Birthday week!!!!!! Hoooo!!!!!!!!!!

Now, this post is about my birthday week for almost 5 days!! Haha!! Guess that i use this time to give out souvenirs to my major groups of friends since i came back to singapore from taiwan 1 week ago. Nevertheless,
this maybe the first time i celebrated my birthday in a few different days altogether!! Haha!!!

Anyway, birthday week started early for me i guess as it started on a sunday which is on 15 april 2012. On this date, it was celebrated by my group of friends in USS. The date is coincidence with the celebration i had with them last week which follow on the same date of 15 april.
With them, last year's birthday celebrations and presents i received was great so was it for this year's birthday celebrations. Last year celebrations was just dinner but a huge group of them came, i also rec'd a big farewell cum birthday card which is one of the first big birthday card that i had rec'd in my life. I rec'd a bag from them also. And from another group of them, i got a cap and a shirt.
For this year's celebrations, it started with cycling with lunch in between at macdonalds. We rented the bike for 3 hours and actually cycled for abt 2 hours as we had lunch in between. Although this year's celebration had lesser people than last year, it was still as great a celebration for me. Cycling had rahayu, ying fang, dai kai, amy, serene and me. Rahayu left us after cycling, we headed for marina square supposedly for bowling but it was full so we headed to playing pool first. Serene left us after playing pool. However in a funny twist of events, when we played pool for abt 30mins before bowling was available for us. After which, we headed straight for bowling where we played for abt 1 hour for only 1 game as we need to meet the rest for dinner. Most of them reach by 7.30pm where i still didn't know what to eat. Ya, forget to mentioned we met jasmine, zack, zen, tommy and posic for dinner  While deciding where to eat, we headed here and there in marina square before decided to head to citylink mall in search of a dinning place. Finally, due to hungry people like jasmine, zen and zack. I just anyhow decided to enter 'Asian kitchen' a so-called Chinese restaurant. The food was as normal as any food court i could say. Anyway, a birthday cake was bought in the process by amy, ying fang and dai kai! Although it is meant to be a surprise, i know it will not be a surprise for me as they took rather long in their 'shopping' of  the cake and with the superior observant skills that i have and possessed. It was a long dinner throughout as we chatted, catch up, eat and i gave out the souvenirs i bought from taiwan and being the first group of friends that celebrated my birthday, they got to choose first as i brought all my souvenirs. After the whole dinner, i was handed the birthday cake and also the presents they bought for me which were a wallet and a formal analog watch and not forgetting the small birthday card for this year. Of course, in this event, how can we ever forget the photos taken during dinner and of course after getting out of the restaurant. Wonderful photos as memories to capped off one more enjoyable and fun birthday celebrations with my USS friends.

Thanks for the wonderful birthday celebrations i had with u guys for the these 2 years. U guys, my USS friends are one of the best batch of friends and all the presents i rec'd with the wonderful birthday celebrations altogether will stay as fresh in my mind. Hoping for better future birthday celebrations with u guys. Love u guys!!! Hooooo!!!!!!

As sunday 15 april passed, there came 16 april which was a monday. I started the day late as i slept late and went down my grandma's as she required me to read some letter of concern regarding her. Some valuable time spent with my grandma's from afternoon to evening before i met up with my secondary school friends(azli, jeremy, saleh) in the night for dinner and chit-chat plus monopoly deal playing session. I guess i knew with them, i always end up going home late and guess what time i reach home. Haha!! This is about 1.30am when i reach home. Anyway, it was great just chilling at macdonald's toa payoh near library. Wondered how i got home? Got home on bike just like always. Thanks Saleh always for sending me home!!! Ya, i also gave out my taiwan souvenirs during this short gathering i had.  Although not exactly a birthday celebration for me, i still enjoyed the time i had with them.

For the next day which is 17 april, i didn't do much, just went back to singapore poly to pass my taiwan souvenirs to ms kelly.  I spent time in singapore poly library after that as i didn't had anything to do until my last Remedial training/ compulsory exercise in army which was in the evening.

On the actual day of my birthday which was on the18 april, a wednesday. I went to jb for my birthday trip. Anyway, met up with wee kiong, yiqi and kenny that day. It was business as usual for a JB trip, we went for sushi king where we had lunch. After lunch, we went to buy dvds where i then realised i haven came to JB since the year started. I bought a total of 18 dvds this time. Although not the most in my record, but it was 1 of the highest in my record. Starting the first JB trip this year, i guess u can say it is a good start which happens to be on my birthday.After buying dvds, we headed for KSL city for some shopping but not for the guys i guess. Just for yiqi i guess. Anyway, we managed to watch a movie there too!!We watched 'Battleship' and i feel it is quite a good action movie altogether. After movie, we went for dinner as we had seafood and i got to order as it was my birthday. Haha thanks guys!!!! Ya, i also got to give out my taiwan souvenirs.

On the 19 april, the day after my birthday, i had a singapore institute of technology interview for a degree course in food and human nutrition. I wake up early as my interview was scheduled at 10.30am and i scared i will take some time to find the place so i left home early. In the end, i got there about 10am. I actually did a bit of preparation only  for the interview as it was a first of such  interview i had. Anyway, i hope i did ok and got accepted into the university!!! May good results come!! I really want to finish my education path lol!!! Hope good news will come!!! Anyway, that afternoon met up with 1 of my poly friends staying in hougang and had lunch together with some catching up done. In the evening, met up with my army friends(Lian siah, bernard, kok tong and ah q) for dinner and also pool playing session. Thanks for the birthday treat at pizza hut. Anyway, was another great meetup cum birthday celebrations for me. I also got to give my souvenirs out. Haha!!!  

That's all about my birthday week i guess!!! And i got to meet all my major groups of friends!!! Hooo!!!! Thank you to all!!!!!

It's been a long time and i am officially not a student liao.......

It's been a long time already. My last post was about almost 2 months ago. After that, i proceeded to studying for my final round of exams and finally finished with my studies and exams end of February. Then i waited for my results of the exam which was released 1 month after my exams. In the meantime, i went back to Universal studios(USS) to work and i was also busy with my Remedial training(RT) or compulsory exercise in army. It feels good, keeping fit and also working meaning i also have a source of income to survive the aftermath of graduating soon. Haha!!!

Anyway, my exam results finally came and i did not do as well as i expected. And what was most disappointing is my final sem results actually dropped and this affected my final and cumulative GPA as i did not managed to get a final GPA of 3.5 BUT it was as close as i can get which is 3.487. Anyway, in my long education, i always did not get what i want, it was always this close!! I guess i need to get used to it so that i will not get disappointed all the time in my academic life!! Sian!!!!

The only good thing out of the disappointment is i finally going to graduate and end my poly education life. I am done with singapore polytechnic after 3 long years of travelling to dover from hougang. Graduation date is set on 22nd may on a tuesday where i will don on the graduation suit and officially be called a singapore polyechnic diploma holder and a graduate.

After my exam results released, i was on the course to celebrate with 6 of my classmates on a graduation trip to taiwan for 12 days. We left singapore on 30 march till 10 april when we came back home. It was a fun, tiring and enjoyable trip and this marks the first time i left singapore for my longest overseas holidays that i had in my lifetime up till now!! I had look forward to this grad trip ever since the 7 of us booked this trip in December last year!! It is also one of the top countries which i wish to visit lol!! Haha!! Nevertheless, I finally step foot on taiwan for the first time. It was a great place to be in with great weather, the best wind ever to me and also heart warming people around. 12 days was not long or was it short too!! Anyway, after the whole trip, i still think i have the need to go back as we did not finished walking finished taiwan yet. It was also one of the most memorable trip i spent with my poly classmates. All the joy, laughter and enjoyment we had with one another that i will nvr forget.

Tired liao!!! Will continue tomo!!!! Hooo!!!! 

Time to start my official first blog post in 2012......

Time flies, we are already in the second month of 2012. The year started out being a busy one for me i guess. Anyway, what else could it be? It is obviously about my final year project(FYP). My group and i started the year finishing up with our FYP report which was due on 18 january. It was a rush as we managed to finish up with our report during that 2 weeks when the year started off. One of my group members like to do last minute work and on the day of submission, we really finished our report and printed them out plus binding and burning of the cds at about close to 12noon which is the deadline cut off timing. A sign of relief for all of us after handing up our FYP report. Anyway, after handing up the FYP report, it is back to doing assignment report and presentatation. After the busy week, it is Chinese New Year again with what is a long weekend, what a start to the new year of 2012 for me i guess.

Chinese New Year(CNY) was not celebrated by me again for the second year as i opted to follow the traditions of the old and not celebrate CNY for 3 years since the passing of my mum. Although according to the modern days, people don't really follow the traditions and the tradition changed from3 years to only 1 year. Anyway, for me, this CNY i spent the public holidays working at universal studios for the second time again which is the same as last year. Besides the eve of CNY where i spent having dinner with the rest of my family members, i went to visit my grandma after work during the first day of CNY and as for the second day of CNY, went to have dinner with my brother and father as they came to look for me after my work in sentosa. On the third day of CNY, it was declared a holiday in my school and i spent the day resting and relaxing after working for 2 days. I also visited my mum at kong meng temple before heading for my grandma's place as i chatted with her for quite a few hours and having dinner there before going home.

Finally on the fourth day of CNY which i did not have any classes but needed to go back school to finish our FYP presentation slides as we needed to present it the very next week. Time to chiong again for our FYP as our group worked hard doing up the FYP slides and the making of the prototype that needs to be shown during the FYP presentation. Our FYP group really worked hard all the way till the end of our FYP presentation and with some luck and help from one of the lecturers in school of design, we managed to come out with the prototype to be presented.

After the whole FYP presentation, the comments given by the lecturers really warmed our hearts and let us feel that all the sacrifices made were worthwhile and a huge burden was dropped after nearly 1 year since we embarked on this FYP journey. We were overjoyed and relieved as our efforts were recognised by the panel of lecturers.

Anyway, we celebrated with some of our classmates which is yesterday where we had a delicious dinner at bugis area. It is great time spent together, one of the few times where me and my poly friends actually hang out together.

Ya, beside school, i had a major gathering with my 18 of Universal studios(USS) work friends as well just this past sunday. We had this major gathering where we celebrated 3 of my friends' birthdays(calista, ying fang and wee kiong) with a farewell as well as one of my friends, calista who is furthering her studies in australia and will be leaving soon in a few weeks time. These kind of major gathering with so many people seems rare as it comes only a few times in a year. Anyway, in this kind of major gathering, i guess i had always enjoyed the time that is being spent. I guess i always feel closer to my USS friends more than my poly friends and 1 of the reasons is because we had more gatherings where we would have fun together always. Haha!!!

Going on, my resolutions for the year 2012, after being SINGLE for so long, i longed for a breakthrough, will i get that breakthrough this year? Chances are never high i guess as i failed for so many years in my entire life up to now. One word decribes this feeling and status for being SINGLE for so long and for me, this word is SIAN!!!!!!!

Second resolution is about my studies, after so long, i finally decided on whether to continue my studies and a choice was made by me recently where i choose to study in a 2-year course for an honours degree in food and human nutrition at Singapore instutite of technology. For this, i hope to be lucky enough to get a place to study in this course in this year of 2012.

Not anymore resolutions which i can think of now. Just hope these 2 resolutions can be fulfilled in this wonderful year of the dragon!!! Hooo!!!! Cheers!!! Till my next blog post............................

My reflections for 2011

2011 ended yesterday and today is the first day of a brand new year 2012. Time to do some reflections as to what i had achieved or done for past year i guess. Haha!!!

Feels like 2011 is another year of studying for me. Anyway, the highlights of it is quite the main bulk n most happening year of my poly education i guess. I started the 6-week industrial attachment in a vegetable oil company after ending my exams n poly year 2 in mid march. Meanwhile i was also in line to go to Dalian, China to start my poly year 3 which i applied for. During the short industrial attachment, i was almost going back to sch once every week to settle admin stuffs for the trip ahead which is in mid april immediately after my industrial attachment.

Anyway, got to learn lots of things in the vegetable oil company and valuable experience gained for me even though that's bad along with the good. Haha! Anyway, during that period of time, was working part time at universal studios as well. So together with my attachment, sometimes, i work for consecutive 12 to 13 days before i actually got an off day. I guess it was very tiring during that period of time but i enjoyed the part working in universal studios once every week. Working there was more of enjoyment to me than actually working. Finally, at that period of time i know what is like holding 2 jobs and how tired it can get at times. That period of time really like no life sia!! But anyway the upcoming trip in april to Dalian, China for about 2 months push me through that tough period i guess. Haha!! I still remembered counting down the days before the trip and ending my attachments during the tough period of time.

Next up is the Dalian trip from mid april to mid june. The abt 2 months of studying experience was just too valuable and no words are enough to describe the whole experience although tons of words can be used. Anyway, despite of the different things that happened in the trip, i still think it is a great trip as i got to know more of the character of some of my poly friends. As like other trips, once you are away from home for long, you tend to miss home and that felt by most of us. But in spite of that, with the friends there with u, u also feel like a big family during the 2 months there. To sum it up, it is simply a great trip without no regrets from me although i was feeling the stress from all the assignments, presentations,tests. Hooo!!!!

Anyway for the second part of 2011, from june when we came back to singapore. It was crush course for the remaining modules that we had to take along with the 3 exams. But time really flies with me finishing my year 3, sem 1 on a high in the exams from end august to 1st week of sep when the exams results came out. It was the best results i gotten in my entire poly life. I was super elated although i thought i could had done better. Haha!! After the exams, it is all about the final year project which i will not try to talk about. It is all but one word: SIAN!!! Anyway, poly education is about done for me where the year had ended with the last round of mid sem tests, now embarking on the final few months of my whole poly life something i am really looking forward in this new year.

For 2011, it's not all about school i guess. Anyway, most of the gatherings for year to conclude came from my work friends i guess. Anyway, tons of photos were taken for the entire year of gatherings i guess. 2011 marks the year where the most photos i had taken up to date for me i guess. Besides that, gatherings with my sec friends, army friends were also seen in different parts of the 2011 i guess. Friends are something i can never leave without. Haha!!! Love all my friends out there!! Hoooooo!!!!!!!!! From my birthday celebrations to each of theirs, and to all the different gatherings we had in singapore, malaysia and china. I guess it had been quite a great 2011 spent with each and everyone my friends.

Lastly and most importantly, not forgetting all my family members, it is been great year for us all as we had been meeting most of the sundays at grandma's place in 2011. The bonding that we had been great throughout the whole year. The highlight of the 2011 was the bangkok trip that we had recently. It was a first overseas trip with family members for me. It was always be as memorable in my mind. It was a great first trip with you guys. Hope for more in the upcoming year i guess. Also not forgetting my mother, end of the year, it also marks her first death anniversary since she passed on. Although so, we celebrated by praying for her and she will forever be in my heart for everything she had done for me. Love u mum!!!!!

Long time since my last post...........

Hey guys, i think it's been a long time since i last blog. Anyway, i will start this blog post.

It's been quite some time as my last sem in singapore polytechnic had started, now i am left with the last term which is about 3 more months left before i graduate and earn myself a diploma in food science and technology. It still remains unsure whether i will be studying after that, as i had yet to decide. Anyway, will be making my decision soon enough i hope.

Poly life was quite a normal life for me i guess except when i was struggling a bit when i was in my first year in poly. Nevertheless, time flies and i will be graduating soon. Poly life was the same and my status throughout my whole life is still the same: 'SINGLE'. I guess i am still waiting for that miracle to come along some way or another. I had hope from year 1 in poly life, i would abandoned the current status that i had which is being single. Anyway, disappointments again! Never mind i guess, i am quite used to it. At some point, hopes sort of began hopeless after time.

Now in year 3 of my poly life, my poly group of friends are either in a relationship or going into one, unlike me who is always alone. Now in the discussion, it seems like i am always out of the topic and hearing more of things about love which i don really like to hear about at some point. Maybe i am jealous of them or more of envy, i guess i really don know. Anyway, i hope to graduate really soon as sometimes seeing and hearing about their love stories are really saddening for me.

Enough of the sad stuffs i had i guess. Lucky for me, i am never alone, i have groups of friends which most are still single and being together with them just really let me feel great and happy. Therefore, it somehow let me think of the good things of being SINGLE. Haha! I guess i am who i am and it is hard to change my character as those that are close to me will know that when i like a girl and i don really know how to express it openly to the person. So this is one big flaw which i have and which makes me SINGLE all the way till now. Eager to start a relationship but............

Anyway, last thing i need to mention and the most important will be the passing of my mum, it been a year since my mother left our family peacefully into another world to be free of any troubles, stress and health issues. Recently i just prayed my mum along with my brother and father. Although she had left us, i know she will forever live in our hearts and minds. She will be watching over us and blessing us in whatever we do. In my memory, she always love me the most and adore me the most all the way until she pass on. She's the world's greatest mother to me and all the things she done for will always be remembered deep in my heart. Hope she doing well and good wherever she may be and I just want to say and shout it out I MISS U and LOVE U MUM!!!!!

The last holidays b4 i graduate from poly.........

These holidays were not really holidays, although it is the last holidays b4 i graduate, i still have to go sch doing FYP during the weekdays. This is week 5 and next week is the last week of holidays b4 i start my last sem in singapore poly.

However, did actually take a break this week with us doing FYP only on monday. I went to KL for a short trip with my 2 of my friends from thursday to yesterday which is a saturday. Hope i had recharge enough with this overseas trip. Anyway, done some last minute shopping b4 i left KL with buying of a t-shirt, shoes, socks and a A&W mug. This trip was relaxing, enjoyable and fun.

Already looking forward to my next trip which is to bangkok which will be the third country i ever visited and it will be with my family members. It is in 2 months from 21st dec - 25th dec, a 5 days, 4 nite trip. Hoooo!!! This year of 2011, is going to end for me with a blast. So going to love it!! Haha!!

Holidays are ending as i mentioned before, holidays are never enough i guess, sch's reopening soon, this time for me i hope holidays don end so soon because it is short and secondly i hope to have more time for my FYP to be done. Anyway, we should always look forward i guess, hopes that dec come early so i can go overseas to enjoy again!!! Haha!!!

Till the next post!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feelings........................

I guess memories of my mother is flowing around, guess i am glad that the whole family especially my grandma remembers her the most. Now that she's not around anymore, i can see that grandma had lost a soul mate which can accompany her out to different places and actually talk to her almost everyday, always around with her. I guess memories of her flow throughout all my family members' mind. Whenever i went to visit my grandma, somehow, there will be something about my beloved mother. And sometimes this brings me to great memories of her in my mind, somehow it also makes me sad that she's not around anymore. Guess this is how you will when a loved one is not around.

Today, father and brother went to bangkok with the rest of my other family members leaving me alone at home for these 4 days. Anyway, tonite had dinner with buying fruits for praying tomo and keeping the dried clothes all alone. First time so lonely and kind of sad being alone. Anyway, this is the first time in my life, i am alone at home lol. Anyway, hope to get by these few days quickly. While eating dinner, the fish store auntie also notice and asked where is my mother. When she asked for the first time, i sort of stumbled a bit as i didn't know how to answer. In the end, i guess she say is she at home and i sort of agreed and end the conversation. At the point, memories of her appeared in my mind and i know i always love my mother for all the things she did for me. Kind of a sad nite i guess!!!

Loneliness is one thing i hate the most. However, we will eventually have to get by it.

Back from China 3 weeks ago, just started school few days ago!!!!

It's another few months since i type on my blog, tried to update in China but to no avail. Anyway, Dalian's study trip was quite a blast and Beijing's tour was nothing much more than a bore. That so how sums up the 2 months there. Somehow, there was more bonding in my class than ever before, as usual, good and bad things happened over there. In the end, one of the good things was the love blossoms and couple formation in my class(BS and C). Feel really happy for them and hope their love will last forever. A particular guy from my class became the single most annoying and irritating person in the whole stage. Everyone seem to dislike him and facts of him uncover itself in China. Besides this few things that i mentioned, i guess there were others like S and JL issues which bother some of my classmates and more importantly, the 2 lecturers with us. Being a lecturer is not easy and at times difficult as you will have to deal with all the problems that the students give you, be it emotionally, academically, socially and etc.

Some of the things i gain from the trip was different things about JH who is my room mate during these 2 months, he is the one who also make me miss 2 of the factory visits, seeing a love story from start till finally it blossoms and the couple formed and in the whole process trying to make sure that it actually will happen with the rest of my friends. Enjoying the great and cooling weather China offers with dirt and smoke pollution everywhere. Drinking mineral water for the whole of the 2 months there, the most mineral water that i ever drank in my lifetime up till now. Tasting the awesome and cheap seafood found there.

Guess coming back to singapore means more work to do as my group and i started doing an assignment due that very friday on 10 june. Immediately we went back school to start the assignment the next day after we reach singapore. For the rest of the holidays, i spent most of my time in school doing my final year project.Anyway, started the second term this week and on the very first day, received an assignment liao. The stress really starting to pile i guess.

Back to the holidays, besides going back sch, i also have some time to visit my grandma along with the rest of my family members. Also get to meet some of my friends and also friends from work as i resume work on saturdays at universal studios liao.

Great memories with quite a great bunch of people!!!!! Hoo!! Cheers to all the OIPers!!!!!