Inside the Kittylab was really very interesting with sanrio’s cartoon characters around and the cute little buildings that simulates the town of Sanrio. When we entered, we were briefed on the basic instructions such as NO PHOTOGRAPHY and NO VIDEOGRAPHY, how to navigate the town and where to look for help etc. Its like entering the science center, amazing.
Then we were given a kind of a token called KTA. The KTA will allow us to move from station to station, playing games and winning accessories for your HelloKitty in it, then at the end of the tour you can exchange the KTA for a card which will have all your kitty information.
Then when touring in the lab, people start taking photos like nobody’s business despite tons of staffs telling them no photography allowed. The most drastic thing is that I saw a person holding on to a DSLR? Hello? Isnt it damn obvious? I mean the staff could have just offered to ‘keep’ the item for the person right? On the website it has already written no photography allowed? If that thing doesn’t get confiscated, I doubt @princesspinky89’s camera is going to, so I told her to take out her camera and just shoot whatever she want. If the management screws me up, i will fuck them up.
Anyway I believed most of the staff did saw others taking out their cameras and phones but they could do nothing but verbal warning. So the tour will be until 29th November and if you’re thick skinned like us enough, yeah you should just take out your camera and take photos. You paid for it, so did anyone else.
The gaming things will take you about 30-45minutes at most, but you can mingle in there for the rest of the time taking photos but do avoid the staffs because they will come and nag and nag and nag ‘no photo please’ then you smile and pretend to keep and continue taking after they turn away thats all =p
Been famous for the past few months for her poor command of English and had her interview on youtube with more than 200,000 views, this Miss Ris Low (aka) Miss Singapore Universe 2009 was in no way low profile.
Seriously, I won’t even care who won the Miss Singapore title until the youtube URL came into my MSN by my friends for mocking at her english and singlish, BOOMZ. Pronouncing prints as preens, STEEL studying etc. And I think if she had enough grooming for her competition, she should not just walk/behave like a model, but TALK like a model.
A bigger news hit her when she was charged for credit card fraud and they intend not to let the media know. When you try to hide something and people find out, it will only create more trouble and woes.
And my friend even found her name on Wikipedia now. She’s globally known! If not for the competition, she could have gotten her conviction without anyone knowing.
I participated in an orientation camp last week as a Senior for the new upcoming students. I didn’t attend this camp last year because I was still in the army (and I anticipated that engineering camp is boring because of the large number of guys compared to girls!) but this camp proved that I was wrong! The committee kept the ratio as equal as possible so that during ‘pairing’ games, no individuals will have to team with the same gender!
Other than been a good Senior during the camp, ofcourse I did bring my DSLR to take photos =) A total of more than 3000 shutters been snapped and memory card was almost finished but thank god I borrowed from Mr Sunny! Here are some of the things that we do during the camp!
Day 1:
We played ice-breaking games in Boon Lay bus interchange while waiting for some of the seniors to join our group and await for programmers to settle down in school first! Then we went to school to continue playing games and then went off for amazing race at 4 – 5PM! The amazing race took us the whole night and the last station was at Vivocity. We then took a bus into a resort called ‘City Beach’ to settle down ourselves. Then the seniors starts to tekan them at around 1am by blinding fold and asking them to say funny and humourous things such as ‘im a good guy!’ and ‘good guy die very badly!’ etc. Never did they know right after the tekan, they got their SP night! Playing prank with them and their SP when they’re been blindfolded can be awefully fun and sweet! We cleared the freshies to bed at about 3am.
Day 2:
An early morning 9am, had breakfast and play some games in the morning at Citybeach.. (CityBeach is in Labrador Park, thus most of our games today was played there! ) Followed by some telematches such as ‘dog and bone’, ‘dodge ball’ and somemore etc. Cant clearly remember all and there was a water bombing session at night (which turns out to be dreadful because the programmers drag too long and there seem to be personal grudges on the field =( but who am I to say!) I watched the last episode of Red Thread by hiding myself in the room during the setup of the waterbombs. The ending was far from what I had thought of. Very confusing plot even at the end!
Day 3:
Finally got the chance to come out of Labrador Park once again! We went for ‘Shi zhi lu kou’ (food hunting!) by going to different places in Chinatown and Central shopping mall, ate the food and went to Harbourfront interchange for our last food, Chicken Rice. Had our lunch and left for Sentosa where I finally bought my new pairs of slippers at $8 and watched the freshies play the games. Watching them smile and having fun just makes me feel much younger at times =) Witness several seniors got thrown down into the sea and lucky for me, I told them I was holding to my camera and gadgets so they should not try to throw me! Went back to Citybeach resort and settled down but room got really alot of people already, don’t know what they are thinking la, how to squeeze 14 seniors into 1 room? Besides, some of the seniors don’t even interact with the freshies -_-’ More like going there to have their own fun than to help out..
Day 4:
Meet up with their SP. The guys get tekan to look for their own SP while the girls have wait for their SP to come to them. They must guess whos the girl with that special ‘nickname’ assigned to them on their first SP night. Tekan includes different kind of forfeits such as dancing with strangers, singing, strip half naked, etc. Can have worse than you had imagined but you get the point! Went to change for their clubbing attire after that, had buffet dinner catered by the committee (I didnt eat at all! By the time I reached there, the food all looks so ….) Nevertheless, I went to drink with an empty stomach! =(
My group was quite good at clubbing with afew good dancers and some drinkers. Played some games and performed their skit. Left the place around 12.30am and 1 of the freshie lost her wallet & handphone. My sympathies for her but there was nothing much we could do either =( Here comes the funny part: Joanne drank too much and she got too drunk, she told everyone around her to fuck off and go and die! LOL! Unforgettable indeed!
Day 5:
Break camp. And all of us were so reluctant to leave the place =(
At the end of the day! Our very own ‘where is Matt Harding‘ spoof!
Please take a look at my facebook if you’re looking for more photos/videos, I cant possibly show them all here!
I already miss the camp so much! I want to go for more!
* My apologies for not publishing this earlier! This was supposed to be posted 2 weeks ago!
Been given the opportunity by NDPeeps,Claudia from 24seven, it was definitely a pleasure to be able to be one of the first hundreds (ok, maybe thousands) to be able to watch their rehearsals before the preview and the actual. And without further ado, let the pictures share my thoughts!
Note: Spoilers ahead. Very spoilt ones (some).
The group of lucky fans who managed to watch this together!
Thats me and Pinky (the 1 with pink Canon Ixus camera). The only odd ones out of the others in the same row because we’re the only ones wearing white!
And something new this year the committee has decided to try out?
Pole Dancing. Exotic isn’t it?
What I like about this year’s Parade:
New formation used for salute. I like the navys’ firing than the usual artillery firing. We always don’t get to see the actual artilleries and they use it every year. Time for a change, good change.
Song remixes. Instead of the boring and usual themes you listen every year, they mixed it around! Pleasantly enough.
The Chinook above the water surface that cause waves on the water; the effect is fucking great. How I wish I was right there at the Merlion!
Sudden news broke off about Singapore being attacked. The defence forces of Singapore came out and showcase their vigilance. (Abit Wayang but hey, its better than those boring parades that we watch every year, at least they shown the others how we make use of our equipment to defend Singapore)
Fireworks. (All time favourite)
An all new marina wave? They say raise up your cameras or handphones like the kallang wave.
Very creative and innovative lights and decorations.
So what are the things that I dont really like about this year’s Parade?
I find the LCD panel inbetween between the stage and the actual is not very ‘obvious’ at times and can cause distractions. Distracts me away from the performance, really.
As usual, inaccessibility again. Where to park car? Simple, don’t drive unless you wanna get jammed in/out of the show.
Imagine the filtering process for audience on temperature due to H1N1, its gona take hell loads of time and patience. Today was excellent because the crowd was little.
Colors of the spotlights, sometimes too red, sometimes too blue.. (too strong!) Moderation is better.
Here are some of the pictures taken with my humble Canon 400D, Tamron 18-200mm f3.5 – f6.3 and 28-75 f2.8 (for night shots): not arranged in any order!
(yeah, I know its blur =( i didnt bring my tripod because my girl has a bandage on her leg!)
Singaporeans sure love to complain, and ofcourse that includes me. Hop on the wagon with the crowd and demand for more. Besides, I’ve been with m1 for more than 10years and we deserve better than those who only came for 2-4years BUT to providers, they will love the 2-4years customers so much because they have spent their salary on it using the 3G and HSPA services. On the other hand, I’ve only been using the student plan so they chose to neglect me? Although my contributions weren’t as much as compared to those customers, at least I had tried to stay with the provider for so long.
With the strong competition and bad economy, everyone is reducing their spending power and that includes me. M1 isnt looking forward to old customers I guess; they’re looking for new.
So whats with loyalty to providers? NAH. To them, we just come and go. Thats how sad providers treat loyal customers.
Starhub and Singtel, on the other hand, is really keeping loyal customers and attracting new customers. I remember receiving a $150 voucher from Starhub despite not subscribing to their mobile services but their CableTV(well, before Singtel introduced their MIO TV, there was only CableTV in Singapore).
Singtel also sent their loyal customers vouchers once the 20months of contract is over.
M1 has only sent me 2 vouchers so far with $50 and $100 vouchers. For those customers more than 10years of loyalty, they should have improvise something better and extraordinary.
Starhub, Im not really saying you’re good. Your cableTV got no recontract plans and that sucks. I’ve been waiting to recontract for free gifts (they only give free gifts to new customers!) but to no avail. Time to reflect too.
With here, I will send in my screenshot about my second complain to M1 about their poor customer service attitude and hopefully I will get a positive answer.
The reason why we had to watch this concert is because there were rumours spreading around on the Internet that Nichole (the main lead singer) might be leaving the Pussycat Dolls(PCD) for her solo career but a google search indicated that the rumour is untrue and she will not leave the PCD.
And if you notice from my pictures below, yeah 1 of the babe, Jessica didnt perform because she wasnt feeling well (once again, rumours?) Im not sure about that but the concert didn’t seem COMPLETE as they lack of a person and the gaps between the team, there always seem to have a room for 1.
I would have enjoyed the concert if the people around me and my dearest would stand up and groove to the music and being the first 5rows at the front, we know we shouldnt stand up and block the view of the audiences behind. The other areas seem more lively than ours for sure, and music is really regardless of age; I saw a family with 40s/50s grandma walking in, and grooving!
To make our day better, class95 fm DJs, Glenn Ong and Jean Danker were just sitting right infront of us =) JD’s really pretty and so is Glenn, and his tatoo!
Since we were working at chinatown (very near to central), I had my dslr with me and we had to walk over to clarke quay for an errand in Liang Court, she decides that I should be a model for just 5minutes and let her shoot.
Okay this is a really ‘expired’ blog post but my girl wants me to talk about it. Its been quite some time ever since we went sentosa together for a swim/tan so we took an ‘off’ day just for it; there are lesser people on weekdays and the beach won’t be as congested or crowded what..
And ofcourse, phototaking is my girl’s forte; she’s more than a narcisstis. I used to be like that too until I became over-aware of gaining public’s unwanted attention.
So here’s the photos:
Alright. The pic above looks edited? Ofcourse! I won’t show people my belly BUT my gf didn’t consult me when she uploading my ‘big-beer-belly’ photo.
Another photo that went through my tedious photoshopping:
And the below is me without photoshop (from my dear’s blog)
And the following is how we’ve enjoyed our weekday =)
Then we went to Teoheng for our KTV session, just for the both of us and reached back home late and tired but it was definitely an unusual outdoor day!
If you’re a Singaporean and the word Ultimatum sounds unfamiliar to you, perhaps you should try to watch some local dramas some time. Yes, I agree there isn’t much nice shows by the locals BUT, this show is different. Remember ‘the unbeatables’ decades back when you were still having your pacifier or still swimming around, then you wouldn’t really recall it. That kind of drama is what we always want and something not always delivered to us. The ‘golden path’ was another drama that can make me go home just to watch that 1 hour every weekday.
Thanks to I-Weekly, I went with my dearest baby girl to queue at the front of the stage so that we can capture good shots of the casts. start drooling girls!
Random event before the ultimatum cast
Introduction to the ultimatum!
TAY PING HUI with his smirks.
Another collage of Tay Ping Hui (he sure loves to smirk!)
FELICIA CHIN. so cute!
FELICIA! sweet.
ELVIN! cute and handsome..
And we managed to have a hand-shaking session with the casts which was totally not in our plans initially. my girl wanted to shake fann’s hand so badly and I can’t resist Felicia either. Hahaha..
PS: it is indeed my lucky day today. Imagine after wasted $10 on the UFO catcher, today I managed to recuperate my losses by winning 2 softtoys with just $4 at the UFO catches. I love these machines, at times.
