sportsmanship

was reading report on sg vs thai first leg.
the referee blew a penalty in favour of sg, resulting a 2-1 for the home team.
the thai team was not happy and walked off. but continued the game after persuasion from the home team.

as Shin Corp and iTV incidents in thailand are worsening the relationship of the two countries, does this have effect on the match? no one knows.

but for sportsmanship, this is not the way a sporty person should do.

i suddenly remembered a story.
2 countries having war with each other. but they have a game tie. the 2 countries declared no war for a few days before and after the match so that the players would have a sense of security when they played. the match was telecasted in both countries for their ppl to watch.

is this the way a game should goes?

the penalty could be errored but the game must go on. u wont see such thing in WC　lor. this is Asean Cup (formerly known as Tiger Cup). a game among Asean, in e spirit of Asean.

Who knows the referee for the second leg may go wrong also.
Its common to have errors in soccer...

condo

i not going to talk abt 天一阁 in ZheJiang. its too far and i never been there before.
SPH is building one in Thomson and its was snapped up!
The area of each unit from 1,851 sq ft to 2,820 and the price ranges from $975 psf to $1,200 psf, which is around $1.8m to $3.4m!
no wonder they saying the fengshui very good... hahaha...

But to find such a spacious house is not easy lor. Based on the smallest unit, its almost twice my present house. this exclude the garden, pool, etc.
District 11, is also not far from town.

i went to view Lakeshore, which is next to my house. the place is not very big. u virtually cant buy your own furniture. its study room consist of 1 table which is abt 1m X A4 size and tat's all folk... no bookshelf, no radio, no computer.

bedroom mah... they give u a build-in cupboard. hehee... and u got no space liao.

as for kitchen mah... i think those who like cooking wont really like it lor cos it can only accomodate 1 person.

compare to 天一阁, Lakeshore is 1/2 the size of 天一阁. shiok right...

now... where to find money to buy tat... i still on grass-eating diet, as e debt i incurred is too high. no wonder ppl say u can easily get burn playing shares...

三从四德

老“三从四德”
“未嫁从父、既嫁从夫、夫死从子”-------《仪礼 丧服子夏传》
“妇德、妇言、妇容、妇功”-----《周礼天官九嫔》

新“三从四德 ”
三从:
wife wanna go shopping随从,
wife lecture听从,
wife's order服从! （宛如圣旨）

chen shi mei

was watching chen shi mei (bao qing tian), staring yang huai min.

e show was quite 'wen'.
actually i thought that qin xiang lian and the princess will fight with each other on who is the principal wife.

qin went to kaifeng as she wanted to find back her husband. the princess wanted qin not to recognise chen as her husband.

is wat a woman wants only a person who really care abt her?

chen wanted wealth, did not want to be disturbed by qin and attempted to kill her. he committed 欺君, 痱妻痱子，忘祖, all offences deserve to chop head.

its a pity that he was chopped despite tai hou and princess stopping bao zheng from chopping him. er... i not saying that the decision is wrong.


in opera, yang is always doing e good guy. but in bao qing tian, he always the baddie. hehee

chinatown opening

i believe 'the laundry' incident had created a scene. hehehe. they changed the decoration but i yet take the photo

opening ceremony of cny lightings
jio quite a few ppl but all quite busy. so... as usual... i went alone...

newspapers state that the lighting start at 7pm. i reached there around 6.30pm but it was still quite early. the fire crackers yet go up.

6.45pm, the final touch up is done, the crackers looks set to go.


some entertainment before the show starts.
i was away from the main stage so as to get a better view of the crackers and they had entertainers doing some shows for the audience to warm up the crowd

what is CNY without Cai Shen.

the shopping on 'fire'!!! no lah... they started the fire crackers on roof top

then e whole chinatown became a red fog

lion dance anyone?

i was standing in front of this roll of 20 fire crackers and the wind is strong. the audiences waited impatiently for this roll of crackers to be fired

guess wat are these dancers wearing? Xiu Hua Xue? No leh... Slippers...
an auntie saw it and screamed it out... the gals tried hiding their feet after that

look who coming to celebrate cny with us!!! cute right...

waited til 9.30, my legs hurting liao... so sian... no one company me then suddenly, fire crackers went off without me knowing, i was caught unprepared as i was not near the stage. the crackers was deafening. i managed to put on my ear piece but it was too late. took a quite snap but unable to catch anything


the start of another round of fireworks

hahaa... 1 round of fire cracker still not fired... what a waste...

round off this blog with lion dance

prediction

i think i predicted of myself losing something last week or so...

it came true again.. hahaa...
lose money...

dinner time!
i pluck grass from downstair for dinner liao... hopefully ma tah dont catch me

Lesson learn 1

dont understand why...
i always had to learn things the hard way.

mouth big, offend ppl. mouth small, ppl say i anti social...

anyway, today's lesson learn...

NOT EVERYDAY IS MC DAY

hahaa...

told u of my winning yesterday. today, i learn it the hard way.
i tot i on winning stream but... made a loss... a heavy loss to be exact...

i hoping for a rise and get out quickly this time but die... the price dropped.
this time i had to hope for a rise within the next 2 days... else u will see me begging for money liao...

sigh... back to my tv liao...

sick + contra acc

like i said, i was on mc today.
sian... no1 call / send regards. hehee... never mind lah. i also dont tell anyone except those in office.

but wx said she will help me call bibo bibo if i faint on e road later when i go coi for meeting. how kind of her. hahaa

i stayed home the whole day to wait for e singtel guy to come to repair my house phone as it is noisy and play shares.... cny coming, need to find money hehee.

as my fund is limited, i dont play much. i scare of losing money, which will result me holding the shares instead of quick sell. i also wanna recover some money from the dental cost cos i dont think i can recover from boss.

fund chosen, capitalreit @ 2.63. i had missed trading at e opening price of 2.56 as i wanted to see how to markets goes first before playing.
my traget price, 2.70. as i had no intention of holding it too long, i juz wanna draw out once i got a small profit.

by 2pm, e price hit my target. i withdraw immediately to earn a profit of $140 (exclude commission + brokeage fee). my net profit should be around $60
not bad... 1 day pay. hehee

but... as it approach 4pm, e price rocket to 2.86. sob sob... how come i always sell so early...

e last time i play, i sold e share at 5cent profit but it closes at 15cents.
my skill is not there yet lah...

i need to recover some 3k due to prior year loss.
Fr: dont tell me to buy camera hor... only $60, i dont think they wanna sell me also

sick 2

was quite sickly on sat and sun.
when teacher asked me to sing during e singing class, she said "ur voice is quite tight today"

ya... coughing for 2 days liao, of cos tight. my voice was nowhere near my normal 'low key' standard.

went to e doc today, he gave me 2 days mc.
as i had nothing to do....

hehee...
addictive...

i like e chop, wonder if China's bao gong temple got the chop or not...

no kissing

my lips swell out of the blue!
well... not exactly...
went to the dentist to buy torture

i had not been there for almost 14 yrs. since there is a new tooth, i tot of asking someone to vertify if it is pullable and to check my front tooth.

i called Dental Centre but need to make appointment and the earliest is 9 Feb. so long!!! i might as well wait til 3 march... they can also clean the rou gan in my teeth

so i went to check my house's nearby market. total 2 dentist. but 1 of them looks like a partnership, the other is solely owned.

of cos go for the solely owned 1 lah... cheaper mah... partnership tend to be expensive and solely owned tend to be more friendly

there is a newspaper article saying that my dentist, Dr Ngoi, was the top student in NUS er... in 1983...

upon entering, there was nobody in the waiting area.
as i reached there about 10.30am, i tot there could be ppl in the treatment room. aiya... dental need to wait very long one...
to make things worse, i dont bring my mp3.

after 10 min, e nurse asked me to go in. Wow!!! first customer... wonder got discount or not...

after i open my mouth, Dr Ngoi said "dirty... urs is quite dirty"
he explained that my teeth are alright but my gums are quite damaged and offer to try clean them up (at a price, of cos... $150... there goes 1/3 of my camera)

he took a ma jiu needle and poked me! Ouch! see wat he did



the whole lips swell lor. no kissing for 1 day... my poor mao xiong...

anyway, i was told to go back again for check up in 3 mth time... now i need to open an account for provision for tooth treatment...

enlightenment

i was enlighted by a scene in bao qing tian.

the espiode is abt feng shui.

2 experts are debating abt life.

A: Had u calcuated your second half of your life

国师: Yes, i will be very rich and will hold high post. now i high priest, it shows that my calculation is correct

A: Yes, u originally have such life but u did lots of evil. What u did will have retribution within the next few minutes.

Of course e priest was later chopped by Justice Bao.

一命、二运、三风水
u may know how to calculate via zi wei dou shu but you may not know that other factors will change your life. thus these 3 phrases are put together.

u may know how to calculate via finger lifeline but there may be changes which you may not realise.

if you are happy, u will be happy. if you are sad or disappointed, you will have a dull life. agreed?

stay cheerful, do what you enjoy, u will never know what reward u will get...

now... to think if i wanna settle my tooth...
if pull, pain pocket.
if dont pull, pain my tongue...

scene

ultra bo liao today

my childhood friend, adrian, happen to buy a new camera and wish to test it.

as his theme is 'evening shots', we went to esplanade bridge.

he using a SLR camera which is more powerful than the digital camera which most ppl use.
actually i wanted to buy such camera also but its off my budget.
e turn out to be the quite nice...

sick

down with a bit of fever, heavy running nose.
think i will sleep early tonight.

pls take care, e weather keep changing... unpredictable

wisdom tooth

was trying to figure out if this is a wisdom tooth.
it was a bit irriating lor.

quite a few things to consider.
1) to pull or not to pull
2) neccessarity of pulling (pain or not...)
3) cost of pulling (i very poor 1 u know...)
4) duration of MC and cant speak... (i more interested in singing than talking)

i told my sec sch friend abt it. u know wat he said?
"u this type of ppl also have wisdom tooth ah"

wat type of word this is?

there are reports are wisdom tooth grow when in late teens or early twenties...
this means wat?
我长不大
cos i now late twenties...

password

i trying to get my password for my finances related websites but i dont seems to remember any.
for shares accounts, there are 2 levels of passwords. i remember the first level but cant remember second.
for bank account, i only remember 1 bank but not the other. horrible right...

anyway, i left with 1 password which i cant unlock. need to kiv for the account to be reset.

i need to do some interbank transfer to maximise the interest paid.
local banks paying only 0.25% lor... meaning for $1,000 they paying $2.50

4D

buy 4D for the first time this yr.
bought 2 numbers...

both numbers missed by 1 digit... sian... else i win 2nd price... but i buy ibet...

bao qing tian

think i still prefer watching bao qian tian...
now esp 9 dao ben.

saw 2 familiar faces...

dont bother to guess this... yang huai ming


he acting as a bad guy.

Di Ying again!

dont understand why all the bad guys like to stick with Pang Tai Shi...

nice or pratical

there are a few markest which renovated during these few yrs

let's look at some...

Newton Circus Food Centre - nicely renovated but flood
Tiong Bahru Food Market - nice right... but still cant find parking space
East Coast Food Centre - also flooding problem
Chinatown Food Market - poor business flow
Redhill Dry Market - hm... looks more like a jail to me

But do we need a nice looking building or structure but not very practical?

with business down at least 50% due to flood, should the designers include things like (1) location / shops faced away from the sun (2) build higher to avoid flood (3) proper ventilation (4) carpark (5) lift and escalators be in the consideration when building something?

gst 2

ya. talking abt finances again

was eating at some food market these few nights as house not cooking.
found that prices had increased from $2 to $2.50!

surprising right...
GST up 2% but food 'GST' up 25%

So the auntie asked me "u want $2.50 or $3"
as i was quite familiar to the auntie, i disturbed her "got difference?"

normally $2, will have abt 2 prawn and $3 abt 4prawn.
so, i paid another 50cents more for 2 more prawns.

the first increase was a few yrs ago when GST first implemented.
that time increase from $1.50 to $2, abt 33%

The second increase was when GST up from 3% to 5%, whereby my fishball was reduced by 1... er... that shop's fishball noodle nice mah... i like the fishball, can?

So, the increase this time does look reasonable?

FYI, GST has not increased hor... but the stalls started to 'implement' it wef 1.1.07
That's my main issue.

I expecting an increase in 1 April 07. lets wait n c...

internet tv

i had no idea why but i keep receiving virus warning from msn. pls take note.

scrolling through my internet tv... guess wat i found!!!
hua yang shao nan shao nv.
hehee...

decided to join the fun after i finish bao qing tian espiode lei ting nu.

the bad thing abt the tv is i got no control over what espiode to play or wat disc to watch...

during my exam period, i was watching romance of three kingdom for the X no. of time.
i cant resist it cos they showing "3 Qi Zhou Yu"... total abt 8hrs...

familiar

i watching bao qing tian... and found that the lady is quite familiar...

but cant recall who...


pretty right...

maxi

took a maxi home today.
was having aches all over... long time no exercise liao

e cab looks like a vehicle converted from a mini pickup.

anyway, i went for 3km run. although i walked and ran, but after which, head seems to see stars.

now shake leg at home watching 小鱼儿与花无缺 and dl 将军令

singing advice

was reading some articles on how to sing... and found that i got problems in everything...

1 咬字須清楚，張口音與合口音要分清，力求字正腔圓，以使聽者不看字幕也可了解，建議您先將唱詞唸順暢之後再學唱。 - my 咬字 not clear, short tongue and always short cut


2 氣口須講究，氣口即換氣的地方，唱曲時須按規矩換氣，在演唱長音時更須懂得偷氣，曲調演唱方能顯得連而不斷。 - er... sometimes change at wrong place or breathe in too hard


3 發音須由丹田，聲音才能堅實有力，並且傳送得遠，演唱音量強弱亦須懂得控制。平時可藉由爬樓梯或游泳等運動練習丹田之氣。 - i still trying to figure out if my 丹田 got problem or my key got problem... everytime so low... not sure if i using the wrong part


4 唱戲與唱歌不同，不單要唱出旋律，更需唱出戲味來。因此需要了解唱詞的含意，人物角色與腔調韻味，將劇中人物情感充分表達出來。 - this i got lots of things to learn from...


5 「先天不足後天補」，對於先天音質較差的人，可選擇適合自己的曲子，照樣可以享受唱曲之樂。 - dont know if i can 補 or not...
got ppl say i hopeless... hahaa... that person who comment that is ME!!!

skin

actually its a small matter lah...

kana commented that my skin is very dry and 'cracks'
any suggestion on wat to use?

in 2002, i went to Bioskin to do some ampoules treatments.

after the entire sessions, i expecting some comments from my face. but received none.
thus i concluded that i went there waste money...

normally i fell asleep after the part whereby a lady would do some massage on my face. they then using some laser or something to do the cleaning... each treatment was last abt 1.5hrs.

they still gave me birthday promotion etc, but i lazy to go. hehee

sensitive questions

someone was bombarded with 1 question, its also the same question which i every yr will be questioned once by my mother's side relative.

yeah... its that question lor.

that's y i dont like to go over that side for visit. cos they will bombard me with the same question every yr!

pls lor. there are thousands and one topic which u can talk to me. i know finance, politics, talk rubbish, etc. but must they ask the same question every yr and it must be the opening question...

how come the gals in the family not asked? and they always ask me...

anyway, i was bombarded by another question. age

looking back, its seems that i had achieve nothing for the past 20+ years lor.

i dont got a good job, i dont have a degree, i dont have a gf and i need to be recalled by to camp for exercises due to poor fitness.
文也不可以，武也不行
song also cant sing. talk also got no listener...

jun chen qing shen

i think bbq or someone else made a clip of this show.

i wasnt online this few nights as i was 'chasing' this show



the music they used are quite 'modern' to me. i in consideration of accept such music or the traditional music cos the modern one sound a bit weird to me.

anyway, issue not big. i still enjoy the show else wont try to rush through the disc... (er... ok... i borrowed the show, had to return asap)

kids opera

was watching tv last night
i got a habit of switching channels during commercial til i saw this...
tried to video down but my mic was too soft



so... too bad...
its a program about kids having 'extra ordinary' hobbies and this week theme was beijing opera.
a kid was narrating the behind-the-scene of their preparation of some competition.

i wanted to blog this last night but i cant log into blogspot. now i forgot the content of the show...

anyway... watch some tv first before going to work...

ouch

went to do foot reflexology this afternoon.
i just went to any shop which i see happy. u see, i dont have a perm shop which i would always go.

when the uncle was rubbing around my toes (linked to head), i felt like screaming my way as it was quite painful but i keep calm and watch tv. weirdo...
this shows that i dont have sufficient rest, else it normally my no.1 pain location will be at the inner side of the foot due to my sprain injury.

An Italtian came in later abt 20min later. The guy is a sailor and frequently comes to sg. He will visit this shop whenever he's here.

He was screaming all the way and was surprised to see me talking to hp and watching tv as if its painless. He asked the boss if my massager ate rice, cos i was not feeling any pain. He asked me if i frequent reflexologist, else how come i dont feel any pain.

Pls lor... i was screaming in my head!
1 thing u need to take note is "too soft, u wont feel pain. too hard, u will get interior injuries"

If i happen to go tw this yr, i wanna go to reflexologist also!
i saw from tv that those tv stars keep screaming when they got 'punishment'.
i dont believe its so pain

contra

didnt i tell u that i am king of contra-ing myself...

on sat, we went to eat dinner in yishun. afterwhich, richard went to buy some durians.

i declared that i dont eat durian. Teacher commented "singapore guy who dont know how to eat durian"
today, we went to celebrate teacher's friend's birthday. the friend likes crowds. after the birthday song, wanxin caught me eating the cake. what's the issue?
the cake is durian favor...

dont understand how teacher keep manage to stuff food into my mouth 1 leh...
i dont eat satay, yet she stuff some in my mouth during May's birthday. today, she did it again with O-ni.

i managed to get another title for myself "dont know how to eat guy". hehee

cant think of other examples...

can tell that everyone is laughing heartily...

dont understand why richard like to shake leg so much.

there is a saying that if u keep shaking leg, u will shake away your fortune..
er... i also shake... no wonder, i so poor...

see... i contra again... (know something yet still do)

round up 06

1 Learn something new - movement

2 Make new friends

3 Clear 1 paper (under achieved, i targeted 2 papers at e beginning of the year)

4 Earn more money (of cos lah... boss gave me pay rise of $50 in june...)

5 More profit in shares
Sold some shares to cover my last yr loss of $3k+, but only recovered a few hundred.
i dont understand why ppl saying that i am rich when i know how to play shares...

Hope to achieve in 07

1 go oversea holiday for more than 2 hrs :P

2 clear 2 papers

3 hope to successfully learn to sing

4 i predicting a bear (fall) in shares, hope to earn something before it falls

5 forget things that i should forget

countdown 07

went countdown myself as i cant find pp.
wasnt feeling well these few days, maybe due to lack of sleep, but i still quite siao-on.

i wanted to do this blog lor. cos i felt that there are ppl wanting to watch fireworks but dont like crowded places.

as i reached there late, all the good 'fengshui' places was taken up. thus i stood here Fullerton. Then i saw ppl started to move up, monkey see monkey do...

as i was jumping across a fence, i heard a sound of broken glass. I turned and saw a guy jumping off the fence but dropped a bottle. 1 of the glass pieces landed just beside my shoe...


I though that e fire work will be high enough to take video from here but i was wrong..

Halfway filming this clip, my memory space was full... had to spend about 4 mins to clear space... then i remember that i can switch to memory card memory... silly guy...

by the time i finished settling the memory problem... the show ended liao...