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after ojang training on wed 26th feb.. we saw a rainbow over src..in fact 2 rainbows.. think the rainbow spanned across the entire sg cuz i got some friends who was rainbow sighting too..anw..its really beautiful! 2 rainbows man! haha

this one is taken at ntu src.. cool huh! 2 rainbows..hahaha

well time seriously flies and tml is toc..my ojang team is rdy...yea..they are..they did well for the last few training..i have faith in them..tml...they will perform well..haha..ill cheer them on till im hoarse! haha.. well..we'll see how toc goes..

so..to all the fighers and pattern team.. 加油！比对手更高，更快，更强！

7 days to toc

yes.. 7 days to toc/ivp/ntu open! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. hahahaha.. well i dun feel v prepared.. ok la..my ojang team is prepared alr..but i dun feel prepared for my sparring..even though im kinda excited for it... see how it goes i guess..

plenty of piling tuts, late night trainings and suppers after tt kinda defined my past 2 weeks... yea.. had school performance today... ojang did nt bad..but still room for improvement la imo..esp on the balancing and the kan cheong issues..but we'll have to try correct tt asap..

earlier on tues though some senior who was claimed to be a ref commented (to our overall in charge who passed the msg) to me tt like..my ojang 1st step was done differently.. wa.. shocked la. nt tt i resist tt change or what..but i jus dun understand the prob cuz currently mine jus sound like a slightly faster version of the correct one! hmmm..will see how it goes....

argh..recess week is gg to be fully packed..

oh..flashing back.. on vday...well..i went to my friends house..all guys la.. had a really filling dinner though.really really filling..chilli crab rox! hahaha

7 more days to toc/ivp/ntu open..lets rock!!!

excluding slping, total time i spent at home for last 2 weekends : ~20hrs

and the title says it all..ahhaha..last 2 weekends were so busy tt ya..the time i spent at home in total amounts to abt 1 day.. but its 4 days(2 sets of sat&sun) u say..how come can spend so little time at home....so well..lets recap the activites ive done during the last 2 weekends...

26th-27th jan-- the 1st set of fri and sat.. spend almost these 2 days outside at padang ard there.. for what else man..chingay!! hahaa..eh..but i nt go there see and slack and watch fireworks man..i go there canvass and work ok..hahaha.. stand there bai swee and morphing into mobile road directory when the situation calls for it.. but my place in the chingay area quite slack la..nt too many ppl ard.. so got to watch abit of chingay as well.. 2nd night..was the long and tiring one.... after chingay got the afterparty thingy.. which lasts until like..2am.. and we still have to stand there and watch ppl dance..(my area the line dance section lor..nt the clubbing section).. watch ppl line dance!! argh!! sianz ah.... ahhaha.. at least cuz im sector ic im walking ard abit..but still...sianz leh.. lol.. but like 1245am got the main comm lou hei..which, well food was wasted on ppl and later ard 1+am tt time the organisers allow us to relac abit by letting us join in the dance.. so.. yea.. we line danced

eh but line dance nt easy man... even when i tot my footwork shld be quite okok due to tkd ah.. no lor.. the ah pek ah mm legs all move damn fast and agile la.... of cuz dancing diff from tkd ma.. but still..even when moving and coordinating, ah pek's legs>>>>> mine... sadded.. cant even follow properly thru like half of the line dance..hahah..oh yea..did i mention i reached home at 4am?

28th jan-- sun.. go relative house a while for lunch..then trained ojang, with a equally tired cj, in sch liao..then stay in sch.. wa..wraps up a really busy weekend for tt week

7th feb-- sat.... well didnt go home on fri cuz sat damn early in the morning got the nus exchange(tkd).. so took train then cabbed down to nus with a few ntu tkd ppl i met at the boon lay interchange.. then after tt kick here kick there and kena kick everywhere, went back to ntu to wait to train my ojang team again.. after tt..finally went home for dinner and spend some quality time at home.like finally... well jus abit till sun morning

8th feb-sun.. left house at like 10am.. reached ntu by 11am..but the rest of ojang is late..=(.. sun is the sch performance for all pattern teams+ the sparfest.. well sparfest is jus a draw lot+sparring session.. basically we draw lots..and so we can end up fighting against anyone and everyone present.. be it guy, girl, trans, white belt, black belt, 8th dan black belt(but no 8th dan seen during the spar fest).. and oh...talk so much abt my ojang team..but i nv show pics to the readers..hahah.. so here they are!
my zai ojang team- xier(ai),cj(ai), rachel, alan, thanh and basilia
sparfest.. 1st opponent is the CAI man...omg..hallelujah(how however u spell)..sianz lor.. ok la..he hit me pretty hardly quite a few times.. i tot i jus poked him..but..hey..it was 2-3(im the 2 of cuz..haha).. after tt sparred with eo..ok la..tried what i set out to try on the mat..and was satisfied.. went home for 2hrs..b4 dinner and coming back hall again... argh.... time spend at home really was short.....

still got lots of stuff to do..2 reports and training my ojang team... and this weekend..weigh in!!! i hope im still in my weight cat..even after feasting thru the 15days of cny..hahahah

happy chi 牛(niu or can be read as new) yr!

happy chi new year to all!! yr of the ox and recession....

hahaha...didnt officially wish the readers here on monday, or 初一 cuz well..i was in msia coming back to sg..and after tt immediately went to bai nian at relatives house lor... tired man.. hahaha

went to msia to visit my father's side relatives again on cny eve and morning of cny..well..same as always.. kampong house, lots of ppl talking, young cousins screaming(though half of them are nt alr..cuz they alr puberty), drinking etc etc.. eh..but this yr abit diff lor..i drove on 初一, when gg back to sg tt time..muahhahaa.. nt all the way la..jus part of the highway back to sg... its quite fun to drive leh..hahaa.. well cuz i dun do it often..and 2nd its the 1st time i was like 100km/h...woooooo..hahaha

ok..rest of cny at relatives house oso same..u know..take hong bao, them asking u abt life and stuff.. u asking them how things are.. eating and more eating..think i gain weight liao leh.. havent officially weigh myself so tts y got the "i think" in tt sentence above...but..shld be got gain la..cant be eat so much nv gain..hahaha...

ah then after tt.. on 初二, went( as per every yr) to my parent's uni friends yearly gathering... ya.. they all gather every yr during cny.. kinda like a catch up + eating session.. actually... think its kinda fun u know..hahaha..mayb shld organise smth like tt every yr..prob like after uni, esp after most ppl gets married or smth... gd time to catch up and eat and discuss abt life.. past life esp..the great uni times..sounds fun eh? hahha

ah..after 初二..of cuz got sch lor...aiya.. as usual i nv do tuts la..hahaha... nooo..nt as usual. i mean.. i last few weeks paper blank its cuz i DUNNO how to do..diff from nt doing..at least i tried..haha.. ms pro oso nv do..but she too pro alr so she everything 1 look oso can solve..cant compare with her one la..hahaha..

and haiz..things ard other places are going crazy...esp with a small issue blown big case..i dunno leh..y ppl wanna hurt others thru spreading rumours, giving misunderstandings like tt huh? intentionally? stabbing others cuz others "stabbed" or seem to "stab" at them b4? wanna watch "show" from one side? feel gd when the entire grp of friends are doubting or quarrelling with each other? or feeling gd when he/she sees one of my close friend telling me she will end her friendship with me if such issues crop up again? smth for which i half the things mentioned seems to be off from what i actually did, if i did them in the 1st place.. well..frankly... i cant be bothered with this anymore.. let this issue "die"..

anw...well.. this issue wont affect me so much la... hahaa.. i still other stuff to worry(yes i worry alot i think) like ojang.. they are gd..but can be way way better(if any of u ojang girls/guy) is reading this..yea..now u know what i think of u all...) and of cuz the piling tuts and lab reports!! argh..i hate lab reports...total waste of time..... =(

this weekend is going to be busy man.....

of training and results...

well..this prob will the one of the quickest updates i have..hahaha... prob this post will last till at least next wed ba..cny prob too busy(or tired) to blog lor... hahaha...

anw...well.. while makaning supper today had an sms from fq saying IA results out liao.. wa..sudd scared lor...eat supper tt time hands oso shake..hahaha.. but well..ok la..came back hall to check, ok la..got quite okok score.. so nt bad..happy enough.. ms pro leh? she oso did well la..jus tt her gpa too high and ownage alr so overall jus deprove a little.. jus one tiny bit.. v v v v tiny bit of deprovement... but make no mistakes, ms pro is still v pro! yea! esp this sem! i sense tt she will thrash all of us again... ok la.. sacrifices has to be made ma.. i willingly sacrifice ice creams for ms pro to do well..wahahah..=P

ok la..dun talk abt studies this stuff alr.. onto training.firstly.. i clashed with ms pro and prob gave her an ugly looking bruise on her shin for the next few days =(.. haiyo.. sry if i abit whiny..but must rant la.. hahaha.. wa lao..today i chose nt to wear groin guard(or protection for the factory, well u get what i mean..i no need describe alr)... tot..ok la..last few trainings all quite safe..think today wont kena.. WRONG LOR!! sparred with 1 white belter today.. then..i nt only kena kick once..but twice la! wa lao... damn pain la! T.T.. nth much i can do besides cursing myself for nt wearing groin guards and jumping ard like some ape to dissipate the pain.. well its nt the white belters fault..i mean..accidents happen..and jus tt his kick happens to go vertical instead of turning in..(hey..i make tt mistake at times too! sparrers with no groin guard beward!! muahahah)

aie..at least its better than er..i think..1 week ago? or izzit 2 weeks ago? i cant rmb..i jus rmb during tt training..we all line up in 1 row la.. then got 1 person in front of the line, tt person is the defender, the rest are attackers.. so the attackers one by one go and try to kick the defender. of cuz the defender has to siam and kick back la.. then after 1 big cycle on the attackers side, the defenders will swap.. so came my turn..then defend defend defend.. aiya.. right instep chui..nvm..cont training.. so it came to this black belt.. who.. well..kinda pwned me like tt suay guy pictured below...

btw..tts chu mu yan..taiwan olympics tkd sparrer pwning mr unknown(sry dunno his name la)

ok la..tt black belts leg landed on the right half of my face... sianz lor... totally kissing his foot like tt..hiaz.. guess need to learn to siam more head kicks... haha

oh..well kinda rant finish liao ba... since this post will prob last past chi new yr.. i wanna wish all my friends(who are oso my loyal blog readers) a happy and prosperous chinese new yr!! happy 牛(niu) year! =)

恭喜发财! 新年快乐! 年年有余! 身体健康! 万事如意!

财神到!~~~~~~财神到! ~~~~~

10 things tt i er...dun really like abt shanghai

jus back from a really really siong training and im eating supper as i type this..hahaha..actually u all readers will prob expect updates on mon or tues night..usually mon la..jus cuz yest was too tired alr... today..still super mega tired..but at least nt as bad as yest..yest got alot of lessons and a really long and VERY boring briefing on the chingay canvassing....

okok..onto the main part of this blog post....

the 10 things i dun really like abt shanghai

(cannot say dislike la..too strong a word..haha)

10)Shanghai is really big...way big

ah yea..shanghai..is pretty big to us sgeans who live in a tiny red dot for quite some time of our lives.. haha... shanghai itself is a tiny part of china..but wa... like 1 side of puxi to airport alr takes like 2hrs... ok la..airport is ulu..but still..shanghai v big...to the locals 20mins walk is quite short..to me..its jus crazy....

9)over salty and oily food

quite alot of food is gd in shanghai..but..quite alot of them are oily and overly salty too... even i this kinda food lover took a while to get used to it.. imagine..u ordering a bbq octopus, after waiting for 10mins and taking ur 1st bite..ur 1st tot is "did i order octopus with a dash of salt or salt with a dash of octopus" trust me..salt with a dash of octopus is nth gd..and i tried it a few times at chui-er bbq stores..haha..places like the really awful Joyful(hey rhymes) sells chicken with cheese on top which is more accurately written as chicken with oil and fats on top.. those health conscious ppl beware! (apparantly locals there are rarely fat..mayb cuz they walk too much alr...)

8)fluctuating weather

well this happens esp during winter.. during winter hor..usually the average is ard.. say lowest 8 to highest 12-14... but some days..it was like.. 12-17 degrees..which is gd la..quite warm(then la.. i still need to wrap myself like popiah in order to walk outside) but hor..some days will be like.. 2-8 degrees..or worse.. -3 to 7 degrees(tt night when i was out with celest's juniors..-3+wind blow... can freeze)..its like u wanna tell shanghai or whoever u believe is controlling the weather "can u make up ur mind??"

7)floods

ok..this one i know happen once in a 100 yrs..lets jus call me suay ya.... the day tt flooded was like any other normal day.. monday somemore..suffering from mon blues+ raining heavily in the morning.. so like.. ok lor..rain heavy..then i reach 宜山路站, there was mini waterfalls along the stairs liao..wa lao..sainz lor..shoe wet..but socks inside still dry..so took mrt(then i didnt know got straight bus to my company) and walked.. then when exit the station.. it was like HOLY #*($@*@()#*... the entire stretch of road is flooded..

ankle lvl..but sianz alr..then walk walk...then sudd became knee lvl...kns la...can swim to work lor...hahaha...end up half the cpy was late for work..jammed for the entire morning...

6)ppl snatching taxis

jus when u think u got a taxi..some middle aged to old guy comes running out of nowhere to snatch ur taxi away... its totally sianz lor.. they hide anywhere from inside shopping centers to under bushes..jus to make some poor person flag a cab for them b4 they magically appear and equally magically take the cab away from the person who originally flagged it...

5)kan cheong ppl pushing u, ppl cutting queue

kan cheong ppl pushing u usually happens during peak hour travelling in mrt or bus... smths..locals dun believe the bus driver tt the bus is full or tt 5-10mins of waiting for another bus will kill them.. so they jus rush and push and squeeze in in any way possible...even when u think the bus cant take anymore ppl..hey! another 2-3 ppl jus squeezed in....

cutting queue happens often...esp when buying train tix... sudd when u feel like u will nv reach the receptionist chances are many ppl are cutting ur queue.. best ive seen is when i was buying my tix from the recep some old aunty chaped in and wanted to buy tix lor... sianz leh... i was half buying tix alr and u still chap in?!?! @$^#@&*$#@&$(

4)poor services

shanghai has quite a few of those...unfortunately... waiters and waitresses who bo chap.. but shanghai poor services mainly comes from the phamacists and other owners of small shops.. those tt will scold, give black face and all... hey..we are here to buy ur stuff at least treat us with some courteosy man... i will rmb the hospital incident for a long time lor.. call and ask abt the price of consultation, whats the procedure, do i need to bring passport cuz im a foreigner blabla.. tt lady over the line said v rudely "要来看就来看!!!!!" crap..i was jus asking cuz i dunno the procedure right??

3)chui traffic

yea..in shanghai..traffice jus plain sux... prob most of china oso like tt.. zebra crossing are there cuz the govt has too much white paint to spare.. so they painted zebra crossings.. white useless lines on the road... no cars ever stopped for me while i cross their "zebra crossings" b4...they are jus plain useless..other than tt.. endless horning, chionging, illegal u-turns... china's roads are like some kinda school children who ran amok...

2)ppl "kaaaaaaaaaaaaa pui!!!"

warning! if u hear the "kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" part, do nt ever turn ur head in tt direction.. i repeat, do nt turn ur head in tt direction!! if nt u'll see some guy spitting...spitters are everywhere..and even though its illegal to spit in china... if the police really catch those spitting, i think half the china's population sure kena... but even if u dun see..must get rdy to siam fast fast... esp if the spit comes in ur direction...

and the no1 dislike is......*drum roll*......

1)crowds

yea..this u see everyday during peak hours travelling..and u cant escape them... shanghai and china too many ppl la...everyday sure squeeze one... up till body to body lor..ok la..guys will 赚到if they body to body with chio bu la..but the girls sure nt worth it one lor..esp when they have to squeeze thru tons of men and other women everyday..strangers touching them... sure sianz one... so...tts my no.1 dislike in shanghai! hahaha

well..tt summaries my most dislikes in shanghai..hahahaha... mayb after reading ms pro can easier consider whether wanna go exchange or nt..haha..

ah..ivp coming liao...5 more weeks..so fast lor... ok la..ojang so far nt bad la..but their 1st real tests will be the club performances, followed by the sch/public performance whichever comes 1st.. ojang are all zai ppl.. jus hope they can and will take the 5 more weeks of boring and repetitive training..

ah yes..of cuz..i need to catch up on tuts...soon..really soon....

1 week of sch... +10 things i really like abt shanghai

ah...so v quickly... 1 week of sch has passed by alr.. so now its week 2 in ntu!! sianz.. all the tuts la, labs la coming alr... today alr got lab lor... nt tt hard..but jus sianz la.. 3hrs of doing boring stuff.. its ok if its 3hrs and it starts at 10am..but nooooo.. it starts at 830am!!! T.T.. hahaha.. ok la.. was (trying to) doing tuts for the last few days.. EPIC FAIL man.... either i stuck at qn1 then gave up or i stuck at qn2 then gave up...mega sianz lor...

anw...ms. pro was too obviously pro in her subjects/IA and her charm, her china ways(during shanghai) and whatever things u can think of , but still she oso will win u one, and got offered a place(well...willingly or nt)to go some part(currently unconfirmed) of china again.. this time as an exchange student.. hahaha.. so another few(mayb) weeks of going china again! she abit sitting on the fence for this la..sure its a gd opportunity..but again..away from sg for a while.. and if she go back to shanghai sure sianz one what.. hahaha... so to help her..must say the 10 things i like abt shanghai... wahhaha

10 things i like abt shanghai

10) more carefree life

well even when it seems that shanghai is the financial hub of china and tt many locals(china) said tt shanghai is a v stressful place.. then again.. trust me.. its less stress than sg.. ok la..mayb cuz i intern or what... but then hor.. at my workplace... pace abit the slow la. like when supervisor want me to get things done he will always say "尽快" (jin kuai-correct word or nt i nt sure..) which means "try asap".. sg boss huh..cfm will say "U BETTER HURRY LA..IF NT I PAY CUT U! WAHAH" so..quite relaxing la.. at least when working as an intern there..hahaha

9) ninja girls

u wont see anyone dress like tt at any other place..trust me...

i dunno her real identity.. but this particular ninja girl is said to be able to gobble down 生煎包s and PGTs like they were nothing.. and she loves to put her (quite small but still deadly) fists near ppl's face often asking them to give her treats... beware.......

8) big beautiful lights

oh yea.. shanghai owns sg in this department.. totally own... haha.. cuz sg isnt jus big enough to put so much lights.. and shanghai lights are pretty interesting at times too.. nt the usual boring "merry christmas" or jus a row of bland looking orange lights on the shopping centres... its jus grand...

this one is in nanjing

7) 七浦路
30rmb(S$6) for polo ts? no prob.. ok la..the only prob is its fake la... but if u do overlook tt part(hey..their fake lacoste looks quite real ok), its cheap clothes!! hahaha.. need cheapskate but looks abit abit like real nike bags?? no prob... u can get 1 at 50 rmb!! wallets? u can find them there... obession with baby clothes? oh yea.. there got sell children/baby clothes too? whatever cheap skate stuff u think u need, 七浦路 got...

6)saizeriya
imagine this.. fairly big piece of chicken with cheese on top, some potato wedges and corn.. sounds nice right? and for.. S$3?? ppl will say "crazy ah? S$3 u eat chicken lice(rice) la... eat what western?" oh yea..in saizeriya.. tt big piece of chicken with cheese on top is jus 15rmb(~$S3) and its a restaurant! nt some road side stall u know! hahaha.. even though i working tt time 1 week eat 2-3 times. but then.. its still cheap and gd... really really worth it... too bad cannot show u the pic of the chicken cuz i nv take.. can only show u other stuff.. haha

S$2.5 cuttlefish

S$1.20 ice cream S$2.50 speggetti

5) 好乐地(i think its written like tt..)
yup..the haoledi ktv.. hahahaha... its jus screaming cheap if u k overnight(12mn-6am) for ard 30rmb per person(S$6)..ive only k-ed once there..but then again..i really enjoyed tt night... and haoledi is nt some rundown place..its looks and feels alot like kbox... for all u k-fans, jay chou wannabes and singens alike... haoledi is the place for u to train...

4)engrish
whether its showing professionnelism...
or asking ppl to take care of green..
warning ppl to beware of grasses and pinching doors
or forbiding ppl to die...(i didnt take this pic..koped from internet)
engrish is everywhere!! hahaha.. i cant take all the engrish but well... u get the basic idea..u know..ahhahaha

3)iceseason
ice cream pies anyone? for those who has a sweet tooth and loves icecream..iceseaon is the place to go! relatively cheap and really really nice..

after looking at the pics.. if u are an ice cream fan and dun feel like craving for more..smth is really really wrong........

2)南京西路，吴江小吃街
the place which celest and i visit almost every week! hahaha.. alot alot of food there.. though alot of stores selling the same food too.. haha but still.. we go there eat almost every week... cheap and gd food.. let the pics do the talking!!

and the no. 1 thing i like abt shanghai is......... *DRUM ROLL*

1) PMT(pudding milk tea)/PGT(pudding green tea)
yeap... prob my fav drink( and prob celest's fav one too) in shanghai... fav bubble tea, fav drink..both.. hahahaha... its jus cheap(S$1.20) has a generous amount of chewy sweet pearls and well..the pudding and tea jus tastes real gd... whether its pmt(pudding milk tea) during the pre-melamine era and the pgt(pudding green tea) during the post-melamine dynasty... u'll( and at least i will) crave for more after the 1st drink... must get if u go shanghai!!(+shopkeeper looks like angie.. =P)

pre-melamine era pmt

post melamine dynasty pgt

so yea..tts my 10 things i like abt shanghai... coming up next

10 things i DONT like abt shanghai/china *evil smile*