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:: Friday, March 24, 2006 ::

I finally updated my blog links of so and sos'. Those who have stopped blogging have been given the boot, while new entires fill the spaces. I feel so... organized.

Am going to New York tomorrow. The funny thing is that I'll be seeing Hubert there, but hes not coming with me and hes flying two days later. I'll explain why is it the case later.


Anyway, I'll tag a few people so that they have something to write and for me to kaypoh about. I'll title this:

What are your friends for?

for example:

My friend, Eng Tat: 'Wah 8 years of friendship!' This is the friend whom I can hold conversations about most under the sun, get irritated at his stupid antics and listen to him bemoaning his love life. His physical measure is no comparison for his measure of friendship, in fact, it is a far cry.


I tag this to: Mr Cheong, Mr Cher, Vai, Sarah, Ruhan, Sam, Jinhua

:: Stuffy 3/24/2006 06:23:00 PM [+] ::
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End of Term House Parties YEAH!

Kicking off the start of SPRING BREAK

To celebrate three birthdays, I spent my Friday afternoon making Hainanese Chicken Rice, while Rainbow made Herbal pork ribs and Janice made the Birthday Desserts. Rainbow and I spent the afternoon buying decor ad decorating our newly renovated home. Of course, we didn't have furniture, so everyone had to go zen - line the floor with newspapers and sit in a circle. Although I wish I bought one of those IKEA drap clothes for everyone to sit on, except that due to geographical contraints (that IKEA was nowhere near coventry) I couldn't do so.


This is the Chicken Rice I made. Took me 3 hrs to cook for an army.


Zening in our newly renovated kitchen


Me and Rainbow bought some decorations for the party. Its '2X' cause Edwin is 22 and Hubert and Pingli are 23. So we're trying to be fair


My Indian Ching friend - Angkit, whose Rainbow's LB dance partner and Pingli's housemate


Mr Cher - my favourite naval officer and Hokkien bruadder


Its Port! Did you know that Port is made from Portugal!? =D


Mok!


Mok and Janice, my other favourite naval officer. Check out what she made for dessert ...


P-E-H, the three birthday boys' initials, we were trying to form a word and the most appropriate was PEH, cause the three of them are all lao ah PEH...


Pingli and Edwin - The last time I called Edwin I found them both delirious after finishing a bottle of Irish Meadows between themselves, and then Pingli cycled home!??!?!!? tsk*


Monday was Edwin's actual Birthday, so we went over to his place for dinner. The one thing I like about going to Edwin's place is that it always reminded me of a Hong Kong Restaurant. This is not withstanding the fact that he lives with three Hong-kies, who are by the way are fantastic cooks who occasionally moan that 'Aiyah, Hong Kong girls cannot cook ah!!'

But Foodwise and Music. It really is like a Hong Kong restaurant. They're celebratory meals are always elaborate - today we had Char siew (done by Sam and Pingli), Ginseng Chicken, Gao Choy, Pineapple Rice, roast chicken and a few other dishes. And as usual Edwin's playlist of songs are always - David Tao, Jay Chou, Sun Yan Zi, and I'm sure if you're a fan of chinese pop, you'll be able to fill in the blanks.


The Chefs of 260 Prince Charter Ave - Edwin, Pingli, Eric and Samuel. Hou Keng Ah!

Me and Rainbow were bored, so we took pictures of everything



This is half the food displayed, there were alot more, unfortunately pictures are with Eric and he flew back to Hong Kong





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Edwin and his famous marinated fruits vodka. He was quite amused by his giant strawberry


Actually, most of Edwin's guests were all girls, except for Hubert, so they had alot of food leftover, which of course made the Hong Kong people very disappointed.

Anyway, me and Hub stayed to watch Police Story 2 with Samuel and Pingli. Edwin had to much vodka and went upstairs to sleep at 1am. We left at around 4am and me and Hub still had brownies that Janice made before leaving for Egypt. So I slept at 6 in the morning.

Well, to the 1983s and the 1984, I'm sure your birthday weekend had been a food-filling one.

:: Stuffy 3/23/2006 02:31:00 PM [+] ::
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Mr cheong, since you tagged AGAIN...yes I filled in the meme.

1. A song by a Beatle:
Yesterday

2. A song featuring piano as the main instrument:
Valentine - Jim Brickman

3. A song with a woman's name in the title:
Oh Carol - er I forgot who sang it, but it goes like, 'O Carol, I am but a fool, darling I love you...' I know its from the 1970s cause my dad sings in on karaoke.

4. A song with a man's name in the title:
Hey Jude - Beatles

5. A song about money:
Money money money - ABBA

6. A song with weather in the title:
Let it Snow, let it snow, let it snow

7. A song with parentheses in the title:
Huh?

8. A song made by a punk band:
I hate punk

9. A song with the word "song" in the title:
Your Song - Ewan McGregor, I can't remember the original singer's name...*annoyed

10. A song you love so much you stop and listen whenever you hear it/ put it on repeat mode and never get sick of it:
I don't really like repeats though.

:: Stuffy 3/21/2006 06:51:00 PM [+] ::
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Oven food does not work for me.

I burnt an oven throw-in piazza and a souffle and they became burnt only after 15mins.

Its a good thing I bought two of each, so I didn't go hungry. But its the thought of burning two things going to waste.

:: Stuffy 3/16/2006 03:02:00 AM [+] ::
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Online Shopping

Thank you for shopping at ASOS

My main objective was suppose to be shopping for Hub's birthday present. Well I did, but then I got carried away and ended up buying a whole lot of things. I do have justification for what I bought, but I also realised that it could be a little too frivolous on my part.

And I don't even wear earrings. But I bought 3 pairs of really nice ones. Two which I'll give to Janice. The other one, probably to my sister, or if I actually go pierce my ears, I'll wear them. But the former thought seems more likely. They are really nice, will put up a pic of them shortly.

Anyway, its a good online shopping site, but works well for UK residence only.

Justification for things bought:
*Lip Palette and Necklace: Latin and Ballroom Dance comp, need makeup
*Skirt: For summer attachment office wear
*3 tops: French Connection jersey has no justification, the other two are for formal wear when I realised that this term, I had no formal wear for any of the formal events, and looked highly inappropriate.
* The rest of the items are for other people



This is the pair of earrings which I thought looked really unique. Any takers? I'm selling for 6 pounds = 20.00SGD

:: Stuffy 3/06/2006 04:21:00 PM [+] ::
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Received a call from my Dad this morning. I can't remember what he said cause he called me at 7am, but I think the gist of it went like this:

Dad: HELLO DARLING! (My dad is always very excitable. And John says hes jumpy)

Hi Dad

Dad: When do you finish exams? Do you want to see me in Frankfurt to see a match? Then you can fly home with me.

Ok, me and Mich are planning to go to Eastern Europe after exams, when are you there?

Dad: 29th

Ok, I'll see you there. But I have to fly back from london cause my flight is free only from there

Dad: The flight from Frankfurt is paid for, if you come, AND you get to sit with me (**which means business class)

Are you sure?

Dad: Ya, okay, so you coming with me right?

Ok, but..

Dad: OK BYE! *Slams down phone

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I went back to sleep after that, so I hope I'm not dreaming. Well, if I wasn't, I should be going to Frankfurt then. It took me awhile to realise he was also refering to World Cup 2006. If I do go, this means that I'm one up with my sister who went for the last one in Korea/Japan while I was studying for my Alevels. This year, shes studying for her O levels.

:: Stuffy 3/06/2006 04:04:00 PM [+] ::
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Warwick University on strike


Hey all,

As I am sure you are more than aware next Tuesday (7th March) will see our lecturers striking. The AUT and NATFHE voted overwhelimgly in favour of strike action and action short of a strike. This type of action could include refusing to cover colleagues' work, marking students' work or taking part in the exam process as part as an ongoing boycott.

The unions have said that taking industrial action is an absolute last resort in their ongoing pay dispute with their employers, and that they remain committed to resolving the dispute at the negotiating table, not on the picket line. They have also stressed that they want to cause as little disruption to students as possible.

Our Union is supporting our lecturers in this dispute and will fight to ensure that our lecturers are better paid and better resourced. We believe that good working conditions and pay levels are necessary for academic staff, if a high standard of education i! s to be upheld.

For more information please see here;

http://www.aut.org.uk/media/html/r/d/payaction_studentfacts.html

SUPPORT YOUR LECTURERS, SEND YOUR COMPLAINTS TO THE VICE CHANCELLOR!


and Don't forget to VOTE NOW in the Students' Union referenda!

http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/portal/voting/


Best Wishes,

Brian Duggan

Education Officer and Deputy President

University of Warwick Students' Union


Although the strike is not representative of the whole university, my politics lectures and seminars are cancelled because of the strike. But since 3/4 of my module happen to be economics, I'll still have to be in school this tuesday.

The Economics Department probably did a cost-benefit analysis and decided that it wasn't going to enhance society's welfare, and therefore wasn't up to participating. Just a note on my Economics Department - all its lecturers and administrative secretaries are the equivalent of 'Care Bears'. They carry out frequent charity drives and the like. And when you go to the Economic Undergraduate Office, you're greated by a slogan which says 'Everyone makes our day!'. On the other hand, the poliics department gives Warwick its radical stance (click on wikipedia link above to read about its industrial related links and radical political beliefs). They are somewhat Marxist and this is obviously the key to why they are participating in the picketing.

Over last few weeks, I did see coursemates carrying out strikes for Free Fair and Funded education. Not that Tuesday's strike would be anything to the equivalent of the Russian Revolution despite it being a strike and 'action short of strike' event. Its an event worth seeing and I'm currenlty wondering how many departments in the university and how many universities will be on strike that day.

:: Stuffy 3/03/2006 06:41:00 AM [+] ::
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NASS

I forgot what I typed into wikipedia that made me search for NASS. We actually have our own wikipedia webpage, but the following excerpt is something that I didn't know.

In 1953, the Kongsi assumed management of Tuan Mong High School, renaming it as Ngee Ann Secondary School. It has won several awards, including Singapore Quality Class Award and Best Practice Award in Teaching and Learning.

Tuan Mong High School? 1953? Either I've been ignorant, or something on wikipedia is wrong.

:: Stuffy 3/02/2006 04:04:00 AM [+] ::
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