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!!! =]

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.