Better get this out in advance

Was out shopping again, but all well spent for a good cause

Christmas is coming, and you can feel the festive season is indeed coming - weather turning a bit cooler, people shopping for gifts...

As for mi, I also got myself a small silver christmas tree to start with...

Merry Christmas in advance, everyone!

:)

aliying

Mr taxi

looks like Mr Taxi is going to raise price alreadi....

And it looks like I am going to set aside more expenditure for taxi fare to and fro airport soon...

:)
aliying

Project sentosa getaway completed!

Here are some photos of the quarterly getaway with Min's family














Who's that girl?
















"Save the cheerleader, save the world"














Just plain having fun















Handsome boy!




All in all, a very well spent trip at Rasa Sentosa. Not the furthest away from Singapore, but good enough to let your shoulders loosen up a bit, let your mind wonder for a while and set new dreams....

:)
aliying
P.S : Not forgetting the half a dozen of "Heinkein kopitiam beer" and Fong Seng nasi lemak chicken wings by the side of the beach with Min, Ah-Frey, Uncle Chua and Shan

marathon

I finally finished my first marathon!!

:)
aliying
now resting

Class outing@St James Power Station

The time had finally come....revisit St James Power Station, with an impossible objective - get the 3litre Henessy out of my way....It was Thomas's bachelor nite cum class outing and we gathered at 8pm at St james power station....Yes, the rest of the people are usually late, so only Elsen and myself are standing there from 8-845pm, waiting for them to come. I knew that they will be late, that is why I put the time@8pm, so that they can reach from 9-1030pm onwards....

Got it b4 9pm and most of the tables are filled up at Dragonfly...I grabbed a manager and asked:

Aliying :"Eer, if I order a 3 litre hennessy now, are you able to get mi a table?"

Surprisedly, he blinked blinked, thinking:"hey, you do not look like a guy who can drink a lot...you sure or not"

Aliying said :"affirm, I need that to run a bachelor nite..lol"

The 3litre hennessy had arrived!


















Dada! our drink for the nite




















The bachelor(Thomas, second from left)is finally here....act b4 he comes, we are already helping ourselves to the drinks



















Keeping it as a souvenior, bottled up with our blessings..Congrats to you, Thomas!!!

Aliying with his newly found asset

Although William Scorpion wasn't there(which gave mi a very good reason I will be back to Dragonfly), it was still a very good nite of good music, good drink and good catching up, chatting away. At the end, all of us finished up the whole bottle....alcohol really kicked into us much later and the rest of the details after that, you do not want to know...hahahahah(from mysterious red bucket to self make your way back home to stop the taxi halfway and etc)...hahhaahah!

What a nite! All in the name of good fun and laughter...

Happy guys with a lady watchin over us....

Price of 3 litre Hennessy : $680

Price of Happiness: Priceless

:)

Aliying

P.S All of the above are responsible adults without a single one driving..All are good men who took taxi after drinking....Drink responsibly, when you drink, do not drive...

sleep vs run

shall I sleep tomo or shall I run tomo?

:)
aliying

run run run!

had not been blogging, more of running to prepare for my marathon...

:)
aliying

Cape Town...the living paradise on earth

I must say that I am very impressed with Cape Town...not a place for retire cos I still prefer Singapore with my loved ones and friends. Cape Town came across to mi as a place that is hardly imaginable....is there really such a place on earth? Can I stay on the Table mountains(1086m) if global warming continues and melt down the ice caps?

I am still tryin to get used to my Canon EOS400D. And most of the better taken pic are snapped at the Table Mountains.

Let my pic do the talking for mi.

Cape Town, I will be back....Table mountain, Robben Island, vineyards, V and A waterfront, 2 ocean aquarium, sun flea market, signal hill, cape of good hope...















Is that a Boeing 777 approaching the cape town airport?














The chosen one















Dusk














Gathering inspiration from Mother Nature












Eer....you are looking at?













Who the *&^&%^& is that crawling out?













Cape point, the most south western tip of South Africa














Where is Mr Whale coming to the town of Springbok?













Good view from the top of the Table Mountains













Frodo Baggins in the making?



:)
Aliying
back in SIN

Rome

There are alot of things to offer in Rome,other than pizza and spagatti, I must say.















Taking a short break














1st and 3rd generation
















blue blue sky
















drinks, anyone?














Bravo!















Er..who is this roman chap?















Yeah! Chill out!

:)
aliying

Why do I run?

there is alot of reasons why i run

1. lose wt
2. keep fit
3. eat power gel for the first time
4. run with a reason
5. sweat it out
6. feeling stronger
7. sucker for pain and agony
8. refer to reason #4

:)
aliying

There is a sense of happiness within mi + Project "finish my first marathon"

Actually , I had been feeling very tired recently..However, i am very happy recently as i felt useful to be of help to "others"...It is all so worth it...

No doubt i was absolutely stoned when i woke up(you can check with Alimin and Ah Frey how extremely difficult it is to wake mi up...I can really sleep at times), but my (tangible) daily dosage of straits time and kopi satu susu sekit kept mi going...my (intangible) goal is to work hard for what I was given to me.. I am so happy abt it...


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Project "finish my first marathon"

Yes, I had signed up for the standard chartered marathon this year...This is an unfinished project that had spanned more than 3 years alreadi..Yes, i know that i am damn slow in achieving my target, but it is really due to unforeseen circumstances that i could not make it

2005 : working on that day
2006 : Total drunk and heavy hangover the night b4 due to my wedding
2007 : I took leave and afterwhich to attend my friend s' (April and Hanrong) wedding dinner

No more excuse,2007 will be the year that I will finish my first marathon. At the sametime, I know that i must listen to my body cues. Got to take care, still got many many years to come as the govt forecast that I have approx 50% chance that I will live beyond 85.

My formula for the marathon is simple
Oct : hit 15km/run
Nov : hit 20km/run
Dec : marathon!
routing : NUS roller coaster(for strengthening), east coast(for distance coverage) IPPT(for huffing and puffing),
May explore : bedok reservoir, pandan reservoir, gym (don't like to run on the trackmill, really saving it for rainy days)

gtg now...need to run the NUS roller coaster now..

:)
aliying

Quarterly getaway with Min

My girl, my girl....because you are ....my girl....da da da da.....

:)

aliying

Top to bottom

Photo 1 and 2: taken by EOS400D, 15-55mm. f1.8

Happ birthday, Ah Frey =)

Ah Frey or J turned 29 this year! Got to give it to the guy. From being my ultimate wedding co-ordinator, friend, trekker, drink kopitiam beer kaki, he had been a good found friend ever since the day i stepped into JJC in 1995. Many good years to run!

:)

aliying

:)

aliying

Is it time to drink in moderation and practicality again?

Was going through my photos when i stumbled upon this....
Enjoy!
:)
aliying

Perth - back to basic

Revisiting Perth is like revisiting basic...This is the place where I learnt how to fly...This is the place where I got the nasty chicken pox, alone in the isolation box...This is the place where Huimin spent a total of 25days for her holidays.. So much feelings for Perth, and it is all coming back to mi like to "Tidal wave"...

Armed with EOS400D that i recently purchased, took a train to Fremantle and had my dosage of Kaili's fish and chip.. not too bad, still tasted good....supposedly plan to catch a dosage to Littel creature pale ale, but looking at it....Nah, i will not die if I do not drink beer for a day....

Additional info - Perth is known to be the most remote and isolated city in the world. Slow pace of life and everything shuts down by 5pm....

Enjoy the pic




































Top to Bottom :
1 Lone busker
2 "Mine Mine"
3 Looking at it while drinking my mocha latte
4 Lenses cover
5 A yellow man @ the train station

:)
aliying

881

My mother had watched it, Jeffrey mother had watched it, Daniel mother had watched it

I had not watched it, Jeffrey had not watched it, Daniel had not watched it.

Finally, I am watching it coming Friday(The plan)

:)

aliying

The acquisation is complete!

The EOS400D is transacted today!

:)
aliying
offically changed from convectional to digital photography

Behold the new credit card Zen!

Behold the new Zen! Enough gadget alreadi!

Holding on to :Fujitsu E7010/palm treo750v/Zen Vision W/ IPOD nano/ PS2

Next acquisation : 2nd hand EOS400D

:)

aliying

Zurich with Ben Poon KK

Footpath



















A piece of Singapore in Switzerland?
























Just mi



























:)


















Luzern, South of Zurich, Switzerland

:)
aliying
Home
Feeling not so okie..watching young Uma Thurman movie

"situation cool"

As I am waiting for huimin, I had time to reflect upon myself.

Recently, I am learning to become more "cool" - not cool in the sense like elvin ng, that kind of handsome cool, or aliying doing hiphop dancing or beatboxing.
Not cool that I am the "tia" IC and always kanna challenge by others to drink

I am learning to be "situation cool" - for eg, when somebody overtake mi, I am cool abt it(maybe that guy is in a rush)

when somebody talks, I am cool abt it...(I ensure, be sure and very sure that I bit my lips so that the other people can finish his or her sentence wihout mi interrupting)

I am learning to be cool, whatever the plan changes, it is not a big deal, it shall be a small deal....

I am learning to be cool(that I may not agree with his or her idea, but it is not going to kill mi if I follow or agree to it)

I am learning to be cool, that I think b4 I act, speak, continue the flow of conversation, stay relevent...

Still find it v difficult to achieve, but I can see progress.. slowly but surely...

On the sidenote, tink I am thinking too much.. There are a lot of little things in life that we can enjoy - walk along east coast park, talk to each other, having a short dinner with my families and how can I ever forget my usual dosage of kopitiam beer with ah frey!

:)
a "cool" aliying
@NUS
listening to a just ORD NUS guy buaya to 2 just finished JC girl...Lima Oscar Lima
blog created using my palmtreo750v

Today is the day i saw the most of my batch boys

In Singapore, I saw Ah Sean, KT and Yang today at one shot. In addition, I met Hans and Ben

Ah Sean - Frankfurt
KT - Rome
Yang - Osaka
Mi - came back from Jakarta
Hans - from Nagoya
Ben - together with mi to jakarta

air travel is simply amazing, bringing people together and away continuously....

:)
aliying

palm treo750v revolution

I am in the midst of revolutionising my pda phone - spb plus, spb diary, full shutdown capablity, bejeweled, soduku, etc

:)
an organised aliying

不能说的秘密 / secret

National Day - I went to watch 不能说的秘密 / secret with Min, Ah Frey and Peanututu. Maybe I had been listening to Jay Chou's song since 1996. (I am not really his super hard core fan, but found most of his music smoothing to my ears and enhance my listening pleasure...more importantly, his songs keep mi thinking and self reflect) Maybe I had most of his CD and countless mp3 inside my Ipod. Maybe he was human after all....Maybe we had something in common....hey hey!!!

This review is therefore ...bias....but it is indeed a better movie that I had watched till now....

Simple, sincere piece of work, doing what he do best by playing the piano instead of drifting (Initial D) or chopping people up(菊花台), being himself and very humane, nice twist at the end of the story (108steps from the piano room to the classroom, a simple yet genuine secret, do find out yourself), reaching to the very soul of people...

It feels good to go dating again

:)

aliying

Aug had always been a good month

Things to look forward in Aug

1. meet up with my NUS classmates
2. meet up with Ben and Coy
2.5 meet up with my SIA guys
3. meet up with my contractor daniel
4. I will be in Singapore for National Day
5. I had finished Harry potter and the deathly hallows alreadi!

:)
aliying

sun @ mac

Min, parents and myself bought the niece and nephew to west coast mac on Sun morning.

Noisy they are, adorable they are

:)

aliying

chillout with a coke...

Had dinner at new garo jap rest near chun tin road, bukit timah...Min, Shan, Mr Chua, Ah frey and peanututu.... Afterwhich we went over to Maple pub to have a drink. Because I am on standby, i did not touch a single drip of alcohol in a smoke free pub....Felt a bit funny though, but professionalism supersede personal enjoyment...However, I still enjoy the nice chat and the companionship offered to mi

Thought of the first time we were at Dragonfly for the first time....
Compare :
a glass of coke at Maple: $5.50
12 bottles of Heinkein at Dragonfly each betn Ah frey and myself: $150
Both experience : Priceless

:)
aliying

thoughts

when you win something, you lose something

when you lose something, you win something

"anonomyous captain"

:)
Chong Eng

feeling ...good

Feeling good cos...
1. met up with my NUS classmates..good to hear that everyone is fine.
2. met up with Ah Frey and peanututu @ Bakerzin to suan the management trainee...
3. cleared my line check exams. at least do not feel so uptight now...relaxeds
4. going back to Singapore from Incheon today...and to spend quality time with Min.
5. I am drinking alot of water...


:)
aliying
Incheon
1345hrs Local

The forever friend bear attack on earthlings

Behold, the powderful Bear monster!