Congrats Baofeng!

Attended my former student, James Zhuo Baofeng's wedding at Pan Pacific last night.

Had a good time catching up with the rest of his classmates who were my former personal tutees way back in 2004.

Alot of them are now in the process of acquiring their degrees - e.g Moses, Bachelor in Business Management at SIM, graduate in Dec 2012. Norman, Computing degree at UOL, two more years to go. Benedict, policeman just signed up part-time Marketing degree at Unisim (paying about $12k after 55% government subsidy). Wei Chai, also SIM, Buffalo University etc.

And a few working ones. Azri - a company called Ad something, and currently helping with fundraising for WWWF and Jolene, who is very happy working at OBS Consultancy - doing Oracle P/SQL since her industrial attachment in 2006/2007.






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Stitching angry bird

This morning, we made a purposeful trip to Plaza Singapura just to taste the new breakfast menu at Burger King.

Nice! Though it ended up quite expensive, about $25 for four meals - 1 breakfast platter ($7 plus), 2 croissantwich meal ($13 plus) and 1 fillet fish meal ($5 plus).




The kids went home with NRZ after breakfast, while I took my own sweet time to shop at Daiso. My own sweet time indeed since I spent more than 2 hours there.

Bought $12 of things there, including alarm clock, pointer, clothes hanger, needles, embroidery thread and 40 in a pak plastic ziplock.

Really pleased with the purchase of the embroidery thread and needles as I am now able to sew on the felt cloth I bought a few months ago but could not use as I couldn't find a hardy needle or good thread at home that was suitable for hand sewing felt.

Today, with these new 'equipment', I finally succeeded! :)

Thats why they have this Chinese proverb “工欲善其事，必先利其器




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10 years ago

I am so glad I am such a photo aficionado.  Ever since I got my first digital camera sometime in the year 1998 or so, I have been fanatically taking photos almost on a daily basis to capture and retain the daily memories of everything around me, big and small.

Tonight is one of the nights I felt really reminiscent, so I started browsing through the collection of photos dating from 2000.

Found this photo taken on 16 Sep 2001, and it is exactly 10 years ago from today.

How things have changed since then.  Edison looks so different now.

Feel like eating Prata

I think I feel like eating prata for dinner tonight.

Smurfing memories

After watching the Smurfs movie on Wednesday, I have rekindled my attachment to these cute little blue creatures.

How nice that McDonalds is offering them as part of their Happy Meal collection now :)

Got two of them now - Papa smurf and Mr Vanity. Eyeing smurfette next ;)

Headache

头好痛 :(

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Chaos at Comex 2011 even before it has started!

The massive crowd who camped at Level 4 of Suntec to get their hands on a 16 GB HP Touchpad at $126.00.

Sadly, I was like the 500th one when I reached there, but there were only 200 sets available.

There wasn't a proper queuing system there, and things got chaotic when the HP staff started distributing red (16Gb) and yellow(32gb) coupons that entitled the holders to purchase the device when the show opens at 12 noon later.

Well since its futile to wait, I ended up enjoying a cup of kopi-o kosong at Coffee and Toast. :)

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