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Wow… its my 80th blog posting on Friendster… how time flies… i registered with Friendster in 2003 because NUS ULC (life-saving club) has just started it on Friendster… so i signed up… then i added friends… and then i found my old old friends… hehe… i am happy. one thing leads to another… although we don’t keep in touch by meeting frequently… but at least… i know you are sound and safe

Levin just graduated.. CONGRATS! Mas… how is your baby… you should post some photos of her :)… Gerlynn… is that your BF???? hahah …. Jean where did you go for holiday… it looks great! All the birthday boys and gals… i am so sorry to missed your big day hope everything is going great! Jeremy… when are you coming back to SG… miss talking to you… Willy… that is my army friend in the photo… how did you know each other??? Javier… you and your starry pictures make me envious… oh can get Rain’s signature for me.. hahah thanks in advance! Jianhao… make the best in your new career! Xiuyun… hey i will go to pub you work okie… but you need to concentrate on your studies too.. dun party too much! to Buyong Salim … hey thats a weird picture sorry i didnt reply to your msg… but heheh thats a weird picture… are you still with Janice? keke… ya that scene you did with her in class so many years back is still in my memory… u horny bastard!

take good care to all… Merry X’mas

PS: pls take down my HP number 94234423 if you have deleted it… ask me out, k?

i want to share with you my fav song from Sin Huey’s debut album.

i took this from the lyricist kevin’s blogspot http://kevindejiang.blogspot.com/

windows media streaming of the song http://www.tt78.com/play.asp?id=111229&art=3539

水落石出
曲：韩国曲
词：黄德江

唇 (chun)，有一点颤(zhan)抖。矜(jin)持是借口，所以泪没流。
当你决定要走，才学会都不保留，心，终于感觉痛。
我不断问理由。是不懂温柔，还是爱不够。
是你不能接受，我什么都很足够
以为你的爱，不能够满足我
水落石出 ，心会随答案而辛苦。
要领悟错误，可惜最后才清楚。
我要哭！最好双眼的视线全部变模糊。
用脆(cui)弱当最后赌注

终于知道了理由。不是我不温柔，不是爱不够。
早就不应该假装什么都足够
其实你的爱不能够满足我
水落石出 ，心会随答案而辛苦。
要领悟错误，可惜最后才清楚。
我要哭！最好双眼的视线全部变模糊。
用脆弱当最后赌注

oh … 孤(gu)注一掷，我不服输(su)
想要篡(zuan)改我们的最初。
你却还记得，我的轻(jing)浮(fu)。

水落石出 ，心会随答案而辛苦。
要领悟错误，可惜最后才更清楚。
我想要哭！最好双眼的视线全部变模糊。
最后我还是祝你幸福。

Food Republic at Vivocity blew me away with its decor.

Then there were ants on my desk… because i did not water the plant… the soil became suitable for the ants to live in… when i pour water to chase them out… they plot against me!!! see pictures to support my claims… they can be cunning… beware!!

And of course not forgetting my baby tasha… hahaha i like her looking soft and vulnerable… you sickos!

thats roughly the duration from "i am out from uni"… and "i am working" … time flies… and I must say… its not smooth sailing like i thought it will be … a lot of struggles … from things like… adjusting to the corporate world of backstabbing and standing on my own… perhaps what i will miss most back in those days where we are still studying… are the laughters and jokes… that often came up… to destress from our hectic study… sigh…

i also miss eating lunch and meeting you to go home… its weirdly sweet… i guess thats how studying is memorable… without you standing by me… i would have gone to IMH… hahaha… joking… exams and tests… haha… by year 3… i wasnt thinking about how was i passing it… but rather… when will it end… well… it ended… and in place of it … is air… i haven’t been able to read a book like before… no matter how hard i try…

i met Meng Wei recently at PS… hihi Meng Wei I am so glad… you are doing well. I really thought hard about it… but since most of us aren’t doing what we have studied… i might as well say something… …stop for a second… and ask if our passion is still there… if it is … why aren’t we following it? we are all quite coward right? or is it because the doors are shut? i dunno… but having been out of touch with civil for more than a year… i dunno if i can ever go back… but my passion for building and water is still there… being in HR recruitment for a year… i realises this passion is still there… when i hear fellow mates from civil interviewing for a lecturer position… i can hear them … i can feel their passion… n it really brings back alot of those memories… sigh…

i am so lazy nowadays… i feel like i am a bum… always shopping… always doing something but real work…

of cos… at this stage of my life… i hope to earn and save as much as i can… reading news about being retrenched and jobless at age 40 onwards is scary… i wouldn’t want to end up in that scenario… much less live life like that… i really must buck up and do something worthwhile…

i am all talk and thoughts but no action… slap me

Chew Sin Huey or Shi Xin Hui (Hanyu Pinyin) - no matter which way you pronouce it… it still sounds beautiful… ok… i love Xin Hui (Sin Huey)… she has such beautiful voice…

this first season of project superstar 1st runner-up female singer is by far the best of the lot… if you are still thinking about her so-called controversal unbutton-buttons-on-her-shirt-to-expose-partial-cleavage-bra-girl well… you are missing out on the real gems… haha… not those two… but the real thing… her voice

if her first single and title to the album "From Taipei to Beijing" is anything but jumpy and disco-like… the rest of her album is subdued and powerful… this first single is catchy minus the bra exposing moments… and definitely a hit… this album also include 10 remixes of this first single… cool huh

the second song, Ni Gei De - Your gift - is a chinese version of a malay song "AWAN YANG TERPILU" performed by Ning Baizura… erm I don’t really like Ning’s version… you can compare it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcno-g-x_lA. Anyway, Sin Huey’s version blew me away. She displays a very good vocal control and emotes terribly well for a new comer. Gasp… i have goose pimples at the Bridge portion and the final chorus is so fantastic… ala A*Mei’s Ni Shi Wo De Bao - You Are My Precious - song.

The 3rd song is I Believe… its another cover of japanese artiste’s song Ayaka (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SncXrX-2f_Q)… but it sounds like FIR’s kind of song… This song is not as catchy as the first two singles but nevertheless… another hit.

Let’s skip the fourth song… and move on to the fifth… Zuo Tian - Yesterday… another wonderfully subdued song… this girl is Kit Chan number 2! Sigh… love them. This 5th and 6th single from the album are slow numbers… the 6th is Ji Who Ai Guo Ni - I Nearly Loved You - is about a girl who nearly loved the guy she love. Sappy love songs are big in the chinese industry… dunno why

There is a duet with Chen Weilian on the album…. skip that la…

Overall… it is a very commendable effort by the project superstar alumni… Three and a half stars out of five.

Listen to the songs on the album here http://www.tt78.com/S/2/3539/8413.htm

I saw it at Music Junction… selling for $17.90… sigh… so expensive… i am hoping for a China Import version… it is usually much cheaper… at $5 to $7.

you have to be blind not to see ikea’s new super-mega-warehouse off the TPE… its "IKEA" signboard is extremely gianatic that you can see it like 5 km away… its really a good thing to see such huge thing in the quiet eastern part of singapore… thats really worth while to wait… i think it is the beginning of many things huge… and mega… oooh exciting…

so… thats how i end my boring weekend with my parents… hehehe what did i buy? i bought a wooden two-tier shoe rack… one round sponge seat (i dunno why i pick this up… maybe i am contemplating joining back my sch db team… but… thats another thing… most imptly the round pad is green… i dunno most of the folks now… and the small kampong few are gone… i think… now… its a complicated bunch who just love vulgarities… thats what i heard from the instructor)… oneb pack of really beautiful christmas lights… (erm why did i pick that up? hmmm i was thinking of my office cubicles…. must have something festive… although i doubt that i will even use it.. because it is always brightly lit… but i cant contain my temptation to buy it… cos its green, hahaha) okok… so what else did i pick up…. a 50 cm by 50 cm cushion… i have no idea why i pick it up again… hahaha ok abit of an air-head as usual… maybe it is to place my air-head on… hahaha

the good thing is…. they give us these heart shape toys… on the way in… at the car park… but they are really ugly… with huge tags that tell us who designed it… yucks… so i passed it to tasha… hanging it around her neck… hahaha… she loves it… it still hangs around her neck…. hmmm ok… better take it off…

so its really a wonderful experience… shopping at the new ikea… cos the carpark is FOC.. unlike the one at alexander… but the queue to this new mega-store is long… that explains the barricades to the entrance… and the need for ushers… but by the time i went… at around 8pm.. the crowd is less… lots of empty car park lots… huge carpark….

with ikea opened… courts and giant super-mega-malls are about to  complete their renovation… wow… its going to be a very exciting place… out of nowhere… along TPE…