Hi all!

I was helping Hansel with his university application form. I did some editing at night and later on, he was very thankful. So what happened on Saturday would be I got to wake up early, meet him at 7.30am (I was 8 min late only!) for a free macdonalds treat from him.

How disappointing, Tampines Mart McDonald have no more stock of my favourite burger! So no more egg muffin, I had the fish burger instead. After that I went to see the band march.

Wahahaha so funny lah, the way they dragged their feet made them look like they were practising some dance moves! To lock their arms, our beloved long-hair-not-tied-up drum major (haha call yourself one, shame on you) and some other committee members asked them to put leaves under their arms. If the leaves fall, means they never lock their arms. So what happened was that, the leaves would definitely fall if the student is skinny! OH PLEASE, WHAT A STUPID IDEA!!! Ok shall not comment so much on their marching, let the pictures speak a thousand words!

All right so after their marching, I set up my pretty trombone, and the same boy never come again, hai. So I just played normally, and I was so happy that Cheng Heng improved so much! Improved so much that I don't bother to help him with his solo le! OH YAY! TROMBONE ACE =D

So now Cheng Heng is coping well with my 4AL, while Benjamin got to struggle with bach 1.5. It must be hard on him to upsize the mouthpiece twice in 2 weeks. So much to ask for a little sec 2 boy.

Then, Louis commented on his bad sound. So in order to protect this dear little boy of mine, I replied saying that he just changed to a huge mouthpiece, so we should give him some time to get use to it. But Louis just kept saying he don't have enough air...

Bigger mouthpieces of course need more air to play! So we should give him time to get use to using more air, rather than force him to do it. So here he went, Louis took Rebecca's trombone and tried to play nicely (yes, tried so hard!!) for Benjamin to play nicely. My heart was breaking at that point, how can we treat a little boy like that? There was nothing I can do while I watched such torture, but I just said, "jia you, jia you!"

He made a recording of both songs that the band played, and apparently the band was too soft (soft, not small, take note) for me, I can hear my trombone singing clearly like always. Gosh, I really put in effort to make myself sounding like them, played really soft, no blasting, no ringing, no cracking, and even flatten myself. This mouthpiece was better than the 4al in the way that I could control the dynamics pretty well with it. 4al only blast blast blast, haha.

What I never expect would be the personal attack Louis gave. He was insulting the trombone section about everything I did. I could not believe my ears, as a mighty alumni's contribution could be so under appreciated. Whatever he insulted was not even logical, and I reacted to it, wanting to protect my dear boys and girls. Yet, he didn't stop. I guess that is the result of me trying to protect Benjamin just now, he felt that I didn't give him face by commenting.

Look, you are not the lao jiao conductor that I will give all my respect to, we are all young musicians who are learning from one another, please do not let your pride overtake your judgement. I am so disappointed with you, Louis, I always respect you as a good conductor who tried to give his best to his students, and give his laugh to make everyone happy. Even if you had a bad day (not very possible since it was morning), this is not right. I have 10 years of playing experiences, I don't care you have 20 years or 30 years, but we are still young musicians, admit it. Instead of insulting students all the time, why not just shut that part up and tell them how to play better. You are the professional, not me. And please, do you want to lose a friend?

LOL Hansel was saying luckily he never managed to teach the clarinets how to do fp cresendo! HAHAHA!!! Not to forget to mention, Jonathan came! He didn't dare to come in because he said he couldn't play well. He didn't touch the trombone for close to 9 years already! Later on I went to find him, and he played those Jonathan branded Chinese new year songs~!!!! OMG SO JONATHAN!! JONATHAN!! Seriously, even though I have forgotten how Jonathan used sound like, now I am missing it. 财神到！财神到！

All right, I got really affected by Louis so when I reached home, I opened my soft case, transferred her back to the hard case. I looked at my princess and I was like sayang-ing it. I got quite emo and I did this for 10 minutes:

"MY DEAR PRINCESS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR MUSIC! I AM SO SORRY YOU GOT INSULTED TODAY! I WILL NOT BRING YOU THERE ANYMORE! YOU WILL NOT SING IN A BAND WHICH LOUIS CONDUCTS! NO ONE WILL INSULT YOU ANYMORE! THE NEXT PLACE I AM BRINGING YOU SHALL BE NYP BAND ROOM FOR PHILYOUTH REHEARSALS, WHERE PEOPLE WILL APPRECIATE YOU! AS I SAID, I WILL PROTECT YOU, I PROMISED!" *KISS*

I had lunch at home, then played volleyball with Chun Kiat. I didn't play very well, and I got tired after a short time. Hai, after dinner, we watched a dragonball z movie: Broly, the Legendary Super Saiyan. IT WAS SO NICE! Best dragonball z movie ever so far! =)

Sleeping early, for airshow tomorrow! =)

Hi all!

I shall start talking about Sunday first. We played volleyball downstairs on Sunday, met a group of kids who were trying hard to play volleyball also, while we were resting. I was feeling upset for them taking over the court but they were really cute so I was smiling at them while I looked at them. Later on they realised I am a volleyballer then they invited us to play. He didn't want to play so I went forward and joined them. It was about 7 when they got to leave and go home to report, haha. They were good kids who will call home at 7pm. =) After they left we finally got to play and I wasn't doing very well receiving the "eye level" balls, as usual lah.

After dinner at home, we watched dragonball z movie: Super Android 13! It was such a predictable movie, I don't know what to say lah. At least got some fighting which made everything looked nicer even though it didn't make much sense.

Tuesday I went home after work, got myself changed and went to school again just in time for some warm up before the game with hall 7. At first we were winning like crazy!! I could not believe it I was feeling so happy playing. Then later they found a way to beat us so the game got really exciting, and the score for first set was like 26-28!! We lost terribly on the second set though, since they used the same tactic. I even got a ball hit on my face, so silly. Anyway, really big big thank you to my wonderful hall 9 team for playing such a good game. I love you guys, the best volleyball people I have ever met! The lost was a pity though, I would miss all the trainings together! I really want to play well like all of you so that I can contribute more. Teach me teach me! =)

Wah what I never thought of would be I started crying at home. I thought I won't get hall next year then I felt very sad that I will never play volleyball with a wonderful team again. I wish I was smarter so that I could keep the scholarship. Later on I emailed the office and they assure me that I will get hall next year. Phew. After year 4, I wonder how will I ever get to play volleyball with a wonderful team again? Sigh...

Work was boring but finally they gave me projects to do. I am under 2 engineers and they gave me a project each. Funny ah, when don't have then don't have, when have then all will come at once. Anyway, I really want to thank them for being so, you know, kan de qi wo. I always feel like I am very stupid but they made me feel up on the top. Thanks guys. =)

Friday morning I went to see the Airshow with 2 engineers, shall call them V and JH. JH took all the pictures, and I shall edit this post to put some over here to let everyone see. A good advantage of coming with engineers would be they have friends everywhere in the aerospace industries so I get lots of free gifts, haha! Really! I got a keychain with my name engraved, a laser pointer, a cap, and a super pretty goodie bag (empty though) to put all these in! The flying display was really nice, love the fantastic rowing of the helicopter the most. We didn't have time to finish watching everything so we left after the first show. We cabbed to Changi Village, had lunch there, then back to work lor. Thanks to both for taking care of me, paying for cabs to and fro, and lunch! Wow, they were the best engineers ever. =)

I received my pay finally and I was happy to see my account topped up. Well I guess that would be all about work and I am looking forward to a wonderful weekend. Doej. =)

Hi all!

I went to see nasband in the morning. One of my boys pon so I took a trombone and played in his place. I took Jonathan's old trombone, and I used my new mouthpiece on it. I realised the trombone is slanted! I wonder if it is beyond repair... I helped him with the solo lah, I hope that I keep playing for him he will copy and paste then he end up can play also. Like I play with Rebecca I also wish she will copy and paste from me. I wonder if this will work. I never listen to Benjamine at all I hope he was doing fine!

Then I went home for lunch, came out again with Chun Kiat. I saw people giving out free 100 plus in front of Tampines mrt station! The funny thing is the guys carried a huge 100 plus can on their back. I took photo with one of them! HAHAHA! Even the 100 plus lady took the same photo! She said it was for publicity.

Then we went to Raffles City again! We were searching up and down for that bracelet shop again, hahaha! He bought me flowers. =D Oh then after walking everywhere we went to esplanade instead. We went to enjoy the tea first! They served us to pots of tea for just $8! WOW =D

There was a super wide selection of tea, and I really regret choosing some weird blends because I always prefer originals. Those weird blendings made tea taste like something else! So the one I chose for Chun Kiat, smell like yoghurt but he seem to really like it very much. Mine was normal tea but with some strange blending that made it good for my brain. Haha, I really need this!

Just look at how classy this place is!

After drinking, I used another $8 coupon to buy tea leaves, originally cost $28, for prof ho! I bought him some original black tea, no blending one, he surely will not "don't like" it. Haha. The lady there was really kind to us for all her explanations.

After that I went after another $8 coupon, some ice cream dessert thing. We found that place! It was on esplanade roof top! How beautiful! Unfortunately, we were told that the coupon can only be used from Sundays to Thursdays, so we went to find something else to eat on the menu instead of going away so soon. I saw this interesting lobster soup with red wine inside. $8 also, we ordered that. IT WAS HEAVENLY DELICIOUS! OMG OMG OMG. The view was really nice lah, just look at it.

The next and last coupon we were going to use was the warm apple shrudle with ice cream. We found that place, chose a rooftop table. However the view there was not so nice because it was only a second floor, the pretty buildings were blocked off by some trees. It was really a bad experience because we waited for 30 min, no food came. Then we told the people. 10 min later, we called again. So by the time we waited from 7 to 7.45pm, we left the place. So angry sia. Lousy. All we did there was drinking water and talking.

We went down to the bay to watch a performance, some rock band with singing. After listening to one song we went to Raffles City to eat Sushi Tei. But the place was full so during the queue we went to the food court nearby to eat fishballs. While we just ordered the fishball soup the call came, then we asked them to give us the next table. The call came again while we ate halfway, but we told them we would be coming then. Chun Kiat hurried to eat up everything, then we went to Sushi Tei.

We were not very hungry actually, so we didn't order much. Ikura Chawanmushi, Nama Hotate sushi, Ebiko Sushi, Ika _____ Sushi, some scallop thing super nice, macha ice cream, black sesame ice cream. Like so little food but the bill already $30+. Hmm. So finally we went home from there.

What a wonderful day, thanks to you... =)

Hi all!

Work has been boring as usual. I have been doing lots of editing (with a sample to follow of course), and lots of cutting, enough to accidentally cut my fingers. Anyway, the more interesting events would be Wednesday when I went out to Marina Square to watch the blind side.

I went to have my favourite sotong ramen at Kyo Nichii. That place was empty ok! I went to find a corner to sit since I was going to eat alone, and so I didn't want to be notice by people walking pass...

Haha so delicious haha, seriously I wonder why no one eats here! Before I finished my food, Chun Kiat arrived already and he helped me finish up the leftover sotong since I was too full already. I packed some sushi from that place for him since I ordered a set meal.

The goodie bag was finished already so I didn't manage to get 1. But for all gv members we ladies were entitled to a free foldable bag and a drink! So we got the free drink before we watched the movie.

It was so dammnnnn nice! Not so much about the white family being nice and adopt the black child, but the way they could overcome all social stigma caused by that. Really, no one can do this on Earth, I cannot believe that everything they did was true on the screen. Later on they showed the real life photos they took and it was really very heart warming. I am sure it is impossible for the family members to accept him so quickly, there was definitely some resistance going on at first which was not shown. This is way too perfect for anyone, even a good Christian. Praise the lord!

I kanna arrowed to organise a farewell dinner. Haiya, what to do? Anyway, they voted to go to SIAM kitchen for it and I was so afraid of thai food because it is well known for being spicy. I got there and the only food that the description said not spicy was some honey sesame chicken. Actually they never label at all, end up those pineapple fried rice also not spicy one. But the standard of the one I ate was more like a food court kind, but double the price. That place is famous for tom yum lah, so I did try some of the tom yum and they were really nice. Ouch to the tongue and throat though.

We took some photos lah, but I really wonder if they will send around. So nice for boss to treat us, and one of our guys to be a magician and entertaining us with those, appear and disappear trick. After eating, we left, I was so super tired, I went home...

Not to forget to mention, I regret renting my room out to that someone who could just move out as and when she wants. If there is a second time I will not rent out my room anymore to someone I don't know. But luckily I have someone else to take over right away. I love my hall president! Hao lah, hall 9 jia you for next game on Tuesday. =)

Hi all!

I went to see nasband on Saturday. Too bad no sectionals for me to teach, but I managed to listen to them continuing to sound better. I was really disappointed with people who just didn't turn up for practice, especially committee members. Some tried to keng reasons but also don't know how to keng! HAHA!!! They need to be trained on chao keng at army lol. I gave them my old mouthpiece, since they were short of mouthpieces. Now, FINALLY the bass trombonist is playing with a size 4 and not a 6 1/2!!! I saw Louis wrote on the white board some mouthpieces which he intended to get the school to buy for the band. Yet, apparently they were merely just suggestions because he didn't seem to know what the band was lacking. I hope the sectional leaders will be bothered to find out what mouthpieces they were lacking before he made the purchase.

!)(@&$_)@!&$_@(!$_to that YUUUUU!!! USE YOUR BRAIN, CALL YOURSELF A CONDUCTOR??? YOU EXPECT MY POOR LITTLE KIDS TO STILL REMEMBER HOW TO PLAY THE SONG AFTER NOT PRACTISING THAT SONG FOR 3 MONTHS? WHO ASK YOU DON"T REVISE WITH THEM. YOU THINK THEY SO FREE DURING SECTIONALS TO PRACTISE THIS SONG WHEN THEY ARE LEARNING A NEW PIECE? HOW DARE YOU SCOLD THEM. OMG OMG OMG. I CAN"T BELIEVE THE BAND IS IN YOUR HANDS! T_T

I got to talk to Rebecca soon about the mouthpieces before Louis go for his shopping spree, hahaha. Hansel has been finding the kids to join musart youth. No comments lah, main band already not enough people now they want youth. I wish that more of them will join though, because in this way, their playing will improve dramatically.

Enough about them, after having lunch at home, I went out with Chun Kiat again. We went to Raffles City wanting to find a jewellery shop. I bought 2 bracelets from a jewellery shop in Jurong Point and the lady said that there is a branch at Raffles City. She told me they do services too mah, and now 1 of the bracelet's silver colouring is wearing out. I wanted to go to the shop to send the bracelet in to replace those faded metal rings. I combed the whole shopping mall but I couldn't find it. I didn't even know the brand name of the shop. Haha. After walking around at Raffles City, we went to Esplanade.

Oh before that I bought a ear spray to get rid of ear wax. As you see I am getting block nose and block ears with all those walking around at the dusty shop floor. My dad cannot be digging my ears forever so I decided to buy a ear spray. Really expensive for a small bottle to cost $18 something. I just got to give it a try. If it is really effective, I can get my dad to buy me one big box from Hong Kong, hahaha!

My ears are super precious ok! My hearing very accurate one, I say flat means flat, sharp means sharp! WAHAHAHA!

We had some ice cream and tea at Hagan Daz, walked around the esplanade area too. I was expecting some valentine's day event but there were none. We just got to spend a total of $50 in 1 day, can combine receipt, then we get to enjoy some $8 treats which originally cost near $30.

We had Ichiban Boshi for dinner. Seaweed udon, Amaebi Sushi, Tobiko Sushi, mushroom in butter soup, bbq sotong, Nama Hotate Sashimi, 2 ice water. Originally cost $47 something but we got a $10 discount from some stamped card. So total we combined the receipt with the one at Hagan Daz, we made the day with slightly above $50 to claim the $8 treats!

The treats could be redeem some other day so we will be coming to esplanade again next week to enjoy them! Just some food, desserts, ice cream and tea. The rest are chocolates in nice gift boxes which I don't really want.

After that we went to Marina Square to walk around before going home. So tired lah, reaching my sleeping time of 10+pm already, haha!

Today, I woke up late because I wanted to have a lot of rest before Monday. I had lunch, played some facebook games then he came to my house. After a while we went downstairs to play volleyball.

He improved so fast! His playing was much better than last week. I can see that he will play better than me anytime next week or so! All he lacks would be court experience lah, like if people ask him to run positions he sure go blur, hahahaha, and, serving and spiking of course. But he learnt a bit of spiking today, good enough for me to train receiving his rubbish balls! Haha! Of course guys tend to learn sports faster than girls but he really learn it much faster than any other guys I know, except for those nie sports talented people of course. Those people, give them a ball, tell them the rules, they can play like king liao, haha!

I am not some pro jiao lian or anything. We just played like that and he could improve so much. I think he got talent lah, if he went through proper training he will be zai... That is if lah.

The same little boy came and we played with him again. Since Chun Kiat's playing was good today, I felt more tired today than last week. So the little boy came and we took it as a way to rest. Even the boy also improving! Haha, but he still young leh. I told him to practise more with the wall.

Nothing much lor, after getting ourselves really tired, we went home. We had some ice cream first! =D I bathed, then we had dinner together. After dinner we watched a dragonball z movie, Return of Cooler. It was quite nice lah, as least got some nice fighting to see, even though the timeline a bit weird, and Vegeta was travelling in a Frieza's kind of space pod, not the huge one by Capsule Cooperation. So this movie and the previous one mark the end of Cooler, no more cooler to watch already!

So after the movie, we went home. We want to go out on Wednesday! GV GIVES FREE GOODIE BAGS FOR GIRLS ONLY ON WEDNESDAY, AFTER 5PM! While stock last! The content of the goodie bag includes some useless and useful vouchers. GV members got free drink too, so I really want to go out on Wednesday, please please please!

Ok! Time to sleep for work on Monday. Good night everyone! =)

Hi all!

Work has been as boring as usual, doing a lot of paper work, but all of us found time to go down to learn some processes. I have been reading quite a bit of manuals, google and wiki whatever I don't understand. I need to do well, and I wish that I can contribute as much Jian Hao did to the company. I don't want to let anyone down, and since this is non academic, I don't wish to screw up just like exams. I want to SHINE. =)

Other than work, we got a volleyball training on Tuesday. I took G's car to school, many thanks for the ride. I had a cheap and nice dinner in canteen 2. Considering the money I paid to have lunch during lunch time everyday, and the quality of food I am eating, I declare canteen 2 as heavenly already! To talk about food, I shall try my very best that my job after graduation shall not be in this loyang drive area. Lousy food and expensive! Grrr. The AB canteen near Ghim Li was way better and cheaper.

Anyway, for the volleyball training, it just showed me one thing, that is I don't know how to play subset! HAHAHA!!! I spent all my time wondering where to stand but I never seem to be standing the right place all the time. When the ball comes, the area I am supposed to cover was huge, or may be other people were covering what I thought I was supposed to cover? So the ball dropped on the ground, somewhere, where I thought someone else will cover, or somewhere not close enough for comfort. This showed that without my knee pad I cannot catch a single ball properly. Playing volleyball is getting dangerous! Well, I not zai lah... I wanna improve! I cannot imagine how happy everyone will be if we win the next game. Jia you... =)

I got to find time to ask someone to educate me on how to play subset properly... and he was very nice to wait for me in school while I train. =)

After training we cab back, was lucky to see a cab right after we exited from the canteen. I saw Cha Soon also, how happy to see friends during this time! =) The cab driver was nice, compared to the one last week who lost his way. Heaven and HELL!! Anyway, he discounted us for the cents after we dropped off, and he drove quite fast so I reached home early at 10.30pm safe and sound. =)

Nothing already, my dad went to Hong Kong and will be coming back in February, and I wished that there will be more trainings, we need to win! We have an awesome team this year! Good night! =D

Hi all!

I woke up early on Saturday to go to nasband. Saw my dad nagging at me for not sleeping early enough "all the time". Has he forgetten about how early I have been sleeping? I slept late once in a week and he forgot about other days? Old liao lah.

Gosh, I just got to say ngee ann students are still brilliant afterall. I just got to say say say and then they sounded better. It is just about whether they bother to remember how to sound correct or not. I really wonder how important band is to those little boys and girls. Hansel took out ngee ann's Eb to play! Even I, as a trombonist, miss that little thing. I am sure no one has played it ever since that Mrs Chua left them. I stayed there long enough to see how the band members are punished for being late. They are supposed to crawl on the floor and walk with their knees around the band room. It looked fun though, no wonder people don't mind coming late, hahaha.

Hansel brought his i touch (actually I am not sure if that is an i touch, it looks modern and it plays songs, haha!), and he let me listen to a song titled "pinocho". The song so nice! I also want to play. I wish that I can play that with philyouth!! =)

Hansel, you are one of the best clarinetist I know! Keep up your good work ok, don't be discouraged. I love how you sound. =) You sound better than most people I know.

I got home, had lunch and went out again with Chun Kiat and trombone. We took the train to Aljunid, got ourselves into Windworks easily without getting lost. There, the technician attended to me.

What a service! He fixed my trombone right away, and even grease my tuning slides! I allowed him to fix the other dent which Bao Ling created long time ago. Later on I told him I want to buy one of his mouthpieces. I tried a size 4 (which is the size I am playing) and it felt great! =) Got another size 4 that is heavier as it has a weight somewhere. Got a resistant when I tried to play loud so I didn't like it. He said I should try a size 6 also but it was too small for my liking. He said that actually the Europeans like to use size 6 because they prefer to sound light and gentle. Actually I also have a size 6 at home, the original bach mouthpiece. So end up I bought the size 4 for $95. The brand is Bruno Tilz, I never heard of it. Later on I did some researching online and I only found those ebay kind of results. No official website, nobody comment much on it too. So the total cost would be $95 plus the repairs which cost $30 in total for 2 dents.

Since he fixed it on the spot, we got to carry the trombone home. We actually planned to go out after sending it to repair because he told me that I probably got to wait a week. So instead of going out, we went home. After a while, we went out again, and he bought me flowers. =)

Nothing much for the rest of the day, we watched some rubbish dragonball z movies. I was really tired at night so I slept quite early, at 12.

I slept for 11 ours and woke up at 11.30am. He came over after lunch. We watched another movie, about the father of Goku. It was really nice! I think his father is cool! =) Anyway, after that, we went out to play volleyball downstairs.

Yes! Just the 2 of us. Later on got a fat little boy kept watching us play. Later on he used his courage to ask me if he could join in. So at first I thought he was a player but he couldn't play properly. So I told him that I will teach him. He so cute lah.

With his short arms, whenever he threw the ball, the ball would end up hitting his fist rather than his arms. When I told him that he hit the wrong place, he was like, "WOW HOW YOU KNOW THAT?" In order to make a little kid happy, I told him that I guess one, hahaha.

Also other things like facing the wrong direction when hitting and all, then when I pointed out his mistakes to him, he went "WOW YOU GUESS IT RIGHT AGAIN!" OMG YOU ARE SOOO CUTE. Then later I asked him if he stayed around here, somewhere above, looked out of the window, saw us playing volleyball, got excited and ran downstairs. I got it all right and so he went "HOW DO YOU KNOW? YOU GUESS CORRECTLY AGAIN!" =D

After a while of ourselves enjoying how cute this little boy was, his friends came to take him away. Not very good friends he has, all they did was to bully him, scold him, hit him, and they shouted a lot vulgarities. Yet, he kept his smile on his face, not knowing that these people are not worth being his friends.

Chun Kiat, the lousy, got tired so quickly so I got to get him back home to rest. Sighs, I wanted to play more! Well actually my ball was pretty hard so my arms were getting too painful already. Oh well, we went home. I bathed and had dinner, then we watched another movie. Cooler's revenge. No wonder fans like it, because it was really quite nice.

So he left and went home. I got to sleep soon because work is starting tomorrow. Good night everyone! =)

Hi all!

We finished watching dragonball z on Sunday!!! BUU WANTS ICE CREAM! =D

So Monday was the start of IA for this semester. I am attached to International Aerospace Tubes Asia (IAT Asia) from 11 January till 12 June. I was looking forward to something really interesting, exciting but then...

Sorry to say I will definitely not going back to work there anymore. Not that the place is no good, but it is just the that kind of environment I like. Engineers got to get to the shopfloor all the time, and some of them have their desk there. That place was dusty so I didn't like to go down. I couldn't tell that it was dusty at first, but it has got to be right? It was dusty enough for my nose to be blocked to dust every few hours. This kind of air is not good for my beautiful skin. =(

Also, I prefer a quiet working environment .I am not sure if all engineering offices are like that. The talking in the office is almost non stop. People talked loudly on their phone calls, sometimes even on the speaker for a number of people to talked at the same time, known as conference. People walking and talking to each other. I am really used to studying when it is completely silence, or may be with just some light music which I never recognise (my roomie play them on the computer), because that is the way I study in hall.

My sister said she never need to go to the actual site when she was working. So I guess it is possible for engineers to work without interacting personally with the technicians and machinists... And that shall be 1 of the top few criteria when I do job searching after I graduate.

Jian Hao was with us for the first 4 days and I can tell you, I saw his power and I felt that if he never get A+ for IA, NO ONE WILL. HE WAS SOOOOO ZAI! He learnt Microsft Access, which turned out to be a programming software rather than those with graphic interfaces. He learnt it by himself, did a database for the company to improve the management of engineering drawings. He read the manual online, and found out that the acid concentration the works have been using was wrong and went to correct them. He did a time table for himself to learn all the processes in the shopfloor.

He taught us all the sai kang, taught us some of the process which only inspired us to learn more by ourselves. So he has his last day on Thursday, then problems within ourselves came on Friday, when I was not sure of the work, haha! So I did lots of phone calls and messages to ask him how to do this and that, lol...

The engineer I was attached to was really zai too. I could just see the way he worked. But yet, his face forever looked serious, like he can just scold me anytime. I don't even dare to smile!!!

My dad bought a $0 phone, SGH F480. Very nice and slim touch screen phone. At first he thought he can have it for himself. But as soon as I see the typing messages use the number pad to type rather than the all alphabets like iphone, I said I want it! It took me one whole night to figure it out and transfer photos into it. I never transfer anything ringtones because my phone is forever in silence, so I can forget it, haha! Silence is golden! I put the Hong Kong Victoria peak photo as my wallpaper. Very nice! The "desktop" can shift left and right, got 3 pages in total. So in the photo, the 1st page is the first 1/3 for the picture, 2nd page is the 2nd 2/3 of the picture, containing our faces! Then the third page is the last 1/3 of the picture. Quite fun to shift left and right to see the whole picture. The beautiful Victoria Peak. =)

Sadly the phone has no wifi so no wonder it is $0! Actaully, I am not a fan of phone applications, so it doesn't affect me very much. For me, wifi will be useful to check gps (since I always lost my way), msn, email and urgently need to see movie timings, or edventure, only! Haha.

Firday night I went to Changi Aloha to celebrate Lei Lei's birthday. We waited 1 hour for the shuttle bus to go there at Pasir Ris, but then the bus took us to Loyang Aloha instead of Changi Aloha! The bus stopped, everyone alighted. The security guard said that got to wait 1 more hour before the bus will take us to Changi Aloha. HAIII. So luckily we saw a cab coming in, but actually not very lucky because the taxi driver sucks like hell.

He is not the first taxi driver who don't know his way lah, but the thing is, I suspect that he don't know how to use the gps he has in the cab, because who can possibly still don't know the way with a gps? He asked for road names, so I called You Quan and gave him some nearby road names. His attitudes sucks, like that kind of "why you don't know the road names" tone when he talked to us. So when we finally get there, he charged us $9.40 on the meter without any discount. Chun Kiat has been a cool guy, he gave him the money happily. I WOULD GIVE HIM, YES, AND TAKE A PICTURE OF HIS LICENCE TO COMPLAIN!!! Hai, why I never thought of that. He was like, GO CALL YOUR FRIEND!! CALL YOUR FRIEND!! TELL ME THE ROAD NAME!!!

Stupid. This kind of loser should seriously GO AND DIE!!! $9.40 for getting from LOYANG to CHANGI, WITH BAD ATTITUDE and TIME WASTING! GO AND DIE!!! KANNA CAR ACCIDENT SOON!!! I DON"T CARE!!!

Her birthday was really nice, I bought her an orange daisy from Xpressionflowers. So happy that she likes it! Her friends were cool also, seocndary school friends, jc friends, CEE friends, cca friends, all so happy and cool. To think about it, I only have a few good pri school friends, ZERO secondary school friends, lots of secondary school band friends =D, ZERO jc cca friends, close to ZERO jc friends, outside band friends are merely hello bye bye also, actually uni friends also a lot hello bye bye, only some uni friends are good lah. My friends in total can easily reach 1000 I think, since I got connections everywhere. But what for?

The celebration was fun, but from our side only me, Chun Kiat, Tong Wei and You Quan came. But it was fun enough to catch up with them already. After eating the second cake, (celebrating 22 and 21 birthday!!), we went home.

All right, I guess after this entry, I won't have much to talk about in ia. Looking forward to weekends and weekends! =D

Hi all.

A not so good surprise. The day I washed my trombone, I hanged the individual parts at the laundry to dry. My dad shifted them to make space for laundry and to hang it upside down to that the water will drip down. Guess what, he dropped my tuning slide in the process, keeping quiet and cool about it.

So I wanted to keep my trombone before I sleep yesterday. I brought the parts into my room, apply the oil and grease. TA DA! The tuning slide was dented at the end of it, so now it cannot fit into the trombone anymore. I was so heartbroken. I kept thinking that if I knocked it so badly, I would have seen it already. I trusted that my dad always be very careful when he does things, since he always claims he is. So I thought it was my mum, but my mum will never touch something she is not sure of.

This morning I told my dad about the poor tuning slide and now it cannot fit into the trombone, so now my poor silver princess is not playable. My dad, not feeling a bit of sorry, started scolding me about me buying the trombone without discussing with anyone, without permission. Of course I never ask anyone! No one will allow, so no point. I asked him if he can fix that. He gave me that kind of scolding tone again and said something like, I don't know, we got to work this out together and see what we can do, you get it? Then I said I actually want to bring it outside to repair. Then he exploded, WELL THAT COST MONEY.

He asked me if I remember which part of the laundry that I took the tuning slide from, then I said I couldn't' remember. THERE he scolded me again, for not taking note of details when I do my things. He could still remain his pride and said, "I was shifting the laundry and it probably hit against the wall". He pointed at the place where the tuning slide was. I could not believe it, he dropped my precious trombone, he was not feeling a bit of sorry, but scolding me for nothing at all? I don't mind he don't apologise, because parents never want to lower their pride for their children. I only expect him to speak to me nicely, since he did something wrong, not me.

I was totally upset with the way my dad behaved, I went into the bedroom to find my mother and told her about it. She was very shocked that the tuning slide now cannot fit into the trombone. She told me, your dad dropped it when he hanged it upside down that day, before another day when he shifted the things and knocked the wall. WTF WTF? He kept quiet about all this, scolded me for his ego, not feeling sorry at all, so is damaging the trombone is like breaking a ceramic bowl?

My friends all told me to go to Windworks, and I have checked with swee lee who wanted to charge me $45 for that little thing. My friends said Windworks do things well and cheap, so I have decided to go there. I went to nasband and listened to them, complaining to Taufiq and Hansel about the how bastard my father is and how poor my silver princess is. They were in shocked about how it could happen. I felt so ashamed that the lousy condition of the trombones in this band also never meet anything unfortunate like this.

I dunno why the 2 boys were sounding so bad while they were good the last time I came. I finally saw that Mr Yu, blur like sotong, hahaha! I never managed to talk to him though, I wanted to find out where he came from. I think both conductors looked alike leh, may be they were long lost brothers, cousins or something. Haha. Cheng Heng was playing first trombone, and that Mr Yu wanted the euphonium to play his solo. What a let down! Last time, WE trombones steal euphonium solos, now the other way round? HAI...

I got home for lunch, and my dad talked me about knocking the tuning slide. I said I am going to bring it outside to repair. Then he said, so YOU are not looking at what is available at home?

No, even if the tuning slide can fit it, that does not guarantee that my beautiful sound will come back, the tuning slide will not leak air, and more. I gave him a super black face for his bad attitude towards the accident. He was not happy with my face and said that only KIDS will show black face without explanation of why they felt unhappy. He said you are above 21 years old, GROW UP.

Then I guess I will remain a kid forever because I never dare to really argue with people. I only swallow my anger and nothing else. I am not a strong girl, I always let others throw temper at me while I never screamed or shouted at them before. I never dare to, I am too nice. The best thing I can do is breakdown and cry.

I got myself ready to go to school in the afternoon for IHG. Playing volleyball made me happier, and seeing friends too. I was able to forget about the ridiculas conversation with my father. After playing, we went to Queensway shopping mall to get my dream FBT PINK SHORTS. Haha! After that we had some meatballs from IKEA cafe, and a blackcurrant jelly with fruits. So super declicious.

I guess my dad felt sorry afterall because ever since I came back home, he never mentioned a single thing about my trombone and my "childish" behaviour. I could not believe that all these happened, showing me how bastard my father is, as he still continues to find reasons to prove himself right and reasons to just to scold me for his ego or whatever crap. How disappointing, he should be the one who should grow up.

Unfortunately, my IA is starting on Monday and I have no way of getting to Windworks on weekdays. I hope they work on weekends too, even if it is just a Saturday morning. All right, till then.

Hello all!

I woke up early and took piggie's car to school for ia briefing. The car was packed with 5 people, including me, piggie, Wei Kiong, Andy and Benny! Haha. So fun sitting in a car with many people, haha! He kept singing and dancing while driving non stop so we got to control him a bit also. Chun Kiat thought the talk was at LKC so ended up he went there alone. Luckily I took his car if not both of us will be alone at LKC feeling pathetic.

The talk was super boring lah, just there tell us what to do, what not to do, the deadlines and success stories. I was thinking what if someone gets a commendation letter, but still sadly gets a B+ for IA. Oh yah anyway, after the talk, we saw many friends who we have not seen for a long time. Then we walked around ntu trying to look for the IA log book. Sadly, it became out of stock everywhere after the talk was over. They should just distribute it in Nanyang Auditorium!

They went to the gym to play while Chun Kiat and I went to walk around in Jurong Point first. We managed to buy the $5 scallop again! This time round was in the day so more fresh, not over night mah. It tasted even nice! Wow. There was even an auntie walked past us and she saw us eating that. She asked us where we bought that! WOW! =D

We waited for them for really long and we were so bored that we sat down somewhere nearly fell asleep. Until they called and so we had our very late lunch at Din Tai Feng.

The food there really ah, so expensive! Not very nice also, I prefer Crystal Jade Xiao Long Bao! They even ordered a yam bao that was so not nice at all. Eww. We got a free bowl of tang yuan because I paid the meal with my POSB card! =)

After eating, all of us made our way to piggie's house in xiao bai. We had a lot of fun there. We played rock band, he got a few versions lah. Out of all instruments, I love the drums the most. It is more challenging, and the action bigger, so more fun. =) Too bad I never knew a single song inside there that I can help singing. After playing that we had dinner in this house, then we continued to play wii. That rabbit game was so lame lol, omg omg omg.

After that rabbit game, we played our favourite mario cart again! But then, I was so upset that I kept getting the last position while my friends all get the first few! Hai, and somemore I was so far back that I have nobody to throw my presents to! So sian lah.

After a while of mario cart, he sent me back home lor. While Chun Kiat took cab home from my house. Bear went home also. The rest of them went to have supper at Changi Village. This is strange, I thought piggie is very health conscious? Hmm.

The end, so fun! Wahahha. =D I got a long day tomorrow, so good night!