My GT bike has new bar-ends! Got them 2nd-hand from Togoparts... as were 90% of everything on this GT bike!! A few scratches here and there, but still very much usable... they're pretty good, stubby but just enough to rest my palms on, and they have nice shaping at the ends for me to put my thumbs when gripping them! Been wanting to try bar-ends for a long long time... should be able to help make climbing and spinning on this single-geared bike somewhat more comfy...~~

Found two blogs dedicated purely to chocolate reviews! Hahaha! My chocoholic madness is seeping deeper and deeper, can feel my blood turning brown already~~ Links are on the side of my blog~


Drinking good old Lipton's tea can help get rid of the chocolatey breath, and up the shiokness / satisfaction levels even more!

Link to BikeRadar
A city in Britain will be building 13 miles of fully-sheltered bicycle paths for bike commuters such that they can cycle to work without getting in the rain! Amazing right?! When can S'pore have this? Hehehe~~

2 weeks into it, I'm still not getting over my chocoholic madness yet... in fact I'm still popping a chocolate into my mouth something like once every 15-30 minute! Funny I'm not getting heaty yet either, which is so nice~~

Time for lazy lazy lazy lazy lazy me though to get my ball rolling, since my FYP is finally over for now... time to roll onwards to the last exam of my NTU student life!

Switched the Selle Italia saddle from my currently-in-cold-storage Giant trail bike over to my commute bike, what a big difference it made! It's so much cushier, so much less road surface noise and shocks transmitted to my ass, and I could still feel my ass after 2 hours of cycling! Because my Giant has rear suspension, I never felt that the seat makes such a big difference to ass comfort, but it sure does on my hardtail commute bike! Could be the gel padding, could be the titanium rails, or the well-seasoned top shape, I'm totally enjoying it! Just needs regular baby lotion rub to protect the now rapidly scuffing leather cover... and my bike just looks so much sexier with the Selle Italia on it~~!!

My new aloe vera shoots, after a pair of my neighbour's kittens came over and dug the plants out! They are scaring my mum and sis out too, especially when me or my dad aren't around to carry them out of the house, now my home front door is almost always closed!


The rim of my pitcher plant, Nephenthes Hookeriana... so pretty! Not quite as pretty to the insects in my home though... so many ants and flies died inside! My other pitcher plant, N. Amplullaria, isn't doing quite as well though... it didn't really recover from a period of drying out (forgot to water it during exam period!)... but some new shoots are sprouting out from the base, it's not giving up just yet!

New animal species discovered recently in Papua New Guinea... Amazing to know that new animal species are constantly being discovered even in today where almost all of the Earth's lands have been supposedly explored by Man. National Geographic


Like a Martian alien... Little green thing with big black eyes! A green tree frog still undescribed to Science...


White Sifakas lemurs from Madagascar... how do they keep their furs so white while living in the jungle? Do they use two bottlecaps full of Dynamo daily to wash?


Tree kangaroo, so cute machiam like stuffed toy!

Come to think of it, both Madagascar and Papua New Guinea export brilliant cocoa beans! In a severe chocoholic mood recently, finally gave in and bought that bar of Cadbury's Marble, with white chocolate/milk chocolate mix and filled with hazelnut praline inside, but I find the white chocolate a little too sweet for me, and the hazelnut praline while smooth not fragrant enough. But if I pop enough of them into my mouth, then it's still bliss all the same, can't ask too much of a $4 Cadbury's right? Nice~~

Singletrack link
This article in Singletrack, an online bicycling magazine, is the first one that I've read that says that not wearing a helmet would make cycling safer! Apparently, wearing a helmet makes drivers give less space while overtaking, and that making cyclists wear helmets by law would make less people want to cycle, and with less bikes on the roads, the risks per biker would increase, which personally I feel is true. Most drivers in S'pore take the roads for granted, and forget that according to Traffic Police rules, bicycles are entitled to half a lane's space on the roads, and that bicycles are entitled to use the roads as much as any other road vehicle. Drivers are also required to leave 2 feet spacing while overtaking bicycles, although this may be difficult given the constant congestion and width of local roads. But local cyclists are not perfect either. 99% of them don't signal when changing lanes or turning (I do!). 50% cannot cycle straight with swerving left/right. 95% don't wave back to drivers who do give way (I do! I smile back even!) But local drivers seem to be always in a rush, even slowing down for a cyclist seems too hard for them, which would at most cost them maybe 5 seconds more to their total journey time? Too many times I get drivers speeding past me not giving way, only to be stopped at the traffic lights 50m ahead, with me stopping right beside him, me grinning away at him, with the driver black-faced! But I have nice drivers who give way, and even if we stop at the traffic lights together, we'll chit-chat about the weather, about the traffic, about bike-commuting, and we part feeling happy. Isn't this a much better outcome? Either way, I still choose to cycle-commute, especially in the mornings and evenings, traffic congestion or not. Except on days which require me to be dressed nicely (too much clothes to carry on my bike!), or on especially hot or wet days... but my personal gripe is that it is darn difficult to get secure bike parking in S'pore! Parking anywhere else apart from inside your own home would be tempting bike thieves!

My horoscope says I will be cranky for the next few days... Not a good period to be cranky! Got a quiz on Thursday that might be difficult given it's on solar cells and set by Lydia... Got a sense that we might get a Mobilisation this weekend since this is my NS Manning week... And next Tuesday is my FYP report submission day and my prof still hasn't given me back nor commented on my draft report! Ok I'm getting cranky typing all this out...~!!

Finally got to sun myself today, except I did it while forgetting to remove my bike gloves... now again I look like some funny animal with white hands and dark skin! Didn't get to do it on the last two days due to some stuffs... and the weather... Had been catching up on sleep too, found that I do really get quite grumpy and blur when I don't get my fair bit of sleep! Feeling good and recharged now, although my plans to do some school stuff late into tonight may lead to lack of sleep tomorrow morning again... vicious cycle of life...~

Was back in school on last Saturday morning to do my last XRD test, although found that I might not be including that result into my report, if most only in my Appendix... NTU open-house on that day... balloon on my bike! Took it off before I rode it, because it didn't seem safe to have a balloon fluttering around behind me while cycling with traffic...!


Link This is now my favourite online game! Such cute characters! Racing on wooden boxes with wheels, shooting each other with acorns and special powers like my favourite "skunk stink"!

Have been looking forward to going to Pulau Ubin today. Emptied my backpack of all the school stuffs, and in went my trusty sunglasses, towel, spare clothes, waterproof windbreaker in case of rain. Spent half-hour deciding whether to wear shoes or slippers, I put my shoes beside the main door, and packed in my slippers into the bag as well. Charged up my camera battery and got my sis to empty her pictures from my memory card. Set my alarm clock and mobile phone to ring at 5.45am, and went to bed. Until I woke up at 11am, alarm clock firmly silent and my mobile phone grasped loosely with my left hand, under my pillow where my head was resting, left arm painfully numb due to lack of blood circulation after being weighed down by my head in a strange posture for dunno how long. What hell, Mas and guys were already on the boat back to mainland island at the same time! Then again, I haven't had such good deep sleep in a week or two...

I love M & M's Peanut Butter!! Especially when they slowly melt in my mouth and all the taste of the PB flows out all over my mouth... OMG!!

One night's work = 3 pages of my report... what nonsense!!

Link to video.
I love this video! It's a great summary of the 2008 downhill mountain bike world championships. Many shots of riders drifting, sliding, and crashing... the track was crazy rough and bumpy! Add slippery mud and dislodged rocks and roots, woah! I miss mountain biking, haiz so so much...~


My laptop's now has 2 screens! Like my school's electron microscope system (which I was using yesterday early morning and got the inspiration...)! Decided to dust off and plug up my spare old LCD to my laptop, to make it possible to open a PDF document on one screen while typing my FYP report on the laptop screen... working well so far... whenever I wasn't caught up watching some video on the 2nd screen~ =p

I suspect I've been cheated of my allocation of Time. While everybody's supposed to get 24 hours per day, I believe I'm getting less! It only seemed like 2 days ago when I flipped the calender from January to February, and now I have to flip it from Feb to March! This is too much! Must call police man, must catch this "time-conman"!

Hahaha! Not to blame any scammer... Must be my bad time-management these days... Kel needs to focus~!

Kel's a 70% introvert...

Reading up the meaning of introversion on Wikipedia:
Introversion is "the state of or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life". Introverts tend to be more reserved and less assertive in social situations. They often take pleasure in solitary activities such as reading, writing, drawing, and using computers. The archetypal artist, writer, sculptor, composer, and inventor are all highly introverted. An introvert is likely to enjoy time spent alone and find less reward in time spent with large groups of people, though they tend to enjoy interactions with close friends. They prefer to concentrate on a single activity at a time and like to observe situations before they participate. Introverts are easily overwhelmed by too much stimulation from social gatherings and engagement. They are more analytical before speaking. Introversion is not the same as shyness. Introverts choose solitary over social activities by preference, whereas shy people avoid social encounters out of fear.

Seems like I fit the bill entirely. Did this self-measurement thingy too; Kel's a 70% introvert~!

Have been spending several (non-consecutive) nights sleeping with my contact lenses on... I would lie on my bed waiting for my bath, or just reading or listening to Mp3s on my bed, and then the next thing I'll see is the next morning's sunrise! Much thankfully, the current lenses I'm using (Air Optix) are a million light years better than the 2 previous brands I've used (Acuvue and Softlens), but still cannot keep doing this, or else it won't be soon before Kelvin will become a physically-challenged member of society...~

Most hardworking Bangala worker in Singapore! He was still watering plants at the Harbourfront Center, right in the middle of a torrential thunderstorm! Man, the place was already flooding, yet this worker was nonchalantly watering all the newly planted plants... really dots... And the new Harbourfront extension was really a work of shoddy construction. It's barely a month old, yet it has rainwater leaking from in between ceiling panels, and even from the lights! Imagine how dangerous that can be!


A 4.5m long stingray! Imagine this being cooked as sambal BBQ stingray hahaha~! Then again, imagine coming across such a fish while bathing in a river in Thailand, where it was caught... National Geographic

Yes it's that time of the year again! Fishing season! Went through the session, one hand with Wei's DV, one hand with my Lumix, until a pesky security personnel and then Ailian came over to shut down the last recording DV standing... but at least she let blurred me get Fish's autograph on my I do EP against her boss's instructions... so thanks lah AL =p






Fish and roses handed to her by Jason...


Almost a mirror image of Fish and her backdrop... =p ~

Fish's appearance on Campus Superstar... Apparently my efforts to "siam" the cameras were futile, and within minutes I have a SMS from Shimei with regards to a sighting of me on TV hahaha! I was a bit high today, a nice departure from staring at my notes for my 2 quizes next Monday, and trying to make sense of my experimental Instron test results and SEM images over the weekend because I still have no answers to the questions posed by Prof Alfred on our last meeting! Although this is my first time watching this season's Campus Superstar, I'm gunning for the 13 year old boy and the ACJC girl, with the girl nosing ahead! Haha! Onwards to Fish's Wednesday autograph session~!

It's been pouring for the past 3 afternoons! I like the rain, because it's finally no longer hot and humid! I hate the rain, because it's so dark and gloomy. I love the rain, because finally the plants and trees are all green and happy and blooming! I dread the rain, because it makes going out so much more troublesome. But the crisp chilly fresh air after the rain is one of the best experiences to have! Love or hate it, still have to live with it~ =)

Another something I just did on Facebook, so funny, so many nonsensical answers (I think...)! But quite funny lahs =p

1. Put your MP3 player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

*3/4 of my playlist are Fish's songs... so this is what happens heh =)

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
不,完美 - 李玖哲

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
直觉反应 - Soundtrack from 翻滾吧！蛋炒飯! (yeah, I rely on my instincts...)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
不敢当 - 梁静茹

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
亲亲 - 梁静茹

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
会呼吸的痛 - 梁静茹? (Life's a drag...)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
愛的主旋律 - 卓文萱 & 黄鸿升

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
接受 - 梁静茹 (Yeah, life stinks, just accept it and move on hahas...)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
不要对我再说爱 - 林凡

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
隧道 - 林凡

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
我都知道 - 梁静茹

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
滿滿的都是愛 - 梁静茹?

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
最快乐那一年 - 梁静茹

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
我不難過 - 孙燕姿 (Sad at my wedding?)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
彩虹 - 五月天 (Yeah! So true!!!)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
每天第一件事 - 梁静茹

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
被风吹过的夏天 - 林俊杰

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
复刻回忆 - 薛凯琪 (Yeah! I keep forgetting about friend's stuffs!)

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
为我好 - 梁静茹?

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
男人KTV - 胡彦斌 ?

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
101 - 梁静茹?

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Ces't la Vie - 梁静茹

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
一秒的天堂 - 梁静茹

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
用力抱着 - 梁静茹

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
知多少 - 梁静茹

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
三吋日光 - 梁静茹

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
我爱你 - 蕭賀碩?

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
给未来的自己 - 梁静茹

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY, WHEN YOU MEET YOUR BOSS?
永不消失的彩虹 - 卓文萱???

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Super No.1 - 卓文萱?

43 Questions and my answers about me!

Something I just did on Facebook...

1) Were you named after anyone?
Nope. But my name had to have a "k" in it, for some fengshui reason according to my grandma.

2) When was the last time you cried?
At a funeral.

3) Do you like your handwriting?
A little, not in love with them, but they're not perfect yet~

4) What is your favourite lunch meat?
Beef. Seafood. Depends on my mood.

5) Do you have kids?
No girlfriend, no wife, no money, how to have kids?

6) If you were another person, would you like to be friends with you?
Maybe, maybe not, who knows if like poles would repel or be attracted?

7) Do you use sarcasm?
Mostly in my jokes, really mean no harm most of the times, although sometimes it might not seem the case to the victim(s), ooops~!

8) Do you still have your tonsils?
Yes, if they aren't spoilt, why touch them?

9) Would you bungee jump?
Yes! Waiting for the chance! Didn't really have the cash/or want to spend the munny to try it while in NZ~

10) What is your favourite cereal?
Nestle Cornflakes, Kokocrunch, Honeystars, Milo, Muesli, many many!

11) Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Yes! I like my shoes to be tight, and I usually tie a double-knot to prevent them coming loose.

12) What is your favourite ice–cream?
Chocolate, chempedak.

13) What is the first thing you notice about people?
Their eyes.

14) Red or pink?
Pink. Haha.

15) What is the least favourite thing about yourself?
Many. Too many. My attitudes to many things in life? My appearance? ... ~

16) Who do you miss the most?
My kid life, before 12. Totally miss it.

17) Do you want everyone to complete this list?
If they wish to. Would be nice to know more about the people in my life.

18) What colour of trousers and shoes are you wearing?
My black army admin shorts! No shirt, it's so warm! No shoes at home either!

19) What are you listening to right now?
Nothing. Peace. Except for the MRT rumbling past my window. And the traffic on the PIE. And the guys playing cricket on the field downstairs.

20) If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?
Yellow.

21) Favourite smells
Fresh roasted coffee. Chocolate. Durian. Chempedak. Fresh roasted chestnuts. My mum's pillow. My pillow.

22) The last person you talked to on the phone?
Thomas!

23) Do you like the person who sent you this?
Siwei - Somewhat a little... oops! No gay feelings ah!

24) Favourite sports to watch?
Rallying, F1, all types of cycling, soccer, a bit of basketball and tennis and badminton.

25) Hair colour?
Jet Black!

26) Eye colour?
Brown.

27) Do you wear contacts?
Yes, I don't really like spectacles because my eyelashes tend to paint oil and tears onto my specs!

28) Favourite food?
So many! Mostly similar to my favourite smells. I like most noodles, and spaghetti! I love seafood! And meats! And salads! I love milk!

29) Scary or happy endings?
Happy!

30) Last movie you watched?
Ip Man.

31) What colour of shirt are you wearing?
I don't usually wear shirts at home...~

32) Summer or winter?
Summer. I cannot bear gloomy weather. Including rain.

33) Favourite dessert?
So many many!

34) Most likely to respond?
Thomas? Shimei?

35) Least likely to respond?
???

36) What books are you reading?
Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics: Nanoscale Materials, Conference Symposium of Protective Armour Materials... all for my FYP!

37) What is on your mousepad?
A cheap 3 year old yellowed white optical mouse on a free army SAR21 mousepad...

38) What did you watch last night?
Many shows, Survivor, rallying, tired after a whole 4 hrs evening with the SEM looking for my micro-indentations on my samples... crossed-eyed liao!

39) Rolling Stones? Beatles?
I prefer Fish Leong too haha!!!

40) Where is the furthest you have been from home?
NZ. On army training.

41) Do you have a special talent?
Being sarcastic? But I always thought my tongue and mouth are both quite sensitive to foods, although I'm not a particularly picky eater.

42) Where were you born?
In KK Hospital in Singapore, like the big majority of Singaporeans!

43) Whose answers are you looking forward to getting back
Everybody? Haha greedy me!

This bottle of agglomerised nano alumina is 1kg in weight, and costs S$2000! Each gram is $2! And I had just used 60g... that's $120! So so scary!

I'm confused. And I not sure if I have a solution to it. I'm not sure if it'll be good to drag on. But, still I'll try to wait and see how... Yet I'm a little excited. Ces't la Vie~

Tired. From FYP. From catching up on lectures. From cycling. From playing and slacking. Ces'tzzz la Vie~

Came across this roll of raw carbon fiber in my lab. It looks just like a big roll of rafia string, or thread that my mum uses on her sewing machine! The carbon fibers themselves are much like stringy rafia strings! Hard to imagine that this is the raw material used to make F1 cars, bullet-stopping armour and aeroplanes!

Talking of armour, my FYP is going into overdrive now! DSO/DSTA is putting pressure on Temasek Labs, who in turn put pressure on my professor, who in turn puts pressure on my ST Kinetics supervisor, who then puts pressure on me and my mentor... I now have to give ST Kinetics a reasonable product by March! And I might have to work on this project after graduation in May even! At least they're willing to offer more than the $1500 that I asked for heh~ =)

My back hurts... ouch ouch... strange... I didn't carry any heavy load or do any vigorous activities recently mah... why got pain?

Just had somebody from my block, from an unknown floor and unit, screaming something like "杀人, 着火,救命!", or "murder, fire, help!", while banging on the metal gates of somebody's house. Sometime nearing midnight. Continued for about a minute, then with the loud bang of a metal gate, and then silence. Left me and my dad completely blur. Sounded like a boy's voice to me, but my dad insisted it sounded like a woman. We didn't know what to do with this too. Strange~


I'm now currently in love with this song! It's Fish's 情歌~!! I think the MV's so cool too, with the retro 1980s memories of cassette tapes and big specs!

Went to my first ever NTU school bash last night, the German Society Valentine's Bash! Free flow Brewerks beer, which was pretty good. But not so for the food though. Qijia had to take taxi home because we missed the last East-bound train by just a couple of minutes! I managed to catch my last bus home though, because the bus was late itself haha!

Today's a lot more sedate, managing to get my riding time in after a few days of waiting and missing...~

Smiley face bandage again! Yes it's blood donation time for me again~!


My Valentine's pressie! From the Blood Bank haiz...~ =p

My mum's plant, now blossoming again after I repotted it in my sis's abandoned little glass bottle! Previously it came in a snail's shell, but then its roots dried out and died, and only a couple of leaves and a bit of stem were still green and alive. Today, it's grown to about a feet tall (on support wire), and flowering again! Credit also to my smelly chicken sh*t fertilizer~!

Had my first ever meal of conveyor belt sushi! Tried swordfish sashimi for the first time too! Tastes a bit oily, but I don't like the firm texture. Sushi not recommended for meals for guys, because it is just not filling enough! This is a new place, the refurbished Clementi cinema right opposite the MRT station~


Birthday boy for the week! In the act of "stunning" Jason with camera flashes, from 5 cameras, to let him experience the life of a superstar hahaha~!


Myself in the act too~! =p

Out of curiosity, tried out this free sample karma reading on an online horoscope website. Found that it is rather scary, because I personally feel that it is rather true... maybe those who know me can help me see if this is the case too?

This was what the website gave me for my previous lives' background:

In a prior life, Kelvin Loke, you were a complete free spirit, letting the wind take you wherever you wanted to go, without concern for others. You traveled far on spiritual or philosophical quests, gaining knowledge wherever you went. Your thirst for knowledge for a number of lifetimes has left you unfocused. You see all of possibilities, Kelvin Loke, but can not see the whole picture. If you can see a complete picture, you have difficulty seeing yourself in relationship to it. You have possibly spent lifetimes as a religious mystic, philosopher, academic or even a transient. There is a tendency to spread yourself so thin that your constant activities keep you from determining your purpose in this life.

This is the summarized sample reading, need to pay for the full text, but maybe it's not a good idea to know too much too. Maybe those who want to try out this website can ask me for the address, then we'll see if it's really karma reading or bull-shitting haha~! But no worries, we all do know to take all this with a pinch of salt, or two, or three pinches of salt, maybe add a little pepper as well~ =p

Left my folder with my FYP notebook and all the data sheets from my FYP experiments in the SEM XRD lab... scared the shit out of me when I couldn't find it in my bag at home! Had to go back to school early in the morning to look for it in all the labs that I've been to the past 2 days, and luckily found it on the corner of the table of the dark 6360 SEM room! Shouldn't have teased TKY when he misplaced his thumbdrive the other time... bad karma~!


It's Vincent's birthday today! We got him a small bottle of pinkish-dunno-what-but-got-some-gold-medal-award wine to match his pink umbrella, decorated it a bit with a marker pen, and I had specifically learnt to tie a ribbon for his gift as well! Hahaha! =D

The 2 white things on the tree are parrots! (The 2 white things in the center of the picture!) Everytime I run or cycle past this tree on the road divider near Bukit Batok Nature Park at night, I'll hear screaming and squarking noises, until one night I managed to track down and pinpoint the source of the noise, and found this pair of white parrots! They're white cockatoos, the type with yellow feathers on their heads, commonly seen in bird shops. A pair of wild parrots in Singapore! I've noticed that they'll sleep on the exact same tree, same spot every night, and always seen together... so loving~!

After having experienced Google's Chrome browser for a good period of time, I'm now finding Internet Explorer a bear to use, especially the slower loading speeds, and the bigger amount of RAM required (something my laptop is so seriously lacking), and easy shortcuts and tab handling (just drag the tabs around!)... If not for those websites (like NTU's Edventure) which still require IE to load, I would have put it into deep cold storage ages ago!

Slept very very early yesterday evening, and I woke up at 4! Caught West Brom vs Man U on tv, and other shows, and then took time to take photos of the sunrise outside my bedroom window, with the crystal balls on my window grilles blasting streaks of rainbows across my room. Nice. =)

Loved my bottle of chardonnay! My sis loved it too! Not as exciting as the reds that my uncles like, without the tannins and deep complexity, replaced with refreshing sweetness and elegance... still got half bottle left in the fridge =)

Finally did some spring cleaning today... not thorough, just enough to keep my nest from looking way too scummy... Brought to my notice of all my barang barang lying around...


This bottle of white wine was given by the fellow biker who had dropped his phone on the Mandai trail, and I picked it up and returned to him the same day. Rode with him once after that, but they were a bunch of ultra rich bikers, affording bike shoes that cost $500! Mine cost $60 and I've been using the same pair since 2001! I'll open this bottle during dinner this CNY~! The turtle beside it was given to me from my aunt, during the time we went to watch Free Willy in the cinema, long long history~!


My Subaru Impreza WRC1998... Been by my bedside since Sec. 3...~




The 2 pinecones that had been by my bedside during my army training in NZ in 2004, now by my bedside ever since~


My mug~!


My Fish album, together with her Happy Birthday scrawled on it from 2004, and the soft toys of my youth, all by my bedside...~


My aunt got me this when she visited Tibet, it's a fossil ammonite~


A gift of Nature and Mum... My mum got me this way back during my little kid days... yes it's still here by my bedside...~


One of the many turtles in my turtle figurine and artefact collection... I'm born a Rat, but somehow what I really love are turtles... a bit dusty my collection, need to bathe them too...~

I like Fish's new album a lot a lot! Although it sounded a little bland on the first 2-3 spins, somehow it grew on me, especially on bad-mood-ed mornings and evenings! It's just so comfortable, so warm to have the album caressing, tingling my eardrums, just like having my mum beside me... Melted all unhappy crap to pretty gold dust, even though at least while the melodies are pumping as my silicone ear buds did their part to isolate meself from the noisy world... Didn't have an album since her Sunrise album in 2002 which worked such magic on me. And I really like 不敢当 a lot a lot~!

Downloaded the whole series of 翻滾吧！蛋炒飯 from Veoh! Somehow after watching several Taiwanese and HK drama serials from vacation break till now, this is the serial that I want most in my collection...

My mum made me drink chicken essence today evening, the first time in more than a decade I think... she had noticed my constant lethargy, irritable moods, bad appetites and the marked reduction in my cycling and running outings over the past 2-3 weeks... I don't feel right but I can't pinpoint anything really wrong either... my left upper eyelid has been twitching for the past week or so too, sometimes so much that it really irritates me! Sign of something to come? Good or bad? Hope it blows over real soon and I can get back to proper usual life again...~

Went with Mas to get Fish's new album today after work... 静茹&情歌: 别再为他流泪~! Just got home, and still listening to the tracks for the very first time... need a couple more spins of the CD to get used to the new music styles of this album... 没有如果, 不敢当, 风笛手 and 儿歌 already quite hit in me on first spin...~

Got Marcus to go with me to watch 卓文萱's NTU concert. Funny that I have to try so so so hard to get someone to go watch a free concert with me; something must be wrong somewhere along the line... The turnout of the concert was crazy! The MLT was more packed than the briefing I attended 4 years ago for my whole cohort of Engineering students! Even the stairs and floor were occupied! Around 95% of the audience is local/M'sian, which made me feel much at home like in S'pore, unlike most other school events... Saw Mr Yan, Carol and Ailian too, but they seemed too busy to be disturbed by me... 卓文萱 can sing quite ok too (I particularly like her 一句话 and 永不消失的彩虹), and she could get the audience moving too, something that I've always hope Fish could do but she never managed to make it work... Even the "ang mo pai" Marcus quite enjoyed the concert, which made me feel a bit less bad about making him stay back to watch the concert with me, and waiting for me to finish my late meeting with Prof Alfred and Boss Sioh... At least now he knows songs from 2 Chinese singers hahaha~!!

Fish's new song 沒有如果 music video! Got this scene where she is working as a waitress and "sweeps" couples together! So pure fantasy, yet so nice if this were to happen in real life, especially with a girl so pretty muahahaha~!! =p

If an armpit is called the armpit, then can we call the region behind the knee the kneepit? Or calfpit? Thought of this because my right "kneepit" is kinda hurting and inflamed, especially after my bike ride to school today, first time I've hurt this part of my body... wonders~

Went to Ai Qing Hai at Marina Square, with Mas, Jason and Jito... their signature drink is quite good! Their chicken chop too... although quite expensive (inclusive of cover charge)... But damn funny lah! First time ever we get to hear new version of Jay Chou's song... erm 牛仔"不"忙 hahaha!


My new Fish single - Ido, after collecting from Mas! One of just 3000 in the world muahaha ooops~! Jason says new album is 10 days away! And I finally know that 幸福的抉擇 is the name of a new Taiwanese drama serial, and also the name of Fish soundtrack single for the drama serial, I always thought it's the title of Fish's upcoming new album! Oh my god... my chinese is really getting terribly bad, can't even read Fish's blog posts properly~!

Wah lau eh... can no longer watch high quality drama serials videos on Crunchyroll due to licensing issues... Left with only those grainy videos from Tudou and Youku, haiz...~

Finally finished painting the front door and metal gate of my house... after 12 years, my gate's rusting and it was a mess to sandpaper everything off for painting! But now, I have a shiny clean front gate and door! Yay~!

Went for a late evening ride to West Coast park after my painting. Nice nice sunset at the yacht marina~ =D

I noticed that I haven't experienced the "high" of watching fireworks this time round - I've been staring at my camera LCD screen the whole of the show! Plus I didn't get bombarded by loud explosion sounds of the fireworks either... maybe it got drowned out in my own shouting and the people shouting behind me... I want to ditch my camera and just concentrate on watching my fireworks show, but then, I also want to try to record the show in pictures by meself... the irony, the irony... at least the mood and atmosphere of this year's countdown was probably amonst the best I've ever had! Thanks FD guys and gang~!


It's a rainy 1st January 2009~!!