Tuition

Today's post would be Tuition oriented. I'm teaching just 3 kids, but 5 sessions a week, 10hrs of work, and that's giving me a possible income of 1.2k. Subjected to no cancelling. Ppl working part time or temp job are working 42hrs a week to earn abt the same amount. And I don't have to take out that 20% CPF pay.. Take home more than them. Why don't they consider teaching leh? I didn't like teaching initially too, but trying out for sometime, I've more or less gotten use to it. Partly cos I got no choice. working just 1/4 of their time gives me so much more freedom. How am I going to survive when term starts? Shall see.. hopefully I can squeeze out a 4 day week to fit in my schedule.

Perhaps some ppl really really don't like it, and it's not their cup of tea. No choice then..

Just one Math Qn for some to ponder. A Simple one. Secondary 2 level. Here goes.

5 Cats take 5 days to catch 5 mice. How many days would 3 Cats take to catch 3 mice?
What's the ans leh? Looks very simple hor.

To find out.. stay tune..

Dinner at Beng Thin Hoon Kee Restaurant

Went out for a family dinner, supposedly celebrating our bdae one.. My dad, my sis and me.. 3 Bdae within a week. Went to this Hokkien restaurant at OCBC tower. Beng Thin Hoon Kee Restaurant.. Famous for all it's hokkien dishes..

Had quite a few dishes today.. Just to share a bit..
was doing it using the slide show one.. but some error cock up.. Cannot view from there.. no choice but to upload one by one..

Fish Maw Soup

Roasted Chicken

Oyster Egg.. The best dish for the night.. Special.

Nong Hiong..

3 layer Pork belley Pao

Stewed Duck

Hokkien Mee.

Taught my Clementi girl in Al fresco style this morning.. out in her little garden. Well, not the same as per normal when we are in the room with aircon blowing at us. but it's quite nice lar.. Sat morning, at least a different setting. The only sian thing is that the darn dogs are barking quite near to us. So it's A little tweeny irritating at times. Once a while.. it's alright..

Hmm.. ya.. I've concluded that I've no affinity for dogs. I'm fine with them. As long as they don't come disturb me, I'm okay. If not.. bleahz.

Finished watching SATC season 2 le.. Haha. that's like 36 episodes. Lots of interesting things being mentioned in the show actually. Well, it's full of sex and one night stand, but looking carefully will be able to pick up the meaning behind the episode. I do find most of it rather meaningful, learning while watching it. It does help us put on a thinking cap at times and relate it to what we are currently doing.

After that day's temptation at Cafe Cartel, over the sandwiches. Decided to make our own sandwich.. haha... Made the double deck, Cheese, Leg ham, butter one. And the Egg mayo, Cheese, leg Ham, butter. hmm... Made the conclusion that Egg mayo doesn't go well with ham and cheese.

Donated blood the 18th time today. Went with my usual bld Donation buddy, fang. And yeah, she pass it today.. haha.. That day was still reading an article abt a 66yrs old lady donating the 70th time.. Inspirational. I'll just continue to donate blood, as long as I'm fit to do so.. =)

Went to eat Sakae Teppanyaki at PS. For the set lunch Price, Would say the food and quantity is alright. It taste quite nice actually. I took the Seafood set for a start, with an addition of Shitake mushrooms.

Fresh Oyseters.. So Big lar !!


Seafood set.. ( Salmon, prawns, Squids, Beansprouts )


Chicken Set.. ( Teriyaki Chiken, Tofu, Shell scallops, Assorted mushrooms. )

Dessert.. ( lime Ice-cream )


Went to Mount E to visit Des.. He just did a jaw op a few days ago. Looking at him now, makes my heart feel pain as well. Seeing a fren suffereing on the bed isn't exactly a very nice thing. It reminds me of some other things as well.. I almost teared actually.. haiz..

In the evening, went to watch Don't mess with Zohan with dear.. The show is just ridiculous can. An absolute no brainer... Just laugh and laugh and laugh. At certain parts of the show, I just laugh so hard that I couldn't stop it.. lolz.. Good to have a laugh once a while..

We went to cartel to eat dinner after the show.. First time tried the Chicken and Mushroom baked Macaroni. Creamy and tasty. The sauce is good. dipping it with bread is nice too.. =) It's just so easy to tempt me with Cheese.. haha..

Went jogging at 12.15pm today. A bit of a siao-ness to do it. But I just need to run. No other time available liao.. and since I want to get more tan, might as well, one stone kill 2 bird. Run at this cake baking hour. Seriously, the heat was burning me. Give me headache sia. Haha.. still, I stand by my belief that tough training is always better, as it prepares you for the worst scenarios. and anything better, you will perform better. Of cos, you must be able to perservere to be able to reap the benefits.

Went to teach my korean kid. Took a photo of 2 of the dogs present in the house. Still tie hair, wear clothes.. Kaoz.. dogs these days..

Inside view of Kovan Melody..


Then met dear for dinner at katong area. Went to this 5star Kampong Chicken rice. Not bad.. Meat a bit more "tang xing" than normal hormones injected one. Thereafter, went further down the street to eat Iron Chef Ice-cream.. Ate the Rum and raisins one. Jia lat liao lar.. we 2.. erm.. don't know how to drink one keep looking for alcohol flavoured ice-cream to try.. lolz..


Look what's here.. The fuel price is nearly $2.20 liao.. scary.. Wonder how much higher it would shoot up.. sighz... monopolizes.. It's bad.. it's bad..

Sigh.. Italy lost to spain on penalties.. Watched the match until I fell asleep. Really a bit too tired.. only watch bits and pieces of it till 90mins, wake up only at 12.45pm to check the web that they lost 4-2 on penalties.. sad.. There goes the world Champ. To be fair, their Captain - Cannavaro is absent with injury, their playmaker - Pirlo is out with suspension, their solid anchorman - Gattuso the bull is out with suspension too. A great team can only do well when their great players are there.. Pirlo was sorely miss.. lack of creativity was obvious.

Resumed tution with my Korean kid. He moved to kovan melody liao.. Quite a nice place. I particularly like the design of the pool and the decor around it. gives me a relaxing and nice feeling. Now his house got like 4 dogs. Kaoz.. more dogs..luckily it's the small kind. He seems happier here.. shifting to a korean family, I guess it'll suit him better, food, loging and he got 2 other guys looking after him.. Feels more like home to him I guess.

Met the 30s Chap just now at Botak Jones. Org by Eugene. Mostly Charlie ppl. Hmm.. who was there leh.. Ah goo, Kevin, Zhefeng, Lam, Eugene, Siyuan, Hanyuan, Jing Ling, Andrew. So long never see them liao.. some is like 2 yrs.. Since I ORD, I haven't seen them liao. Still the same crap from Ah goo and Kevin. haha.. Reminds me of those happy days that we share back in 30. Oh ya.. heard from them that SAF is changing uniform again.. Guess the colour? It's going to be Gray, White and Black. Change to urban warfare liao.. Wat a major change. But I think NS men may not be affected. Full fletch changing of uniform is tentatively this coming sept. Haven't heard of any news yet.. Shall wait and see..

Sunday.. Went to SCBA to play the bridge cup.. Played against one of the Div 1 team, quite strong.. and as expected, we had a tough fight against them. in the end, we lost on the 2nd round.. Well, not exactly very sad, cos it was a little expected. but we did try our best. The difference in the system and the experience showed.. They are old bird liao.. At least we did learn something from there.. I guess the important thing is to be able to take home something everytime..

Met COT chaps for dinner at Bugis.. Can't remb the name of the place le. Just opposite Parco.. Only recall that it's a PRC steamboat shop. The food there, so-so only. Seafood, not very fresh. I can't believe that I was eating more of veg than meat. Haha.. Last met up with COT was in March I think.. 3months liao.. everybody had been busy with their own stuff. hmm.. looking forward to our chalet/bbq in Aug.. That should be fun.. =)

It's being some time since I last blog.. Don't have the mood to type things down.. Sometimes, there just isn't much things to say.. nor am I thinking much..

Sat, had a mini class outing. This is one of the not so good turn out one.. We had Brunch at Vivo, with Sara joining us for a while before she fly off to US. Hmm.. Anu, mindy, Jia Cai, Edwin and Jermayne was there for sentosa. Had a bit of fun playing around with volleyball, dodgeball, touch-rugby, monkey.. lolz.. All sorts of game that we can think of for just 6 of us. A bit de tough. but well, i guess we had our fair share of fun..



Thereafter, went back to Vivo for dinner.. Were then joined by huixuan, Charmaine and Yishan.. So long never see Charmaine and Yishan liao lor.. Miss those days that we can chat freely.. They have both change quite a bit too.. It's good to catch up once a while.. Wonder when would it be the next time.. Though I'm very sure I won't have such activities liao.. this class only suited for a meal.. Not active at all de.

Life is Fair.. Some ppl hopes that it is, some ppl thinks it is. In reality, life isn't fair. There are many things that we want, but we just can't get it. Sometimes when we have something, we will yearn to have others.. as things always appear rosy on the other side.. It depends on our own discipline to do what is right.

Reciprocating... Do what you want others to do for you.. and Not do what you don't want others to do to you.. That's a simple logic I believe in. How often do ppl actually follow it? Rarely.. Ppl are selfish.. mostly. I don't deny that sometimes you will want that little exception for yourself, because you just think that you deserve it. Would it be fair? How would others view it? If it's really difficult to decide, put yourself in the other person's shoe and see.. Perhaps that would allow us to have a clearer view. Weighing the pros and cons you decide which is actually more worthwhile.

I've being nua-ing for sometime. It's time to put on my shoes and get something done. Literally or figuratively.. BOTH... it's half way through the sem break. knock knock..

Went to Kallang Leisure park today.. Wanted to ice skate, but then there were just too many kids there.. abit kong bu. Not very conducive for us to go play play. So instead, we went to play bowling instead. Hmm.. when was the last time I bowled leh? I think it was J1. That's 5yrs ago. Lolz.. as shown in the scores obtained today. It's so niceee.. hahaha... Oh well, we had fun.. that's the only impt thing.. =)

Played a game of mario Cart as well. Highlight was the photo we took there. Dear chose Mario, while I chose Dino. Haha.. The photo is funny lar.

In Mario Style..

Dino!!!


Today is Tuesday.. And so, there's offer for Gelare.. We went for this mint flavour de.. Quite nice. And I thought this waffle is worth a photo. Haha..

It shouldn't be hard to guess what's there in the box. Yes, it's a lot of ppl's fav dish, especially during Chinese wedding. Bowls and bowls of Shark fin's soup will be dished out as one of the delicacy. Ever thought of how many sharks will die cos of one wedding dinner? As a matter of fact, one shark has 6 fins. The top Dorsal Fin, 2nd dorsal fin, 2 X Pectoral fin , pelvic fin and claudal fin. The pelvic fin and 2nd Dorsal fin are too small for consumption, and usually claudal fin is not being used. So that leaves with 3 fins, the Top Dorsal Fin, and 2 Pectoral fin. Dorsal fin being the fav, cause it's the biggest, usually fetch the most amount of money. As time passes, you can see that the fins being served are getting smaller and smaller.. no prizes for guessing why.. It's obvious that the sharks haven't even matured and they are being hunted for their fins. What happen to their body? They are thrown back into the sea and left to die. It's really cruel.. It's just like cutting my hands and legs and throw me in the park, leaving me to slowly lose blood and die. Yikes!!

Some ppl have commented that it's the same as eating poultry, but i beg to differ. Poultry is something that your rear. Animals that you provide them with food, water, and erm.. logging. What about the big blue ocean? Is there anyone that rears Sharks for fins? I've never heard of such things. The ocean is like an open treasure box, waiting for the unethical fishermen to overfish, and discard whatever they can't sell. Why? cos it doesn't harm just fishing for more. Every extra fish that they have may earn more. If it doesn't sell, well... just throw.. It didn't cost anything in the first place. That's the huge difference between poultry and fishes.

Commercially, some fishes are being reared. but that's only a small proportion of the population. The ocean is too big for scientist to accurately determine how much is left. But one thing for sure is that the Sharks are getting endangered. The Blue fin tuna.. Is highly Endangered. The salmon.. one of Sashimi enthuist fav, is about to join the list. Many many more are queuing up.

It's not possible for us to prevent the extinction of some of the animals, but every one of us can play a part in helping them. E.g Saying no to those endangered species is a small step in saving them. Recalling 3 weeks ago, I saw a jap shop in Parkway parade selling Blue fin Tuna and Giant clam in it's freezer. I'm just amuzed how come it could get past the AVA. Singapore is against importing of endangered species. Not telling you to report them, but the least you could do is don't buy, and help educate others. For a even greater effect, Pls don't order Shark fin's soup for your wedding dinner night. There are many more other substitutes that can be used. Just one decision, and you prevent 10s of sharks being killed. Well... The fin's are already in the shophouses.. you don't eat it, it'll still be there.. but if you don't buy it, the shopkeepers will not earn money, and the less they sell, the less they will import, and the less they import, the less fishermen will hunt for them.. And Wala.. It's a whole darn cycle that we need to put a hold..

Movie Hopping

Oh. today me and dar went to watch Kungfu Panda. I didn't know that it was such a cartoony show until I was inside.. lolz.. Just wanted to watch it, cos the lead is a panda. =P was a funny show, a lot of kids were there to watch. got a bit of lesson lar, but target grp a bit not right. Not for big kids like me to watch.. haa...

and we did something not right.. we went movie hopping. lolz.. after our Panda show, we waited in the toilet for a while, before we walked into the Cinema 3 to catch Incredible hulk. Scary feeling, never do such things before, but it was just for fun, cheap thrill. not exactly very small thrill, was actually very nervous whenever the GV guy walk in and out.. adrenaline pump like mad.. crossing finger hoping that he won't come and check us. lolz.. Prior to this, we planned our panda show such that we will be able to walk the hulk within 10mins. haha..

Oh well.. This kind of thing, just do once can liao.. Try for fun only. no need to experience it again.

We'll look for other types of excitement and thrill elsewhere.. haha..

HK summary

Yipee!! I'm back. It's being a busy and fun week. Right after the ICT, fly off to HK the following day. Trip to hk was fun. and it was really full of food & shopping. hmm.. the place that I enjoyed the most would be disney ba. Just a short summary of photos on the food I've eaten. A bit too many to remb all their names.. But it's sure nice lar.. When I got a bit more time, I'll do up a collage on the photos of the food that I've taken there. Don't know why, but come back a few days liao, still got many things left undone.

A few photos that I've decided to post it here. The rest of it is in the facebook album.

Went to Shen Zhen, courtesy of my mum's ex-classmate, herh husband drove us there, a bonus for us.. wasn't in our itineary de. Then went to Macau, main purpose was to visit the casino there.. and it sure was an eye opener to see the Venetian casino. Asia's biggest. And it sure was darn grand. A miniature venice in the centre of Macau. According to my sis, it's really alike to the streets of Venice. Billions have been spent into it. Can't imagine the amt of effort put into decorating, planning, and building it. It's unimaginable.

The fav was to Disney. It's especially more fun, with my sis cos she's a disney fan.. will go chasing after the mascots to take photos. Haha.. this one a bit small, but will definitely try to visit the biger one at Tokyo, Paris or California next time. It's good to be in a mythical and dreamy world once in a while..

Hmm.. Would I go back to HK again? perhaps. though there isn't much sight seeing, mainly for the food.. Shopping, not exactly cheap. just a huge variety in a stretch of land..

Our Comfy Prudential hotel..

At the Peak

Madam Tussauds..

Ayumi..

Ahem... Ladies and gentlemen..

Hanging on to anchor for life..

At the light house

Venice st

Venetian Casino

Disney Express in HK..

Cheese

I love mickey and Minnie..

Donald Duck.. Got a fat butt to bum ppl around..

erm.. sis make me wear it with her.. it's not inate..

Kispy creme.. a bit mad. so many.. lolz..

End of 1st ICT

End of my First ICT. Low key, focusing mainly on refreshing some techniques, and more importantly, to bond the company together, cos quite a significant amount of them came from other places. E.g. Trainers in ETI, Staff posts elsewhere, or even me, from another Coy. It was rather relaxing, and so fast, 5 days just zoom by. Those few ass that defaulted IPPT, caused us lotsa trouble, still need to charge them, interview them, etc. Waste of our time, their time n money.

Oh.. talking abt IPPT, today, I managed to clock 10.07min. huge improvement. Almost there liao.. though I would feel that this course is a little easier to run than the normal track one. now, can try to push for my GOLD le. Bet with Ervin to see who will be the first to get GOLD. loser will treat a meal.. Rawr~! I will win this race..

Still have more to say.. but I'm really tired.. Fell asleep on the bus just now.. Time to zzz. Tomorrow leaving for HK le.. Hopefully it'll be fun.. =)

Dar is back!!

Yeah!!! Dar is back.. haha... Happy =)

Well, not supposed to be back today, but dar just came back.. So we decided to meet up. A bit of a rush actually, but able to spend some time together, it was all worthwhile.. =) watched Sex and the City, and it's rather hilarious. I like the openness they have in the show, in the sense, the way they communicate with each other. The no-secret policy between the 4 of them, and never to divulge each other's secret. NY city, a liberal city, just as what has been potrayed all the while. one day, must go there to see for myself.

2 days of In-camp. Thought it was supposed to be very relaxing, but it actually turned out otherwise. There's a lot of admin stuff to do, no thanks to the cock up by the G1-G4 side.. and the incapability of the DXO, who are best in Tai-Chi. It's still the same old Army that I know. Screw us up and waste our precious time. Well, there's more to come, but it's late. and i Need to wake up in 5 hrs time to go camp.. Shall explain further when I never come back on fri..

2 days worth

It's being a action packed 2 consecutive days. a bit of back tracking, but not much time to blog it.. so here it comes..

Fri, Org a small dinner outing to Fish & Co at Ps there.. This time is with my Uni kakis.. 6 of us.. hmm.. started with 7, no need to explain further what happened. The ambience was quite nice, with live band playing for us.. but it was a bit too noisy and loud for us to talk comfortably. Had to shout to each other even though we are sitting beside one another. Food as per normal there.. There after, went to Des's house to play Mj.. Was a long long night.. Played from 9.30pm, all the way till 6am. quite long and tiring, and we took turns to zone out at different periods of the time. haha...

Woke up late in the morning around 11.30am on sat. after a bare 5hrs of sleep, with 3 hrs being spent on the sofa, cos sis invited her frens over, and she slept on my bed.. Couldn't really get a good rest.. and had to rush to Bukit Timah CC for the bridge league.. Didn't really want to play today de, overloading of bridge for the past 3 weeks. but don't have a choice. anyway, the performance for it has already being posted.. sianz..

Rushed home after that to meet my SK gang for Night cycling. some pangseh us last min, so left 5 of us - half-strength only. Well, it was rather fun to hang around with them.. First stop, well from ECP to 85 there to eat.. Had Bak Chor Mee and Fried Oyster. Then went to Bedok reservoir, Sun plaza Park. Fooled around there for an hour, playing the swings, experimenting out different ways of swinging. It was pure fun and joy, laughing and rekindling our long lost childhood. Still quite amazed that Ed and gy, don't know how to play the swing.. Had a really good laugh watching them trying very hard to get the momentum. SH and me were giving them tips on how.. lolx..

Fun at Sun plaza Park.

The girl that helped us take the photo didn't use her brain.. ask me whether my phone can zoom a not.. told her cannot, she just take at that position. Oh man.. an lian's cannot think a bit to move her feets forward a bit instead ?

Cycled to Pasir Ris park for a while before we headed down to Changi Village. Along the way, saw the Sun down marathon runners. It shook me for a while as to why am I cycling, and not out there running. If only I've gotten to know it earlier, I may have signed up for it. 42.195 and 84km. a bit hiong.. but should still be able to squeeze out a marathon distance with half a yr of training. Anyway, at Changi V there, ate the pirated Nasi Lemak, Chicken wing- not nice. but that's the only stall that's left open. make do with it.

This random cycling trip org by Terrence, ended with us covering 60km, and 2 FULL meals. Think the calories I take in is more than what I burn. oh well.. It was just a night out to have fun.. it's being quite some time since I last cycled long using my bike. Shall post a photo for this.. Haha..