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Your Way Out!

2008-07-25T16:18:00.004+08:00

Inflation is happening and Recession is coming! Our income is not and will not be increasing at the same rate.

Are people prepared for it? What are people doing now to overcome the impact? Are the people and family ready to sacrifice the quality of life to survive it? Mummy has to go back to work? Take bus/MRT instead of Drive? No more new clothes? Less enrichment class or new stationery for kids? No more eating out at restaurants?

I found out a possible solution recently, and thought of sharing with more people here.

www.getyourwayout.com

It might be able to help you.

okay okay... decided to really make this alive!

2008-07-08T11:58:00.002+08:00

"Come on Eric, look at the date of last post, it's been more than a year... and you said want to make this alive..."

Okay... i have decided to start to post more things here... since now i have a little bit more of my own time. Stay tune!

Alive!!

2007-05-25T11:42:00.000+08:00

Yeah...i am going to bring this blog back to alive soon!....stay tune!

Rock Opera

2006-06-05T10:43:00.000+08:00

Sunday, i went to this rehearsal for a show called "Rock Opera". The show is about a Malay rock band that just started and want to be famous. The show will be at Esplanade on 16th, 17th June. The so-called orchestra is made up of 20 strings ensemble, percussion section, electric guitar, bass, keyboards etc. The conductor is a Malay guy called Amin. Apparently he is quite well known in Malay community. And most of the cast members, crew, percussionist and guitarist and bassist are Malay. Only the orchestra ppl are chinese.

I got the "lobang" from Hwee Bing, they need one more violist, so i go and help out. Then Hwee Bing ask me to be Principal, i was like long time never really touch viola already...anyway, the scores are quite easy, much easier than Mr. Iskandar's.

Talk about the whole production, in my opinion, they are really not not efficient. They said start time is 1pm, we wait till 2:30pm then only start to play something, we just a while, conductor said rest for 15 min, because he want to go drink coffee. When he came back, he told us "4pm we full run". Walao, wait again, and looking at the cast's progress, we will not end by the specified end time which is 6pm.

The rehearsal venue is at a secondary school that is not in use anymore, the whole place is so deserted and the look is old and dirty. We practice at their assemble hall, and is not air-conned!!! so hot by the time we start the full run. Well, the full run started at 4:10pm, and till 5:40pm we finally finished the 1st half of the show, "break for 15 min!". hmmrrphhfftth!!!! that means we will continue 2nd half at 6pm!! I had an appoinment with friends at town, so l left at 6:30pm. Giving them another extra 30 min is quite good already, i consider myself semi- freelance for the amount of time i gigged and i am already sick of all these production ppl that never stick to the time schedule. I told the person in charge that i have another performance and i went off.

Luckily this is the 1st time i go for the rehearsal, according to other ppl, there were 2 rehearsals before that day and what they practice was a waste because the conductor changed the whole score yesterday. hmm...one word - inefficient

BUsy with music Part 2

2006-06-05T10:19:00.000+08:00

Back from Lang Tengah last week.....now recovered from "black skin syndrome".

Over the last week, i was pretty busy with music again. This time i was involved in an Irish Band called "The Red Dot Ceili Band". SOunds like Red HOT Chilli Pepper huh..haha. Okay, the band is named by our member/leader XH, he explained that "Ceili" means a band that plays traditional irish dance music for ppl to dance around, so therefore called ceili band. [It is pronounced as Kay-Ly] As for why is it called Red Dot, he said that most of the Ceili Band is called by region of the place they come from, and this is a Singapore Ceili band, so he thought of The red dot....hehe..well....quite a cute name. Our band members are XH, Boon and me.

Last Saturday, we went to East Point Mall at Simei to perform, a part of Singapore Arts Festival program. The performance was quite good except that the sound system not very well done and the place is echo-e. The audience responce not very good though, only a few passer-by stop and watch us, and some autie uncle staring at us and some small kid dancing/jumping around.

After the perfoamance, Boon and XH suggested we go to city hall and approach some of the Irish pub for gigs. They said sunday lunch time should be a good time to perform because many Irish ppl will come to have lunch there. We had our dinner at Seah Street Deli, a western restaurant that serves BIG sandwiches! I recommend to go there if you thinking to have some nice BIG Sandwiches.

After dinner, we went to Chijmes, they know some of the manager there and wanted to try to perform straight. However, that day there was soccer game so everyone busy watching soccer, won't one us to perform, later they think we disturbing. Well, next time la. Hope to get some regular gig and therefore regular pocket money!! hee

This coming saturday will be at Plaza Singapore, hopefully the crowd is better there. Pls come and support us if you happen to be there. This saturday 10th June at Atrium@ Orchard (outside Plaza Singapore) 2:30pm.

Away for Holiday at Lang Tengah...

2006-05-27T15:38:00.000+08:00

hweee.........i going to Lang Tengah tonight.....wait till i come back to post some photo....

Going for Holiday

2006-05-19T11:21:00.000+08:00

woohoo....finally confirmed and booked the resort liao.....

i am going to Lang Tengah with my mum and sister in June... yeah

Lang Tengah his beside Redang Island, a less well known island with coral, lots of fish and also..white beaches..... can't wait...

ok...short passage this time....busy recently!

Galatine Candy

2006-05-18T02:14:00.000+08:00

Just finished the first show of "Man of Letters". Today is the opening show of MOL and the show was specially set aside for NUS students and staffs. Heard there was more than 1000 tickets given out free for the NUS community.

Anyway, the show was fabulous! I really like the feel of being live. During our rehearsal, because there was no audience, so whenever there is funny part of the show, not much response from audience so can't really feel great with the funny element. However, today with all the audience (full house in UCC Hall), the feel is totally different...you can feel those funny part even funnier....great!!

Here is another little story during the full run this afternoon:

Karyn, one of my 2nd violin section players brought us some candy and pass it around 1st and 2nd violin. Mr. Iskandar, our conductor also get to eat one.... the candy is Galatine ciocolatte

I was sitting together with Karyn at the most front row and conductor was just right infront of us. After the full run, Mr. IS (they all called him IS) stunned us...

IS : "Miss, you still got the sweet? very nice leh"
K : "oh...i gave out all already"
IS : "very nice leh...i like it....is it chocolate?"
me : " hmm....ya..think is white chocolate"
IS :" hmm....later eat liao get fat how? but i somehow getting more concentrated with music after eating that.."
me & K: " hmm...okay..(donno what to say)"
me: " she (pointing to Karyn) is going NTUC to buy some more tomorrow.."
IS :" Oh...NTUC har...okok...next time i must go find also.."
IS: " (looking at the sweet paper) what is this called? oh..Galatine...ok..next time i go find.."

After the show, Iskandar reminded Karyn:
IS :" tomorrow....the chocolate har...ok?!"

totally stunned.....so cartoon Mr. Iskandar

Galatine Candy: Made from 80 per cent partially skimmed milk, this crunchy Italian sweet contains no artificial colouring. Available at supermarkets and convenient stores in two flavours: chocolate and yogurt & berries. Price: $2.85 (115g pack), $1.95 (50g pack).

Man of Letters

2006-05-17T18:23:00.000+08:00

Having a break right now from the Musical "Man of Letters". (music: Forever Yours playing in the background). The show is going to starts later at 8pm, we just finished the Full Run and now having a dinner break.

Taking about this song "Forever Yours", immediately relate to one of the role - Mona!! She is one of the best sub-role in the musical... Mona is a sexy cabaret singer, like a mamasan in the cabaret who has certain say in the cabaret and she likes "virgin flesh" (Freshie from school).

Got one scene very funny, she tried to seduce Ming, the lead actor, in his room. Ming is like a nerd who is Sooo shy infront of her...and the whole conversation is so funny that even the orchestra players in the orchestra pit can't stop laughing, some even almost forgot to come in for the next piece.

Anyway, i would recommend this musical to anyone, this is quite a nice musical with funny element, as well as some important history and of cause, a very touching love story.

For more infomation, please go to this website, you can listen to the sample of the music there also.

BUsy with music

2006-05-12T10:48:00.000+08:00

Again, now is my busy period for music stuff... last time i always feel that i am a part time student - full time entertainer/musician. I spent quite alot of time taking up Gigs, rehearsal with orchestra, playing with band, teaching violin etc.... since i have graduated(sort of), just wondering should i go into music scene full time or i should be an engineer?

My outside quartet gigs are mostly thru contacts: One of my major contact is Ms Dong Dong. She gave herself this name, maybe sounds more cute..donno. Anyway, she is a china lady who always play Gigs and performance in hotels and functions. She played in TCS orchestra before therefore got alot of cnotact thru those older generation. Whenever her quartet lag of violin or viola player, then she will call me up to play with her quartet.

One thing quite "fun" to play with her is that we never practice beforehand and can just arrive at the gig place 15min before the function start to setup and our performance started. I'll never know what kind of set we are playing. Sometime jazz, sometime modern music, but mostly classical set. I remember one time i was called up to go to National Stadium with my violin, so again donno what i am going to play, i headed to stadium. Then only realise that it was a live shows with full audience capacity of the stadium. The show is "Elvis - The concert" which the original Elvis' band (all americans) play his songs and there was video showing Elvis singing, so is some sort of semi-live concert for Elvis. (Elvis died at his Memphis home, Graceland, on August 16, 1977). see here for more info about the concert.

NUS Symphony Orchestra,(NUSSO) i joined the orchestra before i came into NUS. That time my sister was in the orchestra so i came for audition also. Every Wednesday i'll travel from JB to NUS just to rehearsal with NUSSO and then go back at night. Now is about 5 years already... i have seen quite alot of changes in the orchestra, old faces, new faces, weird faces and some "ugly" faces. I worked clossly with Centra For the Arts(CFA) officers when i was the Logistic Officer (2003) and the President (2004). I can say that i have spent really alot of time doing stuff associated with the orchestra: weekly rehearsal, stock check, production schedule, stage manager, admin stuff, liason duty etc... remember there was a period where i almost work 9 to 5pm for the orchestra...then night time only for my study....

After resting more than a semester, i went back to orchestra again: We have a musical by Dick Lee "Man of Letters". We have about 4 or 5 rehearsal before we combine with the cast members. These few day, there was alot "hoohaa"with CFA ppl because of the contract and the pay issue....well, let's see how it goes.

Minor Vibes is my band's name. We are a relatively new band in the sense that we played together as one band only about half a year. Our members all are hall band member and have played quite a long time ago. Recently we joined the NUS college Rock Fest, and also played in the NUS Open house performance. Of cause, we played in our own hostel, Raffles Hall.

I am the drummer, the singer + guitarist is Riadi and Boon Yong is our bassist.

Our next big project will be playing at the Rock D'Fort, a 3 days event (16th -18th June) by National Arts Festival. We will be playing at the outreach stage, featuring all the local bands and musicians. (We have got the invitation to perform and now is to wait for the confirmation and i'll update more about this again.)

Beside all these, recently i am playing with another 2 person for some Irish Music. We are preparing for the National Arts Festival again. We will be playing in the program called Arts on the move or Music on the move (can't remember) on 3rd June and 10th June at different places.

Alright, i think these are some major events relevant to music in my everyday life now. come to think of it, i think maybe i be a full time musician better? Yes? No?

Dota Hero = drummer?

2006-05-02T15:20:00.000+08:00

This is for dota player only....if you play dota you will know what i am talking about...hehe

My gf Tyng once said that the drummer from Blink 182 - Travis Barker looks like a dota hero - Troll...wahahaha..

Travis on drum Troll on..erm..his weapon (axe)

Actually i think looks quite alike especially when Travis plays the drum. He moves alot and his hand is very fast, so like the character of Troll in Dota: Hand throwing speed super fast when cast ulti.

Then Travis got alot of tattoo on his body, so when you look closer to the Troll in Dota, you will see that his body also like got tattoo....

Most important thing that makes them look alike is: Their hair style!!! I realised Troll also comb the hair style so called "punker-hair". Travis is a punk rock band drummer, and maybe that's why his hair called "punker-hair". Anyway...if you remember the Gatsby ads in TV, you probably will know what is punker hair already.

"When you happy then you clap your Hair *clap clap*..."

if you are interested to see Travis on drum, can go to here. There are alot of information about him with some photos and video available.

if you are interested in Dota, here is the relevant forum about this game.

2006-05-02T10:43:00.000+08:00

Today is my sister's 26th birthday!! I like to wish her all the best...and stay happy always!

 Happy Birthday my dear sister!

2006-04-26T18:47:00.000+08:00

Next month on Thursday 4th May 2006, in 2 min and 3 sec after 1 am , time and date will be as below..

01:02:03 04/05/06 .

This will never happen again! (in 99 years time...haha)

editted

Me playing drums at NUS Centennial Open House 2006

2006-03-17T09:04:00.000+08:00

Thanks to Iceberg for covering the event!

My snare drum!! Marvin "Smitty" Smith MS1440

2006-03-14T15:07:00.000+08:00

Update: I have sold this drum to a NUS 1st year junior who is in the jazz band. Hope he make full use of this great drum!

Marvin “Smitty” Smith Signature Snare Drum

Visual Design. The shell of “Smitty” Smith’s drum is copper, polished up to a rosy finish, and every piece of hardware is 24K gold plated — even the tension rods. It’s a very striking, love-it-or-hate-it color scheme. I didn’t care for it! That said, I will admit that plenty of people who saw it, loved it. They said, “Hey, cool drum.” The sound is warmer though!

Mechanical Design. This copper drum has ten tension rods per head, and uses an SR018 strainer. There are lots of piccolo strainers out there that don’t work. They slip, loosen, stick, get in the way, but this one works well, with a parallel throw and simple cam action. The strainer holds the strings out and away at a flatter angle to the head than the Ferrone snare. There are drumkey heads on the snare cord clamps at the strainer and butt. The CL-05 lugs are shorter than normal and in vogue with the current trend toward low-mass lugs, but big enough to allow the top and bottom tension rods to line up. (Some say offset tension rods lead to twisting of the lug and subsequent warping of the shell’s shape. Not a problem here). The shell has one seam, no bead, and the bearing edges are rounded, not crisp, with a deep molded snare bed. Pearl’s attention to detail is again evident in the fit and finish throughout.

Sound. The sound of this drum takes us into some enjoyable new territory. The copper approaches brass in the wet focus of the sound. There’s a dry attack that you would usually get only with a wood drum, but the whole shell sings out like metal drum. It really has some of the best of both worlds. The flanged Super Hoop II’s keep it sounding open. Very fun. Some of this I ascribe to the 14" x 4" shell, which is a very versatile, lively and funky size. Copper and brass are just different enough to be happy stable mates. The drum easily tuned to high pitches, and can get kind of low, too. Low is a relative term in a 14" x 4" drum, though.

Conclusion.The copper-shelled drum from Mr. Smith is especially worth checking out if you are in the market for a 14" x 4" drum and can’t decide if you want wood or metal. The 14" x 4" size is known to be versatile. The hardware is well engineered. Obviously beautiful to the eye, if you like "pink" drums, this drum is worth a listen. With a retail price of SGD550, it is almost cheap, which is shocking for this much quality, plating and pinkness.

Model: Pearl Marvin “Smitty” Smith Signature Snare Drum
Size: 14" x 4"
Part Number: MS-1440
Shell Material: Copper
Strainer: SR-018, gold plated
Hoops: Pearl Super Hoop II, gold plated
Head: Remo Ambassador
Snare Head: Remo Ambassador snare side
Lugs: CL-05, gold plated

*Info from http://www.pearldrum.com/gear.asp

Minor Vibes photo

2006-03-09T22:40:00.000+08:00

Eric Tan on drum!

Another photo

Minor Vibes @ NUS College Rock Fest 2006

Minor Vibes live @ Raffles Hall Phoenix Fest 2006

2006-03-09T20:26:00.000+08:00

Riadi on Vocal+Guitar Solo
Eng Kiat on Guitar
Boon Yong on Bass
Eric (That's me!!) on Drum

Video: German engineering vs Arab technology

2005-11-22T02:16:00.000+08:00

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...57378608744139

damn funny video....laugh till pengsan!

Helpdesk jokes (part 2)

2005-10-29T04:18:00.000+08:00

Helpdesk: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen.
Customer: Your left or my left?

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Helpdesk: What's on your monitor now madam?
Customer: A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me in the supermarket.

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Customer: I couldn't get on the Internet.
Helpdesk: Are you sure you used the right password?
Customer: Yes I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.
Helpdesk: Can you tell me what the password was?
Customer: Five stars.

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Helpdesk: How may I help you?
Customer: I'm writing my first e-mail.
Helpdesk: OK, and, what seems to be the problem?
Customer: Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, but how do I Get the circle around it?

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Helpdesk: What anti-virus program do you use?
Customer: Netscape.
Helpdesk: That's not an anti-virus program.
Customer: Oh, sorry...Internet Explorer.

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HD: "Helpdesk... may I help you?"
C: "Yes... my files is missing, I cannot find them!"

HD: "Where did you save your files previously?"
C: "I saved them in the Recycle Bin"

HD: ...angry... "Why do you want to save your files in the Recycle Bin?"
C: "This is because I notice that when files save in the Recycle Bin, it doesn't takes any disk space... nevermind lah those files not so important anyway!"

HD: "I can't help you recover those missing files now. How many files did you see in the Recycle Bin now? And How long have you been saving files in the Recycle Bin?"
C: "There quite a lot... I have been saving files in the Recycle Bin back few years ago, there isn't any missing files until now."

HD: "Can you quickly move all your files out of the Recycle Bin to your C Drive before more starts to go missing?"
C: "Nevermind lah... I still prefer to save them in the Recycle Bin, more convenient!"

HD: .. angry... "Good luck to you then, please don't call me again for missing files. Thank You!"

Helpdesk jokes (part 1)

2005-10-29T04:14:00.000+08:00

*HD=helpdesk, C=customer

HD: "Hi thanks for calling XXXX helpdesk, how may I help you?"
C: "I can't install the internet s/w on the disc"
HD: "Have you inserted the disc, did any screen pop up?"
C: "The disc is in the drive, but there's no screen"
HD: "Can you try Start->Run and key in D:\Setup.exe"
C: "Nope, no such drive was the error message"

*After half an hour of trying to figure out, getting the application to install*

HD: "Double click on my computer, do you see a CD ROM icon there?"
C: "Nope, there's A:, C: but no CD ROM drive"
HD: Does your system have a CD ROM drive?"
C: "Yes"

*5 mins more of thinking, HD decided to test the dummy way*

HD: "Is there a grey bar towards the right of the window that showed up after double clicking on 'My Computer'?"
C: "Oh yeah, there is!"
HD: "Can you use your mouse click on the bar and drag it down?
C: "Yeah yeah, now got CD ROM drive!!!"

*HD mute the headset's microphone and laughed loudly*

Superman

2005-10-29T04:13:00.000+08:00

Check this site...quite funny...

http://www.enpop.com/web_ani/a0009/a0009.swf

A Photographer's Joy

2005-10-29T04:05:00.000+08:00

You will be happy as a photographer if you.......

1. Enjoy burning money on photography equipments like the way you burn hell money during funerals.

2. Enjoy taking pictures of people who thinks they should be 20 years younger or 20kg lighter than they should be.

3. Have the time to play around with people who enjoys having their heads changed in the picture.

4. Need to shoot children who often don't think they need you.

5. Are willing to be a camera and have customers who think that they are photographers.

6. Shoot for free and so is everybody living in this world.

Just for laugh

2005-10-29T04:03:00.000+08:00

saw this in some forum....OMG!!

Mosquito Treatment

2005-10-10T01:22:00.000+08:00

You have a lot of mosquitos in your bedroom? Try this. My friend send to me, i haven't try yet, but i'll try it soon and see if it really works!

So you don't like those pesky mosquitoes. Here's a tip that was given at a recent gardening forum. Â Put some water in a white dinner plate and add a couple drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dish detergent. Set the dish on your porch, patio, picnic table, park bench, or other outdoor area.

Not sure what attracts them, the lemon smell, the white plate colour, or what, BUT ... mosquitoes flock to it, and drop dead shortly after drinking the Lemon Fresh Joy/water mixture, and usually within about 10 feet of the plate.

TRY IT---it works just super! It may seem trivial, but it may also help to control mosquitoes around your home, (especially in areas where the West Nile virus is reaching epidemic proportions in mosquitoes, birds, and humans).

Heavy Rain with strong wind.....

2005-10-07T01:51:00.000+08:00

Few days ago there was a big storm in the middle of the night....that was this tuesday night (wednesday strictly speaking) around 3am, the wind suddenly became very strong..it was actually howling~~ very scary

My room is just beside RH hardcourt, and i heard a loud sound, something drop because of the strong wind (found out it was the goal post). After the strong wind, it started raining, damn heavy rain...

Luckily few day before this rare "typhoon", i have done some precaution act to my blinder..hehe

Here it is...a simple method to prevent the blinder from flying up and making all the noise when they hitting each other... All i need is string, metal hook(any hook), hammer, scissors

I decided to share this information for those who cant stand the noise made by the blinder early in the morning or when you taking a nap...

1st step: Determine what is the height you want the string to be tied from the table. The height cant be too low or not the blinder will actually come off when a strong wind is blowing. If too high, when the wind blowing, the loose end will still hit each other and this will not solve any problem. So choose a right height that you think is the most suitable for your acceptable noise level..haha

2nd step: Hammer in the hook to the wall(sorry hall manager :p ), it is best if can get metal hook for concrete wall becuase they are much stronger to hold the string when st thoserong wind blowing. Can get them very cheap at $1 for 2 pairs.

3rd step: Tie the string across and infront the blinder on the hook at both side. Do not tie too tight as we need to leave some loose string for buffer when strong wind blow. If too tight, the blinder might just pull the string off the hook or even pull the hook out from the wall.

4th step: I used another string to pull the string which is horizontal and tie it to the window. Like this can triangulate the force so that when the main string is in tension, the hook is not holding all the force but instead the vertical string helps to lessen the load.

5th step: I tied a string in the middle section of the main string, same function as step 4, to help to hold some of the load when wind blow.

yeah~~ finish! and now, i can have my peaceful dream and no more irritating blinder noise....irritating!!

P/s: Thanks for Eng Kiat who provides the idea!

Tricks for Wang Wang

2005-10-07T01:38:00.000+08:00

Some advice from Pei Pei, Kiat's friend.

Flying Wang Wang
1. click on the bag of doggy treats
2. put the treat on the top right hand corner of Wang Wang's space and click.
3. (Wang Wang will jump up to eat it in one nice gulp)
4. quickly! pick up another doggy treat and place it on the top left hand corner of Wang Wang's space and click.
5. quickly feed Wang Wang again on the top right
6. repeat the above steps for as long as u like

the result should be Wang Wang gliding across its space (instead of jumping), in and out of the space. if u r good and fast, Wang Wang might even disappear for a good 40 seconds!

Wobbly head
(not really a trick. i just like to do tt. haha)
u notice when u move ur mouse, Wang Wang's head will follow? well..... just make ur mouse go round and round and round Wang Wang's head. *end* i just think it is funny. :P

Mime Song

2005-10-06T23:24:00.000+08:00

I thought I saw a man brought to life
He was warm, he came around like he was dignified
He showed me what it was to cry
Well you couldn’t be that man I adored
You don’t seem to know, don’t seem to care what your heart is for
But I don’t know him anymore
I don’t care, I have no luck, I don’t miss it all that much
There’s just so many things that I can’t touch, I’m torn

I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel
I’m cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed into something real
I’m wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
You’re a little late, I’m already torn. torn.

New lamps in my room!

2005-10-04T18:47:00.000+08:00

I know this might sounds ridiculous, but last saturday is my 1st time been to Ikea, since i came to singapore 4 years ago. All my friend said why i so "sua gu" never been to Ikea before....actually i always want to go to buy lamp one leh..but i think time really flies...so fast almost 4 yr liao...

Anyway, last sat i went there with Eng Kiat, we had late lunch there with the famous Ikea Chicken wings and Swedish meatball..yum yum!!

After that, we went straight to the lamp section to choose lamp (my friend told me there got promotion and the lamp there are quite cheap)..kiat said if we slowly walk thru other section, we will end up buying alot of things....ya..so straight to lamp section..hehe

Well..the lamp not really very cheap la...in the end i bought two lamps, one is the $12 desktop working light and the other one is $7 bed lamp. Kiat also bought his 2nd desktop lamp and he said next time cannot go with me liao..or not he will end up buy more stuff....muahaha..evil me..

This is the desktop working lamp....now i always use it when i am doing my homework, play game etc... i only on this light and never use other lights in my room..cosy feeling in my room~~

Btw, the light bulb is those energy saving one, so i think hall manager should feel happy we save energy for them..haha

This is my desk and my bed, the light at the left corner is my the other bed lamp....i like the feeling..pretty cool!!

Meteor Strike?!?

2005-10-04T02:13:00.000+08:00

Yulia's concert at UCC

2005-10-03T22:11:00.000+08:00

Yulia is having her concert in Singapore today.
The performance will be held at UCC tonight 8pm.

In case you don't know who she is, here is the her website. "Moving to New Zealand to live, from Russia, just two years ago, this remarkable 18 year old has made short work in beginning what looks to be an astonishing career..."

I wanted to go for her concert one...but can't get any ticket(it's free)...so cannot go :( , i quite like her music.

Anyway, i 1st know about her from "Hooked" magazine by NUSSU. Then around nus, also see a lot of her poster. The poster is quite attractive(at least to me), partly because some other reason which i'll post in next post.

This is the poster around NUS. And now it is in my room...muahahaha

The story goes like this:
one day while i was walking to Fongseng for supper with my friend, i saw this poster at the notice board, i told my friend that i like that poster and thinking to take it back...but in the end never.

The next day, my friend (JW) said want to give me a surprise present..and voila! it is this poster..he said he "kop" from outside his lab in the middle of night when there is no one else there....he risk his dignity to take this poster...haha..i must treasure it liao! hah

Thanks JW!!

My new pet!

2005-10-03T11:58:00.000+08:00

Just adopted two new pets: Mr. Peng and Little Piggy!! There are just at my side bar. Do visit them k?

Ways to play with my pets:
1. Bring your cursor around them, they should follow your cursor...the piggy one is quite cute while Mr. Peng is..hmm....stone...
2. Click on Mr. Peng's head, he will shake a bit....click more...and see what will happen!
3. Click on Piggy's head or body..and again..see what will happen!
4. You can point your cursor to the "more" sign of the piggy window, there will have things that you can do to my piggy....try it out!
5. Do come back often to play with my pets...i will adopt more over time....

Freaking Bird

2005-10-01T00:15:00.000+08:00

What is the name of this bird anyone?

I saw this bird in my hostel's comm hall last year. My friend saw it 1st and called me to bring camera down..

That was damn freaking, the bird will look at your direction wherever you walk...i manage to capture the side view while the bird looking at my friend.

It starts to turn to my side already~~ freak!
"something is looking at me when i want to go to toilet....freaking big eye..."My friend said.

It looks abit like the Kiwi, but we think the Kiwi cant possibly fly all the way from Aussie to singapore rite...or maybe because of that the bird can't fly anymore...did i mention that my friend said the bird wont fly even you try to chase it away?

FREAK!!

what is Natcire?

2005-09-30T23:42:00.000+08:00

Can you guess what is natcire?

Hihi, this is my 1st post in here....why i choose a name called natcire? Actually that is my name in reverse spelling...yeah..my name is Eric! haha...