

I walked home from Kembangan MRT station, instead of alighting at Bedok MRT station and take bus home. On my way home, I saw a cat (The one I was holding in the photo above), it was different from normal cats. You would not notice what was the difference of it from normal cats if you looked at the right side of it, unless you looked it from its left side.

Its left eye was blind! I felt sad and sorry for it when I saw it, but the main reason why I felt sad and sorry for it wasn't just because it was blind. The main reason was because its left eye-ball was TOTALLY GONE, nowhere to be found!? It was normal for wild cats to get injured and wounds from fights, but I never saw such a serious wound before!! =<

9th Oct, 2008(Thu)

Today , I had waked up quite early, around 0530 in the morning. Because I was meeting Chee Han(for those who are wondering whos is him... Please the 27th Sept, 2008 post!) for a run at ECP (East Coast Park) at 0700. I left my house around 0600, I I took the bus 197 from Bedok Interchange to Marine Parade and walked to ECP through one of the under passes near to Area C, where the Marine Cove was. I reached ECP around 0630-0645, the weather was very nice and cooling!=>

There were a few groups of old folks having their morning exercises at ECP, some of them were doing Tai Chi... I reached early, Chee Han was not there yet. While I was waiting I observed the old folks' Tai Chi, I found that it was very interesting. It was becuse I learned Wushu(Martial Arts) when I was in Secondary School.

After a 10 - 15 minutes of waiting, Chee Han had appeared. He was late because he had missed the bus. After he had arrived, we started to have our Warm-up(It was important to have proper Warm-up, because there were a few Sudden-Death cases of NSF personnals occured in the year 2008.) After the Warm-up, it was the start of our run. We ran from Marine Cove to the Bedok Jetty, it was around 2.5km. We did some PT(Physical Training) exercises like push-up & jumping jets... etc, after we had reached the Bedok Jetty. We ran back to the Marine Cove, after the PT. It was really a Great run!!

In the evening, I have went to church for singing practice after my English tuition at Katong. I was in a youth singing group of my church, which named SingVOICES(It started in the year 2000, if you wish to know more about it. Please visit http://www.sing-voices.blogspot.com/ for more information). I had joined SingVOICES for about 2years, it was around 2006. I sang Bass in SV, because my voice was very low.

After reached church, I went atraight to the toilet... When I came to toilet, I saw a poor and innocent cat was hiding at the corner of the toilet. It(the cat) was very scard, it ran into the toilet and hide, it ran around in toilet. It was tapped inside the toilet and unable to escape... It tried to climb through windows but unfortunatly, the windows were too small for it to climb out.... It looked so helpless, so I opened the door of the toilet and let it go...

After that I had my singing practice from 1930 till 2230... It was a LONG day!! =>

7th Oct,2008(Tue)

Today, I had a Birthday celebration for my BEST friend, Shane (because I am the planner of the celebration). I had known him since Sec 1 (knew him for around 8 years alreay), we were from the same CCA, Lion Dance. We are as close as Brothers!!

In the afternoon, around 3pm-4pm, Xiang Long, a very good friend of mine (from Lion Dance too) had came to my house, in order to do some preparations for the surprise celebration for Shane (we had planned it for around 1-2 weeks beforehand). He bought a cake and kept it in the fridge to prevent the cake from melting. We planned that we would have the celebration at Sakura in Tampines SAFRA. I would invite Shane for dinner and meet him alone in Tampines MRT station at 7.30pm (told that Xiang Long couldn't make it for the dinner), and he would go and wait at Sakura together with Ah Bao (another very good friend of mine from Lion Dance), Wu Yu (Junior from Lion Dance) and Stephanie (Shane's god sister) first.

We booked place at the Sakura with the help from Stephanie's father, who is a SAFRA member. It was Lucky because we were able to get some discount on the costs of each person... There was a lot of different kinds of food at Sakura like, Chinese, Western, Japanese, Malay, Indian, Thai food etc.... Ah Bao and Wu Yu kept taking food, but didn't think whether they can finish it.... They nearerly could not finish all the food that they took... And if they couldn't eat them up, we would need to pay a fine as a rate of $5/100g.Fortunately, we still managed to eat up all the food.
After the standard meal, it was the time for the "Happy Birthday!" song and cake. Hahaha... And Shane was surprised by the cake, he did know that we planned to have a dinner with him. But he didn't expect us to prepare a Birthday cake and gift. We took a few photos also...
We had an hour of pool before we return home...

5th Oct, 2008(Sun)

Today, I had dinner with all the members of my family (My elder brother - Yan Chi, my younger brother - Yan Lok and my parenrts) at a food court just beside a Xing Xong Supermaket.We had dinner together because my parents were sending my brothers to the camps.


After having our dinner, we decided to have a walk at the Xing Xong Supermaket. In the supermaket, I had found something that I had been looking for for a long.... It was the Meiji HELLO PANDA (the one showes in photo on the right), which is in CAN packaging. Instead of individual packagings.... Unfortunately, it was not the original. Haiz...=< I would prefer the original than the strewberry... But it was still a good news that I could find this!!

4th Oct,2008(Sat)

The one on the left was Tian Ru, follow by Sandy and I was on the right.

Today, I had met 2 of my friends (Sandy & Tian Ru) for dinner at th Kallang Leisure Park. Reason was because I wanted to give my friend(Sandy) and her sister their Birthday presents which I promised to give them for quite sometime already. Their Birthday were in August, but because she was always busy (Because she is having her FYP, Final Year Project, for her Poly course).

We planned to meet at Kallang MRT station by 5pm., but due some mis-communication, I went straight to the KLP by myself. I reached there around 4.45pm, and I waited until 5.15pm. I still didn't see my friends, so I started to worry whether there was something bad happened to my friends. I called 1 of my friends who was meeting me for dinner, BUT...... No one pick up the call!!? I started to have a bad feeling.... Suddenly, my handphone RANG! It was my friend, She said she was waiting another friend of mine, who would be late for around 15 minutes... LUCKY!! There wasn't anything bad happened...
My 2 friends reached around 5.35pm, we walked from bottom to the top, top back to bottom and 1 end to the other end and return.... There were NOTHING, a lot shops were not open yet.
Feeling kind of cheated!!

So we changed our plan, we went to Peninsula Plaza (which was near to the City Hall MRT station). BUT... There wasn't much shop for my friends to shop. So we decided to find a place to have drink and some chats...

In the ends, we went to the TCC cafe at FUNAN Digitalife Mall, which was just beside Peninsula Plaza. We ordered some drinks - Lychee Jazz, Bleeding Tears & Mango Yoghurt Drink(they were very Expensive!? $6.20, $8.50++ & $7.20) and a piece of TCC Ti-rum-nisu. They drinks were NICE but cheaper will be good... => We chated a lot things like - how was Sandy's FYP, how was Tian Ru planning to study in Uni SIM and what I was planning to do in the future.... etc. We chated all the way from 8pm until 10pm, which the waiters and waitresses started to prepare to close the cafe... It was a really HAPPY experience!! =>

1st Oct,2008(Wed)

Today, after helping my father for his work, we fetched my mother from her work place... She said she wanted to buy an ear phone for her personnal use in her company, so we accompanied her to the "Cash Converters" , a shop which buy workable second-hand stuffs and re-sell them out....

And I found something which I think was very COOL!!! A "Portable Roll Keyboard", which keypack is made of rubber(very flexible), it could be rolled up and kept inside the bag and brought along with... If anyone have it, he/she will be able to play and compose anytime, anywhere he/she likes...

Great, right?

I wanted to buy, But my parents didn't allow with what I planning to do. SO........ I bought it secertly without letting my parents know about it... Hahaha!!!

30th Sept, 2008(Tue)

SORRY!!! I am busy helping my father for his work for these few days... Really busy! Today, I waked up very eraly in the morning around 5pm (earlier than what I used to). 1 of the reasons was because my father needed me to help him with his work, to unload a container and deliever the goods to a shop in Chinatown.
There was a together number of 435 boxes of goods which weighted 19kg each.... Heavy sia!!

My father and I spent 1 and a half hours to unload 200boxes.... We needed to send them to the shop at Chinatown by today before 12noon.... It was because there was timing for us to unload the goods. And we will need to send another 200boxes from those left over tomorrow morning!!

My father and I built a "bridge" , which lay cross frome the container to my father's 16feet lorry. So that we could pass the boxes from the continer easier and faster...

We have manage to complete all the loading and unloading at the Chinatown before 12noon. It was really tiring with just 2 persons doing all the works....

We were REALLY lucky!!! The sky was still bright when we were unloading the boxes of goods, and it started to rain cats and dogs just 20 minutes after we ended the unloading and left the shop...

After a long and tiring day.

My parents, my younger brother, Yan Lok(who had returned home from camp in the afternoon), and I went to the "Giant" Supermaket somewhere at Tampines area, where Courts and IKAE are just beside it, for a walk..... It was me, the one who suggested to go to Giant for a walk. It was because I knew that there was an offer of roller skating shoes, I would like buy a pair after tried once in the pasted Sat... But there is another reason why I wanted to go there.... It was becaure I need to buy something for my friend as her Birthday gift.

I bought a pair of roller skating shoes, ALEOCA In-line Skates, at the price $69.90 which worth $99 originally...

27th Sept, 2008(Sat)

Today..... I have went to East Coast Park for an combine outing with a younger age-group fellowship, Soar, organized by my fellowship, Glowing. We went there to have fun and some outing activities, in order to get rid our stress which collected in the passed busy week...
Some of us went for Cycling, and some went for Roller Staking.... Want to know what did I choose? Hehehe....
I went for the Roller Staking.... It was my 1st time out of my whole life to get a touch with Roller Stake... I learned how to skate from my friend, Chee Han (the one in white at the Right) together with another friend of mine, Zhi Feng (the one in the Center)

Chee Han was really a good teacher!!! His explanations were clear and easy to understand.... He guided me along when I was trying out and practising..... I fell a few times but it helped me to get closer to the SUCCESS, from falls I learned how to balance myself better! =>

Finally! Wahahaha.......
I learned how to stake at the end of the day!

26th Sept, 2008(Fri)

Today, my elder brother, Tom Lau Yan Chi, has returned from SISPEC after his 1st week in it. His commander asked his group to get all their hair cut before they return, because their hair are LONG (*for Army standard*).

So he asked me to cut his hair for him... I cut his hair with my younger brother, Lau Yan Lok, 's PowerPac hair clipper... I use no.1 to cut the side and the back of his head.. and keep those hair at the top of his hair...

I have been cutting for my 2 brothers after I ORD... I think my hair cutting skill are still OK! Hahaha.... But only for soldier hair style!! I can't cut like Hagen who is a professional hair designer...