woah... my 1st birthday greetings... which comes from an unlikely source... the community chest... which i donate $1 per mth... hehe... 

The cooked turkey and the Sliced beef with their sauces in the pic... it was still raining from the previous nite... received a call from jean needing help to carry the stuffs over to the party place... took taxi down... fetched her from her hse and head over to BP plaze which was a short distant... then waited for a long while for the person at ntuc to get the foodstuffs... both our hands were really full... for mi its not the weight.. but the different stuffs that i have to carry, thus over-stretching my finger causing pain... while waiting for taxi at BP, saw danny from 4/6... after tat we head over to prepare the food... 

The best equipment of the day... and the onli... the microwave oven... prepared all of the food for today's party... got some scares with the sparks from the aluminium foil at some parts with fire too... ahaha... think its the ribs tat's cooking inside... 

our food of the day/party... prepared the whole afternoon... the right side tat is... all the meats... got chicken, lamb, beef, sausages and turkey... all quite salty.. maybe due to the sauce... 

The gals... layping, liling and amy.. arrived together with the guys are mi and yw picked them up at clementi mrt interchange 

the guys... poh wai, wei ming, ming wei, dave and ee teck... weiming with the best, not according to theme, dress... haha... 

carrying out our gift exchanges... most of us done exchanging.. except the 4 guys in the room with the buttock stuck on the floor playing cards... still need yw to lucky pick the gifts for them... they are ee teck, ming wei, dave and wei ming... 

hq... the winner of the best dress.. feeling honoured or thoroughly deserving...? u make the guess from his looks... haha

The winner for the Best 'Dress' guys... hou quan... haha... the gals said there were 2 on their mind... and after throwing dice did they decided hq as the winner... here the prize presentation... lol... the hat on jean's head was hq's gift from the exchange.. 

The 'Best' dress of the evening... ladies category... Ms Amanda... yw voted for her and gave his reasons... and we guys... agreed... so no objections lor... but the best dress winner for guy, hou quan relectantly carry out the task of kissing the lady amanda... haha... funny sia.... in the end kissed her watch or something which was too fast to be taken by our cameras... in the end it was a nice gathering/party... thanks everyone for being there and making it happen... 

wah... got cheated sia...

Best Denki selling the lumix FX3 for abt $369... can't sian(one big) ½.... its their x'mas offer from the retail price of $449... haiz... anyway.. if tat offer doesn't include a 1GB SD card... mine is still cheaper.. coz juz not i went over to IMM to buy SD card for my incoming camera... walked around all the electronic stores... all the prices quite ex... dunno wat's with it sia... where's the x'mas sales...? lol... luckily i walked Giant... then i saw the offer for the 1GB SD card for $24.90.... a 512MB card cost $29.90... isn't tat weird...! a higher storage card cost cheaper... lol... coz tat volume of card is on offer while the other is not...

was also browsing ard the whole IMM for the equipment used in the variety show 'xiao qi da cai shen'... but can't find any... very hard to find sia... not even anything similar... its like a cane with a palm on it... for punishment usage... was also looking at the price of champage... then my fren recommend jacob's creek sparkling wine... there's one at $21... anyway...

guess the camera should be on its way to singapore le ba... i paid for the shipment on thurs le... when will i get it..? weekends tml... then there's christmas... still dunno wat to do sia... eve and x'mas day... haiz... any jio mi out...?

anyway...
Harry Potter book 7's title is settled... its called Harry Potter and the DEATHLY HALLOWS... hahaha...

Package arrived at Sg Post centre in US

Date Time Location Event Details
December 19,
2006 11:58:00 AM Compton CA US Delivered

December 19,
2006 08:03:00 AM GARDENA CA US Out for delivery

December 19,
2006 08:00:00 AM GARDENA CA US Arrival Scan

December 19,
2006 07:17:00 AM LOS ANGELES CA US Departure Scan

December 19,
2006 06:54:00 AM LOS ANGELES CA US Arrival Scan

December 19,
2006 04:57:00 AM MEMPHIS TN US Departure Scan

December 17,
2006 05:53:00 PM MEMPHIS TN US Arrival Scan

December 16,
2006 12:56:00 PM PARSONS KS US Departure Scan

December 16, Shipment picked up
2006 08:55:00 AM PARSONS KS US from seller's facility

December 16, Carrier notified to
2006 02:46:00 AM --- pick up package


Yea...!!! my camera have arrived at the sing post centre in US... 2 days eariler than wat they estimated... they estimated to be 21-22 dec... but i reached on 19th morning there...

now they are checking against the invoice i sent them... after tat they will ship to singapore... provided i pay the shipping 1st... then it will be mine...!! haha... ok.. still i will make it in time for the new yr...

one thing worries mi is the warrenty... is it covered world wide..? or onli in usa..?

today went jurong pt... checked for the price of lumix fx3... and... it... cost... $469 at Courts... woah... err... think i saved ard $100... but i still haven get myself a SD card... who got free one give mi...? haha... 1Gb and above... lolz... well... its still wednesday... can i get it in time to bring to yw's party on next tues..? hope sing post can follow the efficiency standard by Fedex... from comfirming of purchase to receiving the package at US... it took onli 4 days... cool...

*pray hard*...

while i was at jurong pt... saw felicia chin... dunno filming wat... with some sch kids...

Tracking my shipment...

Date/Time Activity Location Details

Dec 19, 2006
4:57 AM Departed FedEx location MEMPHIS, TN

Dec 17, 2006
5:53 PM Arrived at FedEx location MEMPHIS, TN

Dec 16, 2006
12:56 PM Left origin PARSONS, KS

8:55 AM Picked up PARSONS, KS

2:46 AM Package data transmitted to FedEx

now its travelling from Tennessee to California... which is like more than have way across US...wah... and it says tat it will reach by 21-22 dec... is it possible...? will they meet any trouble and delays...? and solve them like they do on TV..? lol... haha...

then it will take another 1-3days to verified the package... before embarking on a 5-8days journey to singapore... and how much long will it take to reach mi...? hmm...

question of the day: Who will be free on 24th Jan if i were to organise some party/meet up for my 21st birthday...? huh...? everyone..? anyone...? someone...? NO ONE...!?!? lolz...
Possible way of celebrating...

1) go eat sushi at PS's ichiban... nvr been to tat place before... but wy's recommending it...

2) book a room at K-Box and meet up... by mi... hehe...

3) ... any suggestions pls tell mi... haha...

booking chalet seems out of the question... bbq..? liling's having one on the 6th... haha... zonghao... wat will u be doing..?

updated of updates...

After the trip to JB... i'm on holiday at home most of the time...

playing FF-12, rot at home most of the time...

finished writing the greeting cards in 8 hrs on wed... can't remember...

then yesterday was baking some cookies... sort of the instant mixed bought from gaint... those package that have already mixed the flour with the choco chips... add butter and egg... mixed them then back... a bit sweet though...

other than that nothing much ba... except collected the $38 tangs voucher from bedok... yea... went all the way down to collect tat voucher... waste time sia... but still haven got time and fren to follow mi down to use it... so bored at home...

still got 2 more days then back to wk... duty... haiz... onli juz past ¼ of play FF... ah...!!!

anyway... i made a purchase of a digi cam online... my 1st time... from amazon.com thru singapore's vPOST. coz it claims to reduce shipping charges of up to 20%... so why not.. somemore from the looks of it... buying it online cost cheaper than in singapore... much cheaper... i made the purchase on friday... so juz now i found that an amt of slightly less than $300 was pending to be deducted from my account...

the onli worrying thing is that whether i can successfully receive the item and safely reach mi... the process goes like this... u register an account at vPOst... then do ur shopping at amazon.com... confirm ur purchase... have to create an account at amazon.com also... then ur name and address put wat vpost tells u... after tat it will take some days for it to ship to the US address provided....

then from tat place... which is one of the vpost headquadters...it will then ship to ur singapore add... in 5-8 workings days...

so... amazon.com says my item will arrive at the US address in 21-22 dec... then from there... it will take another 5-8 days... so i dun expect my digi cam to arrive be4 the new year arrives lor... if its coming la... lolz... fingers crossed... haha

anyway the camera is Panasonic Lumix DMC FX3, u can check a review of it from the link provided...




hopefully its as good as it looks...

Trip to JB...

I will be on a 1 week leave starting since saturday...till 18th monday... OVERSEA... so work related stuff or ppl pls try not to call mi... cause i'm oversea... i will not pick call... haha...

saturday went to JB with peter, yy, jeremy, jh and kh... meet peter they all 10.30 at lot one... but again... jeremy super late... then took taxi to woodlands customs... went thru quite smoothly except the journey there... due to late morning peak hours... there were massive jams... and its a saturday... no choice lor... wait... wait... and more wait... taxi cost $10...

then almost breeze thru the singapore customs... walked all the way across the causeway... then stuck at malaysia customs... haiz... no aircon, no fan... juz long queue and queue cutters... 1½ to 2 hrs later... we made it past the malaysia customs.. the 1st thing we heard was... "lai, taxi, lai" "lai taxi lai"... lolz... so eager to do our business... but later on when we need them... all dun wan to give us a ride...!!!

walked to city square to look for food as we are starving to death due to the wait at the customs... tat is something the customs need to look into to improve... went to have our lunch at Kenny rogers' roasters... it cheap... the price i think same as singapore.. onli difference is the currency used... i think everyone paid ard $10+ onli... but veri full... then went walk ard shopping... onli yy didn't buy anything... the bubble tea station was expensive... same as singapore...

i bought a jeans at LP zone... @ard S$35 ba... huh... still abit expensive ba... but my closet onli like 1 pair of jeans... so this is for chinese new yr ba.. then also went into the adidas shop and grap a liverpool cap... red colour... ahaha... adidas things same price as of anywhere ba... the cap ard $24? there the shop quite cheap ba... but think mostly pirated goods... and the shops in the inner city like ganged up... all using the same discount display cards... selling mostly the same (pirated?)things... then by 4pm we ran out of place to shop le... so walked down the levels... wanted to watch movies but too crowded... sing k? onli 2 hours be4 dinner... then when we wanted to do the Da Ma garden to have dinner... it started to pour outside... when the rain stops... we went all over the place to look for taxi but the streets when damn crowded and taxis were either taken or refused to do business... the road there really dangerous... the traffic light system is useless and the drivers 'own' the road... if u get knocked down not their business... u are responsible for ur own safety... and please take care of ur own personal items... and dun go alone... ahaha...

so waited for keng seng to come look for us since we can't meet him for cooked food at da ma garden... when to eat at city sq 2nd level... damn cheap... ordered 4 dishes and 1 soup... everyone paid like S$5... haha... even though the rest of the guys not that filled... returning back to singapore was much more smoother... reached home an hour later from JB... coz the bus 160 took quite a long route back... it was quite fun... but if u asked mi to go again... please provide the transport... otherwise it will be hard to convince mi to go again... unless u can ensure that there will not be any long waits...

all in all.. it was quite fun and tiring... didn't take any pics.. coz scared ppl target my hp if it flashed it too often... haha....

birthday in less then 2 mths... 21st... but dunno wat to do... few things tat i'm pondering... coz its during weekdays.. so i think veri difficult to get ppl... organise party at K-box? chalet? or dun do anything..? pondering.... pondering...

Own a Tree

Get in the festive mood... own a christmas tree...
have some fun... leave some comments...

Christmas is coming... wat will u be doing..? currently... i juz bought the cards... will be preparing to write them during my leave period the week after next...

well... didn't really know why i started sending out cards in the 1st place... dated more than 8yrs back le ba... maybe its a way of keeping contacts with my frens... thus i started it... well... back in those days... ppl were bring books sort of like dairy for ppl to write abt themselves... so i went to get one also... and asked my classmates to write in them... then with their contacts... i sent cards to them to wish them well as it was after PSLE... and we were parting ways...

hence i continue this tradition of mine... and try to add new frens to my mailing list each yr... and after learning a bit of caligraphy in lower sec... i started writing the cards using it... but all the time the words are slanted... so this yr i shall put more heart to it.... although last yr's card was pretty fancy... this yr's are ok... hehe... its the thoughts tat matter la... haha... well... thinking of some ways i can improve on the contents... so those going to receive my cards will get to see it lor.. hhaa...

latest news that linkin park's album with be out in mid 2007... on friday... besides buying x'mas cards... i also bought shi xin huey's new album... 'from taipei to beijing'... well... i liked her over pan jia li... sry... no offence... well... this album is not very good... but quite ok... coz i haven really spend some time to listen to it properly... so can't judge it yet... but there are a couple of nice songs... so not bad... this is a 2 CD package with the 2nd disc a dance track remix of 'from taipei to beijing'... which is quite lame... 1 original with 9 remixes which dun have much differences... haha... though its remixed... lolz... also the album cover and pics inside are so boring... why..? dun have time to take nice pics ah..? lolz... all studio taken... so same pics or shld i say same outside all the way inside the lyric booklet... 

Juz now went IMM to buy some groceries with my mum... then met up with peter and jeremy... coz peter wanted to buy a new hp... a sony W850i @ $99... then we went to walk ard and found that jocie kowk was coming over as the spokeperson of Ajisan... that the pic taken when she juz arrived and was drove in to the ajisan shop further inside... the doll is the mascot of ajisan if u can't tell... can see that either jocie's leg were super white or she wearing white stockings... haha... my fren say she's veri thin with big eyes... cute..? lolz... also saw qm and her bro... after walking somemore... the guys wanna eat something... so went into ajisan... they ordered ice cream and also the la mian on offer @$6.90... so tat was the day lor... juz now went over to wm hse to watch 2 matches... arsenal and liverpool both thrashed their opponents... 

X'mas coming... wat to do...?

wat i'll do is... i'll buy christmas cards and send to my frens... how this started i really dun remember... why it started i also can't answer... when it started... well.. upper primary sch ba... think in pri 6 or something... when i started letting my classmates write in my dairy book thingy... saw quite a few ppl did it in class and started following it... then thru the contacts they wrote in the book... i started writing cards to them... why specifically x'mas...? maybe its year end and we can sum up our yr and update each other ba...

anyway... bought the cards already... maybe not as fancy as last yr's one... but the intention and thoughts are there... this yr also got a few new contacts in my mailing list... each yr ard half or less reply back with their own cards... but i dun expect much from them as long as they remember mi can le... hehe...

Also... bought Shi Xin Huey's new Album... from Taipei to Beijing... well.. from wat i've listened so far...the songs... are... ok ba... not really very good... i think the song choices can have improvement ba... hehe... not really a song critics here... so forgive mi... anyway... there are some nice songs too... to dun worry... its a 2 cd package... the 2nd CD is dance tracks with different remixes of 'from taipei to beijing'... which is quite lame... 1 original with 9 remixes...

well... tat's the things i got from my trip to westmall on friday...









after hearing tat linkin park have nice song/album coming out during work on thurs... i went to check out their website... new song i not sure... but there were news that they are working on a new album coming in mid 2007 ba... title was given a slight clue of... ' T______ T______' well... tat's not easy to guess ba... so have to keep waiting for more news lor...

today went IMM to buy some groceries with my mum... then met up with my frens... peter wanted to buy a new hp... so we went to the singtel shop at level 2... he was eyeing sony's W850i... @$99... new 2 yr contract... which was quite a bargain to them... so he went on to sign the contract under student plan... didn't noe that the new N80 have a 3 megapix cam... its the wifi edition... no wonder...

after that we went walking ard... then found out that jocie kwok was coming... as the spokeperson of Ajisan...