Steamboat on a very heavy rainy day

Is been raining non-stop since monday, but yesterday(wed) it kinda off rain lesser, at least there was some sunshine in the morning and afternoon.
Monday & Tuesday was mad, it kept pouring non-stop. The worst was tuesday, SC, CS & I went to tanglin shopping center to eat steamboat (Chong Qing), although it was rainning non-stop.
CS & I took a cab from NTU to pick SC at causeway point then we head down to Tanglin Shopping Center, the cab was $30.00. Quite expensive hor just for a steamboat.

Anyway, we really ate alot that night... We were cold & hungry. We had Ma-La Soup Base & Chicken Soup Base. The Ma-La was really a killer even thou we asked for a Ma-La Mild. SC wanted it cos he thinks can help him clear his nose-blocked. So Silly...

I really admire & salute to anyone who can eat Ma-La Fiery. :)

What I like about ChongQing is their Dim-Sum Desert, the water chestnut jelly.

Can anyone guess who is in the dark? HaHa!!!!

Rambles

To make up for the past few weeks of entry I shall type a second entry....

Last Sat, Mel, Uru and I went to MOS, it was mad lar. You can never imagine how packed and crowded it was. So many people actually bothered to Q up to get in. Well, we did Q up a little, but we Cut-Q thanks to elgin's brillant idea.

I must say that last sat's clubbing was rather horrible but yet fun also... Seeing so many people trying to squeezing at the dance floor. I hope Uru & Mel had fun dancing.

Anyway here's a random photo of uru, taken at liang court. So cute right?

So fast one week gone, I wonder what am I going to do tmr?

Oh yar, christmas is coming, I haven't thought about my christmas wish list.
All I want for christmas is lots and lots of presents & exams results will be out during christmas time, hope NTU will give me a good present.....

Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho!!!!

Joy to the World

Oh Well, christmas coming. Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells. Anyway, family tradition is to go holiday during Christmas & Chinese New Year unless something happens.

So for this year, I will be going to Bangkok, same old place, but somehow I never get bored or sick off going to Bangkok. I simply love the place so much... I will be back on Christmas Day as Singapore doesn't celebrate Boxing Day, so there's no public holiday for us. Working adults have to report for work and I have to report to Lab, Sigh!!!

This year's christmas holiday is slightly different, cos Uncle Derrick and Fanily won't be joining us and we have 2 new young ladies joining us. One of them is my cousin who just finished her O'levels and the other is Dennis's XXXXXXX....

So there's my Mum, Dad, Sister, Cousin Cherie, Mdm Leong & Husband, Diana, Dennis & his XXX and of cos me. Altogether 10 of us.
Actually, I am not very excited about this bangkok trip, the reason is cos I HAVE NO MONEY TO SHOP. sigh!!! I guess I have to be a good gal these few days so that my mum will sponsor my shopping trip.

Usually I depend on my dad, but somehow I am starting to feel bad each time I ask money from him. He is going to retire next year, means he will not have his own secret savings and this also means that my sister and I will have to learn to spend lesser, cos we dun have Kao-San liao. I have to admit that my dad really spoils my sister and I. He is stingy to himself, but he is very generous to us. Since young, all our extra pocket money comes from him. Last time, when we need money we will ask for $2 or $5 or $10. But now, we will ask for $50 or at least $20. I know we are evil daughters. I really love my dad very much. He is the best father. Just that now he's abit old, and men do menopause. He is becoming more naggy and also starting to have some attitude. Heehee!!!

Exams

15th Nov - HW310 Professional Communication 9am-11am
20th Nov - EE4001 Software Engineering 9am-11am
21th Nov - EE4531 Electricial Utilization System 9am-11am
30th Nov - EE4501 - Power Design 1 9am -11am
1st Dec - EE4532 - Power Electronics 9am -11am

Oh well, 5 papers, think about it quite little right? But I am still suffering.
HW310, is open book & just go there crap, so nothing much to worry, then
as for Software Engineering, is about memory work, so lame yr 4 still have to
memorize theory questions, following EE4531, is taught by 3 lecturers, and
1 more week to study, the problem is I dunno wat the 1st lecturer is teaching, and he may set either 1 or 2 qns will ne set by him out of 4 questions, I can barely do his tutorials. sigh!
Next, Power Design, 2 lecturers, and only 1 qn will be tested, so is 50-50, humm...
Finally, the toughest Power Engineering Subject - Power Electronics, only 15 students will be taking this paper. Basically, I am struggling to understand the fundamentals of this subject.

If u realise, all my papers are in the morning, 9-11am, frankly I dunno wat's wrong with NTU EEE, all the papers are 2 Hrs, and still 4 questions. Previously, our exams are 2Hrs 30Mins and I ask around, CEE, MAE,..... the engineering schools still 2 Hrs 30 Mins, all this EEE change to 2 Hrs from Year 2 to Year 4. Sigh!!! So rush man, hopefully have enough time to finish.

EEE always trying to make a difference. Try so hard but yet achieve nothing.

Oh Man, my last entry was 18oct and today is 4thNov...

Is not that I dun want to blog, but I have been quite busy lately.
Basically last weekend, I was enjoying at Club Med Cherating Beach, is located at Kuantan, Malaysia. Just go there eat and play, and socialising with a group of interesting aunties who are so hip n hyper. In this trip, I met a journalist for New Paper, he was actually invited by club med to do a wrtie-up. That's about it, other than that, nothing much to mention.

Although it is really fun to go Club Med, cos all the meals are provided and there are always a line of activities arrange for u to wack, but the journey there and back was horrible. It is a 7 hours bus ride to Kuantan, kinda off long lar, plus the seats weren't that comfortable and the air-con was freaking cold and the driver was reckless. Dun wish to mention which travel agency was that. Won't reflect good on them, anyway seldom individuals will go there to buy.


Last Saturday Morning, I was playing archery ( hey I manage to arrow the center for the target, I am good :) ), went for aqua aerobics (felt so stupid in the water), water basketball( this was worst had to fight the ball with kid-dos) and.... After Lunch, I went sailing, out at south china sea. Cool Right?
Of cos I dunno how to sail lar, Club Med G.Os were the ones controling the sail.
Feels so great to be out in the sea~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For the past 2 weekends, I am so caught up with activities, 1st was Lee Hom concert that got me high for a few days, then 3D2N at club med last week...

Now, is time to prepare for exams. My first paper is on the 15th Nov, counting today is 10 days to exams. Really cold sweat as i'm thinking abt exams...

Perhaps I will blog lesser until exams are over, my paper ends on 1st Dec, so damn long lor, but kinda of good, more time to study in between. I start on the first day of exams and end on the last day of exams. And all my papers are 9am. No afternoon or evening paper. Good and bad lor!!!

Anyway, that's all for Now, maybe when I am more free I will upload some pictures.

Take care friends....

LEE HOM HEROES OF EARTH WORLD TOUR

Great today is thursday, the week is coming to an end. But that means nearer to exams damn. Anyway, something that I am looking forward to, LEE HOM concert is this saturday and I am going for it. Aren't u guys happy for me?

I am not rich or what lar, but my sister bought an extra ticket and none of her friends wants to go. So she offer to bring me. Initially I didn't have to pay for it, but she realise that she is not that rich either so she can only afford to sponsor half of the ticket. So I have to pay 74 bucks, the ticket cost $148, the 2nd most expensive ticket. Then again is quite a bargain lar. Moreover, I dun have to pay her now, until I get my NOV pocket money.

Before the concert, we are going for a seafood dinner, yum yum. I guess it will be quite fun, cos Mar and Anson are going for the concert, by the way they are my sister's frens. I enjoy going out with Mar, anyway Mar's real name is quite girly if I didn't remember wrongly. She loves medicated oil, totally addicted to it. My dad calls her AH MA, like old grandmother, cos usually older people likes medicated oil. Mar's really funny most of the time and she is quite hyper also. So u will never get bored talking to her. :) Anyway, when go concert we need hyper people so that u can really feel the tension, the fun and the excitment shouting WO AI NI WANG LI HONG. HEEHEE!!!

By the way to prepare myself for the LEE HOM's atmosphere, I actually went to TS to purchase his VCD concert, it cost only 10 plus, is 14 times cheaper than his live concert. Is quite dumb to spend so much on a concert tickets but is really different watching it at KALLANG INDOOR STADIUM and watching it in your room.

I think he is quite cute lar, i like pan wei po also. behaving like a sec school girl......

FYP driving me crazy

Feeling so shitty about this FYP thingy. I am doing the software and I have been running the simulations for 3 weeks working on the same circuit. Worst part is I can never obtain a perfect voltage and current waveforms simultaneously.
This is really getting on my nerves.

And our PHD student says we are kinda off slow. OH man, he proabbly think I am such a lousy student. Is actually a very simple circuit but yet I can't get it correct. SIGH!!!

This is my final year and time after time, I keep saying I want to change course but I actually managed to last thru it and finally I am in my 4th year.
When I did my Design Innovative Project at the end of 2nd Year, I felt that I wasn't suitable to study engineering, so I decided to change course but that would means I have to re-start from year 1 which I dun really want to.
Then come to 3rd year, semester 1 wasn't that bad, semester 2 i didn't go for attachment but i brought forward a yr 4 subject call Human Resource Management, this really took my live away. Stupid EEE wanting to be different from other engineering schools so our course work was different from CEE, MAE,....
It was suppose to be 3 AU course, but is more like a 20 AU subject which is double of FYP.
We were suppose to implement Blue Ocean Strategy in less than 13 weeks and in the work force usually people take at least 9 months to carry out this strategy. Totally insane, anyway thank GOD i pass. Wish my fellow EEE mates good luck.

Then I went for my attachment during the school break from may to jul. It was quite okay although my fundamentals were weak but I managed to get tons of help from my office people.
I miss having lunch with them and going to eat together after work. And when the big boss goes for breaks, we small fellows will also have our own break in the production room.
Heehee!!! Although I dread going to work every morning, but towards the last few weeks I had quite a lot of fun, went to the bean sprout farm to install solar panels.

And the biggest surprise was they celebrated my birthday in advance during the last week of my attachment , organized by my very close technician Jane, and 2 other attachment students. Anyway, the big bosses did have quite a lot of fun. Our MD enjoyed the birthday cake.

I always thought it was a mistake to come to NTU to study, kept thinking I should have gone to australia since I can't go to NUS or SMU.
But after working at GRENZONE, i feel that NTU is actually recognised and there are people out there who thinks that NTU engineering students have a better exposure than NUS engineering students. For once I feel so proud that I'm from NTU.
So stop thinking that NUS is better, maybe in other areas but not engineering.

Oh well, after going thru so many hurdles my last hurdle FYP. Hope I will be able to go thru this and do well for it.

No more pink phone

I am a poor poor student again. Yesterday I bought a new phone Z400 without contract. I slog like mad to give tuition for the past few weeks and now I am left with nothing. I even spent away my remaning pocket money for the month (need to live on charity meals).

I haven't gone home yet, I wonder how my mum is going to react.
I bet she is going to scream at me, cos I bought the V3x pink colour during last semster's exams. I kept bugging her to get it for me as an early birthday present. This is always the same trick that I use, and I would say things like I am not going to change my phone until 2 years later.

Of cos knowing me I am never contented. But this time round, why I decided to change phone cos I am very disgusted with Motorola's Service. I have never frequent a service center like once or twice every month except for Motorola. In fact, just last month the service center gave me a new handset. So I pratically have a new phone with no scratches. Although is a new phone there are still problems, my phone keeps hanging and I have to take out the battery to re-start it. This is irritating especially when I need to send an urgent sms.
one week later I went to exchange my battery cos they gave me the wrong battery model which was meant for V3i, is partially my fault for not checking but who cares they made the mistake. Since I was there, I went to ask about my phone problem. Some young punk service center guy said I should send my phone in for the technician to check. Of cos I was damn pissed off, is a new phone just one week old and I have to send the phone in for servicing again. What nonsense is this?

Before I continue to ramble, Let me explain why I got a new handset from Motorola.
I left my phone at service center for 3 weeks cos they need to monitor the phone. Fair enough I let them monitor my phone. When it was time to collect the phone, I called up the service center to check if it was ready, she said I can come after 2pm. So I reach Plaza Sing around 5pm. I waited for 30mins and still it wasn't my turn to collect. Getting impatience, I went up to the collection booth to enquire, he went in to check and came out said that I have to come back at 6.30pm cos the phone is still checking. Immediately I told him NO, i will not wait. His reason was the technician is doing some last min check to make sure it is ok.
Forever making people wait. So getting pissed off I told him I want a new set.

So he went in, talk talk talk check check for 15mins then came out with a brand new handset. I was quite happy lar but my happiness didn't last long, the phone still gave me problem.

In total I service the phone for 3 times, really had enough of Motorola, and moreover 2 people whom I know uses that phone also have lots of problem. Time and again service already still have problem. Lousy technicians.

Oh Well, wat a long winded story. So this is WHy I bought myself a new phone.
Why Z400, cos I never own a samsung phone and never use slide phone b4 and it has 3G ability so next time When i sell at least it has some value.
It is silver colour unlike those black samsung phone.

Thailand 2006 - SAME SAME

One Week in thailand : 26th July to 1st Aug

Day 1 : Headed to Pattaya
Day 2 : Beach Day

(CLEAR WATER)

Day 3 : Back to Bangkok ( SHOP SHOP SHOP)

BAIYOKE SKY HOTEL

(Present to u, Miss Thailand)

(Our Lovely GroupPhoto)

Day 4 : Cha-Tu-Chak here we come.....

(breakfast @ Cha- Tu - Chak) (Goodbye Elgin, Welcome Wilson) ~Wat a small world bump into Wilson.

Day 5 : Free & Easy (Shopping)

Oh! in the morning the everybody went for a swim & tan & the some of the guys went for thai massage, except uru & I. We felt that shopping was more important. Heehee!!!

Day 6 : Day Tour to Kanchanaburi

We went to visit the Jeath War Museum, a ride on the 'Trans-River Kwai Death Railway", ...

The journey to Kanchanaburi was rather long, guess wat happen to us. The van broke down along the expressway. GOSH!!! Then the tour guide told us we had to walk down the expressway to wait for the other transport. Sigh!!! walk? We were all so tired, how to walk? Last night we slept very late, cos it was our last night with Wilson, we pratically only had a few hours of sleep.

Back to the van, of cos we didn't walk, the tour guide flag a cab for us, this is so thailand, flag a cab along the expressway and the cab actually stops. I bet we can never do that in Singapore.

Anyway, there were some compensation, we paid only 300 Baht to watch the famous thailand show. The show actually cost 1000 Baht, but the company claims that it is expensive so they can't pay everything for us.

After our long day tour, half the time we were sleeping in the van, I remembered before going back to Bangkok we were suppose to visit some places of interest, but none of us were interested, I guess we did rather spend the time sleeping in the van, lazy us....

If it wasn't for the van that broke down, we will never have a chance to take photos with the STARS of Calypso Cabaret.

Day 7 : Time to go home

Look at the amount of luggage we had, i am sure we did alot of shopping, don't point the fingers at the girls. The guys did as much shopping as us.

Generally, we had lots of fun right? But there's one incident that was so unforgetable, our experience at Pat-Pong Night Market. "Ping-pong shows?" Let's not talk about it.

East Coast Park - Mid-Autumn Festival

Despite the Haze on friday night, we still went to ecp to play sparkles, light-up paper lanterns & ate moon-cake.

Anyway, we just went there sit on the sandy beach with uru's ground sheet, spent most of out time taking lame pictures and half the time trying to light up the lantern. It was a great challenge cos of the strong sea breeze blowing and our paper lanterns were rather small.
No matter how difficult it was mel still managed to light up the lanterns. Many thanks to her. :)

Photos of Lantern Goddess

FISH & CO.

SEAFOOD PLATTER FOR 2

I think i am addicted to FISH & CO. ( not really true, went to eat FISH & CO cos it was the least crowded at Jurong Point )

Went there on Monday with Fiona & Uru, learning from Fiona....
Let me explain: Fiona went there on sat with her frens & we went there on monday again. As for me I went there on monday and today (wed) I went to fish & co again... I was at the jurong point branch, it doesn't taste as good as the orchard branch. (explains why JP Fish & Co. not crowded )

Anyway, today went to lab, didn't get much done coz PHD student didn't come, so couldn't do anything at all... sigh!!! Then again, need to go lab and show face to show that we're hardworking and in case the prof looks for us.

Although it was a boring afternoon, I ended the day quite well, went to watch John Tucker must die with CS & SC.

The show quite DUH!!! but is sooooo funny, stress relieve... The cool part is guys wearing G-String playing basketball.

Good Morning

Today is the start of the semester break......

Plan for today : Meet Uru & Fiona for lunch then evening give tuition [ my fault la, sun evening dun want tuition ~ lazy :) ]



pardon me for the lousy photo quality, taken from handphone.

One Week Break

Somehow I dun feel excited or happie about thee one week break, because i can foresee how busy i'll be during the break.

Timeline for One week break:

25Sep Mon: FYP lab - read up on what is Kalman Fliter & Linear Quadratic Regulator by Tuesday, so wed when my PHD guy is back, I'll have to start programming the controller.

26Sep Tues : Power Electronics Quiz 3.30-4.30, suppose to be last thur but a student from my class by the name of Mr Lee, sweet talk the tutor and the whole class of 15 students to push back the quiz. Anyway, this student is not that great lar, basically majority agreed cos this is really a tough subject so most students not prepared for it. After quiz 4.30-6.30 lecture, is a pre male-up lecture for week 10. As the lecturer predicted that week 10 all the students will be sick and can't attend lessons. ( lame lecturer )

27 Sep Wed : Back to FYP lab

28 Sep Thur : Maybe FYP lab depending on wed testing results or go KTV (hint to uru, fiona & melissa)

29 Sep Fri : Maybe FYP lab or go NUS & join the fun or just stay at home & then give tuition in the evening

30 Sep Sat : Complete Professional Communication Oral Presentation Powerpoint Slides ( Conflict Management)

1 Oct Sun : Tuition Day & Family Day

2 Oct Mon : Sch starts :(

Why SoBa so GOOD?

Oh well yesterday I had lunch with my mum at paragon, Shimbashi Soba. Anyway, for the past few mondays I have been getting lunch treats from my mother. Heehee :) Maybe in future, I shouldn't go back hall on sunday or else Monday no free lunch.

Back to my SOBA topic... I strongly recommend Shimbashi Soba at Paragon. By the way is advisable to eat there during lunch, it is much cheaper than dinner.

There are 3 reasons of why we should eat more SOBA:
1. Soba's rich source of vitamins keeps you young & healthy
2. Soba detoxifies your system to keep your immunity up
3. A Soba-friendly diet counts on the right nutrition to keep the weight off

Remarks: To find out more, visit Shimbashi Soba (they should pay me for advertising for them)

The Re-Born oF my BloG

Hey friends, Finally I have decided to do something about my blog...

To Tracy: I have finally done something.... Of course I will try to have regular updates on my blog. :)