since i blogged..and the break did not answer as many qns as i hoped it would.. but anyway… here’s a bit of trivial talk.

We all know that the National Stadium has been declared close, or so it seems. I paid good money to watch Sg play the aussies in the stadium-closing ceremony, and sat thru perhaps the cheesiest ceremony ever. However, officially closed means unofficially still can stage games. They staged a world cup qualifier there 2 wks ago on the pretext that it would attract large crowds, which didn’t really happen i guess.

Yesterday really is the best, they staged an under-23 friendly between Sg and Cambodia. I really wonder how many ppl went to watch…

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Seriously, i think saturdays can’t get better than this… slept till 10am, before going down to esplanade to usher for Jump.  My lucky day, as i got inner door for once… i can’t tell u how rare that happens these days… n yea Jump was really good, short performance, 1hr 30 mins but really really high octane..

So i went on to national stadium with ziwei n seng for the singapore-australia match and the closing ceremony, and it was a pretty good game despite sg going down 3-0.  The closing ceremony of the stadium was cheesy, to say the very least.. all its saving grace was kit chan singing and a fireworks display.

So we proceeded on to makansutra for supper, n ziwei n i proceeded to harry’s for a beer..the guitarist was damn good…. (makes note about harry’s on sat nites).  Gave him a ride home and took the extra long day via west coast highway.. it’s been a long time that i took a leisure ride, having spent most of time these days while riding being stuck in traffic along dunearn..

btw, Operation Gimme-Two-More-Wheels is underway, i look forward to being domesticated from late aug, from 人包铁 to 铁包人

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Got an offer for those of you who are either not planning to take graduation photos (or too giam to pay hundreds of dollars for a shoot).. I’m offering a free shoot for you or with another friend.  The equation is very simple, you get high resolution digital photos on a cd or dvd for free, while i get to keep the photos as part of my collection and maybe future portfolio.

If you are expecting a very professional shoot with studio lighting, ppl to do makeup for you and to adjust ur gown, I am sorry to disappoint you, haha!  I am but a budding photog who needs to gain experience and expertise in shooting portraits.  We’ll probably stumble along the way on a saturday morning, but i’m sure @ the end of the 2-3 hrs that there would be quite a few keepers of a photo.

So if you’re keen, just contact me…

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often has no results, or @ least, good ones.. and so it has been proven again.  Time to concentrate on work…

On a happier note, india was pretty good, despite all the carrot-ing of my head and extreme temperature range (read 20-51°C), I realised that I have learnt much more about india and that i never wanna go back delhi again… Not alot of pictures this time, only 843 (small number since my zoo excursion i took 300 over). Hopefully i will sort thru them soon and do another series of blog posts, which should be done by…er..december…haha!

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and it feels great staying in a proper hotel with good room service, and thick mattresses… no more non-existent mattresses and overbearing heat..its 20 deg outside @ nite…

And i think i is getting old..1 wk of travelling ard n i’m already tired…but then again, it’s india… looking fwd to home on 21st…

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Yesterday in Jaipur was the hottest ever, i think it touched 50 briefly.. so by 3pm outside, i couldnt take it after going ard to most of the sights, guided by the nicest autorickshaw driver ever.. went back to the hotel and started sweating in my room..

I think i broke all-time record for most number of showers in a day.. not counting the one in the prev night..i took one @ 4am, and another at 7am..from 3pm to 1am, i showered 6 times… Still not enuff to cool down as the fan was blowing hot air @ me.. Saw the extra towel, soaked it with water and squeezed it dry to wrap ard my body…wah damn shiok… natural aircon thru evaporation…

Had the chance to impromptu cover a hindu wedding last nite, @ 11.30pm.. power..got 3 horses, 1 horse cart, and TWO ELEPHANTS…got some amazing pictures too..akan datang…

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for those of you who feel it’s very hot in singapore, think again.. I landed in bangalore where it was 27 deg C. Transited to delhi and landed in 45 deg C. First nite i slept in an AC room, shiok. Next day transited to agra, freaking FORTY-SEVEN DEGREES CELSIUS.

At this temperature, everything warms up very quickly. Your books become warm, your camera becomes hot.. your cold water if u dun drink fast enuff, becomes lukewarm in 30 mins and warm in an hour.

Yest I drank 6 litres of water, and guess wat..it’s still not enuff…yellow pee…crap…i think i gonna go broke buying water…

O yes, taj mahal is amazing!

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Airticket to Bangalore: check! Luggage: check! Camera: check! Any reservations beyond bangalore: erm…

Here i go, in about 12 hrs time, I would be departing on my most hiong travel adventure so far..india on my own till 16th, then recce with YQ till 21st. Nothing’s been booked besides my flight from sg, I only know that I want to get to Delhi within the day and plan from there. With luck, saturday afternoon I would be standing in front of the taj mahal.. heh..

Want anything from india, pls sms me..haha!

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yours truely truly (helps to have a fren correcting ur english ) passed class 3 liaoz.. 14 pts..not glorious, but yea i will take it..

no car on the horizon yet, mabbe another bike though..heh..

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Nothing much has changed, not the airfare @ least.. still 700 plus dollars on the old indian airlines plane…crap..

Tumkur03/04 ppl, if u want me to play postman for u… get them to me before 16th june..

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I will be attempting to add class 3 to the list behind my license this thurs.

If i fail: spend money to book retest

If i pass: spend money to book driving orientation, and mabbe class 4 class 5. Learn to drive bus/truck is good, recession-proof.  Iron ricebowls wun last forever, haha!

both ways spend money..

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Reason why we shouldn’t be doing work at 3am, you make verbal faux pas like this (i’m red, my fren’s blue):


Really had a damn good laugh! cmi liaoz, 2 nites of crazy intense laughter

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Yes it’s true. I’m resisting the temptation to bitch about my school, but then I shall not. This is different from NUS, more draconian here i feel. I can tell you about the food here at the canteens. The best food here is, McDonalds. I kid you not. My canteen’s the worse, the PRCs here dun really eat @ the 菜饭 stall. Now that says really alot about its standards..

Anyway i’m bogged down by deadlines, and it’s crappy when you don’t have exams but have tonnes of essays to do.. grr!

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And so thailand only got a reprimand for their pitch walkout during the 1st leg match in Singapore.  This despite their players obviously showing dissent, physically and verbally abusing the referee.  The best part was that the coach sanctioned the walkout and he became a national hero back in Thailand.

I guess this is so Asean, the policy of non-interference with neighbours, even though it makes the whole region look like bloody clowns with no backbone.

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And so i’ve gotten to BKK, w/o knowing any Thai.. broken english all the way… kaoz… and not much shopping’s done..not that i intended to do any.. only 3 beer lao t-shirts

More updates when i come back..u wun believe some of the things that i ate.. and i heard that i was on tv! haha

for those of u who die die want some stuff from JJ market tml..pls smsme before sunday noon..i try to get..no promises

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Good ppl really suffer the most, as so often proven in TV shows, books and real life, but eventually they still come through and end up stronger. A close fren’s bf who just graduated not so long ago is working at an oilfield in China when he kena an accident. Something fell on him and he broke his hip and required stitches on his face.

As if this wasn’t enough to keep his family and my friend worried, it has been really slow getting specialist medical care to him, to decide if it’s suitable to send him back to singapore. And when the help arrived, it came with more bad news that there is internal bleeding of the liver and there’s no way he can be sent back for now.

Fren and bf’s mum are flying over to China tomorrow. May the heavens look down on him and bless him for a speedy recovery..

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piang eh..whoever did this is damn fierce..uploaded the entire dvd of NDP onto Youtube.. good for cheapos out there, usually includes me but not this time round.. I is totally notre dame-d!

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I woke up really early this morning n went to the market for breakfast for a change. What kind of spoilt my breakfast was this middle-aged lady who obviously is a regular @ the market, judging by the number of ppl whom she greeted. She greeted everyone “HAPPY NEW YR!”.

Seems like there is some problem with our national education, especially on understanding other races and religions. Just because Lunar New Year is the biggest festival for the Chinese doesn’t mean that the biggest fests for other races/ religions must be their new years. Try wishing a Christian happy new yr on 25th Dec then.

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Make no mistake, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. The title is Shit! and of cos we are gonna discuss shit. You really thought that it’s shit as in shit, something gone wrong. No, it’s literal.

Most ppl would consider shitting to be highly-private activities, incl me. I mean, the removal of waste material from the body is like the bangla worker clearing the thrash @ the refuse centre for the hdb estate. It’s a necessary job, we appreciate it but that doesn’t mean that we are gonna celebrate it right?

Recently I’ve been surrounded by ppl who discusses shitting so openly that it makes me cringe sometimes. Talk about the mild cases first. Friends who are chatting with me over msn or in person, all is fine until they say “brb, gtg toilet”. Believe me, that is enough info liaoz, I dun need to noe wat you are going to do in the toilet. It’s ok, it’s not gonna raise my IQ or make my day to know what you’re doing in the toilet. Of cos some of them has to tell me, “i gonna shit” or “i gonna take a dump”.

Shitting is private, i dun even like to use a cubicle in a public toilet next to another cubicle where someone is obviously shitting. No i dun believe in “Shitting in unison” or “Giving each other moral support”. I dun wanna smell yours.

Not sure if anyone else saw this ad, but a nutrition company that was trying to peddle fibre pills put this ad in one of the local papers, Today or ST, can’t remember.

Floater or Sinker? The next time you visit the toilet and before you flush, take a look at your faeces. If it is a floater, it means that you have enough fibre in your diet. If it is a sinker, it means that you don’t have enough fibre. So are you a floater or a sinker? =)

Thanks to this ad, i’m looking down into the toilet bowl with greater detail these days. How bout those wanna-float-cannot-float-wanna-sink-cannot-sink types huh?

My mum is another one. She has a weak bowel so she always finds herself in situations where she has to cheong for toilet. Once in a while when she’s home n she needs the toilet, then zhun zhun both toilets are occupied. She will never bang the door when my tenants are inside, only bang door if me, my pa or my sis. 快点！！给我用！！ 要出来了！！ So even if u’re naked n half-soaped up while bathing, u better get ur ass out of the toilet. Failing to do so will result in retribution later.

So happens that last wk she chased my dad out from toilet while he was showering halfway. After that it would usually turn out to be peaceful until she came out w/o flushing n said that my dad’s underwear fell into the toilet bowl n she pooped all over it.
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My dad to his credit suggested disposing it, but insisted that my mum had to retrieve it herself. No person is going to rumage thru his/her poop, much less someone’s else. So my mum, in her usual melodramatic self went to the kitchen, all the time muttering “臭死了”. Came back with a plastic bag to cover her hand b4 reaching in to pick out the underwear AND THEN PROCEEDING TO WASH IT. All the time telling me to come n see, of cos i refused.

I’m sorry if i have caused you to lose your lunch or appetite. haha!

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For all the effort and money that the govt throws into getting ppl to speak proper english, so that we can better present ourselves to the world, and all it takes is some govt organisation to screw it up by doing something like this:

Off the SCDF site

Proper text:

13 Sep 2006 / 10 : 00 am Public Warning System Sounding of islandwide Public Warning System (PWS) sirens on Civil Defence Day on 15 Sep 2005 at 12.05pm. Public is advised not to be alarm.

上梁不整，下梁歪

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I was thinking should i ever blog about this, I’ve just started work as an untrained teacher at a reputable secondary school, till yr end at least. Worrying that there could be repercussions from blogging about work and teaching, any posts related to teaching would be passworded.

So when the 1st post comes out, you ppl can ask me for the password over msn or something

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Today is day 4 of commencement, so far only didnt work for this morning..and tml morning finally my turn. It is something that i’ve been hoping for to arrive soon, yet when it’s so close, there is a weird feeling. Have done i think 30 comm. ceremonies over 2 yrs, now finally my turn. Incidentally this is gonna be the 1st time that i’m part of the audience in UCC Hall.

Anyway this yr’s ceremonies have been less stressful for me? Less chances to do packing, need to blood the newbies. So that means more chances for me to do other positions, more relaxed. Last time doing commencement liaoz, dun need to chiong so much.

Wish me luck tml, that i dun fall when going up stage, or let my mortarboard drop when receiving my scroll.

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And so it seems that because I’m either not a known donor to NUS, or they already gave up on asking me for donations, NUS have decided to try its luck with my dad. Luckily I saw the letter, it’s weird to see an NUS letter addressed neither to me nor my sis.. So i opened it up…

This speaking-to-my-dad policy makes me feel like a kid u noe, like i can’t afford to donate 100 bucks.. now i noe how the AOL victim felt like when the CSO asked to speak to his dad instead…

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and it’s been a pretty good time actually, come to think of it. Other than the chance to meet up with old pals and meet some new ppl, it was also a chance to get away from the civilian world for a while. Not that i really hate the civilian world or love them military one, but I always feel that having some variety in your life is good.

Of cos this time round we have a new boss, who was called up for his 1st ICT in almost 10 yrs. I’m in the manpower branch, so that makes him the unit’s manpower officer, or what we call S1. 2.5 yrs of NSF and clerking taught me many things, one of which is the selective respecting of ppl who have a higher rank than me (anything above CPL). By respect, i dun mean the one that i give to his rank, that is a must in a regimental environment. I’m more concerned whether the person is able to command real respect. S1 rates our performance, we rate his too. For me, my boss should either take good care of the men, or really know his stuff and makes sure we know our stuff. Best is both.

If the boss lacks the former, he can still command the branch and work can get done, even though morale may not be at the peak.

If the boss lacks the latter, he would need capable staff who are willing to work for him since he takes care of them.

If the boss lacks both, he can go fly kite liaoz. That’s my boss, who is scared to get arrowed, who is not worried to arrow us to do stupid things, who does not protect us from external arrows from irrelevant ppl.. 8 more ICTs with him, prepare to die liaoz..

On another note, we had a 2 very good evenings on wed n thurs, our last nights in ICT. Wed, after coming back from the exercise, immediately booked out go Jurong point for dinner, then West Coast Recreational Centre for pool and bowling. Thurs did the same thing. Now back sore, arms sore… shiok…

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Some minor changes to the About jkaiser section on the left top corner of this site, just to update the new things in my life.

Of cos a proper About jkaiser page is long overdue, but as usual, Issac Newton’s 1st law is at work here…

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I also wanna listen to spanish commentary!

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One of the more creative memes as of date…

Instructions: Name 20 people you can think of at the top of your head. Don’t read the questions before you write, and tag 5 people to do the survey.

1) Pangster 2) Babu Seng 3) Huix 4) Thong 5) Momo 6) Mazyloron 7) Zeff 8) Yi-shyan 9) Joce 10) Vader Su 11) Keke 12) Talk Cock Chin 13) Koky Foo 14) mHMm 15) Yiming 16) Prudent Bitch 17) Hai~Ren 18) Sanchia 19) Stanley 20) Wanjie

Questions:1. How did you meet number 14? Answer: Was talking to the then pharm yr 1s about tumkur 04, after that at the reception.. i was talkin to michelle and this jr of hers… who was pretty crappy.. so we clicked pretty well, haha!

2. What would you do if you had never met Number 1? Answer: Boring hwachong days then, nobody to demo chateh stunts during break time. Nobody for us to strip and abuse when he scores well for tests. Nobody to surf net with when skipping lectures. No buddy now

3. What would you do if 20 and 9 dated? Answer: Female brokeback.. aka lebanese..aka lesbian.. then again they know each other i think, having a common best friend

4. Would 6 and 17 make a good couple? Answer: Brokeback mountain leh… one’s attached for ages, the other was after a tall gal

5. Describe no.3. Answer: I wrote a testimonial for her on friendster sometime back… so let’s just use it for now…

Time passes really quickly huh, from the time jenny intro u to me cos u were interested in yep, to u saying that ur parents wun let u go, to u finally being able to go.. 1 yr plus..haha! what can i say about my yep-mate.. w/o her, nobody help me count $$, no one help me keep all the passports…no huix, team can’t go home n will starve to death =Pp very rarely do u find such a nice n sweet gal (she claims otherwise) Was coaching her on some econs concept n she wanted to thank me. So i jokingly asked her to bake for the team, and the next meeting..got cake and cookies liaoz..(n sore throat for me) BUT where was my bdae cake?? haha! am always glad to have a pal like her, someone to listen music with in india, someone to suan for reading Da Vinci Code slowly and threaten to tell her thestory’s ending, someone to crap withonline, and most of all, a fren who really cares about all her friends =)

6. Do you think No.8 is attractive? Answer: Yi-shyan? ok lah…esp if u like tanned (very!) and toned-looking gal.. (Ed: She just claimed that she is “drop dead gorgeous”)

7. Tell me something about No.7. Answer: Zeff does very creative designs..study physics like bloody waste..haha!

8. Do you know anything about no.12’s family? Answer: She’s like the 2nd youngest of dunno how many siblings, i think 9? Mum brought up all of them, and she has a twin brother 9. What is no.18’s favorite? Answer: er..singing, theatre!

10.What would you do if 11 confesses that he/she likes you? Answer: keke? haha! i would tell her to dun waste time on me n go study more physics..she deserves someone better..hah!

11. What language does 15 speak? Answer: As far as i noe, english chinese

12. Who is 17 going out with? Answer: after 高妹, i dunno who liaoz.. mabbe right now with some thai chick

13. How old is 16 now? Answer: 21

14. When was the last time u talked to 13? Answer: On msn, 4 days ago..in person..chinese new yr… phone, 2 mths ago

15. Who’s 2’s favorite singer? Answer: i have no idea! shoot..

16. Would you date number 4? Answer: Date as in going out..yes..Date as in going steady, i already gave her sandals.. so no chance.. they say giving a gal’s shoes means to chase her away..hah

17. Would you date 7? Answer: the bugger’s damn bz one…

18. Is 15 single? Answer: as far as i noe..yes

19. What’s 10’s last name? Answer:Su 20. Would you ever consider being in a relationship with 19? Answer: No brokeback/pink dollar/rear entry 21. What schools does 3 go to? Answer: IJ TP, Hwa Chong, NUS

22. Where does 6 live? Answer: Yishun

23. What’s your favorite thing about number 5? Answer: Sense of humour, without it nus would be a torture

Tag? Jenny (by request), Hai~Ren, Prudent Bitch, Brenda, Zeff and whoever wanna do…

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Cheong thru QM2 today, 2 more to go.. no updates till then…

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Very long time never post any song lyrics, this is one of my fav grps. Click more for the full lyrics, msn/email me if u want the song.

Should I Stay by Dreamz FM

Had a drive Driven by your love But when you messed around I lost the drive I found

Thought you needed Needed someone true But you changed your mind Or had I failed you?

Wish you’d been Careful with my heart But you tore it apart And broke an angel’s heart

The kiss was true Has to end somehow But I am livin’ proof of what love is about

It’s hard holding you Loving you, losing you It’s sad to be true And be fooled by you I don’t know (I don’t know) I gotta know Should I stay or should I go?

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