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What's up guys!! It's about one year since I last posted. It is also about 1 year and a few months since I last graduated from my school. Time flies~  One of the peak periods of our life where we go onto separate ways from our peers and make our own decisions that holds a key to our future. Hard decisions eh? 

Sometimes we just have to go with that one instant gut feeling that burns up for a moment in us and just go for it. Never have I imagined I would be taking on a part-time degree course whilst working. F.Y.I, I just applied but the results aren't out yet. Often having sympathy for people who have to do night classes BUT look now I am gonna be in this myself as well. That's a thought that have never came across my mind. Not a night person nor a multi-tasking one so bless me in this totally new experience.

One of the thing that I hate most is when I am accused for something I had not done or when my morals are being insulted. Like bitch please, you don't have the rights to. Take for example, at your workplace when something goes wrong people will just do 'taiji' to somehow make you the blamable one. This can be a person that usually praise you or crack jokes but when it comes to protecting their own ass they suck up to the upper ups or take the chance to make you less credible. There are also disgusting liars out there lying straight in-front of your face without a blink nor do they have any guilt.

These are the different experiences that I witnessed or experienced personally. Everywhere have its own politics or just lousy attitude I guessed. Staying silent might seem cowardly, but actions speak louder than words. Continue to observe and stay true to yourself (sounding wise here). It might be hard to always be a good person but its alright to be a bad person at times. Let's embrace these as gaining life insights upon humanity and the environment around us.

YOLO will always be a kid's motto, they will just chiong to do whatever they want. SO I am gonna use this as my motto and hope that I can surprise myself by juggling both school and work at the same time. This is something I have absolutely not done before which makes it challenging. Its the challenge that makes the end result more rewarding.

Hardens up when adulthood comes

When we grow older, making mistakes will get us more severe treatment or reaction rather than being forgiven or overlooked. That's when we realised growing up isn't all that great and we all wished that we were younger once again where what we do would receive forgiveness and understanding easily. "Oh they are just kids!" , "They don't know much yet", such phrases that often surfaced. Hence, inevitably many of the kids or teenager like us are forced to harden up in order to become an adult that we cannot avoid and have to start being able to face harsher treatments for the wrong moves we did. These moves were taken much more lightly when we did the same things as a kid.

We are all still a youngster or kid in mind that are yet to fully developed or ready to become mature enough to take on this 'adult' role that have a heavy responsibility. However, not a lot of people will be sympathized of that, most would just tell you that you have to face it, grow up, this is the true reality, blah blah blah. Being an adult would mean we will receive less help as we are ought to be more capable of doing it on our own (presumed by other people) and we have to figure out ourselves. BUT the truth is, at least for me, I still need lots of help, that's why I do not want to become an adult I still need lots of guidance. The word independent is a dreadful word to me. Yes, you might disagree but that's my thought. That's why in this world, when we are all suddenly thrown somewhere where we have to pick ourselves up, which forces our young mind to have no choice but to toughen up. This brings me to my main highlight of this post, where I would like to show my gratitude to some situations (that I could recall currently) where helped were received when things were seemingly dull.

Some people are like angels (too cheesy) or like the source of light you often hear that you will see at the end of a tunnel, that shines on you. These are the people who would still give you a helping hand where we would often melt because of their actions as we grow up we seldom received such kindness that we all longed for. Therefore, it always warms our hearts when someone gives us a pushed or pulled us up when we were unable to retrieve ourselves back. Especially when we become adults if we received even a small help or act of kindness or should I say a feeling of having someone to be able to help you through patiently like how it was, in the past when we were just kids.

One of the heartwarming incidents that I still remembered were when I took up a crash course on Chemistry in school before the start of the first semester of my Polytechnic life. I totally had no Chemistry background and do not know a single thing about it as I did not take that subject during Secondary school. It was a few day course (I think) where I could not gasp some of the concepts that the lecturer was teaching. Its not a really good feeling when you don't know a single thing and some people around you just leave you there on your own to manage it yourself. However, at this moment of despair, seemingly my SOS signal seems to be heard by some angels that were sent to me.

They patiently taught me the really basic of it and simplified it so that I was able to understand. Little do they know how grateful I was and glad when I finally understood how it works. Even though the memory of the incident gets blurry but the feelings that were felt still linger on.

Another incident was during my chosen module, Photography, where I was in a class where I do not know anyone except an acquaintance I made during other school event. When our teacher starts to teach us about the manual mode of a camera and tell us to try it out ourselves in class, I was like, OH SHIT I  DON'T UNDERSTAND A SINGLE SHIT ON WHAT SHE JUST SAID. Oh dear, and I have no one around me that I could ask. AND AT THIS MOMENT, the person that I am acquainted to seem to have magically sense the distress in me AND ASKED, "Do you know/understand how to use the things she just taught?" In my mind I was like 'OMO thank god,  this person saved me from my loneliness, misery and confusion!!"(sounds dramatic but you get the gist of it, that were the feelings I felt at that moment). SO he said, "Ok come, let me teach you". *Knees down on floor internally* Hallelujah!! It was the turning point for me for that class (ok that's over-exaggerated). From then on, my gratitude for the person held on. Little did he knew, that I was really grateful.

Its small acts from people like this whom voluntarily wants to help you without a price, FOC, they just want to help you out when they can. These are some of the people where we can learn something from. Sometimes, its not easy to be as selfless as certain people.

I would like to thank *holding a trophy behind a column* (like star awards) anyone that have did any really small simple acts that had help me in some ways. Hope this post has struck something in your heart. Till the next time.

Graduating

Hopefully, Two more months I will be graduating if all is well. You will always missed a place after you can't go back the same place anymore. We would always complain but when we ain't there anymore we would wish to turn back time to where we were. 

So its time I make use of the last few months to create even more memories so that I will have lesser regrets saying, "Why haven't I done this the last time?". Sometimes there's a saying, 'We have nothing to lose since we are still young' other than embarrassment. Just feel embarrassed and whatever for now. At least, I had already tried out the things I have never done. Just explore and try to gain experiences so you will have interesting stories to tell your grandchildren or others when you grow old. Like " You know ah last time I like that or like this you know" etc. Its like you can show off of the little or big things you did in the past that impacted you in a way or other or it may not but it gives you some compelling things to share with people.

Just like how I had regrets that I should have taken part in more activities during my secondary school days. The pages in my life history could have been filled up more if I was more proactive those times. When days are close, is then, where you realized you haven't been doing much so NOW we have to create more and capture all the moments down. Sometimes, there will be good moments that I would want to imprint it in my memory so I would keep my mind wide open and 'scan or feel' the atmosphere and that current feel I am having so that even after a long time passed, when I recall I would still have that vivid feeling. Meh but it often fails, as my memory is not that good, after awhile it fades away so its best if it could be captured down by photographs so we can browsed through whenever we want.

If you have people crazy enough to do it with you to create more memorable times before it ends, go ahead and do it. *Feeling all wise at my own sentence made*

Sometimes don't you wished there were someone recording down the live moment and capture them when they are happening?!! 

Hopefully, I will have people I can visit when I come back to reminisce the older days during the time when I am still in this school. Its different when you become 'outside' of the school as you won't get to know the internal information as well as when you are still a student there. 

Its time when you start acting and add more colours in before the opportunity ends.

Shanghai Trip

Shanghai was the first official country that I have been to, and it has been years since I traveled out of Singapore. There were bound to be worries on how I would be able to adapt myself in a total foreign environment. These worries were slowly gone as I got use to their actions and behaviors.

I went with my school to Shanghai for 3 weeks for an Overseas Immersion Programme (OIP). At first all of us just could not accept how the people just cut our queue so nonchalantly, cars and motorists dashing across us without warning even when its a pedestrian crossing. The traffic was rather chaotic and we had to be extra careful when crossing the road for any oncoming vehicles. I guessed the reason for us to be shocked was because in Singapore everything seems to be safer and when we came to China, we were not used to the fast reckless traffic. 

Almost every single night, we would have a debrief session to share on our thoughts for the day. Initially, our discussion would mainly be how bad our perception of China people were but gradually our thoughts started changing and instead, we tried to understand and find out why they act in a certain way. When we criticized the people, our lecturer would constantly be provoking our thoughts at the sideline, telling us to observe more and not prejudice people so easily. It was kind of annoying when I just wanted to enjoy the trip without having to stress my mind to observe the things and people. As I think observing things drain out too much energy from me. However, I still tried my best to observe my surroundings.

When I first bought a dish from one of the campus's canteen, it was really oily even though it was soup based and the other foods were all rather oily as well. Nevertheless, we got use to this too and now we know we do not have to queue for the food but just go straight up to the cashier and give our order. As for the traffic, we were no longer surprise or too panicky and instead we looked out for one another when we were crossing the road. To add on, there were other parts of China that have less oily food so we should not categorize the entire China.

The most convenient way for us to settle our food and growling stomach was our dear 'Carolina Bakery' which was situated just next to our dormitory. Every time when I am not very hungry and just want to settle for a fast meal or have our breakfast, it was always the same place we go to. In addition, they have milk tea that comes in both hot and cold! I had never tried a warm milk tea before so it was a fresh experience. The breads there were not bad either. They sell burgers and fried chickens too! Egg tarts, sandwiches, moon cakes, tidbits, drinks etc. Talking about fried chicken, I got to taste the Korean fried chicken on my last night that I did not get the chance to and they tasted great!! There were soya sauce and spicy flavourrr.

As our room was one of the biggest and probably most hospitable, our room was regularly invaded. My room consisted of a living room connected to a bedroom where some of the normal rooms were just a bedroom. It irks me when people drop food bits in my room (where we later called them our house) and my friends would constantly hear me nagging if any bits drop on the floor or things they did that make my room dirty. We would always suggest other people's room to eat at as we all know the consequence of having visitors feasting in your room. It felt like we just moved into a new apartment as all the basic necessities were not available in the dorm. Hence, as one big class we went to the convenience store to buy things like toilet papers, hangers, 5L mineral water and dustpan. 

Yet, some of the things I missed were when people invaded my room, even though I disliked it when my room becomes a mess but I still like it when they come to my room making it chaotic. Also, it would only be a short while before all this fun moments end so why not make use of them fully. At least when I think back I would know I did something fun instead of the regulars. Guessing whoever was at the door by the sound of the doorbell which failed afterwards when the rest started to follow the initial ringer's style. Some of them got to see my unglamorous hairdo with my hairband on and luckily I have got my jacket to cover my not-very-nice clothes beneath.

People will always have a perception of you that they assumed or set themselves of you, or perception of you that they would not say. Even if you justified that you are not what they presumed, people would just brushed it off and choose to believe whatever they believe. Therefore, sometimes we should just do whatever the hell we want as it takes too much efforts to care about what people think of you. As whatever you do, people would bound to have things to comment on.

I would like to thank my group where they tried to help me by giving me ideas for my fishbowl discussion when I am lacked of it and others who said I was doing fine to make me feel good even though I know I totally screwed the entire thing. Sometimes, I think they should let me know the harsh truth so that I can improve on myself accompanied by words of encouragement to keep the morale going. Even though we all felt moody when our presentation did not went well, but I still appreciated the times where I got to know my members more, our freestyle way of doing discussions which was sometimes too lay back but fun as well. I guessed I hid my disappointment of my actions as I think that showing it out does not make any difference and others would not want to hear your miserable complaints as well.

Luckily, there were washing machine and dryer so I do not have to hand wash my clothes. It was good that my peers have medicines and electrical appliances like hairdryer and iron. Our dorm room was considered alright but it cannot be compared to when we were at Huangpu Hotel at Nanjing where they have clean fluffy beds and people to change your towels everyday. 

Our schedule was really packed for the first week where we went for museum rush and also various tourist attractions. We went to too many museums that I don't even know which one I was at. Most of my friends seems to know a thing or two and were interested in history. When I tried reading or hearing things about history my mind cannot really absorb the information, I guessed I am just uninterested in it and finds it rather dry. When I hear facts about history, its just like a whirlpool in my head. This made me ponder at times if I should read up on some history when I get back, but sometimes its just seem uninteresting to you that you will feel bored when you start reading.

It was a good experience where I got to taste new foods and enjoyed different sceneries.

Fried bun = DELICIOUS!!

I love long bus rides especially after long tiring trips.

Frequent tabao food gathering at our dorm.

Intership

Another milestone of our polytechnic life, Internship. It's both a daunting and exciting news at the same time for most people. My main concerns are that I am afraid of my inabilities to complete tasks given to me, if I am capable enough to be able to get and upgrade my skills and knowledge or will I stay at the same competency level? Last concern would be, you would not know what to expect on the things, problems or challenges that you might faced and will you at that point of time have an appropriate solution for it.

These are the daunting aspects of internship, BUT the exciting part of it are you get to experience new things in life that you would never get to have a chance to during your school time. You will have many kinds of unique encounters and able to learn something new. We get to broaden our knowledge and widened our viewpoint of certain things. In my case, I am curious how a park is actually run on a daily basis, what's the behind-the-scene like and what kind of stuffs we will be doing at a park. Being able to be involved in the events part is one of the things I am looking forward to, as events are usually high spirited and chaotic. If you're involved in a preparation, especially a long one just for a few days for a particular event, I believed there will be a great sense of achievement and satisfaction as you spent time overnight, had numerous meetings, plannings as a whole in hope to have a successful event. I usually played a minor role in an event as just one of the helpers, and I heard that this intern might have the chance to let us manage the event which means you got to be able to have those qualities where you can assign tasks to people and make sure the event runs smoothly. I would want to learn how or be able to experience that (with assistance of course) too as it would definitely be totally different from the tasks as a helper of the event.

There are so many types of application forms that we have to fill up before reporting on the first day of internship to our designated company. It's starting next week on the 14 March 2016, OH GOSHH!! Bless my soul~ Hopefully I will survive in one piece, gain some useful skills and get to know good people.

Today we attended a briefing regarding our internship before it start on what we should take note of. I am glad that we still have a 'mountain' to lean on which is our school and lecturers if we faced any problems or needed any help. WHICH MEANS, I don't have to be totally independent, do you know how scary that word is, it means you have to be all alone to solve your own issues and there's no one to help you solve your problem you have to do it yourself. At least to me, it meant that way so its always good to have some place you can turn to.

ANDAND YOU KNOW WHAT, we have to do these three reports during our internship. Its called Interim 1, Interim 2 and Final Report. Just by looking at the details you have to include in it = confusion, "what is this suppose to mean", "what am I suppose to write and how for this part" etc. Ahhh... see see so many things we have to go through in order to be sharpened into a better person.

May I survive happily through this journey, signing off once again!~

At this age

When we're reaching 20 or about starting from 16, most people will start to realise the responsibilities they have. Others will be expecting more from us. As a kid we wish to grow up quickly but now we wish to go back to when we were young. We looked back at ourselves, when we were young we just did whatever we want without being concern of the consequences at all but now we would think of them before doing(but sometimes even knowing the consequence we would still GO AHEAD & DO WHAT WE WANT DUDE). I like how you can bullshit with kids and say whatever things to them and they will get amused by it, the point is we are able to talk freely with them cause they will just laugh at anything you said. Its also therapeutic when you are with them they can either bring you to cloud nine or make your back sore.

Actually at times during your tertiary schools, when we behave immaturely and get chastised by the teacher, depending on the situation, instead of feeling guilty I actually felt kind of happy. Our teacher at this level, will be expecting more from us as we are going to be adults soon. But when they start to scold us about our behaviour it make me feel like I am back to the younger days where we were protected cause we're still kids that can get away with almost anything. Instead of finding what they called the 'immature classmates' annoying, I like how they are. I like it when things are more fun, not too uptight and serious with all the mature thing. We ought to be crazy and childish sometimes to enjoy things. Like when I see working adults outside, and they are still playing games on their phone or teasing one another. Its like there's still a playful side in them.

Its great to see some group of youngsters having crazy adventures whenever they can, I believe we should try out lots of things now so we can share stories to others like how we're now when we tell others stories of what we did in the past. At times, we have to follow YOLO, note, AT TIMES not all the time.

Healer

THAT TITLE IS ALREADY COOL LOOK AT ITTT!!! I must talk about this Korean drama that I just finished watching. Its a really thrilling drama even just from the very start of the first episode it was already at climax. That's what really attracted me to continue watching and of course the LEAD is damn charismatic! I like the song that always come up when he is doing his mission in a swift and smooth manner. His action are speedy and he don't leave any traces! HMPH THOSE SCRUMBAG he has to deal with and he barely have any scratches on him (woo), only until the later scenes where they used dirty tricks so he got deeply injured.

Through an interview, I realised it must be hard for him to be on the wires for some of the action scenes he has to do while looking cool. I liked it when he is in his mission attire cause I know he's going to do some cool moves!! Oh my oh my, and that specs he has is really cool as well, it can take pictures, send and received datas. 

The female lead was not bad too, I like her bubbly personality and crazy action sometimes making dramatic to the next level.

I was anticipating a fan meet of the LEAD to come Singapore since this was quite a new drama and HE'S GOING TO!!! When I saw his commercial on the television, I literally went high while I knocked down a nearby chair in process that was in my way to the TV. SUCH DEFINE FEATURES! HOPE I CAN GET HIS TICKET!!!

Camp turns into Daytime

3 day 2 night Aerobics camp turned into a day camp due to HAZEE which I am kind of elated as there won't be a need to think of what to pack and NO BURDENNS! Just a light-weight bag and off I go!

Typical day 1, ice breaking games and introducing ourselves. Through their brief introduction about themselves and what they did during the holiday, I found that they were the same kind as meee!! 

Question: "What is your hobbies?"

Answer: "Drama/ sleep" etc 

Question: "What did you do during your holidays?"

Answer: "Nothing much just sleep/staying home after an event" 

Answers might not be fully accurate as I forgot some of the sentence

It was quite unexpected to see two guys when I first reached, as I already thought to myself aerobics will just be all girls. They need more guys to join this, so its more equal in gender. Here comes a part of an activity called Circuit. Upon hearing it I didn't know what it meant, after some of the seniors explained about it, we knew it was one of the hell exercises we had go through after our lunch break. It was basically doing different exercises according to stations in one direction. There would be timing for each station, we had to keep doing it repeatedly until the teacher tells us to proceed to the next station.

One of the ice breaking game called, "Honey will you smile for me?" where we were seated in a circle. One person would have to go around and say this sentence to people, one at a time and try to make him/her laugh. If you managed to, then they would replace your position. This was awkward for me as I don't go around saying mushy stuffs like this plus intentionally acting silly or funny to make others laugh. SO I failed to make anyone laughed except for one that laughed easily but I can't constantly pick her. The room was full of silence and the awkwardness in me was building up, spilling over the entire room. It was just pathetic me going around already thinking there was no use of making them laugh with whatever strategy so I am just deadly repeating that sentence and hoping time flies and they would stop the game or call out another person.

For circuit training, we actually have an adult which is a teacher whom guide and taught us the proper way of doing a particular exercise. I am not sure whether those were aerobics exercises. Before we started the circuit, we did a 20 minutes warm up at the gym like on the treadmill or those stationary bicycle before proceeding into a room which was within the gym itself.

Day 1 set of exercises: Hamstrings, planking, squats, some weight-lifting and other exercises which I forgotten the name. ANDD stretching (includes some yoga poses) after all the intense exercises. After the stretching, the teacher and some of the seniors helped us pressed some acupuncture points at the hamstring area while we lied flat facing the floor. Hearing all the hysterical crying of pain LOLL which was rather entertaining when watching until you got to tried it yourself. 

Music was blasting through the room while we were doing those exercises. It felt rather tiring and many felt like giving up in the middle of it. The after process was rather satisfying as we managed to pull it through. When doing a round two for the circuit, the teacher said we did better than first round as with have gained more strength but I think its the opposite cause we were losing strength. So, shes might just be trying to encourage us. BUT MEH it felt good to get praised! Everyone looks like they still have the energy to continue so for some instances when I felt that I am at my limit I would still try to force myself to carry on or it might be abit paiseh. OH and if we stopped without doing to the best we can, there would be penalty which we got 21 push ups after the exercise. The funny thing is my push ups can't go down. Whereas, its normally people can't go up. Need to get those demm strength in there. The last part was the best as we get to lie on the mat and just close our eyes and rest, with the soothing music. Recharging ourselves from all the intensity earlier on.

YOU KNOW WHAT.. During lunch break was where we realised with signed up for a AEROBIC TRAINING CAMP not just Aerobic Camp so it was meant to be tough stuff. Mannn I didn't knew it then but I guess I would still go.

-Day 2, haze no camp, end of story- 

There would be breakfast together for those who wants and doing yoga poses afterwards! Some said we need to let the food digest for 3 hours before we can start yoga. Woo was disappointed and glad at the same time. Day 2 is usually where the most fun comes from and I was ready to face the challenges that would come in my way. Our muscles was hurting almost everywhere. It starts hurting during the night time. I was still thinking hmm why am I not feeling any aching after all that exercise. BUTTT the mightiness just have to last this short.

Day 3, there was no teacher this time round and we did it in..... what was that place called again? Oh well, its just some air-conditioned room but not too strong. IT'S circuit again but this time round a different group of exercises which are cardio. WOO I like cardio ones as I find that its more effective than just running or those other workouts. Due to our still aching muscles, the circuit this time round was more challenging for us. 

Burpees, mountain climbers, high knee kick, skaters, shuttle run. We did this for two rounds in 45 minutes.

The entire process was too, tiring, but was once again glad that I completed it but of course with many occasions where I took short rest in between the exercises. We had PIZZA for lunch after excising! The games were quite alright but I didn't quite like the last day where we played games in separate groups. As we were supposed to bond with each other not create a division. Games like throwing different sizes of coins from a distance into a plastic container and do a skit with a song with the lyrics changed.

It would be better if it can be a 3 day straight training or not...? Good thing is our body muscles could rest for a day. We had BBQ session the next day after our training ended. We would be meeting for 4 days straight! The BBQ food was FOC and it was at sentosa!! The sentosa part was the more lucrative part for me as I have been yearning to go there this year as it was free entry because of SG50!! I had not been there for yearsss!! BUT as we were lingering at the BBQ area, the sky darkens and by the time I finally get to set off and go to the beach it was almost pitch black which was not what I anticipated. SO I NEED TO GO AND HAVE A REAL FULFILLING EXPERIENCE AT THE BEACH again! I didn't have to do much stuffs as our seniors were doing most of the job, cooking and preparing the food for us for the entire day. I ought to learn how to set up the BBQ pit too! Whole day was basically eating and no games were played at all surprisingly.

Got to try or see new kind of food for BBQ like pizza, scrambled eggs, garlic bread, burger, fish, fish balls and they even boiled water to cook the korean spicy noodle. I wanted to try the spicy noodle for quite sometime but didn't had the feel at that point of time and plus so many people was sharing it. One of them mixed marshmallows with scrambled eggs, who would have thought of a combination of that? But I dare not try loll. We left at about 9 plus and on our way out I saw the empty road and of course the typical me suggested to take a shot while lying down on the road. I was expecting a solo shot but ended up a few joined in so it ended up as a group shot. How frequent do you get to lie down on the road!

Da Pizzass!!

Looking like some village

The orh lulu beach but I like the texture of the beach and the softness of it when you stepped on it!

18 - 20 September

OH ABOUT LIFE

YOOOHOOO PEOPLE!!! GOT DA FEEL TO TALK ABOUT LIFE! My current school life is rather hectic as after an assignment there would be another assignment or an upcoming assignment while you are on an assignment. See see so many assignments! I only get to catch a really short breather after common test ends as new work are waiting for me on the other end (Nuuu I shall take the other path) and next, exams period would be coming. The schedule is just so tight! 

TIP: Being optimistic about this whole thing will make you pull through all these better! Even though there is definitely times you feel like giving up!

I often missed people that I interacted with even for a short period of time. I would keep thinking of the fun and good moments I spent with them. It was short lived but I enjoyed being able to spend time with them. Knowing that after that, we are going to go back to our own life again. Sounds so sad, like after that one rare opportunity of interacting for a particular event ends, we would not be able to meet up again. Occasionally, I would missed them wondering if they do while I recall the memories in my mind or when I am scrolling through pictures we took. If we could all keep talking to one another and be able to meet up from time to time, how nice would it be! Some examples would be the camps I joined before, people I worked with for some of my part time jobs and doing projects with people from other courses. These are precious moments that we should cherished as after an event you don't have any excuse to be able to meet up! 

It always feel good to be able to see my pals again after a long period, just with their presence alone. We would have a short catch up of our life and just enjoying the moment talking about random stuffs. I also like those coincidence times where I get to see my friends outside and have a short talk.

A tiny something about me is that, I think that my energy pool will run out as soon as I am too energetic for a short period of time. Its like my energy pool is like a container that stores my energy so once it runs out I will feel a bit drain. So usually I can only be hyper for awhile! That is my thought of my energy level. Like socializing also drain my energy, PFT!  Once it runs out, bye I am back to the calm me.

TILL THE NEXT DON'T KNOW WHAT TIME! ~~

Cool me signing off ~

TRICK

I RECOMMEND THIS SONG BY TRICK, I discovered one of their cover on fb and decided to check out on their other covers. This particular one is rather refreshing to hear & to look at and I like the simplicity of their videos. Some of their videos have a nice backdrop illuminated by LED lights. Current favourite song WOOO! It's a good combination where the song has a rap part in it too! I would be so elated if I can get to hear them live!!

Their names are Marc Lian and Richard Jansen

April School Reopen

NUUUUU the day where most people dread... I became the class representative once again which I kind of sabo myself. At first, when the teacher asked who wants to be the class rep and the class as usual goes "Kellinnn". I was defending myself by waving my hand in the air as a rejection but the teacher took this opportunity and he goes " Oh! You raised up your hand, so you're the class representative." He purposely mistook it lor! Maybe he knew nobody wants to be. I was saying "Oi don't sabo me hor!" then GGWP became class rep again despite me reasoning that I had already taken up the role for Year 1 and we should give the chance to other people. Obviously, teachers win most of the time! He said, " Year 1 is Year 1, Year 2 is different!". Me (in mind): "WTFFFUUUU, ITS NOT, PLEASEE". Anyway, got points so ok lah, fine I shall be it for the next one year or one semester!

The first lesson was just introduction about Arboriculture (Plants related) telling us about stories related to trees and to get our interest towards it. Next, after an one hour break it was our next design lesson and luckily it was a really brief intro and short distanced walk around the campus to take some perspective photos (OH NO GG! Time to do work next week) for our first assignment. See the word 'perspective' sounds so chim already, you can already foresee me suffering for the coming days! AH NI YO!! (An informal way of speaking in Korean: Nooooo)

Two of the the teachers for today I know them, one I had seen him before but he had never taught us before the other taught us during our first year, first semester.

We were released early at 1 plus instead of 4 pm so we headed earlier to the CCA fiesta (where all the ccas congregate in one area to showcase about themselves and pull 'fresh' (freshies/ year 1) people to join them, mostly is for year 1 but year 2 and 3 are welcome too I guess). It was damn hot and chaotic over there, I kept perspiring! Visited some of our friends' booth to chit chat for awhile. I signed up for 2 CCAs which are event base which means when they emailed you about certain events, you can sign up for it only when you are free, if you are not, you choose not to go. Good thing about them, I don't have to stick to a certain schedule which is more flexible for me as I don't know when I am free or not! Visited some of our friends' booth to chit chat for awhile

Went to visit my CCA booth ahhh look at those artistic photos with me inside! Memoriesss~

First day of lesson learning these stuffs!

Treetop Walk & Singing

On 15 April 2015, I finally met up with my poly friends for the first time during our holiday before school starts! It was also the day I finally got my new phone after years, my old phone had problems like memory low. I am a apple (iphone) user so for a change I decided to go for samsung (android) to see the difference. It was quite a headache when I first received it as it was really different from what I originally had. Due to the impromptu purchasing of phone in the morning, I could not make it for Korean BBQ (SAVE MONEY!!) so I went to join my friends for Teo Heng only instead, it is a karaoke place. Instead of singing for the first part of the session, we or me kept getting distracted by my new phone. As they wanted to have a touch of it and me trying to explore its functions. 

For most of the time, we talked instead of sing as we had a lot to catch up on since we haven't been seeing one another for quite long but there isn't any much juicy news just things like them being in camp trainings or going overseas during holiday. We had a 3 hour session in the LARGE room and it was big though YDS! After that we went to KFC to had some yogurt and this time round I tried passion fruit flavour and had some toppings for it. Previously, I thought adding toppings would have extra charges so I always go for just the yogurt itself. So we chit chatted as usual for awhile and went to Daiso for a walk and some of us got a nice box for ourselves to put our stuffs! As the box was nicely decorated with cursive words.

On 18 April 2015, VSSKYC went to da Treetop Walk YO! LOL the name just rhythms with this. We met up for McDonald's breakfast (AHH MY HOTCAKES!!) to fill up our belly before going. The 9am meet became like 10 plus or much later that I can't remember now (Nuuu no more fresh air to breathe in). The weather was rather hot when we were on our way there. Luckily, when we reached our destination it was not that sunny anymore.

There's lack of signs to direct you to the location so we followed where our instincts brought us to and YEAP we were right! The place was rather ulu and the pavement was uneven and not properly paved so it's sort of like a nature let loose place. I will show some pictures so you can get a clearer idea of what I am saying. 

There were lots of climbing, up the slopes, down the slopes, wooden staircase up and down and many more obstacles like rocks, pebbles and monkeys (there were many of them appearing along our way) on the ground. Making it harder to walk and you should constantly looked at the ground to keep your balance in case there was this random huge block of rock protruding from the ground that intercepts with your way. Best part of the trip were us doing cheers to liven up the long journey so that it was not so bored to merely walked through the entire thing in silence. Sharing the cheers we learnt from camps and singing random songs like kiddo songs. There was only one toilet area after travelling a long distance and you would also passed by a majestic looking place in which they said looks like hunger games. Another part was, randomly stopping at some location to take nice photos (we spam, like having photo shoot) and asking strangers for help to take group photos for us. So far all the people we asked were quite kind. One group, which we assumed to be foreigners, even requested to take a group photo with us with my camera and their phone.

Let me share with you some of the epic things that happens as our journey continues. As I looked up towards the sky I saw a monkey holding a yellow water bottle filled with water sitting on the branch. I was like "What is it doing with the bottle up there?" My friend warned me by saying," Later it drop down ah!" Seeking the advice, I picked up my pace and swiftly passed by the danger zone (LOL sounds like composition). Upon seeing the first monkey, Pearl let out a slight shriek and the initially leading in the front her, went to take cover of the person behind her to avoid the monkey. AND the cool me just walked passed it bravely! I could sensed or see from its eyes that it was also scare of us, so all of us were scare of one another, so I guessed it wouldn't attack me or something.

After quite awhile, we finally reached the Treetop Walk's bridge which we had been waiting to see! It was quite a distance to walk before eventually reaching. It was a one way bridge so once you enter there's no returning back and you would just have to use the exit on the other side. It was the bridge I saw people taking photos with and was rather excited to see the actual thing for myself. We could only pause for a while as there were other people behind us who needed to pass by too as the bridge was narrow and can only fit one person in a line. On our way out, it started to rain so we miserably squeezed under two umbrellas that we had. Funny ah, when I got bring never rain and when I did not it rained. So we chiong for a nearby shelter with a sign saying, " No trespassing ", who cares so much when there was not a soul in sight and it was raining heavily. We turned out to be inside of Singapore Island Country Club and it was all high class inside. There were people playing golf and buffet ongoing too!! It was my first time seeing people playing golf.

Next, we went to replenished our hungry stomach after a tiring walk. We had a fulfilling meal at Saizeriya for a reasonable price at HomeTeamNS. The glorious food ahhhhh, thinking about it I want to have some again! Next next, we had a impromptu decision to play Laser Quest WOOO!!! At first I was against the idea due to my previously bad experience of it. BUT this time round was a comeback for me, I GOT SECOND PLACE!!! Although it was just 10 minutes inside, the tension was high as you needed to watched your back and everywhere around you in the dark to prevent getting shot. Heng it was a team game!! It was 3 VS 3 and occasionally we would face off so we head on attack haha! The feeling was really shiok when you shoot them from behind without them knowing.

Our last stop was to have some ice cream at Val's workplace! We stayed there till almost 9 pm to decide on the photos we should upload and chit chatted. It was a fun day!

Our colourful shoes!

Garlic taste NICE!!

Pineapple and Bacon Pizza

Potato Omelette NICEE

Must be drooping over the food! The chicken steak have a layer of cheese!

Yummy food and good atmosphere makes eating more enjoyable!!1

Rot at Ching Wei's house

We were too bored at home so we decided to go to Ching's place and rot(we're not actually rotting, it's just a term which means we are just chilling and not doing much). Ching ordered Macs delivery that includes nuggets, french fries and her Line toy! AWESOME now we could have a picnic while watching movie! I was excited upon hearing that Ching was going to order Mcdonald delivery because we would get to enjoy, talk and munch on something as well.

As we were seated in the living room, Ching's grandpa offered us some fruits so we ate it as well while we were having Mcdonald. The healthy fruits balanced up the unhealthy food that's what I said LOL. I was getting distracted by the Channel 8 show 118 and Life Is Beautiful 初一的愿望 when Ching's grandpa was watching it. After finishing, we migrated into Ching's bedroom (air-con on already woo) to continue our soft sounding movie (when in the living room) so that we could hear it louder and clearer. Freaking out at some scenes of Jaws, one scene in particular that caused us to jump and let out a shrill was when out of a sudden a man's face looking blue-greyish popping out of a rock. We were expecting a shark but it ended up to be a man, so we thought why this shark had a man face which led to the shock and he was opening his eyes widely.

After the movie ended, we decided to take a look at Ching's wardrobe and discovered her old primary school uniform. It looked so mini!! It can become a crop top now! We went for 'star gazing' after that for a short while and went back home. The End!

The Story Of A Green Tea Cake

As usual we would occasionally receive pastries baked by Ching! She have passion for baking so she kind of bake as a hobby and at the same time experimenting with different recipes. SO TO SUPPORT, we would tabao back the pastries she baked and bring back home to eat. We too would give feedbacks and comments on how we find it. Once in a blue moon, when I got feel to try baking I would ask for her tips and advices!

I got to try two slices of her new recipe: Green Tea with Strawberry Cake
It has a slightly milky taste like Meji milk (the green tea cream flavour) and not too sweet, just nice. I also like the slight chao da brownish part where the strawberries that were in between the layers of the cake sort of make it more refreshing when you are eating them together. Not so dry! I immediately gobbled down one slice on my own before anyone could take them.

Although it might not look appealing here as it had been put in a plastic box and became sort of compressed. BUT the taste was great! I seldom compliment on food as I am a picky eater. Continue bringing your baking skills to a higher level!!

We went for a 3rd short gym-ing session at Ching's place, where we were chased out and all. The limelight of this post is for the cake so no long stories about the gym part!

Full picture of the cake

Grizzle Grind 2nd Anniversary

Grizzle Grind's rap workshop 

After registration, as I was on the way to find the News Letter Room, I saw Shigga Shay right before my eyes! His squatting down looking at some speaker-like thing, I didn't really saw what it was. The first thing that came into my mind was, "IT'S SHIGGA!! HIS JUST OVER THERE BUT I CAN'T TAKE PHOTO WITH HIM, THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT TIMING!"

Meekly, I went into the room and the first word that came into my head was, "SHIT!". It was all guys and they were all well donned, majority hip hop style. I was there like ok I am just in my slippers, t-shirt and jeans. DAMN PAISEH!! I was thinking so this workshop only guys interested but heng after that got a few girls came in.

Before they came, just as I stepped in and took a seat (beside a angmoh woo), they were half way through doing self-introduction. The one before me, introduced himself something like "...I am a stage singer..."  then I was like "woah siao liao all got huge background one, then I am like a nobody there". So with a few seconds to think before my turn, I quickly rehearsed a few sentences of what I am going to say. My goes like, " Hi my name is Kellin, I have no rap background. I find rapping quite interesting and cool so I came here." I guess my introduction was sort of like that.

Charles (when he introduced his name I was like "Wa Charles~~ it have a certain aura and impact when his name was said, quite a unique pronunciation and he got this ang moh slang) was the one doing the talking at the start and Lineath (his name also quite unique, I didn't heard of such a name before. He's involve in the producing of music) later on, they are from the Grizzle Grind crew. The both of them were in charge for the Rap Workshop. We were seating in a circle arrangement. Occasionally, some of the other crew members would come in and join in at the back, where they were listening too. There were two of them that took photos and videos of us in the middle of the workshop.

I kept fidgeting in my seat especially my fingers. Like when you're nervous you would kept scratching your nails or touching your stuffs like hand phone case. Even the slightest movement, I felt like I was being watched under so many pairs of eagle eyes. AND I was the only one wearing slippers and the rest were in covered shoes. The workshop was rather short as it came to an end at around 3 plus from 2pm, I wanted to hear more from them. In their discussion, they were saying all sorts of weird terms or artists' names which I knew none of them so I was rather lost and confused.

I had more respect for the crew after today's workshop as it was not easy work to simply rap, rapping looks enjoyable but behind the scene it is actually tons of hard work, years of experience and efforts to it. Initially, I just thought that GGC was just a bunch of boys singing/rapping but it was more than that. They know their thing and put in hard work to all of their work. Most importantly, you could see the enthusiasm in them.

During the session, Lineath: "Any questions?". Me, looks into his eyes and used my mind to transmit the message that I have something to ask and open my mouth slightly. I rehearsed my question in my head too LOL cause I thought I did screw up my sentence if I did not repeat it in my head. My question was "For freestyle rapping, how do the lyrics just flow out from your head?" Lineath: "I am not really good at freestyle rapping but we have a pro at freestyle rapper here! (points to another guy)" which was Fakkah a comedian and he was asked to demo LOL. After that, they when into going in a clock wise direction where each person shows their rapping skills with songs they had written before or anything they want to rap. I guess you could already thought of what's on my mind, "Siao liao". As usual, Charles was the first to start off. Half way through his rapping I felt slight tears welling in my eyes (luckily never tears come out, how embarrassing it would be) as I got to experience a rap live in front of my very eyes from real rappers. I was in a room with many great rappers and I get to hear raps from them personally with my own ears, what an honour!! The groove and swagness of rapping that I always got the feels for them.

Lineath let us hear some of his random rap recordings that was in his phone. Woo not everyone can hear the raw recordings! Lineath: " Don't laugh ah!" One of the message they want to give us was just start by writing down the lyrics whenever you thought of one. Rapping includes, lyrics writing, production of the piece and performing it live is another completely different stuff. There are many different styles of rapping, it takes time for us to find out what kind of rapper we are. Like Charles, he focuses more on the lyrics with simple beats while Lineath and Shigga Shay does music that are more hyped. Some take a longer time to think of the bars, I am not exactly sure what bars involved. That's why I was confused even if they used simple music terms.

Here comes my turn, I just tried three sentences but not smoothly as I forgotten my lyrics that I came out with randomly in the past. I was afraid to share as I am 0% standard of a rapper. I like it but I don't have much real knowledge of what rapping is so I was afraid to rap in front of so many people. But I still did it cause I know I would regret not showing anything to them. Even though how paiseh I was feeling with not even half of the sentence said as everyone was listening intently to it. I even said shit halfway through. The attention was diverted to Fakkah when he sort of continued my song, it sounds not bad even though I can't really catch the lyrics.

As I was standing up and turning to leave for the door I gave him a slight smile as he returned a smile too (he was standing somewhere behind me), followed by "Why you so shy??". I told him I felt out of place as everyone was like... (don't need to finish the sentence, we kind of know what it means). After that he asked if I was going later on at night for GGC 2nd Anniversary celebration which I replied with a no as I came alone. I actually had some questions for him on our way out but the time seem rushed so didn't managed to ask. I had questions like "What do you mean by practicing? (He answered my earlier on question during the discussion. When Lineath asked if that answered my question, I just said yes as I don't really get it.) How do you practice your freestyle rapping?" and "How you guys do those hand gestures/arm movements when you guys rap?". After just merely saying that I am not going, I should have add on saying, "All the best for later!" I just said, "Thank You! Bye!". At least I get the chance to talk to him and see other crew members live!

Overall, it was a great experience to witness rappers rapping as I always find it really dope when people does so!

Charles ENERO

Lineath

     

Gym session

Yipee!! Currently slacking at home waiting for evening to come, to go Ching's house with Pearl(I get goosebumps from typing this name) for a gym session. We don't normally worked out but only once in a blue moon when we really have the feels for it. This is just the second time! I am itching to post something on the blog but there's isn't any significant events so I decided to write this.

While surfing the net, I came across these quizzes on facebook! These two quizzes amused and entertained me while I have nothing much to do. LOL, you can go try it out!

[Links are below]

Which Royal Couple are You and Your Significant Other?

http://blogs.disney.com/oh-my-disney/2015/03/28/quiz-which-royal-couple-are-you-and-your-significant-other/?cmp=SMC%7Cnone%7Cnatural%7Cblgomd%7COMDMarch%7CFB%7Cquizroyalsig-Tangled%7CInHouse%7C2015-03-28%7C%7C%7Cesocialmedia&fb_ref=Default

(My: Cinderella and Prince Charming, You had a whirlwind courtship, and the story of your romance is a magical one. WOO WOO Magical)

Which Disney Wedding Should You Have?

http://blogs.disney.com/oh-my-disney/2014/06/13/quiz-which-disney-wedding-should-you-have/

(My: The Little Mermaid, You simply love life, and your personality shines through in everything that you do. You’ve always dreamed of a wedding by the ocean. I must emphasis the ''shines through.." LOL)

Berlin. This scenery is spectacular!!! Look at how beautiful it is, the lights, the sky, everything combine! That's why I love looking at beautiful scenery, it always gives you a refreshing feeling or a moment where you feel star struck. Not exactly clear on how to describe it, just the feeling of AWE!!

First Aid Course

Day 1

I was really dreading to go to school alone to attend this 3 day First Aid Course which was for my CCA. The hours were freaking long from 9am-6pm but they usually release us at around 5 plus.

I don't really know anyone there so I had to eat on my own during lunch time *sobs* so pathetic but thankful for the existence of the library's Internet cafe where I could eat there without looking like a loner. I already planned ahead before coming to school to know where to go during lunch time.
[Hotdog bun with egg (so cool!! I didn't know eggs could be cooked in the oven with a egg mould) and mayonnaise] 

The first day was majority theories and awkward conversations (and looking for the Blk where the class is) which makes me want to quickly go home. I kept messaging my friends whom attended the course on the earlier dates, what would happen next, for reassurance and double confirming. That's how I make it through Day 1.

On the way home, on the bus I found a empty seat beside this old man but he sat in a diagonal way occupying part of the empty seat, making it hard for me to seat. This added on to my frustration of the day so immediately after I got off the bus I decided to buy salted chicken to munch on them so that I would feel better.


Day 2

Upon finding out that my current instructor was similar to my friend's one, I felt lighter as its the same style teacher that they had so the things he taught and did would be roughly similar. They were genuinely interested in the course so lessons were not boring for them. So thinking of that, I changed my perspective. Instead of worrying that I had no friend there, I should go with an open-mind where I go there to absorb knowledge, like signing up for extra courses to learn this and I should not give much concern about socialising. Just enjoy myself!
[Hot dog bun with egg and tomato sauce]

Day 2 was the best among the three as it was mostly practical. I got the chance to interact and work as a team with other people that I had not talked to. It was also more fun and easier to talk to people while we were trying to put on different types of bandages for one another. Laughing at the silliness/clumsiness while doing them. I like short breaks (about 15 minutes) as sometimes we could use this period of time to have short pleasant chat with the people sitting around you.

The test for this course was supposed to be on the third day but part of it (CPR & AED) was actually being accessed while we were doing them, which most of us thought it was just a practice for tomorrow's actual test. We were bewildered upon being told that we were being accessed without knowing. Luckily, we took it seriously since we had to practice for the actual test for the next day. Instructor:" I heard no complains from any of the instructors, so everyone has done well (sort of this sentence). " Feeling delighted that one major burden was off our chest.

During the practical 'practice' for the four stations, I get to experience the good leadership skill performed by the leader of our team. In which she was calm throughout the whole procedure and gave out accurate commands to the team to ensure good coordination. She gave her team proper instructions and did the correct way (complimented by the instructor). 1st station was the carrying of casualty (which I am the one, so relaxed lol) using sort of a yoga mat. It felt a bit scary thinking that I may fall to the hard ground from a height. I was facing towards the sky and it look so beautiful, I could see nothing else but only the sky with fluffy clouds scattered all over the place. With my sides blocked, my vision was focused only on the sky~

Upon heading towards the school bus stop, I see one of my team mates that I worked with earlier on so I when to tap on her shoulder and we walked towards the bus stop together. Just nice we board the same bus and alight at the same bus stop so we chatted about the day's events. So my Day 2 ended happily~

Day 3

This day was theories again!!! Which means boredom again. We had to practice bandaging early in the morning, in which I have not warm up yet. So I was again dreading the day and hope that it could quickly end. I thought there were no more practical tests but there were still bandaging test. Passed both the MCQ and bandaging test so I am glad that I had not wasted my three days! At least I learnt some bandaging tactics from the Instructor.

My table mate and neighbours were sharing about their band experiences while I am there trying to find things to do or occasionally 'hop' into their conversation. They were really enthusiastic about their topic! All the musically inclined people~

Just to add on to the day, our Instructor asked if any of us happen to see his silver or white MP3 player yesterday. AND he lost it........

The Auntie recognises me as the 'regular' customer for the straight 3 days whom came to purchase hot dog bun so she smiled at me while pointing to the half prepared hot dog bun for the other customer, whilst, I was approaching. I guessed another reason she could recognise me was because there was not many people present too since it was school holiday.
[Hot dog bun with egg and with both mayonnaise and tomato sauce]

25-27 March

Favourite Idols

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!! Glad that its finally holiday now! Finally get to watch my favourite idols movie "Ah Boys To Men 3: Frogmen" yesterday (25/2/15, which is 初七) before all the spoilers kept showing. It was DAMN AWESOME AND TOUCHING!!! I teared a little during a scene when two of them were fighting and the words exchanged were so strong. Maybe by seeing the movie you don't think some of the part was truth but from their radio interviews, movie trailer and personal comments I found out that this movie really depicts the actual scenario portrayed in a Naval Diving Unit (NDU). As some of the actual naval divers actually commented on it that they were really grateful that this movie really shows almost the actual thing that they had really experienced during their past training days. Heard from the crews that the scenes they filmed, Jack Neo actually wanted it to look real so they really had to go through the entire process of the training! That was hell-like difficult! From the trailer you could really see the amount of effort they put in is till the max!!

This movie actually hit 2.8 millions views in just 4 days!! I AM SO PROUD OF THEM!!! They actually also had to get a Diver licence before they could filmed this movie. As they said, it let more people noticed and know about this Special forces in the SAF through this movie, as not many people including me know they existed or have such tough training like this. It actually made me feel like joining in LOL. I didn't know anything about this until I heard of this movie and I got to see how it looks like during the process and their graduation where they wore their diving suit standing in a row underwater while their family members watched them from outside with cameras in their hands. OMG I would really want to visit this special kind of forces' graduation or witness their training it would be damn cool !!! They actually had a kind of exhibition where you could go into their naval ships at Vivocity where it was hosted by Noah Yap and see the looks of the interior. I wasn't able to go, such a waste!! They follow three diver values : Honour, Integrity and Team Spirit.

You can also see how bonded they, as an entire team is, from personal issues to going through all the training together. The loyalty and Bromance between them!! Without exception, they had lots of hilarious and joker conversations and scenes for this film too which makes the entire movie even more enjoyable. From the release of all their previous films: Ah Boys To Men , Ah Boys To Men 2, The Lion Men, they all had funny jokes and comments in it! Tosh even secretly went to one of the cinemas to watch their own film to hear the live laughter from the audience which is one of the many things they truly enjoy from the fruits of their labour.

Thanks a lot for making this film for us to enjoy, I really appreciate it! Thanks for the tremendous efforts you guys put into this!! HOOYAH! ( a saying in NDU )



See their awesome Trailer!!



Theme song: "Who Else" composed by Tosh (WOOO!!) with all the camera mans and crews making this song a good one!

Chicken Chop with Aglio Olio, MY! Slightly crispy exterior of the chicken chop not bad!

Fish and Chips (Student Meal)

Chocolate lava cake with ice cream, it was not bad too with the warm chocolate oozing out from the cake
accompanied by the taste of the ice cream, making it a good combination!! ($4.50)

Don't know the name for this but its prawns and salmon with Aglio Olio! All the above food you seen are from Hot Tomato :D

Special selected food served right to you while you are seated in the cinema, AWESOMEE SERVICE!!!

Cousin's Band Performance

On the 28 December, experienced the most incredible music played solely from instruments that creates a music that I thought was almost impossible to be able to play them out! I was amazed! Their performance were creative too as it is not the typical band sitting throughout the whole concert for hours but they have these few people who keep moving around at the back to use different instruments. They had to play more than one instrument, talented man! During a Super mario song, I didn't expect them to make a board themselves and show it live to us on stage a simple mario game where they create the sound effects for the game as they perform and some other crews will be doing the live Mario adventure game which is sort of like a puppet show. 

Even before the starting time to go in, there were a lot of people queuing up to go in apparently it was free and people (like us) have come to support the people they know that are performing. I think it was full house! The security was quite strict as they even have to check our bags using this white torch light that they used to shine it into our bags before we could go in. The problem is I don't get it why must the security be so strict there isn't any big shot or what here. 

We had to queue in order in a row before we could go in. Photography and videoing was not allowed too but the rebellious us batch still kept taking anyway when we were inside. One of them got stop for taking selfie inside. Once you held your phone or camera up, the people will come to you and tell you "No photography and videoing is allow". There was this funny pair where the person just told them not to do so, they nodded obediently then one second after she turned her back they raised up their phones to take photos again LOL the instant moment. Got caught for taking photos by a man too but the concert hall was so grand and nice that I took the risk to take a few shots after quickly glancing around when there's nobody to take my shot. You would regret it if you didn't take any photos of the beautiful place that you might not have chance to come again. During the performance, many times I was tempted to take photos (thinking that they can't stop me as it is disrespectful to walk around while people are performing) but decided not to after all. The melody was good till I kept having goosebumps when I was hearing their songs. Feeling artistic after I came out. Each round I would applause loudly for them as to play such legend music they had put in tons of efforts! 

                                             Damn look at my watch with this background!

                                                          Saw Aaron album AHH!! 

AFA 2014

It's been so long since I posted because I am just too lazy to type (to think too as i am usually very long winded so my mind gets clog up with all the overload information that I need to think of how to express them out more organizedly) and rather busy with the never ending school work.

OK HERE, now lets get to an event I attended!! On the 7 December 2014, I went to Anime Festival Asia 2014 where I reached Suntec City at about 11 plus. It was my first fresh experience at AFA and it was rather good! The ticket cause $13 to go in the convention centre but if it includes stage concert/performance its more expensive. Now I know why people keep going to such events! Before going I have this goal in mind to take photos with cosplayers. I thought of taking photos only partly because I think the mechanises that sold there would be really expensive. Heh, but I bought a dust cap for $6 and a pencil case for $8 even though I don't know the characters on the design. I bought them cause I find that they look nice!! 

THE BEST WAS I MANAGE TO TAKE PHOTO WITH COSPLAYERS!! Some were rather good looking *smirks* Mission accomplished! WOO! Some of their costumes were really cool like wings with lights and this Iron man cosplayer when I asked him for a photo he pressed a button or something near his head then the mask automatically wind down to cover his face!! Can see the amount of efforts these people put in to make these stuffs. Now I have a better understanding of how AFA works, the cosplayers will walk around either in a group,pair or one person etc or situate themselves at a particular space or corner to wait for people to ask them for a photo! Then there was this big paper bag they sell where there's random things inside (t-shirt etc) that is related to the characters shown on the paper bag which cost $20. They also sell food inside the convention centre! They were also teaching a group of people some dances too!

We walked for like 3-4 hours just inside the convention center itself and guess what, we met some that I assumed were some big shot idols. We saw 3 groups! Ok let me elaborate on that, first group was when we chance upon a poster on the wall saying 2PM these 3 idols will come for a photo session, one of them looks quite good looking in the poster (dress in white like an angel) so we decided to queue for like 30 minutes before they came. But they wasn't really as good looking as how it look on the poster though. We got freebies from them after we took a photo and while we were walking around there would be occasion freebies being given out to us!! Luckily we came early, as we managed to walk in ease with the oxygen level higher until like about 3+ the crowd starts to come in and moving around was less easy. I enjoyed myself looking at all the damn cool cosplayers while some have a crowd around them to take photos of them or with them. Phew, luckily I took quite a few earlier on! There were many different characters/roles like soldiers, Jack Frost, dragons, ancient times characters, Spirited away characters etc!

The second group of idol we saw were the one I think is the most famous among the other 2 we seen. As they look really amazing especially the one in red with a cigarette in his mouth which I wonder how he can hold it so long there but later found out from a short video that he really held it himself as when he wanted to laugh he swiftly removed the cigarette. After laughing, he quickly put back the cigarette again! These idols were apparently some Space Ailen (Yuegene Fay, Kaname and Reika, I managed to find their names.) The red one his makeup look quite real man! Cosplaying really takes a lot of effort and the cost is high too as you have to trial-and-error for some stuffs, make your own accessories, props, wigs, do your own makeup and costumes. My first photo taken there was given to a fake Death Note (won't move those) as there was this guy suddenly putting this hat on our head when we walked pass his booth and tell us to take a photo with it and come back at 3.45PM which I forgotten about it after that. We just went up to random cosplayers whom we want to take photo with them and say: Can I take a photo with/of you?  Some would just nod their head in agreement. Some of damn seem rather unfriendly or a bit fierce. I don't know if they were just acting out their character or they are just like that. Chance upon, this cheeky spiderman looking guy whom took photo with me in a funny pose! He was trying to put on his mask when I approached him.

The last group was this duo who look not bad especially the one with a guitar but occasionally you will find the other one good looking too or the both as they look rather similar. When they ended their song and went to the backstage the fans started shouting: "ENCORE ENCORE ENCORE" which I think former already know but just purposely go backstage then come up again. Whilst, they were rocking with hyped up energy on stage, the fans would all flipped their hair crazily in the air to the rhythm with them. Swirling towels in the air and there's this moment where the idol picked up a towel from the stage swirled it a few rounds then throw it to the audiences! Typical style eh but that lucky fan would be overwhelmed with joy! Imagine I got something thrown by my favourite idols!! OMGG! I can fly by then! Even though I don't know who they were but I still videoed them and after their performance ended they took a group picture with the fans which I didn't joined in as I also don't know them if go in take picture with them would be rather weird. The guitar one looked into my camera when I was taking photo!! BUT IT WAS BLUR, DAMN IT!! 

Weee, one of the best part was I finally saw a person there that I know! Evangeline Neo (I searched her name on fb), who draws comics!! I seen some of the comics of Japan VS Singapore comics that were drew by her and some were quite true or funny. So I was quite excited when I saw her and my friend also saw her favourite instagram manga/anime artist at a few booths away from my. I went to browse through the stuffs she was selling, quickly, as I don't want to stand there where the person will look at you when you're looking at the things, that awkward atmosphere. She got sell some of her comic books and some other stuffs which I can't remember but were too expensive to me. I wanted to buy something from her to show my support and then yes! I found a bookmark that cost $1 so I bought it from her and asked for her autograph!!! I told her that I seen her comic strips before and she said Thank You to me! She asked me if I want the autograph to be in Chinese, Japanese or English. After a few moments of hesitation, I replied Japanese. Since this was kind of a Japanese event and how frequent will you get a Japanese autograph?! So my choice was right but shortly after I said that, I changed, instead I should have said English but after awhile I still find Japanese autograph was more worth it!

AFA14 was indeed a fun event!! Might go there again for the next year!

                                                                 Da tickets bought!

                                            The red one not bad and the purple one also ok!

                                             A board spammed with drawings and doodles!

                                       Many many mechanises but only a few caught my eyes.

                       The first level where you can see people having professional photo shoots

Free Tattoo!!

All the stuffs I got from there!