Bad dining experience at Hog's Breath Cafe (Chijmes)

Went there for the first time wif my dear last night on Christmas eve and we took the Christmas eve package dinner. I was totally disappointed with the service hog's breath had given to us.. a very bad impression at our very first visit. First of all, the server didn't even know if we got our food yet. Moreover, the drinks weren't served until we asked for it. After finishing the appetizer, we waited for approx 1 hour plus for the main course to be served!! We were very upset, and the manager said that the kitchen jammed. I was wondering, there were this couple who came after us and they had their dessert already while we were still waiting for our main course! That was absurd! In addition, they also served us the wrong side dish and lastly our dessert that was supposed to be the Mississippi Mud Cake was suddenly changed to Apple crumble. They said the mud cake had been sold out. :s

Yeah, of course that ruined our mood and we lost our appetite alr. The food was average (perhaps it was biased.. due to very lousy service), but the atmosphere and ambiance were great. One thing I noticed missing was the table number. There were no table numbers at all! and perhaps that was the reason why the kitchen jammed......

I don't know whether the other branches' service is as lousy as this or not, but one thing for sure, I will dine at Hog's Breath no more.. that was really2 bad dining experience, and thanks for ruining our Christmas mood... =.=

We then attended the midnite mass at Cathedral of Good Shepherd, we didn't manage to get a seat thou. The mass was great, the ambiance, the choir, everything was great! May this Christmas bring joy and peace to the world :D

Merry Christmas everyone!

Holiday..

Not really a holiday for me.. yeah u know I gotta finish my FYP coz I don't have much time left. Good thing is, I got my "normal" life back, as in everyday I woke up at ard 930 in d morning, having my breakfast, went to lab until 6 o clock in d afternoon, having dinner, went back to hall and enjoying d rest of the nite :P that reminds me of the time when I was doing my internship.. one semester back. Next semester will be my last semester in NTU, happy or sad? Both actually.. all human being have insatiable desire.. I might be happy tat I have no more exams, stack of notes to be read, and lecture videos to be watched, but at d same time, it's kinda sad tat finally this is a goodbye to school life.. and youth life.. I decided to take my master degree after working for at least 2 years (some of the master degree programs required us to have at least 2 years of working exp). Have to sit for GRE too later.. At least 2 years w/o stack of notes, assignments, reports n .. u name it :P isn't tat good :P hahaha.. Working life might be more complicated, challenging, and perhaps interesting XD sounds good huh..

Haven't been invited for an itvw since Barcaps phone interview.. yeah, let's just put it this way, experience is what we get when we don't get what we wanted. Won't be so desperate tat I can't get a job, juz relax.. need not to rush .. GOD will show me which path I should follow.. (perhaps not investment banking as I thought :p) as long as I have a lil' faith.. and of coz some efforts in looking for a job, everything will be juz fine :)

Kind of sleepy now.. a serendipitous weather for sleeping.. -.- k .. juz relaxing myself for now..

im out..

Last one....

Tired.. one single word tat expresses my condition rite now.. hahaha.. I'm tired of studying!!! Wanna break freee... but sadly I won't be home for Christmas, doing my FYP huhuhu.. but I shud be grateful tat I can at least spend the Christmas eve with my dearie.. and perhaps with my sis on Christmas day itself. Yay! My parents are also coming at the end of this year and we will be celebrating the coming of year 2008 here in Spore! :D Another good thing to look forward to is, I'll have my PC upgraded soon! Don't have to wait til' graduation day as I mentioned in previous entry. :) Study hard and play harderrr !! Yeah tat's rite :)

Went to Changi airport yesterday (despite of my exam today XD) accompanying my dear as she went back to Indo yesterday hehe.. well, I miss her alr when I went back to NTU ^^;; (nt even a day :P) Can't wait for 17 Dec to come!! XD

Yeah, juz finished my second paper diz morning.. Thank GOD! :D will sit for my last paper on Friday and today I plan to mug wif Dela at either benches / library but now I still dun have mood of studying..

After exams.. wad to do? there should be loads of things to be done.. the first and foremost is.. my FYP of cozz.. the progress is damn slow, and I haf to catch up wif Venny; my partner, as she has finished her papers a few days ago and should have done stg :P.. followed by.. "spring cleaning" my room from all notes, papers, and everything tat won't be used anymore next sem.. next, which is also important, is to prepare my schedule for next semester as subjects registration starts earlier this sem.. (even before the exam results are out :P) Haf to choose two PEs for next sem.. decision decision and decision.. hopefully I have good decision then.

You know wad.. I have given up on my 8-months-old external hard disk.. since it couldn't boot up correctly and I think there must be stg stuck inside.. it's either the head problem or the motor was burnt out.. :( However, luckily it was still under warranty, so I brought the faulty HD to the dealer and expect to get a replacement in another 1 week time from now hueheu.. (diz Friday, it's 2 weeks alr) The bad thing was, I didn't manage to back up everything. I only managed to backup some but not everything.. wew.. yah.. no choice, it's better to get a replacement ASAP than waiting in an endless sorrow..

Tomorrow.. will always be a better day.. :)

-Im out-

Linkin Park LIVE in Singapore

Went to Linkin Park LIVE concert yesterday in S'pore Indoor Stadium wif my sista. Yeahh.. was damn crowded, damn noisy as well !!! It was LP mann.. no wonder perhaps everybody just felt soo excited XD Lemme share my story then..

Dropped at City Hall MRT and planned to take bus no. 16 to get there, it's just a few stops away from Raffles Hotel bus stop. Well, when I first reached the bus stop, I checked the SBSiris-next bus service wif my GPRS. It was stated 15 mins. Ok lor, I kept on waiting til' I realized I had waited for almost 30 mins alrd !! Wth.. I checked the SBSiris again and It was still 12 mins.. I was like wad the heck, ard 30 mins ago it was said that the bus would come in 15 mins, but after alm 30 mins it was still 12 mins.. so lamee hahaha.. I kept on waiting.. still... and eventually the bus came, BUT, it was soo damn crowded and the bus din stop... o_O" So fed up alr.. but I tried to be patient.. waiting for the next bus... and after it came, I pushed my self hard into the bus and told my self tat this time I should really go.. no more delay...

Upon arriving, the queue for free standing Pen A was soo damn loongg already.. (as I expected, that for free standing area, ppl should have queued 3/4 hours before... =.="), no choice I joined the queue.. heheh.. not bad, actually, I was still able to get good standing position.. XD. My sis was still on her way wif the same bus.. 16 !!! ... Once inside, I still had to wait for approximately an hour before the show begun. I was starving inside, hadn't had my dinner.. and thank God my sis brought some breads to satisfy the need of my shouting stomach.. Finally, the light was turned off.. and they were "awaken"... by the first song, Wake.. (you can always refer to my older entries (Part I here and Part II here) bout' LP's songs from their new album.. to know more..) Followed by Given Up .. the ppl around me started pushing me to many different directions.. felt like I was crushed from different directions... Luckily, from the third song onwards, no more crushing2 and pushing2 from many different directions.. I got tiny little space finally.. and was able to enjoy the whole performance! Yeahhhh tat was sooo damnn loud n noisy, crowded, and hottt hahah... yet fun !! Jumping up n down like crazy.. following the beat.. singing out loud (thou u can't hear ur own voice..). Overall... that was a great performance !! great LP !! but maybe next time I'd prefer to sit back and relax rather than standing and being crushed by others :P

Below are some pics from last nite show..















*anw.. tml is my first paper... wish me luck k ? ;)

im out...

Challenging week..

Yeah.. what's done is done..

sat for Credit Suisse aptitude test in SMU diz morning.. Well, the test wasn't tat hard anyway, it's just tat I wasn't fast enough to whack everything.. Perhaps.. I'm just not used to it.. hahaha.. Well, we were given 100 questions which should be finished in 50 minutes time.. in average, each question takes ard 0.5 mins (yeah, the truth was, some numeracy problems demanded more than 0.5 mins huhuhu). Too bad, I wasn't fast enough and thus I didn't manage to finish all the questions..

-> Juz wait.. time will tell.. Come wad may.. :)

Barclays capital's phone interview comes next.. this Thursday !! I feel so awkward wif tat Investment banking thingy.. Yeah, I've done an intensive research of coz.. but still.. hahaha.. Why investment banking? perhaps it's just an unexplainable passion :P Why Barclays? of coz because the starting salary *rolling eyes* :P hahahaa kidding2.. look beyond the salary.. what lies ahead.. your future... I heard it once: "Money will come to you if you are passionate enough with what you are currently doing.." haha.. stg lyk tat..

-> Wish me luck k ? :)

*still reading some articles abt current Asia market conditions @.@

-Im out-

Sunshine after rain ? XD

Hoho.. as you may realize tat it was raining almost the whole day yesterday.. and as you can see, today is brighter than yesterday.... The good thing is, Barclays finally invited me to the phone interview stage LOLz.. yokattaaaa nee.. It's on 25 Oct, Thursday next week at 13.30 (UK Time) LOLz.. I din even know that the time slot is in UK Time until I got the confirmation email hahaha.. they din state there when I was choosing the time slot weww.. So, 13.30 UK time is supposed to be around 20.30 here in Spore ^^;; hahaha so late :P luckily I din choose 16.00 haaha.. sooo latee alr.. XD

What to do today ? erm.. of course continuing the training of tat 20 stupid artificial neurons.. You want to know more? I'll associate it wif "students" den, so it's easier for you to digest XD Now imagine you are trained with 12000 maths problems and tested with 6000 questions. LOLz.. huahahaa this is what really happening here at the Learning and Validation stage. hahahaz I train the neurons using 12000 data and validate them with 6000 or so data. Root Mean Square Error is then calculated to get the "grade" of tat particular neuron XD I'll pick the top three "students" to go for another training, namely Testing stage wew.. and those three neurons have to undergo training with 18000 or so data, and tested wif 2000 or so data.. The winning neuron is the neuron wif the smallest RMS Error Hahaha.. Now you know how tedious it is... wew.. haha XD

Perhaps.. tonite I'll go mugging at Canteen A (as usual :P) .....

-em out-

Savoring the flavor of final year...

Aaaaaargh its d end of week 9 alreaddyyyy... And.. recess week was too fast to be savored bit by bit... Haha.. I only managed to revise few things during recess week (well, maybe I shud be grateful alr :P) and do Comp Archi assignment, due on 1 Oct. My FYP (Finding Your Partner Final Year Project) progression is damn slow! No idea, my supervisor is kinda slack too, but of course I can't follow his example :P Slacking will ruin my FYP for sure o.O" and I don't wan that to happen XD How about pestering him ? Yeah, we have done that, and we decided to do the FYP in an "unsupervised" manner, meaning nt too dependent on him hahaha.. Now that we have finished the input part and have sent him the algorithm for our next step last week, he hasn't replied til' now.. weww.. We plan to integrate our code by ourself, according to our own algorithm XD

Sigh.. all assignments due in ard 2-3 weeks time and diz Neural networks assignment demands almost my whole day to finish each training of neurons wew.. very2 tedious one.. By week 12, all assignments should have been submitted :D and I can focus more on my exams. My first (and the hardest as well) paper is on 15 Nov and coincidentally on 13 Nov there will be Linkin Park LIVE Concert! I wanna watch them LIVE !! Haven't bought the ticket thou.. heuheue.. Phew, need to prepare the paper first of coz..

Job hunting? Yeah I've applied for 7 companies (all of them are investment bankings LOLz) in total and currently waiting for the invitation for interview. All online tests required in order to be considered for interview have also been completed.. facing some problems thou.. When I have finished the Barclay's online numeracy test, the system wasn't able to retrieve the test result, hence I din know whether I was qualified for the next stage of online test or nt. It was 8 Oct, and the deadline for the test was 9 Oct (5 days after I submitted the app form).. Heck! I have emailed the technical support ppl, asking for assistance but I have never received any reply from them until yesterday (11 Oct and obviously I was late), they finally replied me and told me tat the result for the numeracy was ready. Fortunately, I was qualified to take the verbal test and in d end my application was still under consideration, meaning I have successfully completed all online testings and waiting for the phone interview invitation. Hopefully my application is really under their consideration, thou I was late in finishing the test..

Last week, me and Jaq were having our dinner at Canteen 4 and planned to go back to hall with shuttle bus. The funny thing was, when we walked to the bus stop, there was this one bus passed us by and we thot it was the last shuttle bus (it was ard 9pm alr). We ran for the bus and finally managed to get in. Once we have sat down, the conductor mumbled stg about JP and suddenly we realized that we took the wrong bus !! Hahaha... so stupid LOLz :P we had to pay of coz, it's nt a free shuttle to JP anyway o_O Well, actually it's quite cheap compared to SBS transit but the thing was we din need to go to JP at all hahaaha.. In d end, we met up wif Dela and had a chat in Kopitiam while eating desserts.

One long entry huh.. hehe.. Thank God it's weekend.. but I got loads of things to be done T_T hueheue..


-I'm out-
"savoring the weekend.."

New face..

Yes, my desktop got new face... hohoho.. if you notice from the picture, my LCD has been changed.. Last Friday my 4-year old LCD was suddenly black out and kept on blinking afterwards.. I thot the problem was with my CPU or VGA Card (I was like "again ?? the heck..") but I was wrong.. It was the LCD itself this time wewww.. (I wonder why recently my PC always got problem one.. T_T). I asked my daddy whether I should buy the new one or just have it repaired.. Well, my dad just asked me to buy the new one in d end ^^;; hohoho.. luckily, there was COMEX (computer exhibition) @ Suntec in which IT stuffs are sold in discounted price.

I was rushing there on Saturday, since I was planning to go to church as well. Finally, I bought black 19" LG LCD. hohoh.. nice one.. XD Haizz.. another unexpected expenses T_T Yeah, but no choice man.. without computer I can do nothin' which means I can't do my FYP as well.. huhuhu..
I'm planning to upgrade my PC once I have graduated from NTU (which is next year.. hopefully hahaa XD) so.. juz hold on my dear processor.. just another one year man before an endless dormancy for u.. hahhaha..

No more sorrow... hopefully...

It started with a sore throat.. assumed as one of flu symptoms.. then my irritating asthma came (yeah juz a symptom anyway...). I didn't feel well that time.. wew... including the time when we had to set up benches the nite before, for Geben on Wed, 15 Aug. On the day itself, the most destructive disaster (err.. perhaps it's exaggerated too much :P) happened.. Geben ended nicely, except that my nokia-6280's LCD was broken! =.=" I guess, it was crushed by the edge of the bench when I was moving them to their original position T_T I wonder.. how hard it was.. =.= I'm using Erikson's N70 til' now.. wew..

The other problem was.. on Friday night, when I was doing remote desktop to my PC, suddenly the connection lost. I guessed correctly that my PC was restarting by itself .. over and over again.. (well actually it had happened a few times before...). I asked my roommate to turn it off for a while before turning it on again. Yeah finally it was turned on again and was able to load the windows, but no internet access since then.. wewww.. I got headache .. T_T I decided to turn it off that whole night... and the next day, after woke up, I tried powering it on again but it wasn't able to even boot the windows and it kept on restarting by itself.. Haizz..

I had no time that day to troubleshoot my PC thoroughly, coz I had to go to Nokia Center to have my handphone serviced.. yeah.. and finally on Sunday I found the problem! It was power supply problem.. again.. so haizzz.. Bought new power supply and installed it right away.. However, no internet access still.. I was like.. wth... =.=" I emailed CITS and got the reply this morning.. then in the afternoon CITS called me and the problem solved in an instant! hahaah.. phew..

I don't expect any more sorrowww .... I have enough... no more sorrow pleaseee.. huehue.. Yeah juz wish me luck k ? hahaha.. I will get my handphone back this Wednesday.. hopefully every thing will back to normal...

Morale of the story: be very careful of yourself man.. Sometimes accident happens at the time you expect it the least..

*FYP progress --> Week 3 - Learning AJAX from zero... *

Broken guitar....

Yeah, IndoSupper was a great success.. thou here and there still got some flaws, yeah nobody's perfect eniwei XD hihihi.. del'Dante went thru the first song (Mengenangmu by Kerispatih) smoothly.. and when the second song (Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya by del'Dante) started, I felt an emotional arousal.. since the song is created and arranged by our very own band... XD In the middle of the second song, suddenly one of my guitar's strings broke.. O.o" perhaps I was playing with too much excitement.. ^^;; weww.. soo embarrassing... but I kept on playing and I was relieved nobody noticed... til I returned to the tribune.. heuheu..


Haizz... gotta buy a new set of strings then... huhuh.. can't play til' it is fixed.. T_T hueheue... I actually will have it fixed, not only the strings, but also to narrow the gap between strings and fretboard (if it's still even possible..) hueheue..

Below are some photos from IndoSupper








Well done del'Dante ! hoho.. :D

1st day of school = skip the 1st lecture

Yoshhh.. finally the school is restarted! (Am i suppose to be happy ? o.O) hahaaha.. Well, the very first day in AY 2007-2008, which my last year in NTU, is started with a lecture skip :P LOLz.. Wahlew.. I dunno wad happened wif my stupid alarm, suddenly it stopped and well thanks for waking me up at 8.39 this morning.. =.=" hahah.. Of coz im soooo latee mann.. hahaa.. Wad can I do, I was thinking, If I pushed myself to attend the lecture (which is most prob still an intro) I would arrive at ard 10 mins before the lesson ended.. =.=" So.. I just went to bed again til 10am XD hahaha..

Yeah, of coz Im not gonna skip the other lesson today.. which was at 1130am. Well, actually nothin' much la for today.. just a simple introduction to the course.. hmm.. and finally decision to take CPE422 - Neural Networks this sem. hohoho.. Yeah, I think this subject is quite interesting to be taken, moreover the lecturer has successfully delivered the lecture with full of friendliness.. XD

Again.. today Im selling the Duck Rice Race tickets on behalf of SCS (Singapore Computer Society) for charity, wif some CEC fellows. haizz.. so boring.. =.=" hahaha.. haf to knock each professor's door and pleading for their generosity.. yah some harsh comments were received too.. ^^;; but hey.. if you are interested with the Duck Race, just gimme a call, sms, msn, or enithing else.. :P

Yoshh.. del'Dante's special project (yeah juz call it lyk tat :P) will perform on IndoSupper tomorrow! hahaah.. It is called del'Capede.. :P LOLz (inspired by a Japanese band, Depapepe). We'll be performing (censored) songs which are (censored) wakakaa.. So not fun if I let you all know today wkwkwkwk.. just come to find out, seat back, relax and enjoy the show.. :P Gonna practice shortly.. still waiting for the others to come...

-= I'm out =-

Crazy buffet XD

Yosh, actually it's just an ordinary day til' we had our crazy buffet.. I went to church wif jaq at noon.. and after that we actually planned to have our brunch at Westmall.. Yeah that's when the "disaster" began.. LOLz.. I was actually craving for Sakae buffet, but unfortunately the buffet is not available today.. T_T Phew.. but we saw another buffet promotion just beside Sakae Sushi, it was on Bali Thai restaurant.. hahaha.. After short discussion, we decided to have the buffet there.

At the beginning, we were full of excitement since.. yeah we were starving! hahahaz.. We ordered 6 dishes at once.. We thought that was enough for our first round.. The funny thing was, when all the dishes were served, our table was already full of it! and it was like we haven't eaten for several days already wkwkwkwk.. XD Yeah, no choice, we juz ate and ate.. and several minutes later the servant came and asked us for our last order for the buffet.. We were like.. "shoot.. what time is it now?" shortly we knew that the buffet time is only til' 2.30pm.. but it is NOT stated there.. phew.. haha.. We ordered another 7 dishes for our second as well as our last round and asked them to serve it later since no space there in our table :P A minute later, I ordered another 2 sets of chicken Satay.. so in total, we had 15 dishes! XD wkwkw.. so crazyyy..

So here is our crazy buffet menu.. XD

1 set of tahu telur, 3 sets of Maduranese chicken satay, 1 set of sambal kangkong, 1 set of pandan chicken, 1 set of pad thai, 1 set of soto ayam, 1 set of green curry chicken, 1 set of beef rendang, 1 set of fish with thai-style chili sauce, 1 set of kailan with oyster sauce, 1 set of sambal sotong, 1 set of mango salad, and finally 1 set of spring roll.

Phew.. in the end we were super duper bloated.. (fortunately I din puke on the spot -.-) It was hard for me to even walk.. LOLz.. wkwkwk.. yeah... I dun feel like eating til' tml.. maybe.. hahaha...

Fragile...

Haf you ever felt lyk "cursing" every single lil' thing...?
Haf you ever felt you are the worst...?
Haf you ever felt so sensitive...?

at least.. I do have..

So fragile.. what's wrong wif me lately? I wonder... Well, I hate this kind of feelings, but I can't stop it from entering my body n soul.. It's just.. different.. It's not me..

Dun let me fall any deeper.....

Maybe I'm just tired..

Juz simply... untitled..

Hoho.. recently, I was so addicted to Audition SEA.. phew.. It's an online dance game that similar to any other dance games that need us to follow the direction of arrows in order to score. Haha.. quite silly actually to be addicted to this kind of game hahahaz.. Yah, for the sake of time killing.. especially when I just woke up from my very2 deep sleep XD LOLz.. hihihi.. Well, I guess the addiction has ended.. hahaa.. Dun feel like playing tat game anymore.. :P (hmm.. one good thing from the game is that there are some ear-catchy songs, juz to pamper your ears maybe.. XD)

Yosh, the Convocation period (23-27 July 2007) has begun.. hoho.. Free meals for the whole 5 days! LOLz.. *oops.. hahhaha.. Congratulations for Class 0f 2007! I've attended three Convocation ceremonies since first year.. :P and the last Convocation that I will be attending, which is next year.. will be my OWN Convocation ceremony! Yay! One more year!... I can't wait til' that time comes.. phew.. hahaa.. Haf to pass another full-of-struggling and stressful year.. diz is final year! hahhaa.. But I know that I'll be fine, I'm doing fine so far.. (wad? The new semester hasn't even started yet :P LOLz) Ya, what I can think about right now is to give my best shot in this final year... yeah, I shud give my BEST shot! hahaha.. That's the spirit!

Well, spirit alone is not enough without "willingness" from the heart to diligently attending every lecture... LOLzz.. XD This life is surely full of hardiness and obstacles.. still no one can skip this life.. juz let everything flow.. :D Aaaa enuf crapping :P hahaha..

Haf a great day everyone!

Yosh...

Yoshh.. finally.. I'm here in Hall 16 XD haha.. Well, the actual moving progress from Hall 3 was on Thursday 12 June, nt on Wed as I stated earlier.. haha.. Raymond's stuffs needs to be moved out first before I'm able to move in.. yeah and on Wed 11 June I helped him moving out some stuffs to his new room on the third floor.. And the day after... at ard noon, I started moving out my stuffs to Hall 16.. wew.. that was a very tiring day! I couldn't stop sneezing.. phew.. I'm very2 sensitive to dust... hahaha... just realized that in my old single room, the dust are everywhere :P especially when I reached out under the bed and table :P LOLz *oops* it's not that I'm lazy to clean my room up.. XD haha..

Yosh, after so much pain in moving all my stuffs out (I also just realized that my belongings are that many.. wew..) finally at ard 10pm I managed to finish everything.. Phew.. What an exhausting day.. hahahaha.. but, well the new room is worth all the pain and efforts I have made.. LOLz.. XD

FYP... aaarrgh.. that so-difficult-to-understand papers.. o_O Must tahan.. or condition myself as "critical" as possible so that MESTAKUNG happens :P.. MESTAKUNG; a theory taken from a book by Yohanes Surya; is an abbreviation from Semesta Mendukung, which explains that under critical condition, there will be some kind of force to naturally get us out from that critical condition. For example, if your assignment's deadline is just around the corner, and you haven't done all your preparation, you'll push your body and mind to work it out til late nite, and unconsciously all the creative thinking will flow like a river in finishing that assignment... Well I dunno whether this theory correct or not.. XD but what I know for sure, this theory will help you a lot to motivate yourself in everything you do in your life.. hahaha

All the bez for ya all !! :D

Back in Spore...

Well, I know perhaps its kinda late to post diz entry now.. :P LOLz.. I've been 3 days already here in Spore.. and as usual.. time flows so fast.. today is time to move out from Hall 3! hahaha.. Hopefully everything flows smoothly and can be finished in one day :P... Now I'm still waiting for Raymond to come back.. XD

FYP preparation? hmm.. I just emailed my supervisor "si Boss" and arranged a meeting with him on 15 July onwards (well he's still having conference overseas til' 15 July LOLz).. Hmm.. other than that, I've printed all reading materials (wew.. that super-difficult-to-understand papers..) and binded them but reluctant to read it til' now wakakaka.. :P aaaarrgh.. Holidae mood is still in the air.. wew.. hahaa.


I'm out... slacking2.. XD

The Cape of Frog

Yosh.. enjoy these photos from The Cape of Frog LOLz.. XD


The entrance..


Some fishermen's boats... ;)


The frog-like rock :P ..


See that ray of lights from heaven ? :P LOLz


A journey to "world's end" LOLz


The small lighthouse...


"Don't JUMP over the fence !!" XD


The theme park..


Silhouette...


A cloudy sunset..

Pohsarang

Below are some photos from Pohsarang.. Enjoy! :)


Paddy field nearby...


The church (multifunction hall)


The 'cave' itself... :)


6th Station of The Cross : Veronica Wipes The Face of Jesus


7th Station of The Cross : Jesus Falls The Second Time


8th Station of The Cross : Jesus Meets The Women From Jerusalem


13th Station of The Cross : Jesus is Taken Down From The Cross


14th Station of The Cross : Jesus is Laid in The Tomb


An endless path... :P


The marketplace.... ;)


An endless staircase... :P

InDo iNdo IndO

Yosh.. almost one week already here in Indonesia.. and... yeah this stupid asthma stroke me again.. =.=" swetee... phew.. not that bad actually.. yeah.. hopefully by the end of this week, that stupid mucus will be all gone..

I lurve Indonesian foods so much hahahaz! I've been bored of NTU canteens' foods wew.. hahha.. I tried soto ayam, Cianjur-style roasted fish (Ikan bakar Cianjur), tahu telor, gado2, pecel..etc.. :P (yeah I write them in their native lang.. ^^) LOLz.. I hope I dun make you all drool to your knees (esp for all of you who haven't gone back home yet.. XD peaceeee) :P LOLz..

The first week in Indonesia, nothing much happened.. We just went out (regardless of my sickness :P) to Pohsarang, a holy Saint Mary cave situated in Kediri East Java, and went to Tanjung Kodok (Cape of Frog) situated near the city of Tuban East Java .. well it is called like that coz some of the reefs there look like a frog :P XD Actually it was my sis who needed some ideas for her drawings and perhaps the sea is the best place to accumulate ideas.. hehe dunno.. :P I'll post some photos in the entries that follow. Enjoy it hohoho.. Yosh, I still have two more weeks before my departure back to Sg.. haizz.. Back to 'hectic' school life again.. It's final year man! hohoho... I haven't finalized my timetable as well.. huhu.. The registration day will be on this coming Monday.. I have only few days to finalize it.. Sure, I'll finalize it very2 soon... :) no worries.. hehehe..

Enjoy your holz pals! :D

del'Dante Fifth Meeting @ Beat Merchants Studio (14 June 2007)

Yay! It's our fifth meeting already ! hohoho.. Finally we were able to go outside for a studio (thou the studio was not the best studio I've ever seen :P ) hahaah.. We still prefer the Cultural Activities Room @ hall 16 to this studio thou.. XD However, the drum was a very2 nice one actually! hahaha... We played our 2 original songs, Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya and Akhirnya Ku Sadar... but we only recorded Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya since the other song was kinda messy.. We made a recording two times LOLz hahaahz.. Nice one.. (thou after conversion to mpg video, the sound esp the vocal can't come out clearly huhuhu).

After the practice, we had our dinner at Food Junction, Bugis.. hohoho.. den we went to Dela's "secret" place, Starbucks @ One Fullerton LOLz hahaha.. Unfortunately, Davin couldn't join us since he had to wake up early for Professional Attachment on the next day.. So only me, Raymond, Johan, and our boss Dela left :P There, we were gj-ing hahaha.. playing truth or dare but most of the time it was Dela who bullied to answer all the questions.. :P That place was actually a very cozy place to sit back, relax, and have a chat hehehe.. Yes, the ambience was great XD Anyway, the funny thing was, we (Edmond, Raymond, and Johan) sang the boyband version of Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya LOLz XD wakakaka.. Well, actually we dedicated the song for Dela hahaha.. accompanying her story :P yeah, Dela shared her story about her love life yesterday.. hohoho.. yosh.. you know wad Del, you haf to move on k? hohoho.. and we glad that you finally made it thru the rain.. :) hohoho.. Gratzz. XD hahaah..

Yeah, you can say that probably we are the narcist-est band of musicians XD LOLzz ahahaha.. We took loads of photos on the bridge near Fullerton Hotel.. with Esplanade in background hahahaa.. LOLz.. We had great times there! Taking photos like mad already wakakakaa.. :P We will keep these photos in our memory.. memory of our band.. of our togetherness.. :) That was a very great nite! hohoho.. Well done everybody! XD




reaching for the stars....


the boyband..




someday.. we will fly together...

Welcome to [Sechzehn] hohoho..

Yosh.. HOLA (Hall Online Application) results were out on Friday, and finally I got the room that I wanted! hohoho.. Our plan succeeded! (please refer to this entry :P) Hahaha.. Raymond got a single room on level 3, Jordan got his current single room, and I got Raymond's current room, with Ong as my roomie (again... XD). hohoho :D Well, I realized that some failed to get their choice of halls (even some ppl who tried to retain their current room were also dumped out... =.=").. haizz.. I also heard that 6 out of 16 JCRC presidents din get their choice of rooms... :s I guess HAS (Hall Allocation Scheme) is still incomplete, and perhaps hasn't been tested and gone thru' pilot run thoroughly.. =.=" (It was said that ppl who retained their current room would have priority among others who applied that room) What a weird system.. However, most final year students (in AY 2007-2008, which is the coming AY) got their choice of rooms.. I think final year students have some kind of priority or sumthin' phew... I dunno.. It's their job (SAO ppl) to review the current HAS after the allocation results... to develop a better system next year.. (thou actually im 'out' already next year :P LOLz)

8 June 2007

ACCOMMODATION IN HALL FOR AY2007/08

I am pleased to offer you admission into the Hall of Residence 16 for the academic year 2007/08 beginning 6 August 2007. The room is 16A-05-14. Hall and room allocations are processed by the computerised HAS.

hohoho... Thanks Lord for everything You have given to me.. :)

del'Dante Fourth Meeting @ Hall 16's Cultural Activities Room

Hohoho.. That was a very great practice.. I guess.. :P Finally we could practice in the so-called 'studio' hahaah.. We were practicing our two original songs, which are Akhirnya Ku Sadar and Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya in full band version hahaaha.. The current line up is.. Davin and Dela as vocalists, Ray as bassist, Johan aka Jon as keyboardist, and me as drummer :P (Sony was absent that day, but surely he will be our guitarist) wakakaka.. Yeah, I think I haf to practice the drum again.. hehehe... Still a lil' bit messy here and there.. The two songs were video-ed yesterday :P haha.. but for personal view only.. LOLz XD hahahaha.. We rearranged the two songs into the full band version hohoho.. nice one, great job everyone! Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya is kinda mellow.. still.. and Akhirnya Ku Sadar is kinda upbeat and more cheerful XD Anyway, a big thanx to Rica for the key to the studio as well as the drum stick, and Sam for the semi-acoustic guitar :D Can't wait for the next practice on Thursday.. Thank you everybody ! ^^ Below are some pictures taken on Friday :D

Last Day of IA !!

Hohoho.. finally.. the day that I've waited for since December 2006.. :P hahha.. Yosh! Today is my last day of internship with Datacraft! hahaah.. Nothin' much to do today, yeah, as always.. XD having lunch with my colleagues including my supervisor, and was treated by him! hahaah.. Hontouni arigatou ne.. :) As a token of appreciation and gratitude, I gave him a Parker pen.. bought yesterday haha.. Well, I learned a lot too during this 22 weeks of IA period.. Thanx to Datacraft for giving me such opportunities..

Yosh, what do I do after this? hahha.. plan plan plan! I have 1 week before my departure to Indo hahaha.. del'Dante fourth meeting is tonight and fifth meeting will be on Thursday next week XD Hopefully we can practice well tonite.. :) We have 2 singles already :P the second single titled Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya by Dela (lyricist and music arranger) hohoho.. Nice song, yet another mellow song by Dela. Well, we will re-arrange it for full band version..

Still waiting for hostel allocation results! Haizz.. I can't wait to put sechzehn tag again in my MSN nickname :P :P hahhaa.. LOLzz...

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del'Dante 3rd Meeting

Yeah.. It started a lil' bit 'late'.. hahaha.. We played 2 songs basically, Akhir Rasa Ini by Samson (me and Dela's favorite :P) and Kejujuran Hati by Kerispatih (as requested by Raymond XD) hohoho.. Well, actually the song choices haven't come out yet, but Dela knew for certain that all the songs are Indonesian band songs. First we played Kejujuran Hati, it took a while til' everyone knew how the song is, and how to sing it :P hohoho.. In the end, we can play it quite well actually hohoho.. thou it sounds different from the original one (yeah, it MUST be different, no point of copying) XD

Second, we played Akhir Rasa Ini, yeah my favourite.. We tried to arrange the song by ourself.. and the temp line up for this song is Dela and Davin as vocalists, me as rhythm guitarist, Jon aka Johan as bassist and Ray as Keyboardist.. where's the drummer?? haha yeah, no drum set can be used at that moment anyway.. hahaha LOLz.. After a while, we planned to book a studio for our next practice to have a drum set to be played, so that we can practice several songs in 'full band' version hohoho.. The GREAT thing was, del'Dante finally has a single! hahaha.. Jon played the demo version of the song yesterday.. All credits goes to Johan (Music arranger) and Adela (Lyricist) XD hahaha.. I kinda like the melody, esp in pre-chorus and chorus parts! hahaha.. great job Jon! The title is.. Akhirnya Ku Sadar hohoho.. :P XD Juz wait til' we play it in full band version wakakakak..

I din know what it was called, but it was some kind of 'luck' maybe :P Rica sms-ed Raymond and asked him to do a sound check in Hall 16's Cultural Activities Room. Yeah, Hall 16 has new instruments for its band there. hohoho.. and the good thing is, there's a drum set! hahaha.. But, guitars are not there yet, so Ray had to bring his own bass guitar and I brought my own acoustic guitar down.. (so sad, my guitar can't be plugged to the amplifier.. ). I tried playing drum again yesterday, and I kinda feel bad.. not so good.. hahaha.. It's been so long since last time I played it.. haf to practice again if it is decided that I haf to play drum :P XD We played several songs down there, like Akhir Rasa Ini, I Will Survive, Naek Delman (I will survive version :P), Bukan Pujangga, Bila Nanti... etc.. :P

Below are some pictures taken yesterday (in Raymond's room.. again :P LOLz a big thanx for Ong and Raymond *again* for their room XD)