25th Sep,2009(Fri)

Today was the 5th day of my Semester Break, I had started my part time job at the law firm, which used to work in last year end.

Few days back from the 19th till 21st Sept, I had went for my cell group retreat to Malaysia - Tioman. We had a lot FUNs and enjoyed ourselves!!

12th Sept, 2009

Today I bought my 1st DSLR in my life, Canon EOS 450D.

It is come with a package, Camera body + Kit lens & accessories like extra batteries, battery grip... etc.

The DSLR is still under warranty till Jan 2010. The full set worth around $2K but I got it with $1.2K only, as the owner lost his interest in photography so he sold all his stuffs cheaper than usual.

I think this was a really good deal...

24th Aug, 2009 (Mon)

August was fruitful month to me, I had my modules, Apply Graphic Design by Simon & Fundamental of Digital Photographying by Mathias. And also attended SYOG countdown and Mathias' Photo Exhibition. Mathias, who is my lecturer and also a journalist, he had went Iraq during the time it was having war between USA. He had been just a few steps away from Death, as he was caught in the middle of fire fight.... etc. And his photos really tell a lot....
And he always says,

"Everyone can take photos, BUT not everyone can get GOOD photos! And you will know it by yourself when it is a GOOD photo."

And I found this is really true... I am interested in photographying since the start, but I gained deeper interests in Photography during his module. I'm planning to get a DSLR for myself, and Mathias told me that his friend is selling a good condition Canon EOS 350D with the kit lens and stuffs at $600. I was planned to get it... but my family objected about the idea, as they thought it was too expensive.

Btw, the SYOG countdown was really FUN. I went there with my fellow DSC subcomm friends, Aaron, Cassie, Joelene, Joy, Kite... etc. We had a lot of FUN!!

And I also had my final submission for the Mathias' modules, The theme is Lines(with Human touch) and below are my final submission photos:

11th Jul, 2009(Tue)

Today was the 1st day of the Annual COSFEST, and it was held at Downtown East from 11th -12th July.
It was my 1st time of attending a cosplay event, they were really a lot of people (more than my expectation). There were people cosplay in a group and individual. 1 of my poly classmate, Roy, was also paticipated in the COSFEST (the one in white at the right of the photo).
I found that cosplay is interesting (maybe I may try it in the future...=P).

2nd Jul, 2009(Thu)

Today I had met Shane and Pei Ying (1 of my secondary school classmates who went to Sydney to study her Uni about Music) for lunch at the Sake Sushi (Parkway Parade outlet) at 3.30pm. We had decided to go for the puffet, which started from 3pm till 6pm. We ate quite a number of stuffs like Suishi, Sashimi etc...
We had done with the puffet arount 5.15pm, and we decided to play pool before head back home.

In the evening, I was invited to Santa Fe, which is a restaurant on the Stewords Riverboat, it is a family business of my friend, Daryl. There are having their 10th Anniversary celebration from 1st-10th July. (For more details, please check http://santafe-10.blogspot.com/ )
I had made some new friends who like Magic too...

14th Jun, 2009(Sun)

Today was the last day of the PC Show at Suntec City, which was started since 11th June till today. I went there with 1 of my friend, Pei Yu, who wanted to buy a digital camera while I wanted to get a drawing tablet. At the 6th floor, I looked at 2 booths which sell drawing tablets but all the tablets were out of my limit. I walked around and hoping that I could find a booth which sell cheaper. LUCKY, I really manage to find a writing tablets booth which sell a 2-in-1 Drawing + Writing tablet, TOOYA PRO, which was just suited to what I want to get. Because I wanted to get a Chinese writing tablet since the start. So it saved my time and money to get a writing tablet because TOOYA PRO is 2-in-1.
After getting my tablet, I accompany Pei Yu to the 4th floor to look for the camera she want to get. We visited a few camera booths like Canon, Casio, Sony and etc... After seeing all the booths, Pei Yu decided to get the Canon IXUS 95 IS, with 2x 8GB SD cards, card reader, camera case and digital kit bag as the free gifts. After purchased the camera at the 4th floor, we needed to go to the 1st floor to collect her free gifts. When we were collecting the free gifts, Pei Yu decided to purchase the extended warranty for her camera. And she got 2 extra 2GB SD cards from it. She gave 1 of them to me after she heard that I lost my thumb drive. I really feel Thank You and appreciate for her kindness! =]

12th Jun, 2008(Fri)

Today is last day of the 2nd block of my poly, I had not been sleeping for few days already. I had 2 modules, Drawing Essential(DrawEss) and Ideation(Idea) and the lecturers of both modules were really nice people. The photos beside are some of the drawings I drew for the module - Drawing Essential. We drew mostly Still-Life drawings. For Ideation, it was to keep our brain thinking creatively and also taught us to look and appreciate designs in a different view. 1 of the assignment was to create our monster/character.

For the 1st block, I had the modules - 3D Art Funtamental(3DArFUN) and Communicate Design Idea(ComDI). The 3DArFun was fun but the ComDI was a killer to me, because it require a lot of writing. We were tasked to write for at least 5 passages. For 3DArFUN, We did a lot of stuffs. We made sculptures with clay & wires, Frank Stella style drawing, perspective drawings and etc.... And at the end of the module, we needed to make a 1m by 1m by 1m 3D sculpture.
Overall, I had a very fulfill school life for the 1st 2 month of my poly.

17th Apr, 2009(Tue)

Today was the last day of my Design Orientation Camp(DOC), it was a 4 days 2 nights camp. I needed to report in the Auditorium 1 of Temasek Polytechnic(TP) by 8am on the 14th April, 2009. 1st Day was just registration and introduction of the stuffs and areas of the Design school. We returned home to prepare for the following 3days 2nights camp.
2nd Day to 4th Day were the main camp, and the theme of the camp was "Camp X". The camp was really FUN and EXCITED!! I made a lot of new friends during the camp...

6th Apr, 2009(Mon)

Today morning, Xiang Long, Ah Bao, Stephanie and me were invited to attend Shane's graduating recital at his school. I met Xiang Long and Stephanie at the Bedok Interchange 1st, and we met Ah Bao at Shane's school.
After we reached the school, we couldn't find the place where Shane's graduating recital should be hold at.... After calling Shane, he met us and brought us to the place...
Shane's band performed a few songs and they were good!! But Sane still think that it was not good enough..

4th Apr,2009(Sat)

Today was the last day of the Freshmen Orientation Workshop(FOW) organised by TPSU(Temasek Polytechnic Student Union), it was a 3 days workshop for all the TP students who are interested to sign up. I was planned to be in the empire, HOLQA.
During these 3 days, I made a lot new friends and know the places in TP more. I met Yu Ling, Brenda, Adeline, Nichaoles, Zen, Yi Hsiang, Marcus and Wan..... etc. We had a really good time and built bondings between us(both the freshies & GLs)
And We, HOLQA, had won 1st out of the 5 empires1!!! Ho Ah!! =]

30th Mar,2009(Mon)

Today, I was having my 6th Real Fighting Ba Gua (八卦掌) lesson at SP. During the sparing session, I was accidentally hit by my sparing partner's punch on my left eye. My spectacles flew very far and out of shape. It was lucky that my lens are made of plastic, so they would not crack into pieces. I had made a new spectacles.
And getting hits meant that I need more trainings!!

28th Mar, 2009(Sat)

Today morning, I joined a cycling session,"Cycling around the East", which was organized by Darwin together with Cheryl, Jun Kai and Pei Yu. And I brought my bicycle along for it. We met in front of the Burger King(BK) at East Coast Park(ECP), Area C, as it was our starting and ending points.
We rented some bicycles from a bicycles rental shop for the timing of 11.30am - 4.30pm. We followed the Park Connector(PCN) from ECP to Changi Village(CV), and we had our lunch there. On our way to CV, there was a dead snake lied in the middle of the road.
After eating our lunch, We headed back our way back to East Coast. But we cycled slightly faster, because Pei Yu needed to rush off early.
In the evening, I returned to church for my cell group after the cycling. We had a sharing session on what do we want our cell group to be in the future and we also decided the name of our cell group as Bethlehem.

25th Mar, 2009(Wed)

Today I returned to PYSS to help out with my juniors' training, before I met Xiang Long, Ah Bao and Stephanie to sing Karaoke at a Party World outlet in Liang Court.
In order to save the traveling time, Ah Bao fetched me with his motorbike. This was the 1st time to ride a motorbike, it was awesome!!
Before we went for the karaoke at Party World, we bought some burgers at the MacDonald.We sang a lot of songs, but most of them I had never heard abouy them before...
It was really FUN and we had enjoyed ourselves!!

21st Mar, 2009(Sat)

Today I was invited by 1 of my secondary school mates, Johnathan, to his 21st Birthday party, which was held in his grandma's terrace house at Simei. We had not meeting each other for quite sometime already. He grew a lot, he was bigger size than when I last met him, which was around 1 year ago.
His whole family & relatives were busy preparing for his 21st Birthday party. Johnathan invited a lot of his friends, some were his poly friends and some were childhood friends. My brother and I were his secondary school friends.
I met the girlfriend of Min Kiat(1 of my NS friends), Winnie and I didn't expect it at all... I only saw her photo on Min kiat's MSN display photo, but not the real person.
The food were delicious, and Johnathan was busy chatting with his friends. Overall, the party was a success!! =]

14th Mar, 2009(Sat)

Today, I woke up early in the morning around 5.30am because I was going to take my annual IPPT(Individual Personal Physical Test). Every NSmen would need to take their IPPT annually to make sure that they were always in good physical condition. Min Kiat, who was my NS friend, took IPPT together with me. It was not easy for us as we had ORD from our 2 years full-time NS for around 1 year already. There were total 5 stations: Sit Up, SBJ(Standing Board Jump), Chin Up, Shuttle Run and 2.4km Run. Luckily, I still managed to pass my IPPT.
My senior of my secondary school CCA - Lion Dance, Fu Tian drove me to PYSS. We returned PYSS to help up with the training.
In the afternoon around 12.45pm, I went to IBC(International Baptist Church) at Farrer Road for the rehearsal of Baptist Choral Fest 2009. We left IBC to ACS Baker by 3pm and had our final rehearsal, before the actual start at 7.30pm in the night.
We sang 6 songs - "荣耀归主", "God of Grace", "主!我要遇见祢", Hem of Your Robe", Nobody Fills My Heart Like Jesus" and "Our God Is God". These songs were very nice songs. This was a very memorable experience!!

11th Mar, 2009(Wed)

Today I had cycled to Bedok Swimming Complex for swimming together with Ming Sheng & Ming Hao(2 of them are siblings) in the morning. We swam a few laps and it was really tiring. There was a woman who had very GOOD stamina, she swam non-stop for more than 10 laps of the swimming pool.
After swimming, I accompanied both Ming Sheng & Ming Hao to submit their enrollment documents to Temasek Polytechnic(TP) and it didn't take as much time as we thought.
They brought me a bicycle shop at Bedok South to repair my bike after we left TP, because some of the parts of my bike were spoiled. I replaced the rubber of the front break of my bike and the left gear changer, and I also bought a seat wrap for the seat of my bike.

8th Mar, 2009(Sun)

Today, I woke up early in the morning around 6am because there would be a song presentation of the song “离了你，我不能作什么” by SingVOICES. And we(all the SingVOICES members) needed to be in church by 8am for rehearsal.
(For the video on the song presentation, please visit
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=134930695202 )
In the afternoon, I rushed off to Hong Leng Shopping Center after my Sunday school for a Magic performance for a open house from 1pm - 2.30pm. The kids were very lively and energetic, they ran around the place but not feeling tired.
After the magic performance, I went straight to Habourfront MRT station because I was joining a surprise Birthday celebration for Zhi Yang(1 of my church mates who sings very well) and I was going to help out with the decoration of the place. After the decoration, Zhi Yang's friends had started to reach one after another. I met 4 Choir friends and other friends of Zhi Yang. But we were like 2 gang of people and in the function room. So in order to break the Ice in between us, I used my "看家本领" (it means the thing that I'm best in) - Magic. I performed a few tricks to some of the Zhi Yang's friends and the other Zhi Yang's friends croweded near me, and they were amazed. From there I started the conversations between me and Zhi Yang's friends.
Around 7pm, Zhi Yang had finally reached. And all of us hid inside thr function room, without making any noise. When Zgi Yang opened the door, all of us wished ZhiYang Happy Birthday!" Zhi Yang was totally in shock and stunned that for 2-3minutes without speaking any words. Uncle Wei Ming had wrote special Birthday song(Cantones) for Zhi Yang and the lyrics is below:
"无愁又无掛虑
前途在神手里
神恩典够你用
欢欣添上一岁"
After singing the birthday song and cutting the cake, we had our dinner and some games. This was really fun and unforgettable!!

7th Mar, 2009(Sat)

Today, the Young Adult Zone had a combine event, New Friends BBQ, together... Our BBQ was the DIY style type. I returned church early to help out with the preparation and setup of the BBQ. the BBQ started at 6pm but it ended late because our we had some special quests came at the unique timing.
The special guests were Darwin, Cheryl and Jun Kai. They told me that they would be coming soon since 7pm, but they only appeared at 8.30pm. Most of food were eaten up by others but it was Lucky that I had left some food for them. And we had some good chats between them and my cell group people.

3rd Mar, 2009(Tue)

Today I left home early around 6.30am with my father to help him out for his work. Around 11am, we went to church to collect the church's old drum set and to ask the Baptist Theological Seminary(BTS) for the details on applying courses for my father. I bought the church's old drum set in order to replace my own drum set at home. The "new" drum set was from the quite a well known brand, Pearl, while my drum set was a China unknown brand, Boston.
In the late afternoon around 3pm, I returned PYSS to help out with the training because the competition was near and it would be in April and I could practice my 八卦掌 (A very powerful martial art) at the same time. Another reason of returning was because I heard that there are some problems were happening in between the teacher, the coach and the juniors.
In the middle of the training, suddenly I felt that my mobile phone, which was in my pocket truned very hot. I took my phone out from my pocket... There was a very strong burning smell and my sim card was burnt untill out of shape. It's lucky that both my sim card & memory card was not spoil.
It was very dangerous, so I sent my phone for service...

28th Mar, 2009(Sat)

Today was the day of Yeah Show 2009 "唔生唔死" 布道会 and the Impresario 2009 Final. I returned to church for the rehearsal of the Yeah Show 2009 in the morning around 10am because I was the Magician of the day, and my job was to pose a question to the audience. I had my final rehearsal at 1.30pm before the actual event start, the actual event started from 2.30pm till 4.30pm.
But the rehearsal was not up to my own standard, I knew I could done better. I did better on my actually performance.
(Here is the link of the video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SMUJ_ayhcw ).
The speaker, Rev. Lim, had a sense of humor, who was from Hong Kong and his message was really enjoyable and meaningful.
In the evening, I attended the Grand Final of Impresario 2009, which was organized by NTU together with Ah Bao, Xiang Long ans Stephanie. Shane's group, Violet Melody was 1 of the finalists. The other competitors were good too, it was not an easy battle. In the end, although Violet Melody and "WIN" had missed each other, I still think that they had done their best and they are good!!

27th Feb, 2009(Fri)

Today was the last day of Cheryl's relax Chalet, it was a 3 days 3 nights chalet started on 24th till today. There were a total of 4 of us stayed through the whole chalet, Cheryl(the girl with spectacle who was frying some prawns below) , Darwin(the one in black below), Jun Kai(the one in the 1st & 2nd photos below) and me. The chalet was held at 48 Pasir Ris Avenue, a 2-stories bungalow which had 3 bed rooms(1 master & 2 guest), 1 activity room, 1 living room, 3 toilets, 1 kitchen, 1 BBQ corner and a very garden. It was really out of our expectation, we didn't expect it to be so big. And it was just $75 from Monday to Friday!!!
We had BBQ for dinner on the 1st and 3nd night, we cooked our own breakfasts, lunches every day and dinner on the 2nd day. On the 2nd night, we went for a overnight cycling from Pasir Ris Park to Changi Village. We cycled around 28km followed the Park Connector. On our we met our special "tour guide" of that night, Joshua, a 17 years old teenager. He is a very good roller skater, he accompanied us all the way both go and return.
We managed to complete a 500 pieces Jigsaw Puzzle out of the period of our chalet.
Overall, it was a really Enjoyable and Fun chalet!!! =]