Nissan Sunny Zhng-ed

Ok, so i must admit. I have been quite interested in cars recently... what with all the Engine/combustion and stuff i learn in camp everyday... i'd say that yes, this vocation i've received is indeed better than nothing... i learn about engine systems, lubrication, braking, steering... basically the works of a car... and i am getting interested in how i can up a car's motor or what nots. :)

so on the way back from the poly clinic today [i'll explain that later] i was thinking to myself if i could zhng my car, what would i do... so here you are, my little version of Nissan Sunny ZHNG-ED!



I kinda like the work i did on it. the spoiler and the scoop at the front look quite professionally done.. the lowering of the car was also a piece of work i'm kinda happy that it turned out nicely. like it was there in the original pic. haha... but i dun like the body kit la.. dun think it integrates well with the original car.. but i tried hard to get the right size and color. :)

haha i know it's nuthing much. jus decided to throw in some extra parts here and there... of course this is just the exterior... but with xenon headlights, a revved up engine and a thumping stereo system, this normal baby could turn heads. :) surely just a dream.. but still quite cool. haha...

ok so i was bored. sue me.

i'm currently on AttendC... that means i'm sick.. at home.. diarrhoea... sianz... haha yeh, feel gross can. but hey, i'm glad i'm resting.

Ayer Rajah Technician

Sourced from somewhere else. picture not taken by me.


Wootz... so the first week has gone by and i've had a taste of being a technician at Ayer Rajah. :) it seems quite ok so far. it's like taking a diploma in Engineering. :) but actually, when i finish my course in 3 months, i'll be certified to operate... to maintain a car and stuff. they say it's like a NITEC... ITE cert... interesting.

anyways, it's like we report to work, oh i'm the Shutter IC so i gotta raise and lower the metal shutters everyday... yeh so we report to work and then after the first parade, we go to our classrooms and we study for the day... we learn from this thing called CBT which stands for Computer Based Learning...

K, to cut a long story short and to make sure i dun divulge any secrets, i am having a good life in camp now... it's like studying in sch... jus that we dun march to the canteen in sch nor do we all wear a uniform. haha... yeh but it's like a daily routine would be...

reach camp, have our first roll call, go to class and have lessons till 9plus, go for tea break. then class till 11.30, lunch, then class in the workshop till 2plus, tea break... then back to workshop for classes till 5. area cleaning and then go home... see. told ya i have a really good life... lots of breaks..

so far the hardest thing i've had to do is to stay awake when instructors are talkin or when we're supposed to study in front of the com. very sehhhh. :P

yeh, today the Oasis started its operations proper... it's like a rest room, a lounge for the trainees to just relax in and have fun during their break time. there are 2 pool tables, a table tennis table, 2 caram boards and a few [10?] computers to use to play games or surf the net... so it was quite cool la... so far, welfare is UP manz... haha. :)

yuppers, so week 2 is starting and i'm glad everything's going good so far. had a nice enlightening chat with meliza last nite that kinda set my mind on a few things that i'll continue to think bout over the next few days. just glad that God's working in the different polys too. :) Amen.

Back from Bangkok!

Sawatdeekhrap!!! Heh... i'm finally back from Thailand, Bangkok! :) Okok, so i wasn't gone for very long, 3 days.. but still it was a big thing to me... holiday during my NS block leave... now how fun is that ok!! :)

Photos will have to wait as i just reached back today and rachel is still getting the photos uploaded and sent soon. :) but yeh, here's a brief run down of the holiday without photos. :) I journalled during everyday so dun worry.

Day 1 - Tuesday 12th Sept 2006
Woo! woke up quite late. Then was rushed to the airport coz i was like, late to check in. After chionging to the airport in a cab [the cab driver was really friendly and nice] I sat in T1 waiting for debz and jay. We boarded the plane at it was real exciting flying. I guess you can say that i'm deprived but i was really glad to fly. Then the plane flew over Tekong and i could help but feel a sense of thrill in me. Every day in Tekong whenever i saw a plane fly overhead, i'd wish so much i was in one of them... and i finally was! :P
Anyhow, the ride was uneventful. talked and "Himbo"-ed with Jay till Debz almost killed us. After safely landing and meeting up with Rachel, we got into our transport to send us to the hotel. After checking in and taking some pics of the awesomely nice room we had, we dropped our stuff and headed out for SPECS! I made my like, 4th pair.. ok so i'm crazy but... THEY'RE TRANSITIONAL LENSES!!! that means when i go out into the sun, my vampire glasses auto change to tinted lenses. :) it cost me a bomb, but a really much much smaller bomb than if i did it in spore... so i had to. :) the frame super branded too. haha levis. lolz. okok so i'm mad. :)
Debz and Rach made a pair too. spent half of my cash there la. my specs came up to about S$180 heh...
We had our first thai meal right after that. Road side Pad Thai... pad thai is like... char kway tiao... dun worry, there's pics... just not yet. :) Not bad... quite nice and.. cool that we were jus sitting at the road side eating while cars and buses whizz past...
After that, we went to reccee the MBK shopping centre... MBK stands for.. Mah Boon Krong... let's get the real spelling... ooo i was right. :) anyways, it's a huge shopping mall. and i love it to bits. So after looking around, jason and i had our eyes set on quite a few items already. Just waiting for the next day to buy them all. haha...
We met up with Jay's friend... Nat... will show ya a pic of her when i get the pics but she's a really nice sweet looking girl. Tall... but yet still a very good height. Elegant and i think she carries herself very well... reminds me of my sister a bit though... the way she's able to laugh and yet still remain quite composed. :) anyways, she was really invaluable... whenever we order food, we count on her and her thai expertise to save us from possible sticky [and i'm not talkin bout the rice] situations.
After window shopping, we ended up at a place that served tomyam and stuff... it was quite ok too la.. but didn't really think the food was smashingly nice.. jus, different. :)
Now, this is the interesting part... we came back to the foot massage place near the hotel and i had a foot massage done.. wahhh quite ok la.. relaxing and soothing.. but yet still weird... pain sumtimes, and it left me achy... but it was cool to do it once la... my guy was quite good... gentle and firm when it was needed... so i think i got quite a good deal. haha...

Day 2 - Wednesday 13th Sept 2006
Shopping day! Woke up to a vert nice wide spread of breakfast buffet. Eggs, danish pastries, ham, sausages, bacon, toast, juice... :) so after satisfying our stomachs, we headed out to empty our pockets. The girls went to Robinsons at the south of bangkok while the guys [jay and i] just went ballistic in MBK. Jay spent $3790B on stuff and i spent a total of $2800B. That's about almost S$120. :) i bought a dress jacket, a sweater... oh... i can't tell ya what i bought coz most of them are gifts.. but yeh, bought lots of stuff. :) Retail theraphy is SO shiok lor. felt so high after the shopping. It was real fun spending money i guess since everything was so cheap.
The rest of the day was pretty ok, uneventful. Met up with Nat again but this time, we had 3 more friends... debbie's frens [Grand, Pan and Jumbo]... we had Jap at this place called "Fuji"... it was SO NICE lor.. cheap and good... salmon belly sashimi... wow... really shiok. Oh, must tell you, there was this shop in Siam Paragon that is so cool. it's called "True". it's like a super designer place la... the internet terminals are like "Matrix" console controllers... they have really cool music playing in the shop and it's divided into 3 parts... one is the cyber cafe, music CD [jazz, fashion...] and designer books... the other section is dedicated to gadgets of technology like handphones, cameras, lenses... and the last section is the chilling section where you can use your ipod to listen to songs with their dome speakers... super cool place... really. :)
After that, we went to the night market to look see for stuff... it wasn't too smashing unless you're lookin for like trinkets and cute little stuff to buy that shouts "Thailand!"... not what i was looking for.. so yeh, wasted a trip there.. but it was still a cool experience seeing ang-mohs haggling the price down.

Day 3 - Thursday 14th Sept 2006
Woke up today but didn't really feel rejuvenated.. dunno why. We had our wonderful breakfast again and met up with our tour guide, Mr. Smith, who took us to the floating market. We had our own car and all for just $500B each... that's like S$20!... on the way, while the rest slept in the back, i spoke to mr. smith and talked to him about all sorts of stuff. he told me about the kings of thailand, the places we drove past and other stuff. Really nice man who reminded me of Uncle Alfred quite a bit... i think it's the way he wears his hair and clothes style. :P
So after the 1 and a 1/2 hour ride, we took this sampan like boat that took us thru the water area... lane which is lined with villagers living on like, kampongs on stilts.. it was really interesting seeing how they live. the river water is so dirty.. yet you see them cleaning clothes, cooking and stuff with it la... the ride thru was cool though... but once we reached the main touristy area, it got kinda boring coz the stuff there wasn't wad i was looking for. we ended up browsing and having pad thai. haha. we ordered across the river and this other lady who was selling coconut helped us collect it with her sampan. she was so nice. haha.
so we left and went to the hotel to pick up our glasses. love mine. They really change color when i go out in the sun. super zhai la. :) funky. ANYWAYS...
after we got our specs we headed out for the 2nd half of our 'tour the sights' day...
We made our way via sky train to the Chao Phraya river to take the river taxi to visit the temples and palaces... you'll see some shots of the river that isn't too clean la... mud color and vege floating around. haha... but it was a cool experience.. seeing all the temples all elaborately decorated and furnished... gold, purple, silver...

We got off and crossed the river via another boat to the "Temple of Dawn"... aka Wat Arun. and no.. it's not some Indiana Jones thing. haha... it's a temple that has wonderfully crafted designs on its exterior and it's like elaborate and intricate la.. old yes, but still wonderfully done. yeh, we took lots of pics there.. silly pics and normal pics so we'll see what gets posted at the end of this entry. haha

We headed back to the hotel for a short while then back to MBK to finish some shopping... i managed to get lots of gifts from that trip coz i was shopping alone. haha so efficient can. super funny... i left debz and rach at like.. 7.45 and then met up again at 8.30... i bought hmmm 4-5 items in that time and rach and debz had been stuck in one shop trying on 2 pairs of shoes the whole time. :) haha... sighz... anyways... after that, we met up with nat and jay again to walk paragon. Then we parted ways with our dear friend nat promising to keep in contact and of course to send pictures that we took with our cams.
Reaching back to the hotel, the girls went for the full body massage [mad chicks] while the guys took a stroll around the hotel area to search around for dinner for the girls and us... we managed to grab some take away from a restaurant... we dao-bao-ed Tomyam, Green Curry, Rice & Fried rice... then we had to start thinking smart so we went to 7-11 and bought chopsticks and plates... coz the restaurant never give... then we had to pour the curry into the hotel cups meant for the toilet brushin teeth one. haha super funny... ended up having a nice supper thing when the aching, but relaxed, girls came back. :)

Day 4 - Friday 15th Sept 2006
We left for the airport and since it was the new airport, lots of things were pretty top notch today... we ended up not having to pay airport taxes. there were cameras everywhere and news reporters reporting... why? well, our flight was the very first international flight out of that new airport.. it's not even officially opened to the public yet... so it was pretty neat la... being the first passengers leaving the airport on it's first operational day. :) the DFS were all not even set up so we couldn't shop or anything... jus go straight to the gate and wait... they ended up coming around and giving us a complimentary can of drink to welcome us into the whole, "we treat customers well" thinking. :)
Then upon boarding, they gave us all an individual cert that we flew on the first plane ride out of the airport... had to fill in our own name [which i still haven't done]... but it was quite cool. like some first class treatment thing...
On the plane, it just got better.. the pilot came out before we took off and talked to us all a bit... then he was sayin how since it's an important flight, he's gonna give away a bottle of red wine to whoever can tell him how long the runway of the new airport is. haha a bit of trivia competition... then we got a free cup of orange juice too since it was the whole "first flight" thing. haha
yeh, the flight was alrite... slept most of the way and the trip ended like that. :) relaxing.

now to the impt part... PHOTOS.


Car Ride from the Airport to the Hotel


Connecting room to Rach and Deb'z Room


Before Setting off in Thailand


Pad Thai - Local version of Char Kway Tiao


Eating Pad Thai at the road side. can see cars behind us!


Mah Boon Krong - Shopping Paradise. My Heaven


Breakfast at the Hotel. Wide variety, great taste


Coffee Me - Coffee place we chilled at... and loved


Coffee - The reason why.


Coffee Drinkers - Content, Cultured and Coffee-ed


MBK with Nat - Having dessert at Mah Boon Krong


Mango with glutinous rice - Dessert... very nice


Shopping result - Me posing a tired pose on the train after shopping


Paragon with Nat - High-Yah! Karate kick at ya!


Night Market - place to bargain like mad.


My sweet ride... well, soon i hope. LOL


Matrix Pose - Jay and I with our new jackets.


Fuji - Jap food with Debz friends and Nat


Foot Massage - Before the tortur... i mean, relaxation.


Driver Mr Smith - Informative and Friendly


Boat ride - The trip to the floating market was in this boat


Orange Madness - Debz and I eating Pad Thai, taken to remember our Orange day


Sleeping Beauties - Totally knocked out in the car


Caught peeking - Thot she might be asleep too. i was wrong. :P


Paul Frank Shop - Paul Frank is your friend! Whee! crazy shop can!


Boat along Chao Praya River - River Taxi


Transitional Specs - Here's lookin at you babes!


Temple Steps - Sitting on the steep steps that is the 'Wat Arun' Temple of Dawn.


Sign at Temple - Take a moment to read the Engrish if you can. quite funny spelling errors.


What ya looking at? - Hmmm. what's this dude looking at?


Group shot at Temple - Before Leaving the Temple.


We buy everything - Me?


Shopping bags and Debz - Debz and all our shopping bags from the last night.


Rach and Rui - Cute, fun, whacky!


Budget Dinner - Dinner Jay and I bought back to the hotel on the last night.

Leaving for Bangkok

Hey peeps. if you dun already know, i'll be gone till friday the 15th... going to bangkok for holiday with 3 frens...

dun call me, coz i got no phone. will drop an entry when i get back la!

take care everyone. ohoh, and pray for my Army Posting. it's coming out on friday if i'm not wrong. pray that i'll get a good posting. thanks! see ya guys soon!

Sentosa!

Finally able to blog bout




So on thursday, I decided to take Meliza out to Sentosa since i've been like super away from CF and all and she's been complaining non stop... oops did i say complaining? i meant... being concerned... yes... :)
We hopped on the Sentosa bus and it took us across the land of the dead to the land of the living! [no we didn't die, we jus crossed the bridge] haha...

Grabbed our tix and headed straight for the underwater world. inside there, we met up with lots of weird creatures... they were grossly coloured, didn't seem to be very agile and some just stood there waiting for people to take pictures of them. it was really irritating seeing those creatures in the underwaterworld... oh and apart from them, we saw some fish. :) haha... i tell you, some people in the underwater world just crawl along and stay at some exhibits too long. :) but no la. just kidding. it was a fun time of gauking at some reallly cool looking fish, sea creatures and having a blast riding on the moving belt thing... travellator [sp?] Here are some highlights of the tunnel and it's other features. I've excluded many pics coz there were a tad bit too dark. [captions found below each photo]




We met this cute little boy inside. he was runnin around and making noise and mel jus grabbed him, shot him with a a tranquilizer dart and pushed his mouth up for a smile to take this pic. okok no... his parents willingly loaned him to us for this pic coz mel absolutely adored him. he was cute really.. but i was more interested in the huge fish behind them...


Just thot this sign was real cute. i had NO idea what it had to do with the crab enclosure... much like it had NUTHING to do with us... *innocent smile* wad suspects? haha..


Check out this fish la! it's so cool. it's called the 'Unicorn Fish'... for very obvious reasons.. but i was thinking to myself, it's so amazing how God can create creatures like this. Fish... fish.. how different can they get? :) take a trip down Rabbit Hole in the Underwater World and you'll be amazed. :)
Oh, this fish reminds me of someone who's like constantly frowning. maybe it's coz he's got this huge stick potruding out his forehead. hmmm haha.


Classic shot. :) Why horsefish? well, long story... i shant explain it coz it's jus embarrasing... but Qiang should know why. haha... The seahorse [yes, that's their real name. i'm not a complete idiot] were real nice... jus 'galloping' in the water... they look so... 'trumpet-ty'... haha dunno why their snout's like that la. :) but i can see why "Adam" named it a seahorse. :)


EMO SHOT! :) i think this is a super cool shot... Mel staring intently at the jelly fish while i stole a shot to capture the "blue" mood. :) apologies if it's blur... you can't always get clear and good candid shots.


AHHH! THEY'RE UPON US!!! okok. no, it's not the end of the world... just a swarm of jellyfish... yeh, it was quite cool yet gross... i was thinking of that scene in umm what's that movie... hmm the one where the guy got killed by all those evil jellyfish... oh.. "Sphere"... yes. :) that was the show... i was thinking to myself that i'm SO glad there was this huge thick glass protecting me from from... THE KILLER JELLYFISH!
[oh, no offence joella, purple [yes purple] jellyfish are nice creatures] :)


A posed shot to show how terrifying it is.... to let someone else hold my camera for a while. HAHA. jus kiddin. we wanted to look scared... i think i spoiled the shot.. i jus look dumb. :) or surprised... or well, surprisingly dumb. HAHA.


Meliza finally daring to put her hand into the touching pool and gently grace the back of a small shark... i managed to feel the stingray when we arrived but SOMEONE [i won't mention who] was too scared to touch it so she missed the chance... It was a nice experience though... how often do you get to feel the back of a stingray as it glides so gracefully in it's environment... kinda. :)


Of course there were more shots inside the tunnel of the fish, but like i said, it's real dark so i dun wanna waste your eyes straining for the fish... like some game.. "spot the fish!" and behind door number 1 we have a picture of the dugong! spot the dugong!!! *strain strain*... OOPS! time's up. sorry. you lose.

After that, we headed to the Sentosa Luge and Skychair ride thing... will explain later.. but here are the pics...



Passed by Silosa Beach and now HOW many times can ya resist a shot by the nice siloso words? thus this pic.. if you look at the "i", you'll see this real small dot... it's a cup on top of it.. make one brilliant guess what it is. :) k k, i'll save ya the trouble. it's my cup of ben and jerry's ice cream! wootz. haha... loves to bits... though it did disappoint me. i'm taking chunky muuunkeeey next time... or cookie dough. :) or maybe it's just coz we saw too much PHISH just now so it was a bit too much phish. :) heh.
Anyways, this is me, bravely putting my NS training into practice... ns made me stronger... hey, that "S" was heavy can... it was like woah... but no matter, i've got "S"trength! heh... and no wise cracks [oh gross i jus made one] bout me holding up the S. :)


Woo! skychair ride... okok, let me explain this to you. this is part of the sentosa luge ride.. the luge is like a small car thingy that you put your feet into as you sit in it and ride down this slope that's winding and relatively steep. So before you can ride down, you gotta go up rite? You sit in this chairlift thing and it takes ya up 320m or sumthing like that and it's pretty long la... anyways, it's pretty high...
Mel was super scared la.. i have a nice video of the whole thing... but she won't allow me to put it up. so if you wanna see her screaming away, you gotta ask her for permission and then you gotta pay me a small nominal fee. hahaha. jus kidding. but it's really worth it. :) trust me. hahaha
btw, this pic was taken at the start of the ride... it goes much higher. :)


Meliza faking a smile for the camera. once again, i have many shots of her in her not so... composed facial expression. :)
I can be bought. hahaha the pics go to the highest bidder.


Yeh so this ride is like super super fun. it cost ya $8 only la... save a bit, skip dinner and take this ride. it's cool la... like some Tokyo Drift can... haha but ummmm sentosa drift. hahaha... it's not that short a ride too so i think it's quite worth it... i would go again if it were cheaper. Talkin bout that, the staff all wear this black t-shirt that says "Once is never enough"... so true. :) Go try it today!




Next we made our way via tram to the Dolphin Lagoon... this sign on the tram was just... sigh... it's like DUH. :) But i guess there are children who just leap off... well in my opinion, stupid children like that ought to get hurt... ahha jus kidding jus kidding. :)


Ladies and Gentleman boys and girls, The Pink Dolphins of Sentosa!!! Yup, these are the cute dudes and dudettes who inspired the pink dolphin drink... though i've never tasted it before, the show was fun. the pinkies all doing cute stuff like waving, dancing, hitting the rubber balls above and gliding across the water... it was spectacular to see them leap so high out of the water... so much so that their whole body is like dunno how many feet off the water's surface la. wowz. respect.


We then moved to our final destination of the day... the famed and legendary musical fountain called Magical Sentosa... i will not bore you with why it's called that... but it was quite a long long wait. k, so i was kaisu and reached there at 6.40, an hour before the show... but they DID say they would close gates at 7 or when it was full... so yeh, i was stressed... and we had snacks. haha...


then it started drizzling and a nice shower of blessings was brought our way. we both took turns to pray as the other watched our bags and all... after a really short time, the drizzle moved on and we were able to once again, wait for the show... -_-' haha...


As the sky dimmed, the lights came on and the show kicked off with a super animated and obviously voiced-over Emcee... haha he was quite entertaining with his overly exaggerated body movements... :) then the water screen came on and the projector flashed us with a brilliant image... the crazy magical monkey... he was freaky... but super nice. if i were a foreigner, i'd be real shocked at Spore's technology.. it was really nice...imagine holograms..yeh.
It looked so real, so 3D and so... THERE that it was really hard telling yourself that it was just an image on water... here's a short video clip of the monkey in action.




The show ended with a blast... literally... fireballs and water jets boasting off it's best... it was really nice see the flames and feeling the heat even though it was like, so far away... wonderful show. really really. must watch.


Yup, the final shot of the evening... taken with the beautiful backdrop of the visitor arrival/departure centre... Look look! my paul frank has been to sentosa! aha


Yup, with that, it wraps up the Sentosa blog entry.. sorry that it took so long. haven't been able to get down to doing it... but it's finally complete.... if you guys have free time and a bit to spend, go down to Sentosa.. it's really fun... :) seriously.