1 day 2 weddings + 1hr sleep
= totally stoned.

1st wedding was held by my cousin, it's a simple affair with wedding lunch @ Hilton.
there was a miscom with the makeup artist part, therefore i arrived.. 4am at her place, was wondering how come her makeup artist requested so early.. only to find out upon arrival the 4am slot is for her jie mei! argH.. her's only start at 0630 gosh. so help them out in the "sabo" preparation, had the suan tian ku la thing.
suan being lemon and lime mixed ice cubes
tian being gummy bears
ku being ku gua + pepper + salt + something i can recall
la being wasabi spread bread(this is horrible i can vouch its a whole tube spread over 4 bread.. that's how thick it was)
(i forsee my self eating all this stuffs in dec argh!)

so the groom arrives at 0730 does the usual of gate crashing and tio sabo process
after which they eventually come in to yet another challenge, wading up the stairs and answering some questions, sing song etc.

proceed with tea at groom's place
*fast forward
arrives at Hilton hotel for ROM and wedding lunch.
everything ended around 1600hr.

2nd wedding was held in Grand coprthon waterfront
military style wedding. being the only 2 kuku he invited from our camp. we sit in the table of misc friends which we never got to knoe their name even till e end of dinner ha!
like any other military wedding, they were to be stop at each sword bearer and be issue a challenge. cutting short they were only stopped at the first and last.
this dinner coincide with F1 finals, my friend decided to screen F1 live! thus this became a military cum F1-ish wedding. haha all of us are focus on the race while eating, they only cut telecast during speech's, 2nd march in and the yam sheng portion. dinner start with the race and ended with the race. just nice haha

well wedding bliss for both my cousin and my friend.
i heard more wedding bells.
prob can compile a ten year series on how to survive gate crashing after being though so many.. haha just a thought..

F1 IS HERE!

being actually there is totally SHIOK. the rev of the engine, the "thumping" sound produced by the changing of gears, the "jet-like" decibels created by the aerodynamically designed vehicle as they zip pass. the squalling of brakes during each corners. woo totally blows you away.

manage to obtain a 1 day walkabout pass for a mere amount of $20!

when straight after work manage to catch their first practice session. taking shots with my limited skill and lens is totally challenging coupled with the cold steel fence and barriers there,s a limited to how nice you can pan a shot. unless one has those monster lens.

but after 1hr. it got kinda bored. mixed with heavy gears and growling stomach we decide to pack and go.
when we got out of the secured area(the entire F1 area was fenced up therefore only those with pass able to get in), there's throngs of people jam pack the area near city hall mrt, all trying to catch a glimpse of the F1 action. i was like woo.. how e heck them manage to actally see.. being at that position basically means you're seperated by 1 green fence, 1 human crowd(pass holders) , 1 silver steel fence. really is catch a glimpse..
shurgs

21 Sept 08

Cell group outing to malaysia kukup.
consisting of 3 cell groups, we gathering at IP on the early morning of 21st to take the bus in msia via 2nd linkway.

i realise that this is my first msia chop on my new passport. sheesh how long have i not go across the causeway.

anyways we arrived at our first stop for breakfast! yaYS! pop by a chocolate outlet near the coffeeshop. quite interesting they had a number of interesting favours like durian chocolate etc. more local mix i should say.

next stop ostrich farm.
had a brief introduction regarding the farm and the ostrich. it's meat is quite nice!! *slurps

pop by for lunch at some town.. where they serve mini lobster. nothing much in that town quite small prob can finish walking within half hour.

kota tinggi waterfalls was next.
i was expecting something more breathtaking, instead what greeted me was kinda erm..
nothing along the breathtaking line.. kinda dissapointed. some went ahead to have a dip in the refreshing water while the rest opt for dry land where games was held.

firefly attraction was next.
most of us(guys) was like.. huh.. firefly.. there's lots of them in tekong and gedong lor! but it's a new experience. usually we'll see a couple of them flying this time.. there's like literally hundreds of them around lighting up the trees along the bank like a christmas tree.

during the bus ride a paper was passed around whereby each of us had to write something on it to form a essay. basically you can write anything with or without logic in it. the end result it's like a totally mixed up but darn funny eassy. we were laughing so hard.



slideshow from my cg member cam.

and congrat to my cell member who also sliding down this slippery path with me. haha! no thanks to me -_-

Earth Day'08

31.08.08
WHERE WERE YOU!
yes you!
slacking at home? munching on snacks or went out shopping?
this day. 11k runners gathered for a 10K run organised by NIKE.
so called the Nike human race where 1M runner worldwide would be running on e same day.
The three supported charities were WWF , lance armstrong cancer foundation and lastly UNHRC. =)

this what i supported

As predicted the run route was not ideal as there's intersections and narrows paths.
but overall experience had been enjoyable.


the 11k claded in red nike shirt runners.

The 5 Bands that supports the runners along the way.




side by side


Waterpoint


Usual sight at waterpoint


the take down crew


what i coined as "see people suffer while enjoying"


the thin red line


homerun


and if you thought i'm actually covering the event as a photographer..
you're wrong! i was in the run while covering the event! =) aka sports photographer! lol

27th Aug 05

spent out field with 49 other botaks.

E other 49 botaks from C coy

27th Aug 06

spend running AHM

21sa @ 3Div run in prep for AHM

27th Aug 07

spend onboard

oil spill on my bday =(

27th Aug 08

spend with a bunch of lovelies

Dinner at Astons


so here i'm nearly 1/4 century old, another phase of life had started.
gone were e days you mess ard without any care in life.
gone were e days of camping outfields
gone were e days of physical/ mental suffering
gone were e days of green
gone were e days of sun, sea and typhoons

In place came
everything also must ponder twice
everyday camp in office
everyday only doing finger exercise(typing emails reports and stuffs)
everyday different colours to wear
everyday see a panel of windows which indicates sunny or rainy

these 4 years has been really enjoyable,
thought mostly it's had been spent in green
it has no doubt been e most memorable part of my walk(i reckon any guys' walk)
days spent outfield,
days spent clubbing till wee hrs
days spent chao keng-ing
days spent tio takan
days spent tio sabo
days spent freezing in brunei and Nz
days spent sweating in Thailand
days spent eating sand/dust from Gedong
*every guy has a different experience*
days spent rolling/puking/fishing in the South China Sea.

this year is slightly different
i've got a couple of lovely ladies and a dear friend to celebrate with me.
thanks for the trouble and effort really appreciated it =)
Dinner was at Astons specialities(The Cathay)
got a couple of presents, and a nice rich chocolaty cake.
had some royce chocolates(champange nama which is nice!)
guess what's at home. another chocolate cake
it's a bad case of chocolate overdose!
but it had been fun =)


*above is based on actual day, not pre or post celebration.
many thanks for those pre and post celebrations! =)

Date : 24th Aug 2008
Time : 0630
Venue: Esplanade Bridge
Event: Army half marathon

came back within projected timing. not a fantastic one but e reasonable one.
haha it's a timing none ard me would believe.
didn't even intent to wake up and run.. but no choice friend waiting downstairs already =\
so as usual 3 of us aloy, yankai and me met up for e run. e prolonged drizzle yesterday really did some heavy damage to the fields of padang. it had become a giant mud pool, shoes were muddy even before the run. i never like singapore runs..
99.999% is over-crowded unless you're standing in front or run darn fast, the chances of you getting stuck in mid pack is confirm guaranteed.
there's a change of route this year, we turn off earlier before the lao pa sa junction, up Benjamin shears, a loop ard ECP, then a present from our very own combat engineers.(combat engineer trail) which i shall not comment on it..after that comes the marina barrage which is quite a sweet spot =). loop around marine south(which all the steamboat is no longer there) and final stretch back to padang.
as usual saw lots of people along the way had fun catching up with their lifes cuz normally we dun meet up.

all done after e run we decide to go collect our nike race pack which was a totally wrong choice. e que start central.. snaked all e way back to liang court. this had to be the longest goodie bag collection any of us ever had.
so we decided to go back and collect tml instead in view of we're late for lunch gathering.

Had lunch at shokudo(raffles) with e ajax gang.celebrated aloy and my bday at ben's and jerry.
me and aloy with our pint of B&J

here's a few shots of yesterday fireworks.
had to sit there since 7 in e drizzle. after e drizzle lifted for a few mins during the show.. then it came back somewhere in the middle of e show! argH!!
link to fireworks