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The students in NTU

2008-02-05T00:10:00.000+08:00

So what do students in NTU get intrigued by... this is what I think...

Business: A new business plan
Accounting: To get into top 4
HSS: A new book
ADM: Nude models
SPMS: Some new scientific discovery
CEE: Church buildings and new ways to build them
EEE: The 3 colors of wires and what they mean
MAE: That rockets can use the moon's gravity to go even further into space
MSE: Yam Styrofoam replacements
CSI: A new story like triple sharing rooms in ntu
CS: Ext hard drive prices drop to 50c/gig
BIE: Lecture Notes
CBE: Who's calculator can perform the most functions

When it seems like it doesn't make any sense...

2008-01-31T22:10:00.000+08:00

Well... the IA results came out and I did quite ok. Got a decent A-, very decent indeed. But when you get results like that and you find out that there is no way that you can get a 1st Class Honors, and so long as I get straight Bs less B+ for my design and FYP and an A for any one of my modules, I will be at 2nd upper...

Studying really loses its meanings in a lot of ways but I will still do it...

Make the most of the life that has been given to you and enjoy it to the fullest.

Be it spending time with friends, gaining new experiences, enjoying or relaxing... life is good so long as you make the most of it.

I really feel like I'm reaching the end of my life in university already... but with every end is a new beginning...

xurong...

2008-01-28T11:00:00.000+08:00

crap man... who is that idiot guy who posted xurong's pics on his blog. he really is an idiot. people take these kinda pictures all the time but they don't usually openly display these pics online.

What right does he think he have to destroy other people's lives and image.

some people really need to GET A LIFE!

excel in excel?

2008-01-28T10:53:00.000+08:00

so we have friends on industrial attachment and some of them are tasked to do jobs requiring microsoft excel... some of them are still blur with how excel works so here we have some excel jokes to lighten up your day.

A: eh... how do to excel?
B: what you mean how to do excel?
A: as in where to find the command things?
B: oh... press F1 to get to the help file
A: F1? press F and 1 together? Need to caps lock or not?

B: how to display the value on this sheet on this other sheet?
A: u press "="
B: huh? im pressing it but only "=" comes out
A: you press "=" then go to the place where u want the value from and highlight the cell
B: oh! So when i change the value in that cell, i do this again den can liao right?
A: no.... the value will change together and will always be the same

Let's go Hall 2!

2008-01-24T04:00:00.000+08:00

Finally cheerleading is over... with a team of mainly freshies and 1 senior flier, we formed a team of 9 guys and 9 girls

1. Zhengwen (Cheer I/C)
2. Shawn (Cheer I/C)
3. Charlene
4. Xiangting
5. Xinyi
6. Zhixian
7. Wanqi
8. Gavin
9. Yee Han
10. Yuan Kai
11. Xing Wei
12. Jialiang
13. Lionel
14. Anabelle
15. Shin
16. Wendy
17. Lyn
18. Myself

Our mascot Janice

and our 2 spotters Chen nee and Basil

The mascot and from 1 to 12 are all year 1s. Lionel and Anabelle just joined this year, Lyn was the only one who really flew last year. With this, the many IHG games going on at the same time (being hall 2, we were still in most games), IVP ppl going for their trainings (ya.. being a sports based hall, we had ppl in IVP teams), IHRG (yes... i played a lot of games), always being late for trainings, OMC meetings (so very often), hall production rehearsals, and many more... but we came down together to train with the little time we had and we made it possible... and guess what...

WE GOT TOP 5!!!!

I am damn proud of you guys... super duper damn ultra proud. no one could have asked for a better more fun and bonded team. at first i thought i wouldn't be able to click with you all well and i thought it would have been like last year, cheer finish and never talk to those cheerleaders ever again but this year it seems different. I'm gald to be part of the team and really hope to cheer with you all again!

Ben Teo

Shanghai Shopping

2008-01-05T00:59:00.000+08:00

well.. this post is for a fren with bright pink hair. she asked me to do up this post for her so she can know where to shop in shanghai and if you have bright pink hair... well.. this is the least i can do... lol

in order of ranking:

1. 七浦路
How to get there:
Train to 南京东路 train station, exit and cross road to take bus 66 for one stop to reach.

What's there there:
The largest wholesale center in Shanghai i think. Amazing amount of stuff there. You can find everything there but you need to know how to bargain. Got to try your luck at bargaining but nothing should be worth more than 100RMB less the really high end branded stuff

2. 上海科技馆
How to get there:
Train to 上海科技馆 train station, once you exit the control station, you are there

What's there there:
It's quire easily accessible, though the base price of the stuff here is about 10 to 30% more than 七浦路, it's nearby and good for after work shopping. not shopping spree. It has nearly everything that 七浦路 has to offer, though much lesser in terms of variety

3. 静安诗
How to get there:
Train to 静安诗 train station

There are 2 areas for shopping, one is a boutique area just outside the train station, it has a circular opening

The other, you have to find the BK near City Plaza Shopping Center (if i remembered the name correctly), facing the BK, turn right and walk down to this sheltered shopping area

What's there there:
The boutique area has quite a lot of nice stuff. Branded and non-branded stuff, highly recommended area to shop, there is even one portion of the shopping area for guys stuff.

The sheltered shopping area in my opinion is a nicer place to shop compared to the other places in shanghai as the opening price of the stuff there is much lower and lesser haggling is required. it provides a more pleasant shopping experience.

After shopping, there is a lot of restaurants nearby for eats as well

4. 城皇庙（富佑路）
How to get there:
Train to 南京东路 train station, exit to take bus 66 from the same side of the road until you reach 城皇庙. once you cross the road, you should be able to see 富佑路

What's there there:
A huge bag wholesale center on the top floor, accessory wholesale on the 2nd floor and tons of gifts all over. great for shopping for souvenirs for friends.

5. 东昌路
How to get there:
Train to 东昌路 train station, look for Times Square and find the MacDonald's inside it. Across the MacDonald's, there is a small shopping complex. That's the place

What's there there:
On the 3rd floor is, in my opinion, the most amazing place to find DVDs and CDs. Software, English TV Series, Korean / Japanese / Hong Kong / Chinese Drama Serials, Anime, Cartoons, Music, Movies, you name it, they have it all

On top of that, they have a lot of high end branded 水货 (better den A货) there at reasonable prices (after much haggling)

6. 南京东路（步行街）
How to get there:
Train to 南京东路 or 人民广场　train station. You can't miss it

What's there there:
The Orchard Road of Shanghai.

7. 复旦大学　（步行街）
How to get there:
From 复旦大学, across the 毛泽东 (Maozedong) statue (yes, cross the road), there is a small road, walk down the small road and about 500m away is the 步行街.

What's there there:
Has a lot of 小吃 along the way, including cheap and good sushi. A few food outlets for a nice dinner. The actual 步行街 itself has a small bit of shopping. but hey... its a good break from school

8. 复旦大学　（小笼包）
How to get there:
From 复旦大学, walk towards the canteen furthest away from the dorms/hostels. the canteen should be just beside the exit, if not, you are at the wrong canteen. Walk out the exit and turn left and walk down, once across a short longkang bridge, turn left into the carpark and there is the shop

What's there there:
Why i put this under this page because it has the BEST 小笼包 in shanghai. at 3.5RMB for 6 小笼包, it is damn cheap and DAMN good. oh ya, across the shop has some small shops selling some stuff also, that makes it possible to put in under the shopping recommendations... lol

9. 世纪大道
How to get there:
Train to 世纪大道 train station. walk about 500m to reach the area

What's there there:
Has 太平洋第三期 which is a good place for electronics, in pudong and near where i stayed. has other shopping complexes nearby to

10. 中山公园
How to get there:
Train to 中山公园　train station.

What's there there:
A HUGE shopping complex with different colour code for different areas. Amazing. and has a H&M outlet as well. Oh ya... H&M has really good clothes. lol

11. 徐家汇
How to get there:
Train to 徐家汇　train station.

What's there there:
Another city center. Has a simlim like area. Also has Metro City (a singapore style and owned shopping center). Has　鸭王 which has really good 北京烤鸭. A bit far from where i stayed but it is a good place to shop

12. 南京西路　（小吃街）
How to get there:
Train to 南京西路　train station. It's a short walk there but i can't remember exactly how to walk there.

What's there there:
lots and lots and lots of food there. also has 小羊生煎, really a must try. Along the road there is a lot of food to try. at the end of the road, further, there should be a small brown building facing diagonally out to the road, there is a jap buffet there for 138RMB with free flow ala crate (sushi, sashimi, teppanyaki, tempura, bento, sake, beer, choya... everything) a bit of a hard find as it is in the basement but it is worth it. there are other jap buffets at 南京东路步行街 & 张江高科 train station but ya... this is the one i tried

well.. all the best!

Interesting Chinese Names

2007-12-31T16:17:00.000+08:00

1. Soh Hor Nee
2. Ee Chi Kok
3. Kok Yi Chi
4. Goh Rong Wei
5. Fu Si Kay
6. Wan Chip Fock
7. Kok Soh Loong
8. Shi Kan Kum

Thats all i have now... will see if there are anymore

Back in SG

2007-12-31T16:13:00.000+08:00

well... back in singapore for about 2 weeks now... and just started to get used to some things and started to lose some good habits

1. Stopped eating breakast (which i should)
2. Stopped sleeping so early (which i really should)
3. Stopped waking up early (obviously)
4. Stopped shopping so much (yay!)
5. Play ps2 more than my psp
6. Enjoyed the fact that people gave way when boarding the train
7. Feel taller (generally... as compared to in China)
8. Feel a lot more occupied with stuff to do (and i still haven done my convo ball stuff)
9. Don't go out as much
10. Eat a lot lesser
11. Exercise a whole lot lesser too
12. Speak a lot more english
13. Download less anime (sob.... lets hope ODEX goes bankrupt)
14. Take long train rides to sch compared to long bus rides
15. Wear lesser clothes

got a few more... well... these are the main ones

another story...

2007-12-12T13:49:00.000+08:00

well... if it wasnt bad enough... he might just be the 1st person to fail the electives during GIP. (If i can get A- for both my modules which are examed in chinese... it means it really is not failable...)

so during the graduation ceremony... he wasnt given a graduation certificate because he only submitted one essay. another girl who submitted only 1 of the 2 essay still received a certificate of completion... so why did he fail? maybe because he skipped too many classes or he was always late... but its not maybe... he is like that...

so the professor requested that he submit another essay so that he could pass the course. what did he do? he went to ask someone from the other university (fudan) to give him an essay so he can use it for "reference".

he got jianyou's copy and said he needed to thank him so he went into him room and searched for something to give him as thanks. he found a book that was given at graduation which contained all the essay written by the GIP students and bound together to form a book and wanted to give it to jianyou. jianyou rejected because it was bulky and took up too much baggage space.

then he went back to his room to source for something else... and what he found? a bottle of listerine... free sample piece. but jianyou rejected saying he didnt use stuff like that.

then back he went again... and he came out... with a packet of wet tissue. the one they give at restaurants with one piece inside.

lol... some ppl...

Last Day

2007-12-12T13:17:00.000+08:00

well... this is like my last day in China and though i don't mind going home, there are somethings that i think i will miss here...

stuff like
1. the best ma la i've ever had and for a price that is unbelievably cheap (road side store mah)
2. the cheap hair cuts
3. the xiaolongbao at fundan uni
4. the fact that i don't sweat and i can wear the same t-shirt for more than 2 days (i try not to do that though)
5. the fact that i can buy jackets!
6. the countless places to shop at
a. kejiguan 科技馆
b. qipulu 七浦路
c. jingansi 静安寺
d. chenghuangmiao 城皇庙
e. nanjingdonglu 南京东路
f. changlilu 长里路
g. fudan buxingjie 复旦步行街
h. dongchanglu 东昌路
7. that even below my house got so many things to get like DVDs and bbq food
8. oh ya!!! the bbq or teppanyaki squids... yummm
9. wai mai (外买)!!! don't need to leave home and still can have a good dinner
10. the trips to many many places
11. the crazy kbox (haoledi / party world) sessions
12. the people who make the entire gip so fun

so... bye bye China...

long lost posts...

2007-12-06T14:42:00.000+08:00

woah... it's been way wayy wayyyyy too long since i did my last post. a lot has happened here in China and well... its now officially excatly 1 week be4 i leave for the airport and prepare to go back to singapore.

what has happened... travelled to quite a few places like 内蒙古，千岛湖，桐庐，苏州. i think those are the few that i haven really updated yet. nor have i posted the photos onto facebook.

the inner mongolia trip was quite fun and very relaxing... see desert, see grassland, ride camels and ride horses, eat interesting foods... qiandaohu is an eye opener, the pudong ppl booked one bus and we went there together, had loads of fun. suzhou we went to the amusement park... make me feel like a kid once again, but ya... it was worth it.

but more or less, quite tired of all the travelling but it was really a great experience.

my shopping spree stopped about 3 weeks ago and ya... my luggage size didnt seem to increase but started to decrease slowly due to the unwanted stuff that i don't think i will be bringing back with me.

BUT! i bought 2 shoes! one i think might be a bit too small and one that might be a bit too big... i think i wear a 44.5 (china size) but i bought a 44 and a 45.... i feel damn cock... lol... see how.... they both make good presents. lol!

bought a huge load of christmas presents for everyone... i really mean everyone... lol... including the new frens that might go for christmas service (let's hope i can give out all the presents!)

besides that... i'm glad that i got great housemates; Clarence, Hanbin, Jianqing, Yanwen and Carmen. really had lots of fun with the throughout the entire GIP. Not forgetting the Longyang ppl, Yingsin, Eileen, Jason, Jianyou, Sweemeng, Rongxin, Jingjing, Jianghan, Xiaoying... and our relatives in pudong, Suli, Rueyna, Bingxiang, Yihao, Chih Peng... and the occasional outing with the Puxi ppl either for dinner or soccer games; Mingjie, Junzhong, Junjie, Ee Seng, Samuel, Yunting, Weiqiang, Desmond, Janice, Liting, Kelly and Huiqian.

The whole experince would not have been so great if anyone of them were not around. Stuff like soccer games in the primary schools, drinking sessions, clubbing sessions (didnt go but got see how drunk clarence was when he got back... and i mean... u should REALLY see how clarence was), trips that are a must go, gatherings where we do pot lucks that are quite nice (we can cook!), shopping sprees where hanbin always says he doesnt want to buy anything but ends up with loads of junk, dinners where we have no idea what to eat so we go buffets and just order literally everything on the menu (you can really order EVERYTHING on the menu, including the sake, choya, teppanyaki and +++ for the jap buffet.... and we ate so much we couldnt walk back... had to take taxi back home), not forgetting the drama serial sprees, my 2 favorites are "The Drive of Life" & "Jumong"... lol... its like a never ending outing with friends

A lot of other things happened, good and not too good ones... most of the not too good ones happened to just one person... sigh... sometimes i wish he would just learn to grow up a bit and don't let ppl worry about him so much... i mean... where got people every night go get laid, don't go home to sleep with someone else, gets drunk ever so often, gets a china girlfriend and let her cheat all ure money, gets KIDNAPPED, beaten up, spends so much that he doesn't even have enough money to buy an airticket back home, craps but doesn't flush, bathes but doesn't close the door, washes the toilet but flooding it, curses and swears ever so often... sigh... next sem like got one more coming... dunno if it would turn out the same way... don't think it would be that bad. let's just hope for the best.

anyway... think Yingsin, Jianqing and myself did quite well in Emerson... lol... must make myself feel good. all the other companies are taking in the same no. of people for the next batch of GIP students except Emerson who's taking in 12!!! thats like 400% increase... lol... my head big liao. I know Chongmeng, Chennee, Huilin and Qingxi are all coming to Emerson... congrats, i seriously think it is one of the best companies to get here in GIP Shanghai.

but ya... all good things must come to an end... going back to singapore to settle the convo ball stuff... still haven't agreed to be the convo ball chair but from the looks of it, the chances of it happening is quite high... crap... need good ppl in my comm to make it happen. sigh... let's just hope for the best then...

and to everyone here in shanghai, thanks for always looking out for me and i hope you all as much, or if not more fun than me!

Carmen tribute

2007-10-08T23:14:00.000+08:00

It’s about time I do some justice to Carmen for bringing so much colour into our lives and making the weather feel so much cooler than it already is…. This is a tribute to her (no… she’s still alive and freezing us everyday)

Walking quotes… For saying how tired you are

1. Carmen
“My legs feel like I’ve just added softener”

2. Carmen vs Hanbin
Hanbin: My legs feel damn 酸 from all the walking
Carmen: Ya… got lemon

Talking about the past

Carmen: Hey ben, you were the last person I exchanged Fluids with
Ben: oh ya… that’s true
Clarence: OMG!
Ben: Fluids notes lar….

Dinner time

Yanwen: Who needs forks and spoon
Hanbin: It’s ok, I will stick to my chopsticks. Come China must learn how to use chopsticks.
Carmen: (Holding up her fork) That’s why I’m using 4.

Honestly… in order to be Carmen’s disciples, you need to bring around a notebook and a pen everywhere you go with her… cause you will never know when her next lesson will be… these are just some of the quotes that I happened to remember.

evil post... but sometimes... you just do it

2007-10-08T23:11:00.000+08:00

Hmm…. I think this will be the first post of this kind that I’m posting… but I think it’s about time that I did.

I dunno if some people just want to be right all the time and everyone else has to be in the wrong. Whatever other people say, without thinking, they will just say something else to just question you. Sometimes it is true but most of the time, it feels like they are just doing it for the sake of it.

One classic example; Typhoon nearby Shanghai, the weather is raining with heavy winds coming from all directions. I decided to take a taxi to work as it costs about 26 to 29RMB, split between 3 people… you do the maths. I asked, “Let’s take a cab to work.” The most wonderful and powerful answer, “能等得到吗？”

Wahhhhhhhhhhh………………… so damn smart. We’ve been staying at that place for well over 3 months, just across the road, which we had to cross in the first place, was a taxi stand that had taxis queuing up, in a U shape. In short, there are about 50+++++ taxis just across the road, waiting for passengers. If the problem was to walk the distance to the taxi stand, there were taxis overflowing onto the side of the road which we could just hop on anytime. Sometimes I really do not know what he is thinking. In the end, we waited 40++mins for the bus to come and by then, my 19.90RMB umbrella was destroyed beyond recognition, my shoes and socks were soaked, the water soaked jeans and I was cold to the bones.

Huangshan

2007-09-17T23:45:00.001+08:00

The photos are up on my facebook.

GIP Shanghai FAQs

2007-09-17T22:56:00.000+08:00

Well... people have been asking and I thought rather than just keep telling them the same things over and over again, i've decided to do up a GIP FAQs to ans any questions that they may have.

These questions are answered to the best of my knowledge

About work

Q. What companies are there? And what do they do?
A. Venture - Electronics, MAE, EEE
Schering-Plough - Pharmaceutical, CBE & BIE
Givaudan - Fragrances (Lab work), CBE
Emerson - Process Control Automation, CBE, MAE, EEE
CPG Facilities Management - Business, NBS & Engineering
Wilsonn Partners - No idea
Univac - Software, duh... computer engineering
Sulzer - Distillation and separation, CBE, MAE, EEE, NBS

Q. What is the pay like?
A. For those I know of:
Venture - 2.8k
Schering-Plough - 2k
Givaudan - 2k
Emerson - 3k
CPG Facilities Management - 2k (this one is i think)
Wilsonn Partners - No idea
Univac - ?
Sulzer - 3.2k (But have to pay for own lunch, But... comes with ice cream! 6RMB/Lunch)

Q. What do you do at Emerson?
A. Process Control Automation, not dealing with the actual process control but mainly doing the controller's panel design, instrument indexing, hardware and software, component design, documentation, visual basic programming, access, and a bit of weird stuff here and there.

Q. Which company do you think is the best? and why?
A. Depends on what you want. Though i feel Emerson is good, companies like Givaudan, Venture or Sulzer may give better work appraisals in terms of grading.

Q. Which company has good welfare?
A. I only heard from Sulzer, Givaudan and Venture but among theses, Sulzer gives a lot of free goodies like BOXES of peaches, mooncakes and stuff. Emerson has lots of stuff in the pantry and good food for lunch and dinners (and dinners are provided along with reimbursement of transport when you OT). The other 2 are just average

Q. How is the work environment?
A. Good, the colleagues are super nice and are always willing to teach, so long as you are willing to ask. Good supervisor also.

Accommodations

Q. How are the accommodations?
A. Not too bad... quite similar to HDB at home.

Q. How did you get the accommodations?
A. Through this company CPG Facilities Management, the one the GIP office in NTU liased with.

Q. How much do you pay a mth?
A. Per person, SGD 200/mth for 6 months. together with a 2 mth deposit so total is 1.6k for my whole stay (400 will be refunded if there is no problems with the house once we leave). An additional SGD 60 (one time payment) for internet set up & payment of bills services. Another 20SGD for internet for 6mths

Q. Are the conditions good?
A. Ya

Q. Is it accessible?
A. Next to Train Station (MRT), CPG does a good job in finding places near train stations

Q. How are the rooms?
A. I chose twin sharing, so we have 6 people in a 3 room flat with one living room, a small dining room and a kitchen + 2 toilets

Q. Is it far from work?
A. I stay at Pudong area, which is near my work place. so not that far. CPG will tell you how far your place is from work and will find you the best place to stay in. There are 2 main areas in shanghai, Pudong and Puxi. Half the companies are in Pudong and half the companies are in Puxi

Q. Which are is better?
A. Puxi has more of a night life and a whole lot of shopping. Pudong has a reasonable amount of shopping (less den puxi but still like the entire orchard amount of shopping). But my company is at pudong, cannot choose to stay in Puxi, too far

Food

Q. Hows the food?
A. A bit more salty, a lot more oily

Q. How much do you pay for food?
A. About 3RMB to 25RMB for a normal meal. 20RMB to 50RMB that for a good restauratnt meal. 50RMB for a normal buffet and up to 200RMB for a really good buffet. oh ya... a whooper costs 13RMB

Q. How's your company food?
A. I can easily say, one of the best in GIP Shanghai (but then... there aren't many companies to compare)

Expenditure

Q. How much do you spend?
A. Depends on how you want to spend, Budget you can spend about 100 to 150 SGD per mth, if you don't budget, i have heard of people spending up to 1.1k SGD per mth

Q. How come so much?
A. Shopping and traveling

Q. Hows the shopping there?
A. Good, if you come to Shanghai, let me know, I will pass you a list of good shopping places and the prices you can get stuff at

Q. Traveling?
A. Nearer places cost between 200 to 400RMB for a 1 day trip, 300 to 500RMB for a 2day 1night trip, and up to 1000RMB for a 3day 2night trip. My household is going Inner Mongolia for 5days during the break, the should cost us at most... at most 4000RMB.

Q. Groceries?
A. Carrefour, Our Lotus (like Sheng Siong) and a lot of mini supermarkets for all your needs

Q. Any others?
A. Bought an Iron with an Iron board, a set of cooking stuff (ya... i can cook a bit), hangers, clothes washing stuff like pails and detergents and other toiletries

Scholarship

Q. What about it?
A. Don't know, i didn't apply for it. But i know of people who applied and didn't get. And i dunno which part is the deciding factor

Weather

Q. Hows the weather?
A. Summer goes up to 40 degrees. Autumn is cooling, can be like genting so bring a jacket. Winter, haven't been through it but ya... heard its damn cold.

School

Q. How does the AUs work?
A. 6AUs of electives, can be made into 3-3 AHSS PE + GE/UE or 6AU AHSS PE or 6AU GE/UE

Q. What schools are there?
A. Fudan and Jiaotong

Q. Which one is better?
A. Ranking wise, Fudan is best in Shanghai, 3rd in China. Jiaotong is 2nd in Shanghai

Q. So?
A. Fudan you get to use the main campus which is quite cool and even has its own museum. Jiaotong is a branch campus.

Q. Distance from home?
A. For pudong people like myself, it takes about 2hours to get to either school so there isn't a difference. For puxi people, its nearby

Q. What are the school days?
A. Friday and Saturday.

Q. So many days?!
A. For Fudan, you can request to push the Saturday to Friday so you have a really packed friday but that means you can go traveling during the weekends. For Jiaotong, there are only Saturday classes for the 1st half of the sem.

Q. Exams?
A. I think Jiaotong has no exams but has essays. Fudan has 1 exam in which your batch will choose between 2 topics on which one you want to be test upon. Essays also are needed

Q. Any others?
A. I know Jiaotong brings their students to places like nanjing for travelling, Fudan doesn't but i still think Fudan is more fun. lol

Others

Q. Confirm can get GIP?
A. No idea, heard a lot of ppl got GIP, not sure if there is enough places for everyone but the sem 2 gip has 2 times as many space as sem 1 gip
I will update this once I can think of any other questions

Q. Overall how do you find GIP?
A. Fun

Well... I think thats all for now.

long dated post...

2007-09-04T23:17:00.000+08:00

can't really remember when was the last time i posted, nor can i remember what i posted about...

but ya... lots of things have happened.

1. Facebook!

Started uploading my pics on facebook. too many pics to upload one by one here on blog.

I think the link is http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=599260499

go check it out and add me

2. Wuxi

Wangjian brought the whole lot of us to wuxi for a day trip. Clarence, Hanbin, Carmen, Yanwen, Jianqing, Yingsin, Jason, Eileen, Jianyou, me, Beibei (wangjian's gf) and Wangjian himself = 12 ppl.

Nv knew there was such a place known as a place as wuxi but when i went there... WOAH... damn cool. At first when we reached, wangjian found us a tour agent and i could see everyone's faces turn for the worst because of the experience they had in hangzhou.

But... the tour guide was damn zai. not only did he know what he was doing, he was damn friendly too and always offered to help us take grp pics.

we went to 三国城 first where we rushed in to catch this show. at first i was like... "let's just catch the first show and just skip the next one... sure damn boring one" man... was i wrong. Imagine the chinese shows where they have wars with the generals on horses riding around and fighting... well... got to see that in real life there. damn cool!!! they did stunts and loads of stuff on the horses ya... had a lot of mud splashed on me.

without even considering, we went to the next place to wait for the next show. and it was even better! heck the lousy singapore wushu performances. this one was much better. hanbin took a video of the whole show. how to describe it... in terms of gymnastics, if i could do juz half of what they could do, its better den most of the cheerleading gymnastics i've seen so far. in terms of the wushu, it's their living, of course its damn zai. if u have a place to go to... u have to go here.

and thats not the end, all the chinese serials where they have the royal palace and all... this is the place where u can find all this buildings... we even managed to catch a filming in progress.

played with swords, played with the weird obstacles, took a million pics... and that's only half the day...

next up was this 湖... i think its called 太平湖. cant really remember... but should be correct... its 5 times bigger den singapore. in the 湖, there's an island... and in the island... there's another 湖, which from the short of the 湖, it looks like an ocean. really beautiful place... just add me on facebook and see for yourself.

3. Family gathering

my parents came over to shanghai for a visit. brought them to the place behind my house, 龙汇路 for dinner on the first night. the first restaurant we went to, we sat down and they served us some soybean drink which i drank almost immediately... only to find out they din have what i wanted, 小龙虾. so we left. the next restaurant we had an overdose of 小龙虾, buy one get one free. lol... though the meat is very little... but its still nice. well... if any of you come shanghai to visit, this is one of the restaurants i will bring u to.

the next day my dad went hangzhou for some business and ah chuan (my cousin) took a half day off and bought my mum out to shop... my mum bought a luggage to filled it up with her shopping... madness... well... we went to 南京西路 at 吴街路 for dinner. one of the best places in shanghai to get food.

on friday, brought my parents to 上海科技馆 to do even more shopping. brought them to the A&F shop and many other places to get loads of stuff... but at the end of it... i din get anything at all. lol...

when my parents came... really felt like i missed them a lot... thank God they came. even if it's only for a while.

4. Huangshan

if you been to china and haven't been to 黄山, you have never and i mean NEVER been to china. It is the most beautiful place i've seen in like a damn long time. because it's autumn, the weather was damn good.

The scenery... oh man... it was breath-taking, awe-inspiring, captivating... i can just keep going on... and it's like no matter how many pictures i take, i can't seem to do justice to the sights i see there.

The first day we reached, we reached quite early and there wasn't a queue to go up the mountain. we got onto a cable car to get about halfway up the mountain... on the way... i fell in love with the view. wait... i fell in love with the place even before that... on the bus to 黄山, i was already in love with the place for it's beauty. anyway... back to the point. after the cable car... it was like another wow... it was another trigger happy photo taking session.

we were about to climb up 天都风, the 3rd highest peak but due to the eminent thunder, we couldn't do so... at least not that day itself... the tour guide said he would check the weather out the next day at 4am and let us know if it clears up and we catch the sunrise which was to be at 5.44am and climb the peak... kill 2 birds with 1 stone...

i woke up at 4.43am... i was like "we are going to miss sunrise! and miss the chance to climb the peak!" changed up and immediately woke some of them up, yanwen quickly changed and went up with me to go look for the tour guide... his reason? (Translated to english) "I thought you all didn't want to climb the peak." i was like... wth!!!! went back down the room and rushed everyone out and by 5.12am, we were at the front door of the hotel. not even properly equipped with a torchlight or even a raincoat (it rains at least 202 days out of 365 days in 黄山), we rushed out of the hotel. what took us like 1hour to get to the start of 天都风 the first time round, we took less den 10 mins to get there that morning... that started the climb...

think of vm... times 2... maybe 3... i think times 3... and a bit more... thin air, cold, wet, bad stairs, not much support, not much safety, at least 1000m above sea level... but the thought of the sunrise kept me going...

when you thought u were reaching the top, you just see another flight... and another after that... it happened to me more than 4 times i think... damn demoralizing... but by the time i reached the top... man... the feeling was amazing.

Reached at 5.45am. but it was too cloudy to see the sunrise. quite disappointed. waited for the rest of them to climb up, hanbin... den yanwen... den carmen...

we took a few pictures and took a break there. we really couldn't see anything at all and all nearly gave up until... we saw a slight glimpse of a peak of a mountain in the distance. we were damn excited. we waited... i prayed even more (had already started praying before that), and boom... there it was... the breath-taking, the awe... you know what i mean, view.

we stayed up there for another hour plus taking pictures... "天都风" The 3rd highest peak, the most difficult to climb and the steepest. At 1810m, we reached the peak.

There were other places like 非崔谷(at least i think it's written like this). It's a valley with small water falls and crystal clear blue water. another amazing place. a must see when at 黄山.

There were other places we saw like this shop that sold 蛇毒酒. one small cup of it cured clarence's one mth old cough (at least for that day). bought a lot tea, tasted the world's best 黑芝麻 at the 老街. saw some olden houses...

overall... i rate 黄山 as my most unforgettable trip as of now.

5. OT

Last but not least... like to say... started OT-ing. only chance to get things done in office. lol... but ya... it's fun with free dinners like subway, KFC or jap food.

OTs are always quite enjoyable. lol...

Remember to add me on facebook to see my pics... will be uploading 黄山 soon

Quote of the day: The day that Carmen takes in disciples...

2007-08-24T08:16:00.000+08:00

Clarence...

Yingsin wanted a massage and clarence just happened to be behind her (i quite cui so sorry if got mistakes)

Clarence: you want osim? i give you... 神龙十八掌!!!
Hanbin: it's xiang long shi ba zhang
Clarence: hanbin, i give you... wu ying zhang...
Carmen: (looks at clarence hinting that she wants to be part of the action)
Clarence: erm... take this carmen... Ba zhang!

Ben...

Ben: hey clarence... the weather damn hot ar...
Carmen: ya... i understand how ppl get heat stroke
Ben: i show you how ppl get heat stroke want?
Carmen: ?
Ben: (puts hand on the hot stone for a while... den using the same hand, gives carmen a stroke) there... heat stroke!

Ben 2...

Ben: go korea eat everything eat with metal chopsticks
Carmen: (looking at the 冷面）
Ben: you know how they make 冷面 in korea?
Carmen: ?
Ben: In winter, the metal chopsticks are cold, they put it in the noodles den become 冷面 liao

Carmen...

Yanwen: the soy bean here very 弹 (tasteless)
Carmen: because here they 加蛋

Clarence 2...

(carmen just finished a cold joke)
Clarence: Carmen really eat too much corn ice cream at work...

Nanjing trip and the week past

2007-08-24T08:05:00.000+08:00

well... it's been a while since i posted. lots of stuff to do and settle.

went to nanjing over the last weekend backpacker's style. though we din visit a lot of places but ya... had loads of fun exploring the places in nanjing. nanjing go...
1. good food
2. a lot of shopping
3. nice scenery
4. nice air
5. nicer ppl that dun push u off the mrt
6. better looking girls

went forest trekking (a short one), bicycle ride, boat ride... went to yu hua tai, fu zi miao, zhong shan ling, zhong tong fu... all this places like linked to a lot of other small places or have a lot of other things around it. had loads of fun

but ya... the week has passed and going to wuxi the coming weekend.

congrats to hanwei, zhihan and james for getting into the scbe comm. a lot of things are happening in ntu now. dunno whether to regret not being there or glad in case i get caught up in it. i've always been against the scbe comm but... but... i did run for the 1st comm... lol... din get it though...

things are happening quite fast in office too... have like a never ending flow of work. but ya... doing it smart allows one to have more slack time. getting to know a lot more company mates now... bear guy, poor guy, i think i mentioned really powerful before also, shanghai girl... a lot more... but haven gotten to noe their names yet.

now in the process of learning VB, managed to understand one program now... lol

Nanjing Photos

2007-08-24T00:37:00.000+08:00

drive boat drive boat... back to days of driving a ship... lol

cool hotel

big statue

cute kfc girl... clarence is doing the voyuering

couple shot!

SCBE

act cool

more statues

kiss

pagodas are cool

erm...

big tower

nice alley near zhong tong fu

Road hogs!

forest trail (yes... we walked through this)

Hotel room... super cosy

wall climb

cute dog

forest trekking

more forest trekking

fu zi miao

nanjing night shot

bad habits...

2007-08-15T08:19:00.000+08:00

hmm... it's one thing to talk bad about ppl behind ppl's backs but it's another to do it with the door wide open for them to hear... makes them wonder what else bad things you have been saying about them (even if this might only be the only time that you do it). at least im more tatical... and less vulgar. lol

Emerson Process Management

2007-08-15T00:58:00.000+08:00

Finally I can start advertising my company. Ya... the pay is one of the highest. If you count it in a more objective way... the pay IS the highest in GIP.

The working environment is very friendly and the people are nice. The supervisors are damn nice, drive you home sometimes and bring you go eat bak kut teh. Got field trips out of Shanghai and the food is good.

My house is near the office so can wake up one of the latest among all the other companies.

Welfare is good and they take care of their staff, like catering a bus (yes a bus) to drive you to see the doctor if you are feeling unwell during office hours.

The pantry is well stocked with Milo, Vita C (Orange Juice), Milk, Green Tea, Green Tea with honey, Coffee and even an instant brewing machine. A fridge to store stuff and even a microwave. 2 hour long lunch breaks that u can use to walk outside your company or even take a short taxi ride to carrefour to see see. (Bo bian... lunch time no one around, cannot do work even if you wanted to)

So ya... anyone interested to come Emerson for GIP?

V

2007-08-15T00:54:00.001+08:00

things are not getting better here for him... apparently, his house mates have decided on a more fair way to split the monthly electricity bills (still its to his advantage in my point of view) and he was ok with it.

when he went to jiao tong for classes that time... he juz kept complaining about it. if you are not ok about it... just say so... dun agree to it if u are not ok about a decision.

but those ppl who have his msn... please talk some sense into him... its tiring to keep hearing his stories of 2 hour pantry breaks... colleagues who dun dare give him anymore work because 1. he screws up simple things like data entry and 2. he loves to complain about the work he's given.

next sem got a lot of ppl applying for gip... dun lose the cbe places in sulzer...

Work work work...

2007-08-15T00:29:00.000+08:00

This week i finally got things to do...

Monday... is it going to be just as horrible... when i went to work... waited for ah pek (my boss) to come in but he was late... in the end, yingsin talked me into talking to the other colleagues to ask them if they had anything for us to do. we went to wangjian and found out he was going fujian on tuesday and the department had a lot of work not done and needed a lot of help but they couldn't assign us anything to do. big setback. den we went back to our seat and saw ah pek was in. so we went to his office and talked to him.... he had nothing for us to do. den yingsin said that the pp department needed help as they were short of manpower. ah pek was surprised and took us to the pp department (wangjian's department... which is actually headed by ah pek himself). when he found out that his department was short of manpower... he immediately assigned us to his own department and work started. he gave us a speech on how difficult it was to assign us to another department and that he thought his department did not have anything to do. but ya... YAY!!! WORK!!!

first job? to check the PP I/O wiring to check whether the data entered tallied with the diagrams. thank God the person who did it was super careless, had lots of fun doing the corrections. felt like i finally was of some use. the mini project seemed to be going quite well too

2nd day, got this colleague known as xiaoying.. dunno why she was trying so hard to speak to us in english. she tried to explain everything in english to us, according to her, it was to improve her english but in the end. i couldnt understand a word she was saying... even if it was english. took like yesterday afternoon and the whole of the morning and a lot of trial and errors to finally get what she sort of meant.

we finally understood her when she gave up and spoke in chinese. lol... the irony

but ya... even if she did speak in chinese from the start, it would have required at least half the day, if not more to explain the job. in a way it's just data entry but it requires some understanding of the logic diagrams which i still am quite blur about... lol...

left to do? the excel mini project which i cant seem to get any breakthrough for yet... hope some super computer genius can appear in front of me one of these days...

anyway... some updates on company ppl
真power: this woman who sits 2 seats beside me. seems like all the guys in the department have to listen to her. and when she intro-ed herself... all i could catch was the last part of her name... "zhen"

small eagle: xiao yin... english direct translation

lily: her real name is 李立... cool right...

bear guy: this guy who looks like a teddy bear

ah pui: ah pek's malaysian fren... loves to eat

pregnant lady: as the name says...

ah dong: thats what they call him... i still have no idea why (one of the few nicknames that i din give myself)

dimple girl: the damn chio girl (according to yingsin) who has nice dimples

liang jing ru: jianqing says she looks like liang jing ru... i think she looks like that when she covers her face... but thats what we call her now...

liang jing (no ru): the liang jing ru wanna be... actually... thats her real name

Quote of the day: Another Carmen Special

2007-08-15T00:23:00.000+08:00

so we were planning to go shopping at jing an shi again and wanted to go grab a bite from BK...

Hanbin: this time im just going to order a whooper and not order a meal
Carmen: Why would u wanna order a meal when u can order a femeal
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(After the meal)
Hanbin: Feel super satisfied and happy now
Carmen: Now you are a happy meal

BIG STORY!

2007-08-10T22:03:00.001+08:00

not a really big story... just letting all of you know that one of our CBE students, Victor Tan Suan Howe is now applying for CBE at 交通大学. He has decided that NTU is not the place for him and China is the place for him.

Let's all be nice and wish him all the best for his application to 交通大学.

Quote of the day

2007-08-10T21:19:00.000+08:00

well! its back! quote of the day! and our new supplier..... ching ching chingggg.... CARMEN!

so carmen got blisters one day after walking around too much and it was about dinner time....

ben: hey... ure blister how?
carmen: quite pain
ben: go burst the blister lar
clarence: go cut off better
carmen: ? go cut off? how bout i cut off my legs den we can go boil pig's trotters soup
ben and clarence: ......................

so we came back from shopping and clarence bought a pair of green and white walking shoe
clarence: the shoe needs to get seasoned
ben: to make them more comfortable?
clarence: ya... den get them a bit dirty den will loook better
carmen: cool... den you will have dirty green shoes

and on the same day... carmen bought dumb-bells
ben: why u buy dumb bells?
carmen: can train
clarence: ?
carmen: everytime cook and use the wok, very heavy, cannot do the (does the frying wok action to toss the food while frying)
hanbin: can hold the 2 handles and toss the food what
ben: den how to fry?
carmen: thats why need to train
ben: so how come u buy dumbbells? 6kg means u got 6kg worth of excess luggage less of weight
carmen: oh ya... so the person who bought the dumbbells is really dumb...
ben: ....

work? work! work...

2007-08-08T22:23:00.000+08:00

started 4th week of work. this week tot it would be more exciting with things happening and try out the deltaV system. but... But... BUT!!! nope... nothing...

1st day of the week did a few excel sheets to account for my expenditure, an expenditure logsheet, one to account my my china income, my sgd income, a shopping list and a gift list. took like forever to make one that looked nice. lol

2nd day... thought it might be better, even went to the ah pek (my supervisor mr chong) to ask for things to do and he gave us some smoke on how come we are so bo liao... have to wait for the big boss bird loo man (bert looman) to come back to attach us to the project which has stuff to do. den went back my computer and sorted out all my music into proper folders and got a lot of chinese songs from yingsin... ya... its all sorted out, even the tagging is done for all the english songs.

3rd day... which is today... brought my harry potter to work and was hoping to not get a chance to read it but there was really nth else to do. read all the manuals, there was really nth to do so read like 100+ pages of harry potter. thank God in the afternoon there was an orientation for all the interns and there were like 50 of them. damn a lot. they gave us like some organizational talk (by this director who i from hongkong and guess who he sounded like... our lovely professor vincent chan). then there was a management talk by the HR director by this pamela or angela guan and she had to emphasize on her "guan" saying 我的"管"是"管理"管。in short, the one in charge of us. but she was just all talk talk talk... then there was a walk through the company office which was surprisingly big and they even had a leisure room. the last talk was by this director who we call the yunam hair guy (because of the weird bald patch at the back of his head) and the bruce yao who was from the marketing department. they were like telling us how great Emerson is and after their talks, i believe that emerson is quite power.

came up with loads of names for the ppl here in emerson like
汤包- the girl who has so much hair and can tie it up into something like a 汤包
cute girl - this intern who is quite cute
帅 guy - the fren of the cute intern girl
龙阳路 guy - person who takes the same bus as me every morning and night
酷 guy - interesting guy who sits 2 cubicles away from me, always at work and though he looks quite nerdy but he got the seh
孙姐 - the one with like 3 cartons of coke under her table, 5 boxes of pens, and loads of other stationaries
high guy - the guy who always say "够 high" when ever he gets excited, im starting to say that too
ah pek - my supervisor
bird loo - bert looman, my big boss

got a few more but cant remember now...

anyway... some pics of the food in my company

the food is really not bad. 4 weeks and im not sick of it. i always look forward to it actually. lol... hope can really start some work soon

things i've started doing here in shanghai

2007-08-04T12:57:00.000+08:00

come china... there have been a few things that i've started doing...

things like eating breakfast everyday (at least on weekdays)

having 3 proper meals per day, eating a proper lunch at a proper lunch time...

eating a lot of lunch and feel damn bad and go jogging 3 times a week

watching chinese dramas and getting addicted to it

going out shopping

blogging and putting my blog link on my msn

speaking in chinese more than english

lol... learning a lot in here in china and having a lot of fun

Hanzhou pics super huge mega picture post

2007-08-01T23:10:00.000+08:00

well.. this is the hanzhou trip pics... not going to comment on them... too many liao... lol... had loads of fun there. so here are the pics. have like 2gig of them... here are some random ones

It's not that i want to post about him...

2007-08-01T00:29:00.001+08:00

i really don't but it feels crappy to not post about it...

1. skip work on a friday to go 荒山 when obviously u arent entitle to leave during IA

2. asking yanwen and carmen to lie and cover up for u... thankfully they juz din say anything...

3. expect to skip monday work as well

4. all this for a girl you met on the internet for 3 days

5. ask ure housemates of the girl can come over to stay at their house

6. housemates reject? so? bring her back late at night when most of them are asleep.

7. but den they were not... got caught, do what? bring her to your room

8. say dun care about gip or ia, just care about the grade...

9. when ppl lunch hour over liao... boss asks where is victor, no one knows where is he. he extends his own lunch hours

10. well... he got a girlfriend, i don't... guess that makes me the loser... lol...

Week past...

2007-07-31T20:16:00.001+08:00

one more week gone by...

the weeks seem very long... in a good way. like there's a lot of things happening everyday and time passes by slowly. in one hour so many things can happen.

we went to 南京西路 early this week... the train was super packed and we had problems getting out. still can remember, hanbin and carmen nearly couldnt get out of the train in time. the door was closing and hanbin, by himself, stopped the doors with his hands and pulled them open. then there was the hydraulic sound. damn cool lar...

at 南京西路 there got a lot of 小吃. there were so many things to choose from that we had problem choosing a place to eat. we ended up choosing this place that looked a bit like a restaurant that might have been slightly over our budget but ya... since we were already there. the food was quite good and we 7 people eat... 88rmb. damn cheap. next time if my family comes over, definitely will bring them there.

what else happened.... actually, most of the days we were at home watching tv and eating a lot of 外卖. dinner was usually the meal i dun look forward to most of the time. but lunch was always quite good.

Saturday was hanzhou.

initial plan was to take a bus from our place to hanzhou direct but den that morning when we called the bus guy and apparently his cooling water burst and he couldnt contact us and couldnt make it in time to fix it. so we decided to try our luck at the shanghai railway station... so many problems... wanna travel den just travel lor. complain expensive den dun travel. lol...

reach there and had like a long discussion about the tour package. well... sort of a discussion... erm... ya.

but in the end we still took the travel package the cost 231rmb in total which includes the two way train tickets.

the train wasnt as bad as expected. was much better than the movies. lol...

but the tour itself was damn cock... super hot and really damn rushed... went to 西湖and took a boat across to this small island and din even have time to take photos. and before we know it, it's off to the next place. saw a total of 5 other places and 2 sales pitch (the silk factory and the 龙井茶 store which had bad 龙井茶). 宋城 really is quite cool and had a lot of interesting things to do but we had like 20 mins in it and damn sian... the stupid bus was forever late and we rushed to wait and waited to rush... feels like NS. but it was still fun... more or less... hahaha

got loads of pics to upload... will be uploading them in a while

Group pics at cheng huan miao

2007-07-25T23:17:00.000+08:00

lunch... this time the tang baos are better!

on the 9 turn bridge

us along the way out of cheng huan miao

Some hp pics

2007-07-25T23:14:00.000+08:00

when bored at work and using a plant designing programme... its quite cool what u can do

cute sign

crystal tiger beer!

Day 17 - Drink your milk

2007-07-25T22:26:00.000+08:00

Well... its day 17 and now here blogging...

time really went by quite fast this week while im on course and damn fast its now wednesday

Clarence still is sick with a bad bout of flu, but he ran like 4 rounds around this 世纪公园, which i seriously think is like 5km per round. i think...

Hanbin just ran finish with me but he had puffy eyes and a running noes yesterday

My roomie jianqing is recovering from his super sickness attack of diarrhea, flu and a weird throat and blocked nose.

Carmen, yanwen and me seem to be fine...

the difference? the 3 of us drink milk every morning. So drink your milk! lol

Poor victor isn't getting any better... apparently he crapped all over the toilet bowl and din clear up. When yingsin wanted to talk to him, he attituded her when she asked him to sit down to talk by saying "talk can talk like this". Then she said the rest of them are sleeping (it was 1130) and told him to lower his volume he just blasted off saying he always talk this loudly in hall and sang just as loudly. And when she said she's not trying to 讲 him, he rebutted by saying "don't worry, im used to being scolded already" or something like that... really hope things get better.

Anyway... i think im really enjoying myself here... it's somewhat like hall, when i get back home, got a lot frens around all bitching about their IA like ben tan and ting guan lol... my mum calls me very often (in a good way), doesnt feel like shes very far away. my sis msns me more often. seems like we have more to talk about when im gone than when im in singapore. always having people around, enjoying my 三八sessions with yingsin in the office... good shopping... good times watching drama serials... interesting dinners... well... it's just 2 weeks

going to upload more pics soon!

Always see the dentist

2007-07-23T22:41:00.000+08:00

clarence is now in the toilet trying to get his retainers out... forgot to take it out be4 coming to shanghai...

yingsin had to get medication for her wisdom tooth

who knows what else... be4 coming to shanghai or any exchange programme.. .always see the dentist first...

your friendly dentist promoter

Ben Teo

My buys

2007-07-22T21:14:00.000+08:00

so i bought quite a few stuff already... spent a damn lot... below are a list...

Harry Potter!!!
A pair of shoes
A towel...
and...

i think the belts are cool

the socks that ben tan wanted for 30sgd

not so real levis and a pair of berms

the polo tees i bought so far... not all for me. some to be given to frens

Qi Bao - Old China

2007-07-21T21:51:00.000+08:00

qi bao

roarrrr

photoshot

the smu shot

old pagoda

drunkard

小龙虾... Clarence say its the small drain prawns

stoning

Photos from the riverside (The Bund)

2007-07-21T21:28:00.000+08:00

1st week of IA

2007-07-19T22:37:00.001+08:00

started IA and i must say... i'm super bored. can't wait for our training to start. really not equipped to do anything. have to wait till next week until the training starts, then after that... woohoo! i can do some real work.

first week of work so far?

carmen and yanwen's company bus met in an accident but they are alright

yingsin (my company mate) had a wisdom tooth problem and i went with her today to the hospital to look for a dentist. we went to like 3 different hospitals den we finally found one that had a dentist. damn a lot of ppl there... think of a polyclinic, the busiest you have ever seen, times 5 the number of people. that's the scene there. but surprisingly, it was super fast. unlike singapore where there are like 10 rooms to see patients and only 3 of them have doctors, here in china, they have 10 rooms with 10 doctors all fully utilized. quite fast... though the nurses damn bo chup... the ppl like really talk among themselves instead of working... but somehow... it works. lol.

clarence has increased number of labs going on at the same time... 1 toilet break a day and can only sit down after 1630

hanbin, who is in the same company as clarence has friday off but he's just going to work to accompany clarence.

me and jianqing are dying of boredom... i have had like more than 10 toilet trips, at least 5 cups of milo, 3 cups of vit C, 2 cups of honey jasmine tea and like 15 cups of water. 2 hour lunch breaks and ya...

well... that's it for now

back to 岁冈风云...

The Victor Post Part 2

2007-07-19T22:10:00.000+08:00

The amount of stuff we have for victor is getting lesser now... in a way... it should be a good thing. Reason? One day in office when carmen and victor were together, one of the office staff came to them and asked who's free to.... before she could finish the sentence, victor put up his hand. It's good to be enthusiastic, makes NTU look good ya... erm... not really when you complain about the thing you volunteered for is just data entry and it's damn boring. so now lesser interaction with carmen and yanwen... now lesser stories.

so now for victor stories from his house mates.

First thing that I found out is that he is a night owl and he sleeps damn late. there is one living room in his house and he takes it up by himself watching movies and drama serials. In my house here, everyone is watching it together but there should be a reason why his house mates commented that he watches those shows alone until about 3 to 4 in the morning. Then the first thing they see when they wake up the next morning? The lights all on (tv if i not wrong is also left on), the toilet stuck and about to overflow, the main door left wide open... and ya... we have to pay for the utility bills.

His house mates also feel quite weird around him now. They wake up to go for lunch together to find him sleeping, they come back and still find him sleeping till like 4 in the afternoon... where got people go China and don't go around to explore. But ya... that's him. When they cook dinner together, he decides to be anti-social and go out buy dinner for himself.

And so one day, he decides to start this conversation;
Victor: hey, can my friend come over to stay for a few days?
Housemate: your friend?
Victor: ya
Housemate: your friend from?
Victor: from online
Housemate: from online?
Victor: ya, met from this site, haven't met the person before.
Housemate: so how long do you know this person?
Victor: about 3 days.
Housemate: and you want him to stay at our place?
Victor: it's a girl, so i think it should be alright. I joined this site and we are required to let other people stay at our place
Housemate: erm... you go ask the others can?

So the final verdict?

No.

To think i felt bad seeing him go for dinner alone... i thought his housemates pangseh-ed him and they were damn evil. but ya... he pangseh-ed his housemates. sigh...

2007-07-16T22:50:00.000+08:00

me lost in shanghai...

after a big killing at qipu (mine is hidden in my bag)

big eats

at nanjing

The Victor Post Part 1

2007-07-16T22:23:00.000+08:00

So today is the first day of IA and Victor, Carmen and Yanwen went to Sulzer together with another 2 more ppl. The 5 of them, together... into Sulzer Shanghai.

The standard thing to do is to go to the Human Resource office to settle the administrative matters and that is just what they did. But what one wouldn't expect an intern to do is to go to the HR office and say, "Can I change department? My senior said that I can't learn much in the current department I'm in (Technology Department), can I request for a change of department." So ya... Obviously his request was declined.

Next up was meeting the boss. And yes, we all do love interns who are enthusiastic... to the extent of asking everyone what can he do... like can he help in any computer stuff, data entry, make coffee for them, sweep their cubicle for them?! Initially its quite funny and people can take it as a joke, but when it doesn't stop... obviously everyone know he is serious.

So we have more... Where got people first day of work keep walking around and looking at what people do. Trying to be friendly? Yes.. that's all good... but till the point when it disturbs people? Obviously not! So the boss... the natural thing to do was to (as quoted) "(Snapped finger) Victor, come into my office now." and told him to go back to his desk. So if you can't walk around, might as well pull your chair in the middle of the isle, IN FRONT of the boss's office and try to talk to the other people aka Carmen and Yanwen. Talk... ok... make stupid remarks and disturb people's work? Gone case... First day... spoil the impression of all the NTU people who went or GIP.

And you think that's all? We haven't finish. So we got someone who overheard this conversation between Victor and a China girl who was working there at Sulzer. This is how it went (translated into english); (China Girl is CG)

CG: So how old are you know?
Victor: That's a really sensitive question!
CG: But you're a guy, why should it be sensitive?
Victor: Then you guess how old am I?
CG: How to guess how old you are?
Victor: If I tell you I'm 19, would you believe?
CG: Ok...
Victor: I look you right? I look like I'm 19 right?
CG: Sort of.
Victor: So how old do you think I look?
CG: I think you look 9 years old bah..
Victor: It doesn't matter how old I look, it's what's in here (points to his brain) that matters.
CG: I'm saying that it's your mind that is like a 9 year old, not how you look.
Victor: Oh... but I'm actually 29 years old.

As the conversation was too horrible to listen any more... it just ended there...

We will have more of 60mins with Victor... HOPEFULLY NOT! next time...

1st Day at work

2007-07-16T20:49:00.001+08:00

super slack day at work... went to work, sat there for a while and filled up some weird form and slacked for even more.

finally they brought us to see the supervisor... talked to him for a while, then they showed us to another cubicle... slacked even more... slack and slack... then we looked around the cubicle and found some manuals and we used that to pretend to slack even more. sigh... super slack day...

lunch was super powerful. Rice can choose 2 meat and 3 vege, got a soup/dessert, another fruit, one more appetizer, even can take some man tou... lol

venture:
so the ppl at venture had it worse.. one of the project engineers juz quit and one of the GIP guys, jiesheng, had to take over him. He even had to sit in for the engineers meeting.

givaldan:
clarence and hanbin had it tough today. Lab lab lab... lab in chinese and 2 labs at one time. damn powerful. clarence now power in chinese up by like 4 levels. he had to do like 2 labs at one go and non-stop. finish work still nv finish yet... do until they cannot catch the shuttle bus.. damn sad case...

sulzer:
this one needs a whole new blog entry... the victor entry

My place (that i've been saying is quite cool)

2007-07-15T23:41:00.000+08:00

woohoo... this is the mambo flooring im talking about and the living room... a bit messy but ya... this is the day 1 picture that we took when we first stepped in so its a bit messy. it is much nicer now.

GIP group pic

2007-07-15T23:30:00.000+08:00

well... this is the first day picture of the whole group of us who went shanghai. if you see your friend in the picture, it means he or she is in shanghai now... lol..

ok... 1 week over

2007-07-15T22:51:00.000+08:00

i think im adapting quite well to shanghai. maybe its because of the accommodations that we have. its really quite nice. feels a bit like a mix between hostel and home. got frens here like clarence carmen and hanbin. making a few new frens like jianqing and yanwen.

staying together really is quite fun. got loads to laugh about and ya... cant wait for work to start.

i found out that i went to a lot of places with my family on our last family trip to china. like my family was staying in one of the hotels along nanjing bu xin jie (nanjing no through road) which is currently the centre of everything and the place we have somehow walked through like 4 to 5 times within this week without knowing it. i went up the weird tall building by the bund with my family which we went for a sightseeing tour around. ah chuan brought me to cheng meng miao which i also have been before... i dunno... i thought going the same place twice would be boring but den... im having loads of fun. its really different going with different ppl...

lol... now trying to add pictures... need to exercise sia... sian

Blogging entries...

2007-07-14T01:10:00.000+08:00

well... everyone is blogging themselves happy here. hanbing and clarence are doing daily entries.

clarence is nikefusion.blogspot.com
hanbing is http://overseaSGuy.blogspot.com

clarence uploads most of his pics but its mainly about him... still need to find an efficient way to upload photos. lol... until next time bah. check out their blogs, their entries more detailed. anyway what they go thru is really what i am going thru as of now. lol...

hmm... nearing the end of week 1

2007-07-14T00:49:00.000+08:00

well... friday has come to an end and now preparing to go slp.

found quite a few interesting places in shanghai already.

we found the shopping heaven Qi Pu Lu.

we were at the weird river town Qi Bao.

we went to some pagoda near Qi Bao.

we found the super cheap damn nice food district juz along Long Hui Lu.

we went to the orchard road of china which is between Nanjing Dong Lu and Ren Ming Guang Chang.

the carrefour at da mu zhi

the shopping warehouse along Longyang Lu.

the huge national park along Hua Mu Lu.

and a few more stuff...

the food here is a bit saltier or a bit oilier, sometimes both. but i think im adapting quite well. the air here at longyang seems always hazy but den i think its not that bad. reasonable bah.

the water here is not portable but den the beer is cheaper den water. (i haven drank any yet... recovering from FOC and nv managed to stay awake to drink with the others)

the weather they said will be damn hot but until now... all i think is that the air is more stagnant rather than the weather is hot.

shopping is amazing but i have to control myself or else will really lose control. bought something for my sis already though.

the kfc is damn bad. the pizza is damn ex... but the small hawkers in the blue collar areas... DAMN NICE! the secret shops in shopping centres where the locals patronize... HEAVENLY.

jogging here got more to see but always scared get lost and the roads not very even...

the housing that the CPG provides is really pleasant to stay in.

it's quite fun to stay with the ppl in this house. really enjoying myself here in GIP china. already thanked clarence for psychoing me to come for gip with him. in a way... it's a good break from singapore. still miss the guys and girls in singapore though. wished that there were more of them here with me here but ya... they still talk to me a lot on msn so like dun miss them too much yet.

so as of now... my gip exp is a 8 out of 10.

spending...

2007-07-14T00:37:00.000+08:00

currently im the biggest spender here in gip china out of my roommates.

clarence is at 1.2k
hanbing at 1.1k
jianqing at 1.6k
im at 1.7k...

i really dun recall spending so much but ya... im having fun.

need to cut down on spending until my money comes in... sigh...

China Post no.1

2007-07-12T00:26:00.000+08:00

Cannot tahan liao... doing the Nueve post until damn kek... do 3 pages on Microsoft word still haven't finish. Will do up a china post first before i forget about everything... lol...

Day 0
The day i left. Loads of ppl came to send me off (together with clarence and carmen (though i still think the majority came from the ppl sending clarence off... lol)) But it's great to noe that the CBE family is so close knit. Nearly all of the nueve main comm came. Nearly all the seniors came and a few of the freshie GLs. Super touched.

Got quite a few gifts... i think the scrap book was a damn nice idea though somehow like some of the pages like not filled at all... a bit sad that not everyone wanted to fill it but bo bian... it was nice as it was. Wah wee wee also gave me some nice stuff which i wun post. Best fren clique gave me a damn nice pic which i still put behind my bed on the shelf here in china. Got a few other stuff like brownies and fridge magnets. all damn nice gifts.

Day 1
Woke up and had a weird breakfast on the plane which did not seem to have enough salt on the eggs... make that enough flavor on the eggs. Landed and met up the GIP ppl. went to the Shanghai NTU base camp (the GIP office in shanghai). They served us a buffet spread breakfast which was not too bad... den went to our place, address;

1880 Longyang Road, No. 46, Room 902
Shanghai China

Initially it looked a bit weird but den... i now think its damn nice.

Went to kfc for a horrible horrible lunch... where got kfc combo meals only one combo got the chicken one... and the chicken also so lousy... yuck

Went to metro to buy some stuff to clean up the house with after that... bought like toilet cleaners, floor cleaners, dishwasher, grease remover and a whole lot of other cleaning detergents. ended up spending like 500+ rmb... lol... worse part is... we had to pay for our own plastic bags. but the best buy of the day was the 12 glasses for 6.30RMB. damn powerful.

the cleaning up took a while but den after it was done, the house really looked not bad. me and jianqing went for some supper after that. jap sushi! woooohooo... we sort of covered up our little treat by buying supper for everyone else... lol

on the way back, met charlene and tiong and brought them over to our place on which they commented is damn nice... i think so too (we got the mambo flooring)

well... the first day ended like that... more or less

day 2
initially we wanted to go to the "market" to do some shopping but den we decided to go carrefour to buy some stuff like bedsheets first. the carrefour is located at a place called da mu zhi which directly translates to big thumb. but the chinese decide to call it thumb plaza.

went on a shopping craze. damn a lot of stuff to buy at damn low prices. the bedsheets were like going for 29.99rmb to 49.99rmb. we bought pillows that wun deform and pillows that had oolong tea smell. there were 2.90rmb slippers and bamboo mahjong sets. we took like a million things and ended up... 1394rmb. madness

after that we met up with the rest of the GIP ppl at ren ming guang chang to do some orchard road style shopping. i think i stayed around there before in one of the hotels with my family on one of our holidays but ya... it was quite nice walking around though we didn't buy anything at all. the highlight was our own food hunt where we just kept going around looking for weird stuff to eat. we had some imitation ice kachang, some pig fats biscuit (rou bing), lots of dumplings and the AMAZING SUPER POWER PACKED fried xiao long bao.

ok, so here's the story, everyone knew of clarence's craving for xiaolongbao so we all went around looking for xiaolongbao for him... the WHOLE gip clique. we finally found one shop so we went in to check out the prices. so i was standing on the stairs ready to go up when this guy pushing a pram came in and commented on the prices saying it was damn ex. then i told him that expensive one was for the crab digestives xiaolongbao and the normal one was like 3.5ormb per pc and he said it was super ex. he told us about this place where all the locals went for xiaolongbao and it was damn nearby. So we all followed him, out onto the big street den into a small street and into a shopping centre where we found a huge queue of ppl waiting to eat this fried xiaolongbao. Then one of us noticed that one girl was missing, yiling. She didn't have a handphone nor her wallet with her. was damn worrying. a few of us went out to look for her all over the place. took us like 20mins before we could find her. oh man... damn scary. she totally emo-ed. I can understand how she feels. its really a damn scary feeling.

anyway, after finding her, we had the amazing fried xiaolongbao which when i say is amazing, it really is amazing. the skin though thicker was damn flavoured. the soup was damn shioky. the mean was tender... woooooooo im in xiaolongbao heaven

hahaha... update till here first. damn tired. need a break

hm...

2007-07-10T22:34:00.001+08:00

a bit delayed... but pls wait for updates. like keep moving around here in china. connection a bit weird. but doing my new entry. should be up by the end of this week

videos

2007-06-11T07:40:00.000+08:00

hahaha... my cheerleading performance...
i think i noe where we went wrong liao...
our transiting between stunts were not very sharp... well.. next year bah... hahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhzOiDPDOms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2QQScraJ6k

hrm... updates

2007-06-09T01:09:00.001+08:00

took out 3 of my wisdom teeth, only have 3...
one was stuck near my sinus which is damn scary. but its out now... hope no problem after that.
not really in that much pain... at least i think i aint. now still under the effects of pain killers. lol

GPA 4.1 around there lar...

got hall 7. cheerleading? hahahaha

loving Christ more each day

POS

2007-06-05T17:48:00.000+08:00

POS stands for parade of schools... not piece of shit

NTU POS

2007-06-05T13:41:00.000+08:00

Well... the cheerleading is over, we got 3rd. but i believe that we still had the strongest stunts. lol!

Thanks NTU ministry ppl for everything....

Julian - Head Coach
Huifen/Joelle - Admin IC
Francis/Big Bear - Music IC
Annie - Overall IC
Kin Wei - for all his sacrifices
Alex - for the clothes
Clarice - the best lindy hopper
Hwee ting - the lengendary flier
Lusi - the person i listen to for the counts
Eliz - for giving us the power boost! Jia You!
Nat - u have the sexy thing!
Yohanna - i still think u dance the best
Renny - for ure commitment
Lynette - dun eat so much la! hahaha
Sylvia - another legend.. best shoulder stander
seema ma - my dance partner extrodinaire
jia jia - the hottest girl in the group
Windy - for ure smile, ure positivity and for always being there
daiqi - for willing to take the risk to do the backtuck... thanks...
yongxiang - committed and always wiling to sacrifice
shing - best singer
chingseng - for bringing life to the group
andy - for always giving the encouragement when needed
kangwei - for aiding us in the stunts so much
guanghui - for ure exp
jun han- for always giving ure best. thanks!
yuanxin - so bouncy
paul - for driving us around
enyao - lead dancer

(backstage)
rica
joseph
matt
samuel
and a few more i cant remember ure names... sorry

the ntu ministry ppl who helped out
xiaorong
shurui
dan
shengda
yongsheng
dorcas
xiaoting
max
all the Indonesians
and everyone who i left out... i apologize... hahaha

but it was fun.. this emerge was great! i thank u all for this exp. i thank u city harvest church

ntu emerge pos 2007

quote of the day

2007-05-01T02:29:00.000+08:00

shiqi: which one is jp?
chongmeng: there, in front, the one with the red dots
(charlotte and ben looks at the traffic lights in front)
ben: hahahaha! those red dots are traffic lights lar!

reactions...

2007-04-25T06:06:00.000+08:00

well, heat and mass ended like erm.... like that lor...

unit ops had a lot of careless.

now left with reactions. sigh... cant seem to get into the mood to study for it. lol

life

2007-04-20T13:39:00.000+08:00

The world is going down the drain slowly but steadily everyday...

We however... are trying to catch up with this falling world.

Why do we wanna fall so much faster than we really should.

hrm...

2007-04-15T23:42:00.000+08:00

you know what... why bother when others don't?

doesnt make sense now does it....

if others dun wanna make the effort, why bother?

nope... doesnt make sense to bother at all....

so the conclusion is to dun bother and give up on things that dun bother and gave up

that totally make sense!

somehow... i feel a burden lifted off my chests. hahaha

jRasAdffNaosdDxvOnaM jakPbgfvaOkgbajkwSfdkmganjavTg

2007-04-15T02:15:00.000+08:00

ya... that means random post....

need to be nicer as a person... die lar...

ultimate quote of the day

2007-04-10T23:02:00.000+08:00

chongmeng: do you know where is the quiz for heat and mass transfer tml?
ms yang： not too sure
chongmeng: do you think it is another lt in the south spine?
ms yang:　who is the professor in charge?
chongmeng: santos
ms yang: erm... do you think he will be bothered?

2007-04-10T22:47:00.000+08:00

got new names for ppl..

ang shi qi = shi qi-ang = 是强 = is powerful

chong meng = 聪明 = smart

me? ben = 笨

lol

another quote

2007-04-10T10:10:00.000+08:00

ben: damn seh now lar...
shiqi: ya... lets eat the set A breakfast meal. This time i wan teh ping
ben: i wan teh ping dun wan ping
shiqi: ..... teh lar... where got teh ping no ping one

new quotes?

2007-04-10T10:01:00.000+08:00

James: went to malaysia to eat loads of good seafood the other day

Ben: Woah...

James: the 龙虾 damn power lar

Ben: huh? dragon prawn? got such thing one ar?

James: HAHAHAHA! Lobster lar

4 days in a row

2007-04-08T06:04:00.000+08:00

finally seemed to settle down into the studying mood. 1st 2 days was with shiqi, den the 3rd and 4th was with shiqi and chongmeng.

Wouldn't say it is super powered study group, but hell, im making more progress than i ever will alone. its really quite fun to study in groups and i really missed the feeling. lol...

anyway... it's 6am now and im about through with the unit ops tut... still mixed up with the x and X and y and Y.... madness. think they wanna go eat half boiled eggs like yesterday at 8 in the morning... growing damn fat now

oh ya... came up with a theory why evon lim takes so long in toilets. apparently... the day me and shiqi were at sac studying, we saw evon wanting to go toilet and she dragged carmen to go in with her. carmen, being the good friend did. came up with a theory that evon ass is too big and when she sits on the toilet seat, her ass will get stuck in the seat so she needs someone to pull her out. true enough... after like 20 mins did they emerge from the toilet again.

hrm... what else... found out that the disgusting couple group (who arent really disgusting...) have a different name. found out that they are called team rocket by other ppl. damn cool

and fiona seems to have quit cbe... sigh... one less chio bu

what else... dota-ed a few times, quite fun really.

and what else... oh ya... I AM STRESSED! lol

cleared the air

2007-04-01T01:40:00.000+08:00

cleared the air with yuxin after a one hour conversation. finally, another big load off my chests. really feel much better now. lol

Technical Comm Technically over!

2007-03-30T21:58:00.000+08:00

it's finally over, the stupid tech comm.

H.Y. BIZ INC.
1. Ang Han Wee
2. Ng Zhi Han
3. Isabelle Tsan
4. Tan Yu Xin
5. Benjamin Teo

I'm amazed we managed to do so well.

lol... got commented that the powerpoint was a job well done. woohoo! hard work pays off!

well... that's that... time to get back to work.

五月天 - 天使

2007-03-30T01:29:00.000+08:00

你就是我的天使
保护著我的天使
从此我再没有忧伤
你就是我的天使
给我快乐的天使
甚至我学会了飞翔
飞过人间的无常
才懂爱才是宝藏
不管世界变得怎黱样
只要有你就会是天堂
像孩子依赖著肩膀
像眼泪依赖著脸庞
你就像天使一样
给我依赖给我力量
像诗人依赖著月亮
像海豚依赖海洋
你是天使你是天使
你是我最初和最后的天堂

Time to learn more chinese songs so can go china and sing!

ending.......... starting........ ending..........

2007-03-26T02:00:00.000+08:00

well... the crazy period is starting to die down... all the activities, all the quizzes, all the assignments... i felt slightly free-er this week, except for the tech comm presentation.

had time to relax at home. but still... rxn was a killer. lol... about 200+ slides... and all compressed notes.

exams coming... starting... and be4 i know it.... its going to be over... and its the end of my year 2 life.

Quote of the day

2007-03-26T01:58:00.000+08:00

Tingguan: feel damn sian now...
Ben: Why?
Tingguan: dunno... just feel damn crappy. girl problem.
Ben: (Sees the cartons of new water in front of him) then drink some new water!
Tingguan: Why?
Ben: So can become a new man!

evil unit ops

2007-03-23T00:17:00.000+08:00

im really sick of doing so badly for unit ops! arghh!!! hahaha.... irritating... hope can get 2As to cover for it den...

Quote of the day?

2007-03-23T00:04:00.000+08:00

Arvind: So benny, would you like to answer why is it equals to 1?
Ben: (looks around)
Arvind: Ya you benny
Ben: (points to himself)
Arvind: Did i get it wrong? You're benny right?
Ben: I'm ben...
Arvind: Oh... sorry about that. well, at least i got 70% right, i should get some method marks.
Ben: .......

anyway... think im going to do quite badly for my 2nd unit ops quiz... forgot to convert the small x to big X crappy... and to think i thought i got the ans correct...sigh...

21st of march

2007-03-21T00:37:00.000+08:00

how did i end up here like this? i wonder. im now in my room studying unit ops and cant seem to make any progress at all. i dunno whether that is a good thing or a bad thing but i still cant do anything. so i guess thats a bad thing. used to have a lot of ppl who would wanna study together but i guess it really isnt all that productive.

i dunno if i made more enemies this sem than i did friends... i really dunno but somehow... im too tired to bother about it too much. i got my results that im going china for 1 sem. hope it would be good to clear up the air with the ppl around me.

anyway... a few more weeks and my year 2 would come to an end... and it would be 2 more years and back to work. would be quite sad to leave everyone.

i feel like shutting up...

2007-03-02T05:42:00.000+08:00

really... i feel like shutting myself up sometimes... how i wish i would talk lesser and just sit down and do the work. had a project meeting today and ya... everyone did their work, really well i must add. hanwei and zhihan did an amazing job with the tech comm and i had to say it wasnt credible... why the hell did i have to say that... it was so obvious it was 4 agaisnt 1 and i had no idea why i tried to keep my way of thinking...

heat project also... just couldnt keep my mouth shut... i just need to flow with the group and do my work... seriously... sigh... trying to make my part look good now... lol...

cny

2007-02-21T01:34:00.000+08:00

finally got a chance to relax and play my ps2. it's been quite a while since i could just sit back relax and play games. i wanted to study but who cares! i need to relax for a while and regain my composure. i think i got that from the chinese new year break.

my family has a lot of problems... my father side... gone case. my mother side... another gone case. but hey... at least my mother side seems to be having fun. my father side... even being around them feels like the air is damn heavy.

had one reunion dinner at spring court... man the food was HORRIBLE! i could cook better than that... i think. lol but the food was terrible. not too mention cold. (the cold dish was warm and soggy) overcooked fish, weird tasting sharkfin... the list doesnt end. the bowls were dirty the drinks came slowly... the list doesnt end. it was just horrible. honestly... just horrible.

but anyway... i only went out for the 1st and 2nd day. 1st day for the lousy dinner and the 2nd day for visiting. went to zhenjie's house on the 2nd day to gamble with tms ppl... really feel like im drifting away from them. slowly by steadily. but anyway... learnt texas poker and lost a lot in it. hahaha...

no more gambling this year for me. i hope...

the angpaos this year seems to have declined a lot... sigh....

bad quizzes...

2007-02-21T01:20:00.000+08:00

crap... im like failing my quizzes a lot...

feels damn stressful to fail so much and not noe how to do so much... it feels suck... really...

i am like bogged down by the stupid NTU sports club that i feel like puking blood. i cant wait for the stupid vertical marathon to be over so i can concentrate on the things that matter. like my studies. even being a chairperson for a FOC is not as stressful.

sigh... i guess it's also isnt right to expect ppl to help me along the way by telling me tips and hints. worse still that i got the wrong tips and din study the right things... sigh... well... james got the wrong tips too and we both dieded horribly. lol... it's not the end... next time must go reconfirm the tips.

im like too used to asking ppl to help and not studying on my own... but things are going to change... i can see that my clique are starting to turn independent and i should learn from them. but hey... im glad i still have frens who can help me with the killer stuff like lab reports and unit ops tut. thank god for them.

chinese new year was a break for me... to destress and sort of recover from all the nonsense. all the FOC canvassing... do so much... earned like $500+... i dunno... i dunno if it was worth it at all. lol... i think it was.

anyway... no more. i must maintain. i will study hard... and make sure that im a reliable source of info ppl around me will do well with me, den we can all celebrate together! hahaha. but i guess it's only for after reccess...

carebears!

2007-02-20T23:00:00.000+08:00

1st things first...

the treasure8 fund raising competition to raise funds for AWWA (Asian Women Welfare Association). never heard of them be4 but i was raising funds for them. It was a team of 5 to 6 ppl to raise as much money as possible. my team name was carebears with

1. guowei, the leader and overall in charge. the guards regular who's not an officer. but honestly, he should be one. looks like a carebear though... lol. really nice guy with loads on energy and enthusiasm. always goes out into the depths of the crowd to do sales. upfront and personal. he's really the man.

2. yuting, the accountant. in charge of the final accounting of money. bubbly and always smiling. honest and really sweet. her smile really brings about loads of positivity. always carries her favourite bottle of chuppa chups around to sell. super cute.

3. lanpei, the financial controller and dajie. always with her big pouch and loads of money. strong and always makes things happen. nv seems to wan to give up. dun think the team would have survived without her.

4. dennis, the creative director and cac president (clarence appreciation club). who can design cards that sell for $10 per pc. only dennis. if the rules were to not sell anything else but the stuff that were given to us, we would have won hands down. the cards that dennis made were amazing. she really has the creative flare. she also another super bubbly and hyper-active girl, never ending things to say.

5. clarence, the lady+aunty killer = super woman killer. i mean... what else would a woman want from a guy? tall, dark, fit, and not bad looking. hahaha.... all the lolli pops i sell for $1per pc, he can sell 1 for $3.... i feel like a lousy salesman... lol... in terms of sales, he's the man. actually, lanpei and guowei too... crap... i out of sudden feel like a deadweight. lol. anyway, thanks to him, i managed to get into this team, you're the man bro.

6. me!

well... how things went?

1st day i wasnt there, only came at night. but it was fun playing bridge, found out that i was in the alliance with 3 teams, the malaysians, the xiaomin team and my team. (vivienne told me that they were the teams to beat and i wasn't in the alliance, i was damn glad that i was in it)

but after the 1st day, the 3 teams of the alliance were in the lead. with my team being 2nd.

the 2nd day was the main event. we had loads of things to do, we started making cards, den we were sent to different locations to do sales. we were given juicers, lemons, oranges and sugar to make lemonade to sell.... but den... no ice.... no table.... no pitchers.... no bowls.... whats the use if you know how to make lemonade but have no equipment. not forgetting the fact that they got sour + rotting oranges and lemons with thick skins and no juice... sigh... i wished they'd given us the money to let us buy our own lemons. well... we had no time so we went door to door to sell the stuf... tamp is really too over charitirized and we din do very well...

the next place was orchard. we got sommerset, outside the uob plaza there. initially we thought it was the worst place possible... and i dun disagree, it was B A D. the crowd din have space to stop to look at our wares and everyone was in a rush to either get back or to get to somewhere. the other places had more luck seriously... but we din do too badly... we actually did quite well. not as good as the malaysians but after the end of the day, we were way in front. and i mean way way way in front. + we had some hidden stuff we din reveal, the pre-sale cards, we made a killing there.

the last day... sort of our biggest mistake. we took toa payoh. thinking that going door to door might have some luck, we decided to try it out. it felt horrible... the sales. nobody seemed to want to buy anything, neither did we get much donations. but somehow.. we got about 600+ amazingly. it was usually the case of every hour we would get like $100+ to $150+ on average but that day we got $600+ for 3 hours of work. clarence power lar... hahaha

when we got back, we were thinking of putting in $500 to our amount with the thinking we collected only like $300 at toa payoh... but den we met xiaomin... she said her team collected $2.2k. we immediately took out our $500. later she told us again her team had collected 1.2k.... man.... the team that finally won was summer's team who i heard combined their earnings for the last day with another team. bringing their total for the last day to $1.8k. sigh...

i dunno what happened and i dun wanna bother. im glad i wasnt raising money for some lousy charity, AWWA really is doing something good. but i still think the planning was quite bad. but who cares! it's over. and my team still won $500!

but in the end... looking back. it was a fun experience. i dun regret doing it.

carebears countdown!

P.S. i still have some cards if you want any. lol

update time...

2007-02-20T22:59:00.000+08:00

it's been quite a month.... i thought it would be more relaxed once things were in motion but i guess not...

well... too much to put into one entry so will split into a few.

Last 2 celebrations

2007-01-28T21:35:00.000+08:00

had 2 more celebrations for my 22nd birthday.

VM meeting had one, bought pizzas, but where got ppl buy "cake" for himself so ppl can sing him happy birthday one? (points to myself) so dumb right (of course it is). But had fun teasing the bike rally and xphysique ppl with our pizzas. woohoo! best welfare officer!

the last one with yuxin and belle at soup restaurant. (told you dun let ben order liao) they treated me to a meal. so nice of them. all know i love to eat.

Hall 2 Garang Guni

2007-01-28T21:26:00.000+08:00

Exercise? dunno if i got much exercise or not... just walking and getting my knuckles bruised.

Earn money? I just hope they hit target lor... but hard to believe that they will... see how lor

Fun? Got 2 quotes of the day from today or 2 stories

Background info:
Simin is ben's block mate in hall 2. Shes a freshman and the business manager from hall 2 foc. Looks are so so... wah hui hui pageant still better. she calls herself short (which i dun disagree to) and fat (i'm still fatter as of now). But she managed to teh me teh me teh until i bo bian go for the garang guni

Story 1: How Simin became THE TEH girl

We all were going onto the lift. HDB lifts very small and can only hold a few ppl. So ben got in one of the earlier ones (thankfully) and once simin stepped in... the lift went teh teh teh... so after that, simin, who was naturally teh became branded by ben as THE TEH girl.

Story 2: How Simin showed her Aunty Powers

Ben was knocking on a door of a house which obviously had ppl inside. knock knock, wait, knock knock, wait, knock knock, wait, knock knock, wait... ben gave up. Ben calls Simin over, ask her use her aunty powers. She however denies it. But she still tries. Knock knock, shout out in an auntily manner "you ren zai mah?!" and knock knock knock, then the door opened, and not opened by just anyone, by an AUNTY! no one can deny the fact that simin is the aunty with the aunty power! (its a disease u can get even if you are just 20, like some cbe aunty BL we all know)

Back to the main storyline, so garang guni was a waste of time

Quote of the day 26/01/07

2007-01-28T21:24:00.000+08:00

a bit late in posting but these kinda things must share one.

Ben: wah hui hui wah hui hui... wah hui hui wah wah
Adeline: Grrr....
Baoli: why you all always call adeline wah hui hui
Ben: Because that's her name
Baoli: why her name so WAH one?
Ben: LOL!

free free freedom!

2007-01-24T21:27:00.000+08:00

hall cheerleading is finally over... can finally sit back relax and not go for the endless daily trainings...

seriously... the hall 2 cheerleading team should have some focus. no focus at all one... in the end everything din go up at all... that's exerggerating... most of the stunts went up but most didn't. i felt quite sad at the end of the performance knowing that there wasn't any hope of even getting into top 5.

well... i think i will miss it a bit but im glad i can get back to my books!

my birthday...

2007-01-22T02:37:00.000+08:00

wanted to blog about my bad birthday on sat... really felt like crap. sat 12midnight, the start of my birthday, was laying matts for cheerleading src. got a lot of sms-es wishing me happy birthday... that was the thing that kept me going. once that was done, went back to hall. called yuxin and belle over. clive was there too. we ended up playing mahjong, i broke my vow for a while. sort of saved my day a little. den later cheer leading dry run den i went home to find out i lost my wallet. damn sian...

but den... after today (monday 23rd, 0230H) my birthday doesnt seem all that bad. celebrated quite a few times. the more memorable ones...

5th jan bbq at hall 2 with c26 ppl and some random hall 2 ppl. 13th jan at chc with my cell grp. 17th was with a weird combi of scbe ppl, chongmeng lewis clarence and me... dunno how come but frens are frens. lol... 18th jan was supposed to be sakae with my study grp but it din really work out so it was just lunch with james. 20th with my family. 21st at hall 2 pizza. some random small lunches in between but nothing else that i can remember.

but got the most no. of presents this year... and all good ones.

(in order of how i got them)
a bar of hersey's cookies and cream chocolate from cell group
2 packs of tic tac orange flavor from cell group
a set of gratters from cell group
a cup with a fitting coaster from cell group
a black sling bacg from tapoot
a red pouch from clarence
a pair of boxers from clarence
a watch from c26
3 bottles of wine from my sis
200 dollars ang pao from my parents
a book binding machine from my parents
a pair of shoes from blk 5 guys and gals
found my wallet thanks to campus security
and a few more like howard say he got me a wallet, zhichao said he got me something nice and sis is waiting for me to take my measurements for a custom made shoes.

really thank all of you for making this birthday such a great one!

hall 2 cheer torture...

2007-01-16T01:48:00.000+08:00

i'm just doing this for POS... not for hall 2... please let them get this stupid idea into their head. i'm not helping because i want to but i'm doing it because i wanna get something else out of it. telling them there's something wrong is not something that i wanna do but if we wanna progress any further, we need to spot each other's mistakes...

today's training was the top... one of the fliers gave me a piece of her mind telling me that i do not know how it felt up there... i know it's scary and all and it's not thing compared to being a base but still... it's not like it's the first time i'm doing it... telling me that... next time i will just shut up and not do anything. i know i'm a bit more on the sensitive side but hey... getting stepped on and not being able to sleep well at night because of the pain in my back and the bruises on my body and the aches in my arms isn't something to feel great about either. so fliers... if u do wanna complain, please see the blood that's on my fists now before you decide that it's scary being up there.

quote of the day 12/01/07

2007-01-14T14:08:00.000+08:00

first quote of the day... tell u all the story first den the quote bah...

was at can A eating with the c26 ppl then suddenly saw this thing on the floor, it was a nokia n73. opened it up to see a girls photo on the front. checked the photo album and it was all of this girl anya or something... so we thought it was her phone. then we did more pryiong. found a hell lot of porn in the phone. damn excited lar all of us... i also dunno why. but we soon deduced it couldnt be a girls phone and then a guy called. we were like oh no.... i went to the table where the sports club ppl were at to hide hide so that he wun see me and told them what was inside and yafen nearly screamed.

anyway... the guy came to get the phone... he looked more like a lecturer more than anything else.. time to get an A+ for an elective hehehe

anyway... quote of the day:

ben: what to do with the phone ar?
zhhan: u call ureself first lar. then u can call the phone back so you can tell the owner if he asked why you never return the phone, "i called myself to get your no. and called you but you never pick up so i bo bian, take the phone lor"

isg horrors?

2007-01-10T20:44:00.000+08:00

collect the isg medals 2 days ago.

shurui was super helpful by telling me that the total number of medals was less than the number i asked for. i told her 14 but now i found out that i only need to give out 13, so weixiang will have to suffer... i dun wan him to though because its not his fault that the sports sec wasn't there to let us know the rules. all she could say is sorry and do nothing about it. what a useless person

so what am i suppose to do about it? tell my players that they cant get the medal? i feel damn bad lar...

anyway... now she's asking me to e-mail her the list of players, i'm not her sub-comm nor am i captain of the team. i was the acting captain because there wasn't one there. i was just doing her a favor by giving out the medals for her. because when i called her to tell her about the medals, she say she will give it out herself, i asked her how, she said follow the list of ppl who signed up. but one thing that i had to let her know was that only 3 or 4 ppl from the ppl who signed up came. i asked her did she know who the captain was, she said she didn't know so i asked her how the hell was she going to give out the medals, she couldn't give me an ans... totally useless

not forgetting the days she decided she wasn't needed at the games, eg.:

1. the day she decided that she would keep all the shirts in her room when all the touch rubgy ppl, who came down form frisbee and volleyball, went down in the rain and had to wait in their cold wet shirts for the game to start. had to stand in the freezing cold to wait for her but she did not come. she came only after the floorball game started...

2. the day that she decided to tekan all of us by not protecting us for the floorball when we drew one game and won one game... the organizers asked us whether we could play another game and she just threw everything to us to settle ourselves. she should know that the other team has the floorball ivp captain, the floorball ivp keeper and a few more ivp players, how to win? it was a miracle as it is to force a draw. she should have defended us and said it is not the fault on our side and do somethign that could help us rather than say, "just play another game with mae lor" wth... useless

3. the day of the tennis finals... we had just finished our frisbee game... walking to bus stop and we saw ppl in our school's isg tee playing tennis, then we noticed that it was a game... then we found out that it was the finals... no supporters, no sport sec, no nothing... of course they lost... but well done for making it to the finals (the a. sports sec, weixiang, was at frisbee so it was not his fault)
3. the day when we won the frisbee and i was like jokingly say, "sure lose to nie, dun play them lar" and she was like "ok". this one not such a big deal... it was the next day...

4. the day of volleyball girls vs. nie. was suppose to be at softball training for hall but then it got delayed so i pulled numan down to the nie volleyball court to support the volleyball girls. 6 girls, one team, no subs. 3 who knew how to play, 1 was ok, 2 had no idea what was going on... they played their best but still lost. but that's not the point, liufang played until she hurt her hand in the 2nd match, she was gripping it tightly but she didn't fall out, she just tried her best and blocked the ball the best she could. grace, who also did not know how to play well tried her best to block her ball with the body when the nie girls spiked it into her, she did not dodge but tried her best... it was a really painful match, even for the only 2 supporters who came... after that i went to the src or training, and there she was, my school's sport sec shurui, sitting there watching the isg touch rubgy (our school had already been kicked out the day before). i went up to her to ask what she was doing... till now i still can remember her ans... "oh... nothing to do come down and see"... there and then... i just wanted to kill her... on the spot!

but weixiang was doing a good job... no matter how crappy shurui was...

quitting gambling

2007-01-02T19:46:00.000+08:00

went for geneca's birthday on monday (new year's day) to like sit sit talk cock... actually wanted to just stay home and slack and play ps2 but guess geneca is still geneca, cannot pon her birthday

so went there, sat a while, saw a few temasek sec ppl like shiyun and a few more familiar faces, saw a few hall 10 ppl and of course the c26 ppl were there. not really eventful or anything but after the cake cutting and photo-taking, they decided to play blackjack. initially james was the banker, losing streak first but when he started to win back, he stopped and he arrowed me to be banker next.

i started off quite ok, standard, 16 17 and 18s. won a bit here and there. Then started to get really damn lucky. open 12 get 9, open 13 get 8, open 17 get 4, open ace and 5, draw 4, wanted to play big, draw another ace, bo bian, draw another one, get another ace, confirm 5 card. a lot of double pictures.

i should have stopped but then my luck went down hill, james and zhihan started to up their bets, james got a few ban lucks with $2 and $3 bets, zhihan got ban lucks and ban ban with $2 bets, i exploded many many times...

was ok with losing money one, den i said last game cause it was getting late and i had lost more than 10 bucks liao... pass out the cards... i showed everyone my first card, got an ace.... passed out everyone elses cards... den threw open my next card... another ace... stunned...

well thats the end, ended up from losing $10+ to winning $40+

i quit gambling this year... too much luck wasted that day

Team SCBE

2006-12-20T03:32:00.000+08:00

well... the 2nd day of my leave is over, had a really crazy day today.

We played frisbee against NBS first, thinking that we were going to lose, i didn't really have much hope of winning. but surprisingly, we held our ground, clarence was amazing out there. his shots were straight and flat and went far, perfect for someone who hates running and standing super offside (which there isn't in frisbee). i did my job as a last minute captain, got the ppl down, increased our chances of not getting trashed and what happened? we won the favourites to go into the finals, NBS.

The next game was agaisnt SBS whom we lost to 6-2 just the day before, setting our sights on getting a medal, i fielded the best team i could, balancing catchers and pushers and keeping the players strong for defence. dunno if that actually worked but in the end, we won SBS 6-3. Quite cool. Love clarence's long shots.

But we have become famos for many reasons, beating NBS, beating SBS and for forfeiting our finals... NBS ppl really hate us now... lol

So SCBE Frisbee team:
1. Huihua - Our always dependable and loves to save the day girl (and does quite some good blocks)
2. Grace - Bubbly girl who is super enthu
3. Yafen - Our top scorer for day 1 vs. HSS, if not for her, we wouldnt have made it to the 2nd day
4. Longhui - never ending stamina
5. Yanfang - Our volleyball helper
6. Lionel - really one of the more all rounded players
7. Howards - cant catch seriously but he knows how to hit the frisbee
8. Bingsheng - good marker, really stops ppl from throwing to where they want
9. Chongmeng - fast, can catch, can throw, what more do you want from a frisbee player
10. Clarence - Our super import, the "save the day man", energizer, and i think the best player on the team
11. Lewis - can "dribble" the frisbee up a lot, loads of stamina but he always passes the frisbee upside down
12. Weixiang- the sports sec who is the manager and the actual captain, catches quite well
13. Ben Teo - that's me

We actually formed a team SCBE , or in short Team CBE.
Most of us from frisbee went to play floorball, touch rubgy, volleyball (girls) +++

The members of TEAM CBE?

Clarence
Chongmeng
Lewis
Howard
Lionel
Yanfang
Longhui
Grace
Huihua
Ben
Bingsheng
Yafen

There are a lot more but these are the ones who mass played games for the monday and tuesday that i played. quite fun...

my 1st ISG

2006-12-18T19:52:00.000+08:00

last year the isg i wasn't able to make it due to some untold of change in dates and timings

but this time i took a week off and played quite a few games, or going to play.

Monday update:

Frisbee:
Suddenly, when i reached found out that there weren't enough girls to play. the stupid sports sec was just there not doing much and pretending that a girl will pop up from nowhere. had to call all the girls i noe who stay in hall to get them to come down.... at least yafen agreed or else i would have wasted one more year of not being able to play frisbee, then i would have totally given up on the scbe main comm. but also... no photographers, no welfare, no first aid box and no frisbee to train with... waste my time.

and no captain, no sub comm manager, den make me captain... sian

anyway, we won HSS 3-2 but lost to SBS 6-2 and got to the 2nd round

Floorball:
Where got ppl play floorball without subs, i didn't sign up for floorball and if i wasn't there, there would not have been any subtitutes. We played against MAE who had like the floorball IVP captain, the IVP keeper and a whole line up of IVP players and a full team of substitutes.

Us? we had 1 female sub and 1 guy sub, no IVP, mainly made of freshmen.... how to win? but we didn't lose... we drew!!! woohoo! we actually wanted to import a common engineering guy to be our keeper but thank God that we didn't. Ashunuman (the Union rep) was an amazing keeper, catching the ball in mid-air was like nothing to him... amazing keeper really... we got a few good shots but it was the tyco one that got in. lol... after MAE's 1st goal... it was full defence as we did not have enough energy to attack and ya.... but we held our ground.

1-1 vs MAE!!!

Financial Jealousy

2006-11-29T16:54:00.000+08:00

Well, there are people who earn more than 20k per mth while being a student. Some others can drive around in porche or BMWs. Some own food chains. Whereas some others are on scholarships that give 5 times more money than what I get. Me? I'm taking in 1.1k per mth. People tell me that's a lot. And I myself know that that is a lot. But sometimes i want to feel how it is like to live on the high side, to be rich.

Hoping one day got some friend will decide to start a business and I can go along with him or her and we can make it big. Really big. I don't want to feel guilty about earning the money. I want to do it right. I've got many ideas but don't know how to go about doing it. Guess I will just go research more into what the Chemical industry needs and start a company doing just that. Maybe my course mates would want to do it together.

I know some people get lesser than me per month, I know I am being an ass, but sometimes... people just dream weird stuff... hope no one would mind this entry.

The greatest parodies of life?

We have more convenieces but less time
More money but less freedom
Have smaller families but want bigger homes
Add years to our lives but not life to our years
Want more but use less

But in the end, we still die... is it all worth it?

Somehow....

fat ben & fit lewis...

2006-11-28T01:23:00.001+08:00

used to be fit ben and fat lewis lor... not fair!!! im going to give all my fats to lewis!!! buahahhaa

bitch blog

2006-11-27T23:07:00.000+08:00

there are some ppl out there who should know that they are blogging about themselves when they blog. I being one of them. but to a certain grp (or someone), that person tends to blog about ppl when he doesnt notice that she/he is acutally talking about herself/himself.

I wish i could have the courage to go up to that person and say it straight into their faces... but i don't have that kind of courage... so i will just blog it and hope that person will read it and come to her/his senses and understand what an ass of a thing she/he really really is.

!!!!

2006-11-27T22:41:00.001+08:00

rs came to talk to me!!! woohoo!! happy day!!!

stress? sheer stress.... not shear stress!

2006-11-27T22:33:00.000+08:00

erm... i think fluids is really starting to get to my head... hahaha....

i need to worry about my thermo too... i know that wanqun and lewis have 3 papers in 4 days... more cham den me... i less cham then them. but hope they will do well also... i also hope that i can do well also.

getting a bit tiring to bother studying with james they all... go there equal to try to get suan-ed in a really lousy way... if you cant suan me properly... please dun do it. it takes up a lot of energy to try to play along. at least suan me with things that are real rather than things that u try to make up and make me feel more stressed.

well... who cares? juz 60hours and 24mins left...

Quote of the day: 24 Nov 06

2006-11-24T00:01:00.000+08:00

Zhichao thinking about the past after seeing ben's freshie Kenneth

Zhichao: Wahhh... it's the cockster kenneth
Ben: You know him?
Zhichao: Ya, we same sec sch class one
Ben: What happened?
Zhichao: That time in sec sch, I was very irritated then he asked me, "How do people give birth?" Then i was damn irritated den i just anyhow say, "You just put your cock into the woman's mouth." That time i dunno anything about oral sex or anything so i just anyhow say. Then, without me knowing, he went to ask the science teacher and tell him what i said.
Ben: HAHAHAHA!
Zhichao: Then the science teacher after that day tekan me like mad... sian...

Feeling weird

2006-11-19T22:21:00.000+08:00

2 papers passed liao... my ni hongo paper was ok.... i guess.... dun think will bao. Hoping to score well for management...

left 4 papers...

Computing - > Bad quizzes... need to buck up

Bio - > Hoping for the first A in my life for bio

Fluids - > I've been constant.... dunno if that's enough

Thermo - > Now this is a headache...

Quote...

2006-11-19T22:18:00.000+08:00

Work like you don't need the money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like you do when nobody's watching,
And live like there's no tommorrow.

Wish I had that kinda flare....

Study like you did when you were 3...

Need to do it! I will do it!!!

psychosis

2006-11-08T02:48:00.000+08:00

crap... i feel like i have started to give up on this sem... not that it is impossible but really starting to lose the motivation to study.

feel the crap starting to pile up in my brain and all of it points in the direction of me not studying. hope i can recover from this soon.

went for ivy's birthday, a lot of ppl were there, ponded her and went back... hrm... 2 mths time. what to do...

Bad dream?

2006-10-28T16:05:00.001+08:00

had one of the worst nightmares in a long time.... dreamt that the results i got were bad... sounds really wrong right... hahaha

dreamt that i got 1 A+ and a whole string of Cs, Ds, Es and Fs (2 Fs to be excat....) really dunno whats going on in my head.... somemore always stuck in front of my comp and not doing much... someone pls jio me out to study

how do i?

2006-10-23T12:16:00.000+08:00

seriously... why do things like this always happen near exams... it's really not fair at all...

why cant they like happen during the holidays so i will have time to like sit down and be sad about it and hide in my room and be a hermit for days on end....

now this happen... now.... what do you expect me to do about it?

i cant bother about this now... you arent part of me no more....

that's what you always wanted right...

it's alright... i understand... it was never meant to be