22nd Feb,2009(Sun)

Today was the 21st Birthday of 1 of my best NS buddies, Edison, who was the CSM(Company Sergent Major) Runner/Lineman. He booked a terrace at Aloha Loryang, the terrace was really BIG.. 4 bedrooms, 1 living room, 1 kitchen, BBQ area etc... I became the "bao-ka-liao" of the Birthday BBQ, I helped to decorate the terrace, BBQ the foods, perform Magic to entertain Edison's family & friends and helped him to clear-up the area after all his friends left.... Although it was tiring, it worthy to do so, because it was doing for my BEST buddy!! hahaha... =]

20th Feb,2009(Fri)

Today was the day Pei Ying, my secondary school classmate who had been same class with me for sec 1, 3 & 4, flew off to Australia for her University. She is very PRO, she had completed her Grade 1-8 and Diploma of piano. And she was going for her degree on Music.
Her flight was SQ221 at Changi Airport Terminal 3 and would take off by 8.40pm. But she would need to be there early to check in hers and her parents' luggage, who were accompanying her to Australia.
Shane and me were going to sent her off. I reached T3 early around 6pm and Shane was rushing his way down from Clementi... I waited at the Row no. 3 where supposed to check-in her luggage at, and I sent her an sms informing her the row no. Less than 10sec I received her call and she had just reached row no.3 too. She was alone looking after the luggage because her parents were away to something to eat.
We chatted a while and her relatives and friends had started to reach one after another. Pei Ying introduced her friends for me. And there was a girl, 1 of Pei Ying's schoolmates and her best friend, named Yan Siew (The one wearing yellow, long hair... Standing beside Pei Ying, at the left of the photo) who was actually my primary school schoolmate. I didn't expect that and I totally could not recognize her.
Shane had finally made it just 15 minutes before Pei Ying and her parents going in for the plane.

19th Feb,2009(Thu)

Today I had finally received my Gospel Magic set after a very long wait. I had ordered this Gospel Magic set from a HK Gospel Magician, Rev. Yeung. I knew about him from a website, www.gospelmagic.hk.
I ordered a lot of things, and it costed me S$285.64 (Shipping fee + Telegraphic Transfer fee + Cost of the goods). Although it may sound expensive to many people, I found that this Gospel Magic set worth its price.

8th Feb, 2009(Sun)

Today I went straight to Bishan Junction 8 after my church, because Shane's group, Violet Melody (He and his partner, Clara) was having its Semi-Final of Impresario 2009 organized by NTU(Nanyang Technology University). There were a few different categories, Single Vocal, Group Vocal, Song Compose and Street Dance for the competition.

Violet Melody were under the Group Vocal category. They performed the song "Wei Ni Er Huo" by Shen Mu Yu Tong. Violet Melody's performance was 1 of the better one out of all the 11 teams and the performance was good and outstanding compared to the other groups.

7th Feb, 2009(Sat)

Today late morning, my brothers and I were invited to attend the PYSS Lion Dance Troupe's Annul Lo Hei(捞鱼生).
After the Lo Hei, we rushed to 1 of our friends' house... But I didn't stay long because I need to rush back church for the Farewell Glowing Fellowship.It was a special program prepared by the younger group of fellowship, Soar(展翅), in order to farewell my fellowship, Glowing(炽燃), from Youth Zone to Young Adult Zone.

In the night, I met Ah Bao, Lin Hui(Stephanie's friend), Stephanie, Wu Yu, Xiang Long & Yan Chi at Bugis for steamboat. We had a lot of Fun when steamboat!!

6th Feb, 2009(Fri)

Today was the Raffles Institution(RI) CNY dinner, and I was invited by Auntie Han Ying(A church mate of mine who was the teacher of RI) to perform a Magic performance on the dinner. I asked Ming Tjong(A church mate of mine who play Magic too) to help out with the performance.
(For video of the Magic performance, please visit
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=139640510202 )
I planned the performance in a way that it is a remix of Stage & Street Magic, I was the Stage Magician while Ming Tjong was the Street Magician.
We reached RI around 3.30pm and had our rehearsal. Around 6pm, the dinner started and our performance was around 7.45pm. I was really disappointed with our performance, a lot situations and technical problems happened... Which cause the performance to go out of plan.
Although the audience seem to have enjoyed themselves, I still feel very disappointed with it...

5th Feb, 2009(Thu)

Today morning, I went to PYSS to collect a lion head, which I borrowed from Ms Goh(my Sec Sch CCA teacher). And I also helped her to bring a wild cat, Xiao Hao, away from PYSS. It was because the Discipline Master of the school wanted to get rid of her... He called the SPCA to catch her.

In the evening, I had weekly Sing practice in church... we continued with the new song, "离了你，我不能作什么！", which we had learnt last week. It was really a nice song.

2nd Feb,2009(Mon)

Today evening, I had finally met up with my OC, CPT John, who was my 1st year OC of my NS. I had tried to meet up with him a lot times, but it was either he could not make it of I could not make it. We met at the McDonald below Pricess Cinema and had our dinner that. I asked my OC for his advices on what course(either EEE or IMD) should I study and we discussed about it, because I was still considering. At the end of the gathering, my OC gave his GPS (which he had used it in the period of the past few years, so it was full of useful data) to me for free and it was costed around $250-$350 for 1 on the market.

31st Jan, 2009(Sat)

Today was a wonderful day to me... Why? It was because I received an email that I was accepted into both Interactive Media Design(IMD) at Temasek Polytechnic and Electrical Electonic Engineering /Bioelectonics (EEE) at Singapore Polytechnic. This meant my hardship on spending whole night drawing for my portfolio was not wasted. I drew a few pictures, mostly are comic & manga characters and some characters which was created by me..(Starting from the left: A warrior created by me when I was in Secondary school; An Army boy modified from the character of the brand "Newbie"; A famous Japanese Manga character)
In the evening, I was invited by Sandy and Sindy to attend a Chinese New Year(CNY) gathering at her house. It was FUN!! I met friends of Sandy and Sindy and made some new friends, Darwin, Cheryl, Charmaine etc... After dinner, we had a game that I could harder understand how to play, but it was very fun while we were trying to learn how to play the game.

28th Jan, 2009(Wed)

Today morning, I went to Min Kiat's house to Bai Nian and stayed till 12pm.
On my way home I went to the Computer servicing shop, at blk 202 and just beside Bedok Interchange, which also sell computer parts, US Army equipments and toys(guns, rifles, managa models... etc)I saw something very interesting, Night Vision Goggles (NVG) and Soundwaves Capture Gun (SCG).
Althought the NVG was just a toy, it still manage to see 50ft(15m) in total darkness. It was a product of Jakks Pracific.
The SCG was a device that able capture soundwaves 300ft away and there was a 8x build-in telescope with it.
I really like military equipments since young, so these 2 items really interest me... I decided to perchase them, the NVG costs $145 and the SCG costs $60. But I managed to get a $5 discount, so I bought it at the price of $200.

27th Jan, 2009(Tue)

Today was the annul "Plug the Green" for Ping Yi Secondary School (PYSS, which was the secondary school I used to study in) Lion Dance Troupe . And I'm 1 of the members of the PYSS Lion Dance Troupe. I would reture to PYSS to help out almost every year, this year there were 13 clients asked to "plug the green" for them... This year, I took up the guiding job to guide the juniors on their Lion Dance skills with my experience, taugh them what to doand how to react according to different situations...

25th Jan, 2009(Sat)

Today after checked out from Sing's retreat, I returned home and make a Chinese New Year snack called the peanut dumpling.
In the evening, Yan Lok(my younger brother) and Me asked Qin Jie(Yan Lok's god sister) for a gathering. We had our dinner at the Bedok Interchange Hawker Centre 1st.
We walked to 1 of blocks near to Qin Jie's block, we had some chats and played the poker card game, Big 2.

23rd Jan, 2009(Fri)

Today evening, I organized a gathering with Shane, Pei Ying and my brothers at the Mac below Bedok Princess Cinema, which is just beside Bedok Bus Interchange. We met at Mac by 7pm, I reached early around 6.30pm. I looked around and I didn't see neither my brothers, Shane nor Pei Ying, so I found a corner and sat down and waited. Around 6.55pm, Shane arrived. We played UNO while waiting for the others...
We waited till still 7.15pm and my brothers reached, but the most important person, Pei Ying, had not reached yet. The whole purpose of the gathering was to meet with Pei Ying before she fly to Australia for study her degree on Music.
We have our dinner 1st, then have a good time of chats.
After the gathering, I went to Coasta Sand Resort (Pasir Ris) for the SingVOICES's Retreat. We had a sharing on the Sing's future plan, SingDREAM.

31st Dec, 2008 (Wed)

Today is the last day of my work, I've actually started a part-time job since the mid of November, 2008. I had been working in a law firm which called J.S.Yeh & Co, which is in Chinatown Point, as an admin clerk. My job was to reminder clients to pay their unpaid bills by phone, letter and fax. I would need to take MRT to work everyday. I worn contact lens for the first few days of my work because my spectacles was spoiled in the morning of my 1st day of work.
After working for 1 month, I had finally got my 1st paid. I bought my first bass guitar at the Yamaha year-end promotion. It was a Yamaha Bass Guitar Set with free tuner, guitar bag, guitar picks, cable and bass amplifier for just $550, which was selling $708 as its original price. Hahaha... I am having electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboard & drumset now, which are the basic instruments used for a band...
I was supposed to go Thailand for my church mission trip from 26th Nov 2008 till 2nd Dec 2008. But the mission trip was postponed to 22nd - 26th Dec 2008, due to the conflict between the protesters and the Thailand government. The protesters occupied the Bangkok International Airport for 3 days, and it was just nicely 1 day before the date we were flying to Thailand, so we were not able to fly.... Due to the postpone of the mission trip, I was able to make it for the anniversary dinner of the law firm which I was worked in on the 28th Nov 2008...
Finally, We flew to Thailand on the 22nd Dec 2008. We needed to transit from International flight to Domestic flight at Bangkok, then flew to Chiang Rai. When we reached Chiang Rai Airport was around 9pm - 10pm in the night and Pastor Tao Rong was there and waiting for us already. Pastor Tao Rong prepared a small truck to fetch us to the Hui Ju Christ Church, which was at the waist of a mountain. After we reached the church, We slept straight away after unpacked our stuffs.
On the 23 morning, we had our 1st quiet time together with Pastor Tao Rong and Xue'er, Who had flew to Thailand before us. And we helped them to decorate the church in the afternoon after we went out to buy some decorations for the Christmas. And we gave the shoes and shirts that we bought from Singapore to the children from Grace Home in the night.The following day, we were busy shopping. Buy present and gifts for children in Hui Ju Church and the Chinese School kids, and stuffs for games to be played on the Christmas. And we also gave out the Christmas gifts which we had prepared for the students of the Chinese school.
On the 25th Dec 2008(Christmas), the leader of the Hui Ju Church invited the leaders and people of the Hui Ju village and principles of the nearby Thai school to the church and had a celebration of Christmas. In the morning, we had a Christmas service. The children of the Grace Home presented a song.
After the service, lunch was prepared for us, leaders and people from the village. The Children from the Grace Home were tasked to serve us and the guests for our lunch. Zhang Qi and Zhen Ping were interested and excited with the things in Thailand. They helped the children to serve the guests.
After the lunch, there were a gifts exchange session which all the people must bought a gift costed at least more than T$20 for exchange. Follow by the Game Time, we have setted up 5 games and it was FUN and excited! The children were really into the games, they won't scare of dirts or anythings, just in order to WIN!! In order to let the game masters to calculate the scores of the different groups, I was asked to give a Magic preformance. Both the adults and children were amazed by the Magic and all the children crowded around me when even I go after watching my performance.
The most excited moment of the day was the Bamboo Climbing Competition. They were asked to form team in 6 to challenge the Bamboo Climbling.
In the night, there were people from other villages ride motors to the church because they heard that there were Magic performance. After our dinner, we had a song learning session and we prepared Some Christmas gifts for all the children from the Grace Home. Every member of the mission team were in charge of prepare Christmas gifts for 4 children out of all the children in Grace Home.
It was really a Meaningful, Interesting and Wondering trip!!!=]

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!! =<