Staying awake

I realised that I had more and more difficulty staying awake...during work....THe ZZzzzZZZ monster in mi is getting more and more "powderful!"

Help mi, GOd!

:)
Aliying

comments and a run

Dear all, Wondering wanderer and shellfish, saw your comments...replied them under the respective entries...think this is a better method as compared to reply to your non-reply@blogger.com...

just came back from a run and did some routines for the upcoming IPPT next tue... Should had started training donkey years ago instead of "last min carry buddha leg" double edged sword cos at least the SGD400 is there to motivate mi to train up a bit...















To strike gold and get 400bucks, I need 38 Sit up, 230cm Standing Board Jump, 10 chin up, 10.4 sec for shuttle run and <10min for my 2.4km.

Not sure if I can strike gold. SBJ might be a prob for mi, and I would need to dig my lungs deep for the <10min for the 2.4km run.

If I fail to do so, there is still the silver there for mi. No!!! I must aim for gold to raise funds for my upcoming wedding and projects...

:)
Aliying

Holland Argentina 0-0

My first 0300hrs match. With Jeffrey and Mingyun on their way to Segar Kopitiam for yet another round of soccer action, Min and I struggled to open our eyes when the alarm clock rang at 0230hrs. Before I gained sub conscious, I was alreadi settling down for the Holland Argentina match.

I must say that the match was not too bad, even though both teams rested some of their key players..better than the England - Paraguay...that one was boring to the max...can cry one by watching that.

Here is a pic of (L to R): Min, Mingyun and Jeffrey














:)
Aliying

World Cup..

Germany match was quite good actually...watched it with my brudders at AMK S11 kopitiam...and you should know my magical formula : Kopitiam + World Cup + a group of brudders = Kopitiam beer..

10 of us, 23 bottles of Calsberg beer....I must say that at the end of the 23rd bottle, I am a bit on the high side...luckily I never drive...heng yah!

Kudos to Meng, Ruishan, Yang, Melvin, Sabrina, Sean, Taomin, Bret, Howard and Grace.. It had been my absolute pleasure to drink with them...Chill out, I am!

Today was the third and final photo shoot - the indoor photo shoot...surprising tiring but at the same time, Min and I had a really good time taking photos together...Heard that wedding photos are always taken, framed into a book and slot it under the cabinet...However, I am sure that if we put on our thinking caps, there are others way to present this memorable piece of information....

Eg would be
1. to put it on TOP of the cabinet, making itself visible..
2. Throw away the box that comes with it so that you would not have the excuse that it will not collect dust.
3. Do a montage on it(at the expense of spending more money....:()
4. Put small photo frames around the house to revive the good times during the photo shoot.

:)
Aliying

Istanbul revisited!

The trip to Istanbul had been a very interesting experience for mi. Not the usual shopping, but we are abt to experience a "culture" that had given birth many many years ago...Not a man of good words, so I will just let my photos explain.

On top of that, another main reason why this trip is interesting is because I am able to meet up my good friends, Jeffrey and Mingyun overseas. It may be a bit difficult to meet up, but with just a little bit of effort to meet up together in a foreign land, the results are truly fulfilling and enjoyable!

Here comes the journey...follow through, ladies and gentlemen.













The blue mosque is a HUGE place! Definitely a icon of Istanbul. Located at Sultanahmel, you would not be able to miss it. Strict religious rules applies - no shoes, no revealing of the flesh and no tripod(do not ask mi why, they seems to be very particular abt Jeffrey's tripod). The good thing that it is free for entry..shiok!

We made our way to another Mosque - Mosque Sophia. This time round, we had to pay 10 Lira(approx 1 to 1 with the Singapore dollar). The interiors and the presentation justified the entrance fee as we are presented with ancient mosaic and canvas paintings of the mosque. This is very very good!























Smoke waterpipe - all you can for 6 LIRA...apple tea favour, cappucino favour and strawberry favour to choose for. All these beat those that we had in Singapore Arab street flat down to the max!!! Check out also the master below! Imagine getting paid to smoke for the last 6 years or so...













Makan in Istanbul is spolit for choice - Kebab, Doner, rice, etc. 3 of us actually had 2 lunchs in 1 hour. We had vegetable stew, chicken soup and dishes, doner and yorgurt. shiok!















The cat lazing in the evening sun caught my attention when I was walking along the streets. Cat or mosque? U choose!














Last but not least, the Silican Cristern consists of an undergroung maze with 2 medusa heads at the end of the maze....up to you to imagine, my friends!

All in all, the istanbul experience had been very nice and culturally interesting. Think this is further enhanced by the ever joking Jeffrey and the "xiao-jai-bu"(aka chinese translation of crazy women), Mingyun.

Cheers!

Aliying

Busy

Apologies for the "not so much" entry....THe time now is abt to be 5am in the morning and I just came back from a manjong session...the next thing I am looking for would be to crash into bed

THere will be a window of two hours to blog tomo...stay tuned! The trip to Istanbul entry will be up soon~

:)
Aliying

Exotic Istanbul!

Istanbul had been an interesting an exotic place to visit till now....Turkish tea, turkish smoke waterpipe, Blue Mosque, Sophia mosque, grand bazaar, etc... I will cover this more when I come back to Singapore on the 15th June.

Leaving Istanbul in 12hours time....but prior to that, I will be attempting to watch the Brazil - Croatia match(that is provided that I muster enough strength to watch the whole match)

:)
Aliying

Project Banyan Tree 2006

For those who do not know, Min and I went to Banyan Tree to have our photo shoot for our upcoming Project Wedding 2006. Every girl's dream to don her wedding gown and take some nice photos, Min had waited a good ten years for mi b4 I am able to do the photo shoot with her. Hor yeah!

It had been a two good years since I last proposed to her there in 2004. (What!!! IT took mi 2 freaking years to settle myself down??) Pls do not blame this blogger here because at that point of time, he is working terribly hard to pass his training stage in his new job. Coming back to Banyan Tree Bintan, pretty much the same(which I like it to remain that way). Quiet, Serene, tranquality. Nobody knows who I am, no phone calls to disturb mi, only Min and I in this small island.


3 Things why I know that I am on a holiday trip
1. I need to show passport to the immigration officer(shiok man, this is what I call a holiday maker)

2. need to quene up to get onto the boat(shiok man, all around mi are holiday makers instead of working)

3. somebody over the PA system say "this is your captain speaking"(Very shiok man! cos that means that I am not working on the right hand seat of the captain!!!)

Bintan is 45min on a boat ride down south from Singapore. From the Tanah merah, we headed for our destination - Banyan Tree. This place in particular has significant meaning to our existance because THIS is the place where I proposed to Min. (Though I did not do it in the most traditional way)..Coming back to the same place indeed bring back fond memories of the INDECENT proposal.

The people are basically nice to the max. You want water, you get water. You want buggy, you get buggy. You want DVD to watch, you get DVD to watch.. You want things your way, you get things your way. We were extremely fortunate to have Linda and Sam as our Makeup artist and photographer respectively. Nice work and effort made! We were even more fortunate that the actual day of the photoshoot is the only day it did not rain(act it rained after Sam and Linda left) Other than that, it was raining cats and dogs...Lucky!

Enough abt the talking. Here are just a bit of photos for your viewing pleasures, my dear
friend.

More photos will come - at the actual wedding day!

:)Aliying

The time has come to relax...

Looking forward to relax at Bintan for my 3D2N holiday break with Min. ....The time has come finally!

Some things to note:
1. I will be uncontactable for the next 3 days...
2. If you ever contact mi, it is not mi - it is Aliying speaking instead of Eng Wei, Yingwei, Chong Eng..
3. I am going for my "retreat"....

And.....

Yes, a holiday finally!!!!

Aliying

photos taken at San Franscisco

Top to bottom:
1. Tram driver
2. Hard Rock Cafe
3. Self Made!
4. Seoul Tower
5. Asiana Boeing 747.

:)
Aliying(photos taken by self using a second hand Canon A70 Digital camera, 3.2Megapixel, 3Xoptical zoom)

Time not enough!

Still cannot make time to type blog.

This is really late, but I had just finished the first episode of Singapore idol...hahaahah! Kungfu rapper vs brokeback mountain boy...hahahaah!

I still need more time to catch up the last 3 episodes of Heavenly world comic book, start my season of Bleach animation, prepare for my fri flight ex Singapore to Jakarta, clean up my house, play mj on Fri, overseas photo shoot next tue, arrange to meet up Jeffrey in Istanbul, medical checkup....aargh!!!

And now, I am rushing off to the bridal shop to tie up the knots for the upcoming photo shoot...

I need more time..

Maybe, I can make time on the bus to Tampines by falling asleep?

Aliying

Fisherman village

A good 2 years.

Was celebating my 2nd ROM anniversary with Min yesterday. I must say that times flies. In a blink blink, 2 years had passed by since the happening engagaement took place. Good fun, makan, good company, good music and really drink drink till I drop big time time!

Went to fisherman village for the first time yesterday. Located at the end of Elias road at the small town of Pasir Ris, we went there not knowing what to expect. Only had words of mouth from Jeffrey that the place hor eh!

Settled down at an outdoor restaurant next to the small fishing pond. Had a good seafood dinner. Nice place to eat and drink with my fellow brudders. The only drawback ist that it can be quite inacccessible. After which, Min and I proceeded on teh orchard Cineleisure to catch X men III. An okie show only, could had been better. Felt that the effects are great, but the plot is kind of the weaker side.

Then, Jeffrey said he got kinky stuff to pass to us, say Min see confirm high.....

No, it is not Victoria Secret........

No, it is not eskim hard liquor from Eastern Europe.....

No, it is not Heinkein beer....

Yes, truely enough, when Min saw it, her eyes were big.

Yes, it is a manjong table complete with a manjong set, a housewarming gift by Jeffrey and MY.

THank you so so much! Really appreciate that v much.

Now got to place the manjong set in my "money" position so that I can win big money!

A good 2nd ROM anniversay to Min and myself.

Aliying
Engaged 25 May 2004 1045hrs

~San Francisco runaway~

Harlow everyone,

I am currently in San Francisco(SFO). THe flight came from Incheon, flew across the Pacific Ocean b4 I hit the western coast of USA. Came down all the way to SFO. During the flight inbound, saw the grey bridge, golden bridge, Alkatrez(I think so, it is the prison that was shown on the movie the rock) and SFO city...Nice!

The place is surprising cooling. Very good weather of abt 20 deg. Made our way to the accom and straight away even without thinking, I put down my bag and went straight to makan. Makan for lunch was at a Viet noodles joint. Nice with bowls as big as those that you use to wash face.

In a nutshell, SFO seems to be a more liviler place relative to Los ANgeles. More people commuting around, and definitely good news for the ladies, more place for you all to shop. Nice! Lots and lots of starbucks, fashion joints, HMV, Virgin records...Also heard that the factory outlets are dirt cheap, levi's is cheap, bath and body works is nice to get for gifts and self bathing myself...etc...

The only fallback is that with a more urbanised city, more social problem will set in. I had personally seen more poverty at work. Ironic considering the fact the US is one of the high end first world countries in the world. Security is reputated to be in the "not so safe" region. So for those who intend to travel here, be warned!

As I was travelling in SFO, I strongly remembered an American friend of mine - Colin Mark Holmes. He was a lovely friend who I met in my trek to Annapurna Circuit in Nepal back in 2003. He is 2.02m tall, armed with a mega watt smile and superman look alike. It is probably fate that brought him, jeffrey and myself together. The world is so big at large. And to gain a friendship out of it is indeed fortunate.

Believe mi or not, Colin had made 2 hugh efforts to come to Singapore to visit us on 2004 and 2005 respectively. I am always proud to tell others of the tallest friend that I had in this life of mine. And he is also invited to come to my wedding...

It had been a year since I last saw him. And should he be reading this entry, I do sincerely hope that this will shed light to the droughts of months of not communicating to each other. Nobody is at fault - I am busy with my flying, house reno and wedding prep;Jeffrey is busy selling metals and Colin is in his master's program in international development. Though we had not caught up with each other, I am sure that at the back of the head, every individual is looking forward to meet up with each other again - going to wet market with jeffrey mum, eating durian at Geylang, chiong at Sim Lim, chill out at Balaclava, etc...

There is so much things to do in Singapore!

:)Aliying
P.S : I just hit my 100 entries...yeah!

Wala Wala with my classmates

Dear all,

Will be away for a while...Incheon and San Frans. Coming back on next Monday morning, 29th May 2006

This is what I covered over the weekend:
Sat Wala Wala, Sunday Cafe Cartel morning breakfast, car test driving, IKEA shopping, Barbercue Stingray, drinking kopitiam beer (Calsberg and Singha) with Jeffrey, Monday meet KT and Jomson duck, prepare for flight and now going to sleep...

For Wala Wala, Jieru aka Kat had done up a very excellent entry on it...Wala Wala...Thank you, Brogger!

For those who came on sat, many thanks and once again, a great drink!

Many many more to come cos World cup is coming!

ALiying

Mother's day photo

Behind: Sheng, Yao
Front : Min, Mother, Aliying

Will i ever see the prayer flags again?

No time to write much, but just penning down a thought while I am walking my way home from my new house in Bukit Panjang..

Will I ever make my day to see the prayer flags again?

Prayer flags taken at Thorong La (5400m above mean sea level), Annapurna Circuit, 2003

:)
Aliying

Remember my new house no broadband

My next acquisation - which maxonline programme should I choose?

:)
Aliying

The law of conservation by Full Metal Alchemist(FMA)

This is a delayed entry actually. On one of my on-form animation watching day, I finished 17 episodes in one day. All in all, I took 3 months plus to finish 51 episodes of FMA. FMA down, next Animation Bleach coming up!

A good to watch animation. In a nutshell, it is abt two brothers who wants to get back their original body after performing a human transmutation through alchemistry. Alchemist is abt decomposing the material, rearranging and bonding the substance to create something. Ching, right?

Like to highlight the law of conservation - there must be an equivalent trade - for anything you gain, you lose something. Approaching the end of the animation, one was posed with this question? The law of conservation only exists in the ideal world. In reality and the actual world out there - is there really such a thing called equivalent trade? If you work hard, will you get the same return? If every individual is different, does it infer that the gain is different for each and every one of us? Why do some people gain without losing anything? Is losing something necessarily bad?

In my opinion, I do follow the law of conservation to a certain extent. I do believe that with hard work, you can get recognition and reap the benefit from the hard work. I also do believe that the higher hopes that you raise, the further you will fall from your expectations. So in practical life, always be contented with what you have. To gain a bit of the hard work is alreadi job satisfaction. To gain what you "lose" would be a bonus to you...

BTW, I passed my working exam alreadi. Next simulator working exam - mid Aug 2006

:)
Aliying

Bless mi as working exam is today

Critical time period as today will be my working exam

Bless mi good luck and I will be back for more constructive jounrnal entry

Also changed the song to Utada Hikaru - First Love

:)
Aliying

Updates!

Lets review the things that I need to do

New "things to do list when my house is complete
1. Bring my mother to Peach Garden for this year's mother's day(Going this sunday, considered done!!!)
2. Research on the feasibility of getting a dog
3. Visit Thomson Plaza (together with point no 1, considered done!!!)

Yes, I will be in Singapore for the next 12 days. Managed to scrap through the Line check. NOt a very convincing pass, but good enough to pass....now I had completed the half of my training, I must look ahead to complete the even harder second part of the final training. ...Never felt better b4!

Just came back from the Simulator again. Had a quite okie recurrent. That should set the pace for the coming base check(aka working exams)...Yes I just had an "working exam" 2 days ago and I will be having another " working exam" in 5 days time. Argh!!!!! Can somebody save mi!

Things on the lighter note, my house is going to be hand over to mi from the contractor on the 10th!!! Yes, On the very same day, my TV console, my bed, my sofa, my oven, my fridge, my washing machine, my window grille is also going to come. I am going to be a watchdog and oversee the delivery one by one. Hurray!

There is still so much things to do. Better get it done while time and space is still favourable to mi for the next 12 days or so. Here is a list of things that I would need to achieve b4 I start to fly again on the 16th.

Things to do b4 I start to fly on the 16th
1. Vote for the first time on the 6th May 2006
2. Mother's day DIM SUm on 7th May 2006
3. Repair work done at the house on 8th May 2006
4. " working exam" on 9th May 2006
5. Furniture waitin day on 10th May 2006
6. Free and easy day on 11th May 2006(Finally!)
7. 5 more days in Singapore b4 I start to fly again,....

:)
Aliying