Friday, June 13, 2008

Splat!

Haha, so funny. Loo Loo got splatted with cream during his 'birthday celebration'. It all started on Wednesday where we have to come back for Maths remedial class. We were doing some questions when out of a sudden, Fanny, Paul and Yan Xun left the class. We did not suspect anything yet but they soon came back in a much bigger group consisting of people like Yun Keat, Nadya, Kim blah blah... They were holding a birthday cake and it suddenly dawned on me that they were celebrating Loo Loo's birthday.

Then, I noticed that Yun Keat, Yan Xun and Kim were holding a plate of cream in their hands, they hid their hands behind their backs so that Loo Loo could not see the cream which would soon end up on his face.

Yun Keat with a plate of cream
Yun Keat, Kim and Yan Xun all holding plates of creams (Circled in different colours). Naughty boys! Yan Xun could not hide his excitement - as shown by his facial expression
Nadya presented Loo Loo with his b'dae cake and that initiates the cake cutting ceremony.
Then, the moment of truth, the cream is splatted on Loo Loo's face courtesy of our 3 musketeers. (That blurry image in front of Loo Loo is Yun Keat's hand splattering Loo Loo) Yan Xun was about to strike too! (Red circle)
Creamy Loo Loo! He definitely did not expect to celebrate his birthday like this.
The clean up starts...
When Loo Loo went to the toilet to wash up, Yun Keat splashed a bucket of water onto Loo Loo. It was definitely a wet and wild birthday party for Loo Loo. The party planners were not that cruel to let Loo Loo go home with dirty clothes. So they bought him a new shirt which doubled as a birthday present.

We ate Loo Loo's birthday cake. It was creamy blue berry. Not the tastiest cake I have tasted, but it was acceptable nonetheless.

Anyway, here are some pictures that portrays Singapore's sotong side. These pictures are taken at the newly opened Smith Street hawker centre at Chinatown.

Notice the upside-down sign on the top left hand corner? LOL. I don't know how a normal construction worker who knows basic alphabets would not know it is screwed in upside-down =.="
A closer look at the flawed sign
On Thursday, me together with Aishah, Aryani, Danial, Firdaus, Haikal and Elsie went to Sentosa for a day out at the beach. We met at Vivo at about 10am. I went to my favourite hang out at Best Denki for a few rounds of Grand Turismo 5 on a G25. I met George while driving. He was supposed to come along with us to the beach but somehow, our outing clashed with his St John outing in Sentosa. Thus, sadly he could not come with us. George tried to drive the G25 and promptly crashed out at the 1st corner. Gran Turismo 5 on a G25 is indeed a hard game for beginners. So beginners, don't try driving a G25 at home!

Haikal came a while later but refused to have a go on the G25. Aryani, Aishah and Firdaus came a while later. Xiao Dan, the person who planned this outing to Sentosa was nowhere in sight. I later learnt from Aryani that Xiao Dan decided that she was 'sick' that day and did not come. Pang seh kia =.=". Aryani and Aishah had a go on G25. Oh no! Women drivers playing an incredibly hard driving game equals to disaster!

Surprisngly, Aryani can control the car much better than I expected. She was 100 times better than Diva in driving. Though both Aishah and Aryani went off the track countless of times, at least they completed the full 2 laps, 4 laps for Aryani's case. Aishah was very good at cornering while Aryani was very good in recovering the car when it spun. Although they are too scared to floor the accelerator, it's still better to be slow than crash into the wall.

Elsie was bugging us to go as it was already 12pm. We spent 2 hours at the games corner. LOL! So finally we made our way to the Sentosa Express station.

The train is arriving! Yeah!The Superstar Virgo at the docksThe big Lobang (hole) at Sentosa. The Lobang is created because of the upcoming Genting Integrated Resort.Haikal, Firdaus and me!We arrived at Sentosa's beach station and as soon as I got to the gates, I was stuck because I accidentally bent my ticket and at the same time spoiled the magnetic coil in the card. The Sentosa peeps let me out with their special card. We walked to the bike rental shop and there, we debated over which to do first, cycle or go to the beach first. Aryani and me thought that since we are already at the bike rental shop, why not we cycle first? But the others thought otherwise, so majority wins and we headed back to Beach Station again =.="

We queued up for the tram that will take us to Tanjong beach. This is when Danial arrived and we soon boarded the tram for Tanjong beach. It was a bumpy ride to Tanjong beach as the tram's suspension was bad.

We reached Tanjong beach only to find that they were doing some oil spill exercise to clean up some 'oil' at one end of the beach. We are afraid of being contaminated with 'oil', so we made our way to the other end of the beach and found a hut to settle down and put our things. We played beach soccer at first. But due to the hot sun, our feet burned whenever we stepped on the sand. So we decided to use the soccer ball and turn it into a game of water polo!

The seabed was filled with eky stuffs such as seaweed and other junks. What's worse, Aishah and me were bitten by crabs! Wth, the crab bit my fingers when I was trying to get rid of it as it was obstructing me underwater. Of course I did not know it was a crab until it bit me. The crab bit Aishah on her legs. Stupid crab. We played a game of monkey in the water too. While playing, Danial lost his glasses, we took a long time using our feet to feel the seabed until I finally found his glasses. Danial owes me a meal for that. Nah...haha joking! Here are some pictures.

Danial!
Firdaus helped us take a group photo in the water. Thanks Fi!
Then we deicded to get out of the water and built sand castles instead. I found some planks of wood by the beach and use it as a tool for our new sand castle. We were building the largest dam in the world until the waves washed it away =.="Aryani buried in sand! Haha! Haikal and me stood guard just in case anybody tries to remove the sand. Haha!After 2 hours, we went to wash up at this really small wash area made out of rectangular metal conatiners. Yes, they are the same conatiners that you see being loaded onto ships and trucks. We met some people along the way. We met Desiree and her friends, met Lionel and George together with their St John mates and met Wakadeish with his family.

So we took the tram back to Beach Station where sadly, Firdaus has to leave to settle some things. We said our goodbyes. Aryani, me and Aishah wanted to go cycling. But Danial, Elsie and Haikal wanted to play cards. So we went our seperate ways temporarily. The rental rates for the bikes were expensive! $5 per hour. Actually, everything in Sentosa is overpriced! A bottle of 500ml mineral water cost $2.50! I could buy a plate of chicken rice elsewhere with that kind of money.

While cycling, we learnt something new. We learnt that cycling in Sentosa is a complete waste of money because the beach area is the only safe place for cycling. It took us merely half an hour to complete cycling (slowly) from one end of the beach (Siloso) to the other end (Tanjong). While cycling, I received a call from Varun saying that he is coming to Sentosa to meet us. Wtf! So late then come, lols. We were ending our cycling soon and told Varun to wait for us at Vivo. At the same time, Haikal, Elsie and Danial left for Vivo to meet up with Varun.

Aishah, Aryani and me slacked at the side of the road for a while to kill time while we wait for our 1 hour to run out. This is how boring cycling at Sentosa gets! It was a complete waste of our $5!

We returned our bikes later and took the Monorail back to Vivo. As expected, I have trouble with my ticket but the friendly staff at the gates helped me. The staff at Sentosa were so friendly that we thought it was too artifical. We first thought of this when Aishah pointed out that when the Monorial leaves the station, the staff on the platform will wave to the people on the train. While I appreciate their 'friendliness', I think if they wanted to wave, they could at least do it with emotions. The staff looked like some robot when they waved at us. It was kind of scary to see them wave at us with a fake smile. I'm not complaning, but I'd rather they not wave at us. Haha.

So we arrived back at Vivo to meet up with Haikal and Elsie. Danial left already. We went to Banquet for dinner. I was so hungry that I gobbled up 2 meals. The first one was western food - Grilled fish with pasta while the 2nd meal was Chicken rice. In the time I took to finish 2 meals, it took Aryani the same time to finish 3/4 of her Yong Tau Fu meal. She's indeed very slow at eating.

Then suddenly, Aryani exclaimed out loud, she said she lost something (again) =,=" We thought it was her phone or something. But it turned out to be her camera's memory card. She said she left it in her pants and went swimming with it. What's worst, she said her pockets was filled with sand and she emptied the sand, along with her memory card into the sea! LOL! For all we know, it could have floated to Indoneisa already. It is impossible to find such a small thing under the water, unlike Danial's glasses. So, we told Aryani to accept the inconvinient truth. Haha.

So Aryani, me and Aishah went home together on bus 855. To kill time, we talked about all sorts of things such as - have we ever gotten lost before and childhood stuffs. I learnt some new things from that chat. I'm not about to reveal anything here though. Haha!

On the way home, I spotted this Nissan GT-R supercar. Damn cool!
So that's the end of my post! To add on to the excitement, the next post shall be a very special post. If you want to know what is the special post all about, please visit my blog anytime soon. Till then, make sure nothing is in your pocket before you go swimming in the sea!

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Ice Skating!

Yeah, that's right, I went ice skating for the first time ever in my life. Will elaborate more about my experience on the ice later. This was the second week of the holiday classes.

There was a series of Maths test which I failed terribly so far. Cindy Tan wore the new Singtel Formula 1 Grand Prix strap which can be hung around the neck. We started a new topic on POA about some accrual concept thing and she seemed to love using Singtel in her examples. I guess one of her relative or husband must be working in Singtel as I think only Singtel staff can receive the strap. As my dad works in Singtel, I too received the Formula 1 tag. And bloddy hell, Cindy seperated me and Haikal for POA class just because Charles is making hell lots of noise and Cindy wanted Charles to sit with me so I could tame him. What horrible excuse!

On Thursday, Justina decided to join us for Chemistry class as she missed her A Maths class for some strange reasons. She found our practical very fun and amusing. Mr Wong even set fire to the floor (again =.=") and Justina, haven't had any experience with that dangerous Mr Wong, is the only one who stood near the fire as everyone around her ran away expecting the inevitable. She was so shocked when the floor caught fire. Too bad I did not have my phone with me at the time or I could have gotten a picture.

The class was filled with a pungent odour after the fire extinguished itself. It was so smelly that we had to carry out our lessons outside the lab. But the fun did not end there. Justina, being our special guest, has the honour of experiencing first hand how Mr Wong can go crazy. He started chasing Justina round and round with a bottle of Chloroform. Mr Wong wanted to 'poison' Justina with Chloroform but failed miserably. Daunted, he stop chasing Justina and went chasing other people instead, I almost got poisoned by him. The only person (or dog) to be 'poisoned' was Bad dogie. With his low level on intelligence, it's not surprising really.

Mr Wong chasing Justina with a bottle of Chloroform
Justina: "How can you treat your guest like this? What did I do to deserve this?" Look! Mr Wong tried (unsuccessfully) to poison me. Good thing I escaped in time. Phew!
Stephanie was next
Bad dogie lays dead on the floor as he was being poisoned by Mr Wong

And for D&T, I FINALLY got my LED circuit lights to work! I'm so happy. What made it better was that I got it right the first time round, I don't need to redo or resolder anything. But the fact of the matter is, I hate electronics, I hope this is my last time dealing with such things.

So after D&T, me, Justina and Diva went to Dhoby Gaught (Plaza Sing) to have Pasta Mania lunch. Justina was short of cash so she ordered some cheap cheap pasta while i ordered a slightly more ex pasta. Diva rich guy sia, go order the most expensive meal among us. After lunch, we took bus 16 to Kallang Leisure Mall for - you guessed it ... ICE SKATING! Hahaha, this is my first time ice skating and I felt really excited.

On the way to Dhoby Gaught, we spotted this man (in the 377 shirt) at Outram station doing funny things with his hands, I think he is dancing to entertain us? It was rather funny watching him dance while walking.
I could not get a video of him dancing, so I went onto Youtube and found a woman doing the almost exact same thing as the man did, It also happened in a S'pore MRT station, they could be siblings for all we know. Let's take a look at this video.


We took bus 16 there. When we arrived, the mall looks very empty, I don't like empty shopping malls, it makes me feel sleepy and bored. We took the mall's incredibly inefficient lift up to the 3rd floor only to find that the ice skating ring was filled with people. It is the largest ice skating rink in S'pore. This may sound great but think of it, there is only 2 ice skating rinks in S'pore, with the other being the older Fuji Ice Palace. I could build a rink just 1 sq ft bigger than Fuji Ice palace and name it the biggest ice skating rink in S'pore. With that said, it was quite obvious that the rink wasn't as big as we thought out to be in the first place.

The fee was $18.50 for 2 hours including rentals of skates and gloves. Justina did not bring her socks and paid $3 for a pair. Bloody hell, there was a ice resurfacing time of 20 mins during our 2 hr time slot. But it is stated on the ticket that there will be NO refunds or extension time if we are unlucky enough to book a time slot during ice resurfacing. So we put on our skates and tried walking, it felt really weird walking on 2 thin metal blades. You can only imagine how Diva would struggle to walk in those thin shoes.

The ice skating shoes
Then, the moment we all have been waiting for... We stepped into the ice rink and it was clear immediately that me and Diva were struggling to even balance ourselves. Justina on the other hand seemed like she has taken skating lessons as she immediately skated with ease. Diva and me were holding on to the side railings for balance. I calmed myself down and released my hands from the railings. I was expecting to fall but to my surprise, that didn't happen, instead I was balancing myself on the ice. I tried skating off but struggled terribly. I could not even skate for 1 metre. Justina gave me some tips about skating and I tried again, the tips worked to a certain extent as I can feel myself moving.

I must have looked like some clown in the rink as I was waving my hands all around to keep my balance. It was really difficult to skate forward and balance. What about Diva then? While I tried skating forwards, he was struggling to even balance himself. Justina and me urged Diva to let go of the railings. He did and he too, balanced nicely on the ice. However, when he tried skating forwards, the inevitable happened, Diva fell! Hahaha! We made a deal earlier on to take a picture of the person who falls down first. True to our words, Diva was caught on camera first for his inability to keep himself upright long enough.

Diva is the first to fall! Ouch!Diva falls again... =.="
And again =.=" Justina went to do a slut post to celebrate Diva's fall -LOLS!
Execution time! Justina holding a gun which will fire any second now...!

I did not fare well in keeping myself upright too. I fell quite a number of times. I'm not sure if any of them took a picture of me falling down though. I hope not! It will be so embarrassing. Hahas! Then, disaster striked, Diva fell down again and complained that he could not feel his hand! We were quite shocked when he said that because it could mean he's nerve is broken or worse, he's paralysed. Diva went to take a rest while me and Justina continued skating. I soon got used to skating and skated slowly but steadily. Actually not steadily, I fell down countless of times as I could not get used to the speed.

One important tip I want to give to you guys the next time you go ice skating. PLEASE wear LONG socks when going for ice skating. I wore the school socks (which was almost ankle length) that day and felt very very uncomfortable throughout the skating session. The shoe was rubbing against my skin and I could feel blisters sprouting out. My front part of my feet started to hurt halfway largely due to my inability to keep my skates perpendicular to the ground. It placed undue stress at the edge of my toe causing 3 blister to appear. In short, PLEASE WEAR PROPER LONG SOCKS when going for ice skating next time.

Justina and me could sense that Diva was very sad that he could not skate because of his injured wrist. He said it felt better but was still in pain. We felt bad for him as he paid so much money but he could not skate. He went back to the rink a few times but always stuck close to the sides. It was a pity he could not venture into the middle of the rink to join us. Then, a loud whistle blow was heard signalling that the ice rink shall be closed temporarily to allow the ice resurfacing machine to do it's job. It was rather entertaining watching it go round and round. The driver seems to be a woman driver, but she/he looks like a man too. He could be transsexual? Anyway, the machine even drifted on the ice a few times. Just like Initial D, only the 'car' isn't actually a car.

Wow! What huge tyres it has! Well, not huge tyres but I would say a huge bonnet.The alleged transsexual driving the drifting machine
The resurfacing took a 10 mins, which was 10 mins earlier than expected. So Justina and me skated till time is up and returned our skates. We went to 7-11 where Diva got baked beans and Justina got instant noodles as their tea break. As for me, a bottle of root beer was enough. On the way to the bus stop to take bus 16 back to Dhoby Gaught, Justina started playing with this road marker right in the middle of the road. We must look like some despos with nothing to play with. =.="

Justina: "My new bright yellow toy!"
Justina: "What's more, it matches with my T-shirt!"We went back to Plaza Sing to play arcade. They don't have Battlegear 4 which is my favourite arcade game. So I resorted to playing Initial D first. Then I joined Diva and Justina with Mario Carts. Mario Carts is one of the MOST UNREALISTIC game I've ever played. I'll explain why. In a normal game, when you brake, your car doesn't stop immediately, but in Mario Carts, a slight tap on the brake brings the car into an INSTANT STOP! Bloody hell, I lost my lead in the first corner because I am being realistic. But my realism cost me miserably. I learnt my lesson and the next corner, instead or braking, I merely released my accelerator pedal.

The sole act of releasing the accelerator pedal was not a problem. HOWEVER, the problem comes when I re-stepped the pedal. The car simply stopped on the track as it spins it's tyres on the spot. This sort of thing does not happen in real life unless you are driving on ice. And the track in Mario Cart is not icy, in fact I'm racing through a city. I really don't understand the physics of Mario Carts. Given my inability to understand the Mario's stupid and irrelevant law of physics, I lost to Diva. =.=" I learnt from him later that he did not even lift his accelerator pedal.

So I can only conclude one thing from Mario Karts. It is a game for kids who doesn't understand the difference between braking and accelerating. People who excel in Mario Karts will be terrible drivers in a realistic driving game. Unlike Mario Karts, you cannot simply floor the accelerator pedal at a corner in a realistic driving game like Battlegear 4 or Maximum Tune blah blah. A crash is inevitable. Nor will the car freeze on the race track when you tap on the brake pedal. If you want to know who real driving feels like, NEVER try Mario Karts. It is a great game for kids but it's a horrendous game for teenagers/adults.

Justina playing a horribly expensive shooting game which lasted 1 min =.=" A total waste of money!Diva winning the kiddy game - Mario Karts. Shows how much of a kid he is =) Then we spent our remain tokens on this very fun game, it's called 'spot the difference'. It may sound lame and simple, but I found it amusing and addictive. It is certainly better than Mario Karts and dare I say it - Initial D.

After arcade, I went to Daiso to buy myself a $2 pen knife for D&T (don't get the wrong idea). I really liked the design. It is in striking yellow and black stripes which makes it look fast and aggressive - just like a tiger, or a race car! After that Justina and Diva took the MRT home while I took bus 14 home from Penang Road. That bus stop has that electronic time table thingy. When I looked at the time of arrival for bus 14. It states 26 mins! WTH! 26 mins wait for a bus? What's worse is that it was 7pm - smack in the middle of evening rush hour.

I refused to believe the time table. I timed the arrival of bus 14 by myself, and god was that time table was accurate. The bus arrived in 27 mins 43 secs! Seriously, a world class city like S'pore should not have this kind of waiting times for a bus in the middle of evening rush hour. Unfortunately, unlike most other bus stops, the bus stop doesn't face the road, it only faces the MRT station and a small lane for the bus to pick up passengers. This means no car spotting and I had to wait an agonising 28 mins for the bus to arrive. Fortunately, I found a seat on the bus and reached home much later than I expected. Stupid bus. =.="

If you didn't get what I meant about the electronic time table, here is a picture of it. It was taken a month back. So obviously it doesn't show the 26 mins wait for bus 14.Jaguar XF
Nissan 200SX at Kallang Leisure MallThat's enough for this post. I will let you all in on a little secret. There will be a special post in June 2008. If you want to know what is the post all about, do stay tuned! Till then, try not to fall on the ice or risk not being able to type properly.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Holiday Classes

Sigh! Isn't it suppose to be the June holidays? But the school ruined our only time we can have proper rest with TONS AND TONS of holiday classes. 2 FULL weeks of holiday classes have been planned. The only saving grace for the holiday classes is that the hours that we have to attend lessons has been reduced. And proper attire is not needed. However, with that said, only T-shirts/shirts with the school name on it is allowed. =.=" Even the Straits Times published several articles about holiday classes affecting the students. Okok, I will stop ranting ok?

Anyway, the 1st week of the holiday classes was spent doing lots of D&T, namely assembling my artefacts for the O levels. There was also lots of POA and Physics lesson.

Went to play badminton with Haikal on Thursday only to find that the school hall was so bloddy occupied by those volleyball players. So we met up with Elsie and went across the street of Queenstown CC and paid $4 to book the hall for an hour. Somehow or rather, we met Xavier, Wee Liang and Clifton at the CC and we took turns playing badminton. The hall even has air con! However, due to the secret location of the air con switch, we could not turn the air con on and the air con was deemed useless. My China made plastic shuttlecock sent it's ball flying in all directions leaving only the plastic cock behind. Opps, that sounded wrong. LOL!


Xavier does his ballet dancing thingy

Xavier dance like he's in an Chinese wayang
Xavier and Clifton in a game of badmintonXavier bowing to me after that wonderful performance
Cy3lx 'wibing' ewww!
Nissan GT-R (R35) in a heavy downpourJaguar XF, a car with a super cool interior. Here's a video about the Jaguar XF, watch from 3:20 seconds onwards.
It shows the high tech gadgets inside the car, namely

- The motorised air con vents
- The pulsating "Engine Start" button
- The beautiful blue dashboard lights
- Touch sensitive buttons
- Finally, the raising rotary gear knob - Super COOL!

Remember, watch from 3 mins 20 secs onwards

That's all for this week's post. Here's a hint, there will be a special post in the next coming weeks, stay tuned! :)