First attempt

Hello all! Quite a few things happened lately, let you in on them.

First, on the 20th July Jamie & me celebrated our 1.5 years of love. For the occasion, I decided to do something really special for her, and that is to wrap a bouquet for her. She really likes flowers and for the past few months have been asking me how come I didn't buy her any, so for the special occasion I did a big one.
I went to a nursery along thomson rd and got 40 roses: 20 red & 20 white. I got the freshest I could get my hands on from the huge cold room... its really cold I felt like I was in switzerland or something haha... and I also got some small little purple flowers (I dunno the name) to go along with it.

After I went home, I trimmed away all the excess leaves from the roses, and positioned the roses and the complementary flowers together. It was quite tricky as the whole lot was a big bunch and I didn't trim the thorns at all... so it took some skill there although I got pricked a few times.



After I was happy with the look of the bouquet, I rubber banded it and left them with their stems underwater overnight. The next day just before I delivered my masterpiece(?) to Jamie, then I finished the bouquet proper with wrapping paper and plastic. I bought two layers of wrapping, a transparent plastic layer with little heart shaped patterns on it, and a purple cloth-like layer.

To tell you guys the truth, I really had no idea what I was doing at this stage, I just tried to wrap them around the flowers and make it look ok. And I think I didn't do too bad huh? What you think?

Next, I just attended my aikido club's 5th anniversary camp at pasir ris PA holiday chalet. I only attended the last day cos I had school on sat... too bad. Anyway I really enjoyed myself together with my friends, eating and chatting and training. I really have to thank benson and company for driving us around and treating us to great food! Looking forward to many years of training together.

I managed to finish the important code of my sorting assignment on the way to the camp in the mrt and in the early morning of sunday when I couldn't sleep :x I only slept less than 2 hours... After I reached home last night I slept from 10 plus all the way till this morning :) I feel good! haha

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Hello people... its been a very crazy week, rushing through my assignments, preparing for my dear & my 1.5 yr anniversary, trying to get enough sleep haha... yeah so there wasn't time to blog. Now I have managed to squeeze some time out and here goes...

Im going to say what happened in ascending order of time.

So last weekend, I mended my gi, fox jeans buttons and a shorts with a hole. I even broke a needle in half for pushing it too hard against the patch and the gi (cos the gi has some linings that are much thicker).








The patch was actually cut from my brother's gi sleeve, cos he dosen't
practice anymore :) My sempai tommy saw my mended gi and told me that it wouldn't give a nice image to visitors and guests of our federation... he said I need to uphold the image of the federation, with the logo on my gi... at first I thought that it was a neat idea to
diy fix my gi rather than spend money on a new one... but then I think what tommy sempai said was true... hmm... what you guys think?

Then there were fixing the buttons for the fox jeans, cant believe that such "strong" buttons can actually break off from their base just like that... I simply used thread to secure the big button and used another button from the sewing basket to replace the small one.
Then there was the shorts with a split, at the most obscene place you can have a split on a pair of shorts... this is simple too... just sew it together like trying to join two pieces of cloth side by side. It looks ugly but nobody will notice it unless they are face to face to it haha...

Then we went to jurong west and collected a huge shipment of items from US...








they are actually items bought online from old navy. Jamie bought me a very nice t-shirt that says "everyday is sunday" hee i like it so much, and FOUR pairs of slippers of different colours! How cool is that? They will probably last me till dunno when haha... Jamie got herself a pair of cool shades, yay! now we can stroll down orchard rd together and i can wear my pair of oakleys and she can wear her pair. How cool :)

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Holy Food

Hello... yesterday I had 2 encounters with holy food.

The first is holy donuts. You can buy these holy donuts from the donut factory, which is in the basement of raffles city shopping centre. Oh im sorry, you don't only buy them, you have to queue for them. yeah... you say, of course. when you go and buy something from the supermarket you queue, when you buy food from a canteen stall you queue. OH NO... you have to queue before the shop opens. maybe an hour early!!! its absolute madness. i should bring a little foldable chair the next time im going to be part of this madness... i was surprised the riot police wasn't there to control the crowd. too bad i didn't have my camera with me when i was queueing... you will be amazed at how long the queue gets! the shop opens at ard 1230. you will see people actually start queuing at maybe 10 plus. at 1, the queue looks like the whole country waiting to enter the national stadium at ndp. i wonder if the people at the back actually get their donuts before the shop closes, or rather, before the donuts run out.

This is what holy donuts look like. can you see the holy aura around it? look closer.
Oops sorry dear, i forgot your glazed flavoured ones... hee next time k haha...
Congrats my baby for getting the marketing job at singtel! I was very sure you would get it. Now I can wait for my dear to feed me haha...

As i said earlier I had 2 encounters with holy food. The other is holy laksa. Jamie ordered it for me while i was bringing the donuts to her. When she told me it costs 7 bucks plus (1 buck for adding hum) I exclaimed a "HUUUH?!"... I didn't know laksa costs that much, not in a hotel. Its from a little coffee shop like shop along killiney rd just next to singtel concentre. it tastes ok... but I think the katong laksa from bugis is still better... and way cheaper haha... no pics here sorry.

And about the aura around the donuts, i was kidding. the aura is actually the holy aroma emitting from the holy donuts. this, you have to join the holy queue for it...

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The crowdiest place on earth

What is the crowdiest place on earth? I think it is Vivocity... :) Jamie seems to love it... so much shopping to do there haha...









We also had a selection of 2 ice creams and 3 tapas at bakerzin... It was so delicious we had to eat it before we took photos of it... Oh the rum and raisin ice cream was really good.









Btw, I saw 2 really cool cars... an M3 & M5, parked almost together... how rare? And modified.


















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Getting into the Drive

I noticed that I really need to brush up on my mathematics... all the logarithms and stuff I threw away long ago. Its actually very important to revise and know how to do all these calculations and proving and stuff. I can remember a long time ago, I used to say "Hai... all these math problems really give me headaches, why the hell do we need to learn these? is it really necessary?" Oh hell yes now I know... Without these math knowledge I wouldn't be able to tell people whether my algorithms are faster or more efficient...

Damn it... I have to keep running to the phone to answer the calls! Why does the admin assistant always falls sick? Btw, I am working for my dad on the days I don't have sch so I can earn my pocket money :)

This module of Data Structures & Algorithms is beginning to look pretty challenging... I guess I really have to put in some hard work if I want to do well. No more late night gaming and stuff. Gotta study!

Anyway I want to make a public service announcement to all road users out there:
Please have some lane discipline! Keep to your lane and don't make other people out there worried about whether are you cutting lanes. If you need to overtake at least use your signal! Are they malfunctioning? Or maybe your brain is. How I wish I own a tank and can just drive it on the road like a car, and when I see people without land discipline I just ram or crush them over. Reinventing the term "Road Rage" haha...

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First Lecture

Today I had my first lecture. I cycled to sch at about 1, it feels quite hot... and I brought an extra tee and a face towel with me. After I reached sch my tee was wet so after I locked up I went to the toilet and wiped away the sweat and changed into a fresh tee. Wasn't so bad after all... I'm ready for lecture.

The classroom is quite small, just enough to contain about 30 people and the lecturer was actually late 5 mins... he looks very young for a Dr... most of my classmates are actually from their 1st year, instead of being straight into the 2nd. This module, data structures and algorithms, I have actually studied in back in poly and it was based on java. This module however should be based on C i think... today is the intro lecture, topic 1... I learnt about proofing mathematics using a few methods... I couldn't really catch most of it cause I really sucked at math... gotta do some revision on my own. exponents, logarithms etc... hope I don't die.

There were a few people who came quite late for class... one guy even came 1/2 hour before the lecture ended... I'm beginning to feel like im back in poly... its very much the same except its much less stressful here... I only have classes on tue,thur and sat... and 2-5pm everyday for these 2 months... anyway I wonder if these few people have any interest in lecture cause they can come to class without anything and sit in late... maybe they were only interested in the snacks during breaks. SIM actually provides snacks and drinks for us in between classes. I think its only appropriate considering the amount of sch fees I have to pay haha... they should provide buffet lunch before classes lol...

The lecture ended early, at 4... damn its really slack! I really wanna do well in sch so I better put in much more effort than I did back in poly. hope my other friends will do the same when it comes to grouped assignments.

The ride home was much better than the one to sch as the clouds shielded me. Some stats from my cyclo-computer:
Dist to sch: 4.32km
Total Dist cycled: 8.71km
Total Time on bike: 38mins 52secs
Max speed: 40.5km/h
Avg speed: 13.4km/h

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Weekend with Jamie

Hello people, I am now sitting in a quiet corner in AMK library, and I found that I could use wireless@SG to go online... Im actually waiting for Jamie to finish tutoring at about 9 so we can have dinner together.

I brought my camera out yesterday and we went to Serangoon central to pick up a bag I bought for her online from taiwan...

Then later we took a train to town, alighted at dhoby ghaut and transfered to city hall. We then walked to funan IT mall and I got myself a targus notebook backpack. Now I can carry my stuff together with my notebook and cycle to school without damaging my notebook :)









Then later we went to marina sq and walked around abit. It was around 3pm then and both of us felt hungry. We saw this place called "Jia Xiang Sarawak Kuching Kolo Mee". Jamie told me she ate at a similar one but it was at killiney.









Damn it... there is this couple suddenly sitting on the sofa I use to put my notebook on and the guy is trying to make out with her... so exciting haha... GO GET A ROOM! ITS A LIBRARY...

OK back to the story... have a look at the kolo mee we ordered... damn... I feel hungry just looking at the pics haha...









Then later we had a two scoop ice cream cone from azabu sabo...

Durian & Lychee. Fabulous.

Hee what a great weekend it has been... I love spending time with Jamie... love you baby!