listening....

Yesterday...

It was nice to meet up with Jeff, Uncle Chua, Shan and Jas. Some of us are away..I just came back from Denmark and Uncle Chua just came back from Consumer Electronic Show(ie the biggest ever computer show in the whole world..remember HD DVD vs Blu ray) held in Las Vegas..

It was even nicer for the fact that I can be around during a weekend. To most of the people, 5 days of hardworking weekdays come 2 days of enjoying weekend. Not so for mi in the Heavy Transport Operator service industry. I value my weekends alot, alot and alot.

Lots of catching up...which strongly deviate from the initial plan to play mahjong. I am still learning how to listen, though the habit of interrupting a person's speech is reducing on my part...

Listening pointers...recalls a motivational book that i read recently

1. Undivided attention to the speaker
2. People r not interested in mi-they r only interested in themselves
3. Open arms & wrist - welcome!
4. Listen then speak!!

:)

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

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...

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

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

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

Class gathering at Foster

Yet another good drink mustered by the class last sat!!

Here is the front part :

Kind of lucky, cos when I first came to Foster's at Holland V, I was really trying my luck that I will be able to reserve a table of 15 just for drinking. I always had the habit of checking out the place personally to make sure that everything is all right, the drinks are okie, the crowd is not too bad, the service is good, etc...

Came up to the waiter and he called my name instantly"Hi, are you Mr Chong?"...waah! I was thinking - he must be damn good to know the customer name....It turned out that he was a former student of Min and he had met up with mi previously! Min was around also, and hence with a little bit of pull string, I managed to secure a table of 15 just for drinking on sat...good stuff!

Here is the middle:

Very good turnout from my NUS class! It was definitely nice to have the "give the Tiger the man" aka yong yuan to be back with us in the contigent. Gone are the days that he will fall under the influence of 2 bottles of beer...He was drinking a total of 7 bottles of beer in total + half flaming... He mentioned that he felt back missing out all our weddings while he was at work back at Liverpool....

It was nice catching up with Efung too as he made this tremendous effort to squeeze time for this gathering. He was back for 3 weeks and managed to secure a photo session with MM Lee.

When I am typing the journal, he was alreadi on his way back to New York (Round 2) on flight UA804 (Singapore - Narita - Washington DC - NY) He should still be up in the air....

Here is the end:

Yes, 55 bottles of beer spanned, lots of fun, not drunk, just chilled, lots of catching up,

Service by Foster was good and prompt, servers were smily and nice, manager Johnny was personal to the touch and 1+1 beer all nite long is too good to be true. Apple pie as dessert was nice and good music(alt between rock pop to live guitarist)to chill..

All in all, I am very happy with Foster...Good stuff!

:)

aliying

The "Classic"

9 years ago














yesterday, when Min and myself went for dinner

Still the same place, still the same girl - priceless

Coined this as classic. First learned this when I was looking at some of Min's eldest sis's melbourne photos years ago. They had a particular photo posing in front of the melbourne train. So when Min and I visited Melbourne, we posed exactly the same way as they had in the photo. Thought it was quite cool to do that... At least been there done that. Some things had changed, while some things had not.

No more China Jump(that was where we had dinner), but we had the sun and moon jap restaurant....Food there is good, snatching off a 30percent discount on the last day celebration of the restaurant's second anniversary...Sweet!

:)
aliying

Aliying shall bend time and space to back date the ANNUAL Wala with Eizac

busy drinking













3 drinkers

What a night!! (Actually, a lot of nights had passed since the event occured)The wondering wanderer is back to "lah lah" for 5 days and Ah frey, Min, myself, Kapor and mingyun had the luxury to have a drink at our Annual Wala session! What a drink it had been... lots of catching up and updates on how everyone is doing....

I know that I said that I will drink in moderation and practicality, but when such a dear friend came back, Aliying had to do what Aliying had to do....Beer, long island tea, burbon and the ultimate combination came - Waterfall and flaming combo! Damn!!!!! Fortunately, I had survived...No wasted at all, no wasted at all...Contrary to that, Eizac and Jeffrey had a good time spinning their heads around, teleporting to and fro Sydney...hahaha!

All in all, Eizac is still doing well in Sydney and I must say that it is no easy survival skill in a foreign land...Kudos to him for being the not the usual singaporean representing us out in the whole world out there....

Till the next Wala!!! Eer, I think I am going to Wala next Thu with my JC ODAC guys,....u know?

:)
Aliying

My notebook had made a decision

Using Min notebook to type this entry...a long time since an entry had been made..

A decision had been made for the notebook - to go for repair...$$down the drain and hope that it will work. Felt it is a pity not to repair it as it is still in good condition for general work, surfing and watching anime... Also to increase it selling price...

Eizac aka wondering wanderer is back in Singapore and believe mi, what a nite it had been for all of us at Wala Wala! Once the photos are in, we will re-enact the Wala Wala experience!

:)
aliying