NTU ...catch up
Friday, May 30, 2008
I finally can enter this super popular dining restaurants to have some of their "precious"pasta. This is because for the past few times, i was not able to enter because it is fully reserved, hence this time round i play smart. I call up in the morning to make reservation. And see what we doing...advertising for waraku....their pasta are really good and nice. All three of us ordered set meal.
This is what i ordered.A set meal with choice of 2 pasta...i like both and they taste great.
Ziqian had a set meal that consists of gratin and pasta, meihui had a mini pizza with pasta and i had 2 different types of pasta. They all taste great...worth the money...have the best from everything.
Showing off my debits and credits, dun rob me...a lot cards does not mean i have a lot money.
After that we shop around MS while waiting for cuimin to end her work....then we went to HK cafe to have our supper...."fattening day..."
And we also take photo with our SONY ERICSSON phones as coincidently all four of us uses the SONY ERICSSON phones.
things to settle/get...this holiday
Thursday, May 29, 2008
- Settle Taiwan trip expenses
- Clear debts
- Get my ruan box
- GSS Shopping:
- A cap to suit my mood of holiday
- Ray Ban sunglasses: to wear oversea and to beaches
- New slipper: school reopen in august
- Formal pedro shoes + New suit: next sem comm class
- More ties and belts
- Tiger Shoe: hope to get in taiwan
- A new pair of running shoe: to motivate me to train my running for IPPT)
- More t-shirts for new semester: found out that my wardrobe has very little wearable ones
- Upgrade my Digital Camera at IT fair: guess I can get a good deal over there
- CK steel undies: TANGS got super good sales
Just about it for the GSS shopping...will update the list once i got new crave...hope i dont overspent again...(that is the risk with credit card.) I think wise financial planning will reduce my regrets. Haha
TJC concert
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
淡初松声竹韵08
我觉得太沉重了一点,因为每一首都有大乐队。 节目策划可以好一点, 让一个古筝独白或弦乐或弹拨会凸现技术,听众也不会这么累. 更别提那指挥, 我很欣赏那些学生能够看得懂他的指挥手法。 每个指挥都有自己的特色, 可是我还是觉得简单清楚又有音乐是一个指挥最重要的。
曲目
奋勇前进 (16 岁就演奏,跟现在听有很不一样的感觉. 打击乐缺乏爆发力,勇往直前的冲劲)
靺鞨组曲-公主 (是我喜欢的作曲家刘锡津的作品,我觉得淡初开始奏得有点慢)
文成公主
黄土情
第二民主交响乐 (听不出所以然?)
第二香港爱情组曲 (压轴曲有一点怪.)
听淡初业有9 年了,从中二至今每年都会去。。。 音乐因随岁月增进吧。 现在比较喜欢小型的室内乐和精品, 今年的演出没有震叹到我。
practising and lots of practising
Wa... a few concerts coming up and really busy practising. First is on 7th June, SYCO annual concert. Yes, this year especially i attended very few sectional practice. Oh shit...and 嘎达梅林 is breaking my fingers with the running notes of B flat major on Daruan. I would be really amazed if the SCO musicians can play it swiftly and weightlessly. I still need a lot of practices.
And taiwan concert, 4 ensemble songs 新疆随想,匈牙利狂想曲,阮之火,春愁 and 1 solo 松风寒.
I am stressed up as i never play solo on 大阮 before, and this virgin performance will be on Taiwan, Kaohsiong stage...you really need strength to play as the strings are thick and long, so to produce good 音色, 指力 must be extremely extremely high. So i need time to build the strength. And my teacher is putting a lot pressure on me...shit.
And i also conducting NAS Alumi for their yearly concert and NHCO september concert with Andy solo....lots of work...
So less shopping and more practices although i super tempted by the GREAT SINGAPORE SALES but i am saving up for taiwan trip.
sutee back from taiwan
Sunday, May 25, 2008
After TJCO concert, i met Alan and Sutee and bugis for dessert. Due to the super heaty weather, i dont dare to order "杨汁干渌". So i order a super nice papaya white fungus soup to quench my thrist. It is super nice! Alan ordered grass jelly and sutee ordered "双皮奶 with mango". We go through sutee taiwan trip photo and of course we did chat about sichuan disaster. We had fun catching up and sutee pass us the taiwan trip gift before we board the cab.
Lousy imitation
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
After shopping around raffles city, meiqi and me decided to grab a bite before heading to PS for movie. After much persuasion by me, meiqi agreed to try JCO donuts. (subsidary of breaktalk) However, we were very disappointed by the crampy sitting space and the workflow at the counter- "basically there is 7 staffs at the crampy counter". It really show "too many cooks spoil the broth!" So i have to repeat my simple order again and again to different staff up till the cashier, i am still repeating. But that is still not the most disappointing part, the donuts sucks! We ordered chocolate and tiramisu donuts. The donuts are filled with cream....and the basic flavour-glazed test bad as it is not as fresh. Both of us regretted. We cannot finish the donut as it really taste horrible. Our first and last experience.....not worth to put on fat with such quality of donuts. We went to donut factory to take a look, the queue is shorter and lesser crowd compared to JCO. But we still love donut factory!
悲伤有时,快乐有时。
悲伤有时,快乐有时。
看了新闻报道四川大地震,温家宝对罹难者呐喊,眼泪不由自主地滑下脸颊。一场天灾,无辜的生命就这样没了。坐在电视旁的我又可以为他们做什么?微小的我只能呆呆地望着那冷冰冰的机器。一天一天过了,只知道时间会冲淡一切,伤感始终会停止。我们还是要从悲伤走出来,还是要过日子-“悲伤有时"。
因星期一是位赛节,我跟好友有了通宵麻将局,我赢了。从年头至今,第一次赢钱。虽然赢得不多,可是还是很开心因为我享受那过程,把烂牌变成好牌- “快乐有时”。
放假了,好无聊。 可是不一会儿,又要工作了。工作虽然很累,可是它能把空虚的时间填满。
Family Problem
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Getting from bad to worst. He stole $2000 from my mum account and i really given up on him. He pushed my mum to the floor and we really do not know what he is doing. My uncle and aunt came over to talk things out and he still do not want to tell the truth. I believe there is something hidden from us up till now. I lost hope and want my mum to live on with her life. I had lost all respect to him after so much incidents. If he still do not know how to turn over a new leaf, divorced is foreseeable.
ob gathering
Thursday, May 15, 2008
We met up at Sushi Tei at Ngee Ann City, the food is delicious and our favourite Mabel didnt turn up. We meet up to celebrate her birthday but she didnt turn up...Ironic right? But we do have a lot chitchat session and enjoy our food...after that we went to Coffee Club Express for drink and liying send us back home....although there is some hipups due to road closure, we managed to reach home safely. ( the photo looks ok what? who says my camera phone not good.)
Cheated to movie
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
I went to VIVO city to meet meiqi, liying and huifen for movie...i told meiqi to book the ticket but she insisted on going to counter at 9pm to check out the seats, it was left with first row. We did not want to sit in first row. In the end, we went to Cineleisure for 1150pm movie (hoping that there is seat), but the seats was fully booked again. We ended up in the HK cafe...
mothers' day present
Monday, May 12, 2008
My Bro and I share the Braun Buffel (spelling corrected) wallet cost $119 for my mum from Bugis BHG. She likes it after comparison with RENOMA and PEIRRE CARDIN designs. This is the first wallet she had in her life. (Previous one are all gift and she doesnt like to spend so much on this.) I find it nice too. I call Braun "小牛"...i like the quality, design and of course the brand.
make life more fulfilling....
Friday, May 09, 2008
I bought my K850i at the price of $118 after i trade in my K800i for $150. The photo below is taken by this camera phone, still trying to adapt to this new phone...give me some time.
Ya after my routine odd day-tanning and swimming at TP pool...decided to go home and make my own lunch. There is lot of left over rice yesterday as both my brothers did not inform my mum they are not dining at home. Rice is so expensive nowsday and they waste it like that...Cannot bear to throw it away, I put the rice in the refrigerator last night...so thought that today i can fried it. Fried rice need overnight rice as the grain will shrink when refrigerated thus taste better. Hence i decide to make a butter rasin rice.
Ingredient: ( 2 pax)
4 scoops Overnight refrigerated Rice
1 handful of Raisins
1 piece of honey baked hams (slice into squares)
1 apple (remove the skin and dice it)
2 eggs (beaten)
2 table spoon of butter
2 pinch of salt and pepper
Heat up the pan, add the butter to lubricate the pan first. Place the apple first so that it can be soften with the heat. Then place the rice, raisin, ham into the pan...stir fry for a while with high heat then add the beaten eggs. Hold the pan up from the fire then stir the mixtures faster. Egg cooks faster so you want a good mix of egg with the rice. Last taste the rice and adjust the taste accordingly but do not add too much salt as to stay healthy. I go with a cup of soya milk as i need to replenish my protein after the swim.
New gadgets
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
K850i (5 Mega Pixel Phone)....coz my student plan is due in july so I am forced to upgrade orelse i will be left with only 500 sms which isnt enough at all. Plus i cant enrolled for (student plan) unlimited sms due to my plan have not reach 21 months...WTF....sad stuck in no where. So i choose this 5 megapixel phone which cost around $268 and can store up to 4G external memory. i still prefer sony ericssion user-friendliness and sleek design plus the outstanding functions.
Next gadget is my Canon IXUS 860 Digital Camera. With 8 Megal Pixel and 3.8 optical zoom....but quite ex- $599. I am waiting for the June IT fair to see whether any cheaper deal. Currently, i am still using my 3.2 Megapixel camera...feel the incapability when I was taking photo in Macau. The optical zoom cannot make it so cannot take far sceneries with good resolution thus i want to invest on one long ago. Think of using GST or dividend package to buy that.....
Xi an Oriental Symphony Orchestra Concert
Monday, May 05, 2008
Ruanster met up at Marina Square and we had our dinner at HongKong Cafe while waiting for others to arrive. Yiling and Minru were having great time taking a lot of photos while other enjoy their food. After that, while walking to esplanade, we bumped into meiqi and his boyfriend...and everyone starts gossiping about it.
After the concert, we let the musicians and singers autograph on the concert booklet and to our surprise we saw Mr Lin Ji Liang and Mr Ning Yong. So we grabbed opportunity to take photo with these 2 mastesro in ruan.
After all the autograph session, finally we were able to take photo with Ms ding ( my previous ruan teacher)-in her ususal shinny blue dress. She had not solo since 12years when she performed with city orchestra.
I personally do not like this oriental symphony because the sound quality and strength is not as strong as the symphony orchestra ( erhu and gaohu is unmatched to violin and viola). And this arrangement lost the special tone colour of dizi, suona and traditional percussion. So i do not like this "so-called revolution of chinese orchestra". It turns out to be something not here nor there- quite sad.
Dance of the Dragon
Sunday, May 04, 2008
I decided to meet my secondary school friends after my tiring examination...but Alan have not finish his papers...He hack care and still meet us. Haha. I book the tickets for Dance of the Dragon a day before then after collecting the tickets, we went to the HongKong cafe to have our lunch.
Critic on the Movie: Too artistic but the background music is super nice. Sometimes music speaks better than words- this reflects well on this show. Fann Wong acted well although we can see that she is not a dancer... Jang Hyuk acted well with his eye, face and body expression, his eyes give a very different feeling and helps me speaks a lot....( the whole show not much dialogue) but the storyline a bit weird to me....sometimes the props are too old that contradicts to urban Singapore City view and a lot unexplained part-dont know why like that. Just weird! Dance was not fantastic compared to step up but still good effort.
But it is definitely a good time to meet friends and enjoy the afternoon together....
reading
Friday, May 02, 2008
Before i met huifen and meiqi, i walk around centre point. I went in Times and look around...i saw this leadership book with many interesting phrases:
"If a man does not know what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him."
Quite a lot meaningful phrases- i took a photo of it. Sometime in life, we lost our sense of direction, and nomatter how much hardwork you put in, it will not have desirable outcomes.
I finally bought Tuesday with Morries after so long ....should start reading...