August 07 Forecast

Going to be another busy month going into the final quarter of the yr.



National (holiday) Day (9th): The 1st break since May and the last one until October, which should see the old birds already taken their leave on the 10th, stringing the weekend with the nation's birthday.



NTU Motoring Club Alumni bbq (11th): A chance to catch up with some old pals and see what they've been up to in their lives (and rides) of late. Come to think of it, i havent been joining their activities for over a yr since.



Dear~Dear's 26th Birthday (13th): My first bdae celebration for Her Highness :) And i've got the peeeeerfect gift ready for her.



Post-National Day's Fireworks Festival (18th): Gf got the tickets from balloting in UOB, so we get to sit in the grandstand at Marina Bay for a panoramic view. How nice to have fireworks on our 9th mth anniversary too :P



Sister's Birthday (21st): And she's 28 this yr, which means a niece/nephew should be coming my way anytime soon :P Always a headache thinking what to get for her when she seems to have everything already.



Goodbye LYE (31st): Moving on and stepping into another unknown era. Will leave with good memories and experiences in my bag. And i'm sure there will be future collaborations in one way or another.

Cheers.

翡翠 @ J8

Must've had brunch here umpteen times already.

But we still over-ordered.

Stroke?

Check out Mi-Mi's left face, looks like its having cramps.

Could it be a stroke?

Shitty day

And literally so cos i was down with diarrhoea.

Total 7 bouts of evacuations from 3am.
Consoling myself it's detoxication.

"frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor"

Worklife: 1 yr anniversary

First yr anniversary stepping into workforce!

And ironically, will be my last day 1 mth from now in LYE.

Glad that i'm able to say 'sad that i'm leaving'. It was a short stint here, but i probably picked up more things than i expected. Took me 2 weeks to find the right words to say to boss why i need to quit, make it sound more politically correct. It was so blardy different from the last time at WH. I cant wait to get out of OC then, and the last day felt like glory retirement. Over here, i volunteered to stay till the end of Aug so i can finish at least project Newater.

I wont say it's the best time to move on, but some things are out of my control, esp when the king and empire are involved.

Nevertheless, since the tender letter was shot out last monday, there's no turning back now. (sorry dear~dear who had to bear with my whining through the entire saga.)

Its a big step i'm taking, considering these:

1) I'm taking a paycut.
2) I turned down an offer from an aussie MNC (who's also offering 36% higher)

But looking further ahead:

1) 4 yrs down the road, hopefully i get the coveted title.
2) There will be deeper penetration into restricted zones, opening up fresh land to conquer when i return to lead the troops

And in the short run:

1) No work on sats
2) More annual leave :)

Whatever's the case, i'm looking forward to work in LNL.

Convo Boys 06+07

The same band of boys (minus a few) whom i started out together with yr2002 in hall 9.

i didnt exactly take part in hall activities; so it really felt good to still keep in touch as a 47 beng-er. The early days of the 5 bikers ferrying the rest for supper, all smokers gathering outside mian's room for a fag and just hanging out till the wee hrs of the morning.

All of us now heading in different directions, scattered over various sectors; engineers, financial consultants, a banker now, another upcoming investment banker and lastly a future boeing 777 pilot.

But boys shall always be boys :)

~PimpHerRide~ LED taillights

Got the pair for almost a mth and finally found some time to install it at GT auto.

:: 天下第一涮 ::

She has been complaining about the cold weather and the no-need-money aircon in her new office @ UOB plaza.

So it's steamboat time!

Mian's treat @ 牛角

Mr white felt indebted to Gf so he gave a treat at Gyu-kaku UE square as promised. And me being the middle person of course gets to leech too :)

And I returned the favour driving all of us down to Sunset Way for desserts at Daily Scoop. Went with the impression we will get to DIY mix-n-match our own personalised ice-cream. Turns out not but the sweeties are good nevertheless.

I was so bloody full for the night.

ButterScotchPecan on Brownies

Lychee Martini and Peach

MY's Triple Combo

sorry brudder yao, but this is way too funny not to create a post.

COMBO 1
How on earth did a bowling ball get underneath a honda jazz?

But it did in yao's case. His sister and gf driving his spanking new white 5 weeks old honda jazzy, zipping down AMK ave 5 when a 13 pounds bowling ball rolled across the road. The ladies couldnt react in time and thought its better to roll over it.

Alas! It got stuck and created a big dent in yao's undercarriage. To make matters worse, it hit right where it hurts the most; the fuel tank.

Yao was in the middle of a street soccer session when the freak incident took place. Receiving the call from his gf LJL...


LJL: shit, Ur car got into an accident.

Yao: wah lau, u all hit what?

LJL: I think its a bowling ball.

Yao: What? Mai lai la.

LJL: Wait. Yes, confirmed its a bowling ball now.

Yao: SMLJ??


And so they abandoned the game and took white's car down to the crime scene.

COMBO 2

All 5 stinky soccer guys in the cars, so naturally the right thing to do is to wind down the window. Yao put his forearm out of the window trying to come to terms with the unexpectable... when a piece of bird shit hit his foreman.

That, simply sums up my brudder's sunday.

COMBO 3

Who would've expected a TP roadblock at 1030am on a bluey monday?

Feeling shitty from an eventful sunday, yao dragged his tired body to work riding his bike since the trusty jazz is in the workshop.

Final blow came at 1030am, yao ran into a roadblock along yuan ching road.

The traffic mata gave no chance at all. Number plate too small, wack summon! No mudguard, wack summon again! Red LED light embedded in headlamps, wack wack wack summons! 03x or-gong!!


Thus, in a matter of 16 hrs, Yao's has ran into a string of 3 misfortunes, as well as burning a big hole in his pocket.



As we mourn his losses....... lets take a minute of silence and study the moral of the story.

" Expect the unexpected on the road. You never know what's coming your way."

红星酒家

Time to share my luck giving the Royal family a treat at 红星酒家 for sunday brunch.



No joke, the queue was extended all the way from the restaurant's entrance to the carpark when we arrived at 11am.


The trick to beat the queue is to go in a big group as they allocate tables according to no. of guests. So the bigger tables deeper into the restaurant were given to groups >8 on priority basis. Thus, within 20mins we were all seated comfortably digging into altogether 33 dishes of dimsum.


The food doesnt quite live up to our expectations and excitement thou. Couple of the dimsum were cold when served.


So what sets them aside from the rest and put them up together with crystal jades and peach gardens?


Reckon must be the old-school ambience and push-carting waitresses, the consistent long queues over weekends and as the king keeps stressing, the household reput of the chef as one of singapore's ‘四大名厨’. And of course, the very competitive pricing :)

醉福楼

Fate has it that ivin's is so full house so gf suggest we make a turn over to 醉福楼. Been wanting to try this restaurant along thomson rd for a while already.

琵琶豆腐

Steamed Live Bambooclam with Garlic Sauce

Steamed Garlic Prawn

Must say the food is really good for the price.

And look how professional is their receipt.

头奖 ：）

Perseverance and belief pays off!!

And this bonanza ensures that i stay positive for the entire 2007.

Cheers.

“一世人能有几次头奖呢？”

七抢八 on 七/七/七

Self-acclaimed 花王

MJ at cher's house with gf and lynn and i stunned the gals with this feat. Immediate 五翻 without doing anything. *grin*

The beginner's luck continues.

iPhone

How to resist?

Iphone Magic - The funniest bloopers are right here











Iphone Video - Funny home videos are a click away


As far as i am against touch-screening, this is far too cool to ignore~~

I especially like the part when the screen rotates itself landscape and portrait to and fro as u turn the set.

1.97million meal...

.... in ruppiah that is la.

Converted back its only a mere S$340, enough to feed a total of 36 pple on 6 tables.

And u get a bit of everything, sambal eng cai, udang goreng, prawns, scallops, soon hock, mussels - all upsized and fresh from the pond, plus 8 bottles of heineken.

Where to find this pricing in SG?

Dear gf panicked when i said we're going to move to indonesia when old to live out our golden yrs though :P

btw, its the queen's king's bdae in batam. so my king threw a mini banquet for him.

Of phones and fashion

We guys have a soft spot for gadgets, and when u put it together with fashion, its going to be hard to ignore. Lucky thing is, they dont normally give the best of 2 worlds. You either get a good-looker or a powerful player.

So here i am, trying to find the best excuse to change my mobile phone.


LG

No doubt my fashion statement of the season, esp the Shine series (oh yes, the Prada LG or LG prada, as u like). Personally like all things black (besides cars which is a nightmare to maintain) so this one fits in nicely into my inventory. (cept the touch-screening)


Not feature packed phones from the koreans, but that's what its all about. They are all based on looks looks and looks. The kind which pple will dish out of their pockets onto the coffee/wine/pub/office table at the slightest chance. Why not, since it will most definitely induce interest in pple 'can i take a look at that for a while?'

Prada LG


LG Chocolate


Shine series

NOKIA

Still the best selling phone in the world, and a good reason at that. A recent report states that the Finnish company sold more than 346 million nokia handset in 2006, almost an average of 1 million set a day.

The King got the N95 once its launched, and all the hyde about the navigator built-within tried to cover the problems that comes with it. Has a powerful 5.0mp camera, but i tried taking a picture last week in KL and it resets automatically. Worse, its harder to reach His Majesty these days cos he has difficulties answering the phone without the N95 hanging itself.

'You gotta have the software upgraded' says all the gurus around me. We shall see.

Oh yes, about the E90. First mini computer phone to feature a powerful 5.0mp camera. Wouldnt be cheap though. Can use it as a self-defence tool when entering Msia too.

E90

HTC

I'm not the biggest fan of touch phones (as quoted by Hardware mag, true man uses a keypad :P) after a horrid experience with my O2 atom. But the recent aggressive advertisement runs by the Taiwan phonemaker's Touch series makes it hard not to sit up and notice.

Touch™

SONY ERICSSON

Ahh, one of my personal favs at the moment after the recent swirls of complaints about the symbian system by nokia around me on the N-series.

The P1 is currently top of my list with 3.2mp, qwerty keyboard and bulky-not structure. Not the best looker around, but what can you expect from a biz phone right. I've been checking out the M600 and M850 a while back, and this phone more or less filled up the shortcomings of the two.

The K850i is a sequel to my current K800i, cept the folks at Sony upgraded the Cyber-shot to 5.0mp this time round. So its like upgrading my compact digital cam rather than my phone. Looks wise nothing to shout about too.

SE-P1

K850i

APPLE

Another fashion statement to flash on the table top. Apple is trying to recapitulate its iPod success by entering the mobile phone sector. As said, i hate touch screens, so this doesnt goes down well with me. Steve Jobs claims a revolution to handphones - a triple player, call phone, iPod media player and a wireless Web device, but i seriously wonder if the battery life will be able to shoulder all that burden.

All things said, its going to be a bang when officially launched this week 29th June, 6pm, all around the world, based on local time zone. The iPhone is destinated to be an icon, much like its mp3 siblings, top of most wishlists around the world. Thus, its cool to have one. In addition, it will most probably have the highest value on the second hand market in yrs to come.... esp when Apple decides to cut its production in future.

iPhone

Management's Bdae 07

We decided to celebrate his bdae 1 week earlier since he's going for the Mainly I Love Kids (!! A sign of fatherhood yearning) run the following morning of the actual day.

No special combo tonight, just wild wild straight to the point toasting drinking and singing. No one really got too drunk on the night, despite a record 3 bottles (+ 1 more the night before @ DF) for Mr Management. (who lives up to his name, even arranging for his own birthday cake, well done)

Seriously, it was more of Mr White on a vengence quest to redress his grievances from the humiliation he had from last yr's xmas, masterminded by Mr M.

For the record, here's Mr White below during xmas 06.

Xmas 06 - Humiliation

Notice the guy in blue? Yes, that's Mr M tattooing Mr White, when the latter was dead drunk.

Thus, tonight, White brought along this set of tools.

Perm Markers

And so, let the battle begins:

Sadly, at the end of the night, Mr M survived the battle with lotsa hustle and spirit, and came up tops over White.


So in the end, both got their fair share of body art.

And everyone's happy :)

Happy birthday brother.

No.3 Mummy

- By Mimi