Swish! *Crack!*

Yeah~ Caught Indy Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (that's quite a mouthful!) on its opening day (last sunday) in singapore!

My blardy sis tried to ruin it for me by almost giving away spoilers. *ROAR* Luckily she didn't if not....

Lotsa hype about the show,mostly wanting to see how an old geezer can survive an action show like this.. Come to think about it, it's like the revival of the 80's Action Heroes! Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4.0, Rambo, Indy Jones....

The pace of the story was ok but it was quite interesting to see Indy Jones giving pointers about the kid (Shia Lebouf) about treasure hunting~ And how Indy Jones call the kid Junior like how his dad (Sean Connery) called him in the previous Indy shows.

All was fine except for the ending which was duh............. Anyway, for folks out there who want to catch the show, might as well get the DVD instead. If can rent, better... Haha~

I should start a movie rating system soon (popcorn baskets?)! LOL

YCK Reunion

We had our reunion event at YCK Gardens MINDS School yesterday as the school is moving to its new premises at Sengkang next week.. So it's kinda like the last chance to see the school as it is right now before it's torn down or redeveloped...

Haven't really come down to YCK lately so thought I'll lend a hand to set up this event by invitation from xian²~ I was tasked with setting up of the games for the event but ended up becoming co-event manager together with Roland and Shaoqiang. Had to stand in as DJ as well for Weihao / Yiliang at times as well. Quite tiring but fun actually!

So we had a carnival (complete with 8 stalls for the trainees to have some fun), an angklong performance by the students from xian²'s school, a video presentation made by Yiliang, a sumptous feast and a group photo taking session!

It was also a good time to catch up with the senior volunteers who took time off to grace the event as well.

At the end of it all, I was too winded up that I left while they were clearing up the resource room and couldn't join them for dinner. Sorry guys!

Album's up and you can click on the thumbnail below for the link~

by janzer81

Also, my thanks go out to the people listed below in no particular order of merit:

xian²:
For planning out the entire event and buying all the goody bags for the trainees~

Roland:
For working together to keep the event going and possibly missing out on the event itself at times

Shaoqiang:
For helping me for the tougher manual stuff for the events as I was not feeling too well that day.

My gamemasters:
For volunteering as gamemasters on a last minute notice for some. You guys did a great job! :D

Lil' Sis Ash:
For helping with setting up some of the stalls and bringing me food when I was too busy to tuck in. Also for letting me fool around with your dad's DSLR. Hah~

Samuel and Jiurong (PD and VPD):
Kudos to you too for helping to run the show with gusto (that's you, Samuel) and cool effiency (that's you, JR)

Volunteers:
For taking time off your bz schedules to come down for the event. It was a surprise for me to see that many volunteers in one session

Parents:
Your continual support for YCK MINDS has been a great inspiration for us! I was pretty touched and honoured that most of the parents still remember me and chatted with me for a while. :)

Trainees:
The very reason why this event was held and why we keep on volunteering.

Sad to say, the event was also considered as my last effort for YCK MINDS before the curtains fall for me. Might pop by for the occasional camp or session every now and then. Going to miss you guys....

Bless YCK,

Waraku (again)

Friday:

Went for my once-every-6-weeks (any short term for that length of time?) review at the National Skin Centre. To those out there who are clueless, I have this incurable skin problem since 15 and have been visiting the National Skin Centre for the past 12 years or so...

I don't dread the visits, cos there are the friendly staff who recognize you and call out to you, ask about you, joke with you as well. All that makes it somehow more bearable each time. During my visit a couple of days ago, I was greeted and chatted with from my arrival at the centre till the time I left. =)

After that, I met Agnes for dinner after she knocked off. She was one of the staff nurses I befriended at the centre and we hit it off pretty well from the start. Always hurling friendly insults at each other kinda helped... haha~

Headed down to Waraku @ Starhub Centre. First remark from her: "So ulu ah?" Me: -_-

It's her first time to Waraku actually (She went to the Pasta de Waraku, which I patiently explained to her that they serve different food) and we feasted on a pretty good dinner! Pics below~


Chawanmushi~


My Una-don! Oomph!


Her Hokkai Tororo (Cold soba with tuna, salmon, squid, minced yam and cod roe)

After that we went to shop around at Taka and Wisma Atria (Zara, Timberland for me) She was bewitched by this pink Titus Watch at City Chain! Should be getting it soon, i guess. *evil grin*

Maybe it's time for you to bring me to a place to eat next time, rather than me hor? :P

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Met Ash for dinner at Din Tai Fung at J8 earlier today. DTF's my choice of la mian. Crystal Jade's for their side dishes and Imperial Treasure get the kudos for their xiao long bao. Yeah~ The "Holy Trinity"....

Some pics below of what we ate~ Forgot to take pic of Ash's Yam Paste Bun but here are the rest!

小菜 (Vegetables with vinegar dressing), one of my fav. appetizer~

红烧牛腩面 (Braised Beef Tendon Noodles)

小笼包 (Steamed Pork Dumplings!)

Ash only ate 3, leaving 7 of these babies but I could finish them luckily... She almost wanted me to try the yam paste bun... *burp*

After that we went to NTUC to shop for stuff and I learnt something new from her! That's the title of this post actually. Ever wondered what the bar code on the label means?

888811267003

The first 3 numbers (888) are for Singapore
The next 4 (8112) are for the factory code
The next 5 (67003) are for the product code
And the last (6)104 is a check digit, used for error detection.

If it's EAN (European Article Number), the check digit is derived like this.

1. Sum of all the even-positioned numbers (excluding the check digit itself) and multiply by 3
which means 8 + 8 + 1 + 6 + 0 + 3 = 26 X 3 = 78

2. Add the odd-positioned numbers to the result earlier.
which means 78 + 8 + 8 + 1 + 2 + 7 + 0 = 104

3. Take 10 and minus the last digit (if last digit is 0, take the next number on the left) to get the check digit
which means 10 - 4 = 6!

Click here for a link to Wiki on check digit!

The last alphabet in our NRIC number is also like a check digit. Click here to find out more!
By the way, Ash only taught me about the barcode. I found out about the check digit online~ Hah!

IRON MAN!

Caught this show during my company's Rec Club movie event at Eng Wah Suntec on May Day.(yes, this post is very late!) Met up with YH and her 2 friends for a speedy lunch before rushing to the cinema for the show! Food Republic at Suntec is quite expensive! A plate of chicken rice with the normal servings you can find at a coffeeshop cost $5+! :o

Met lotsa of my colleagues, especially those from my department at the cinema before we entered the halls.

I gotta admit that I didn't have much expectation of the show when they make an attempt from print to screen. Some turned out fine like X-men and Superman but others like Hellboy and Fantastic Four were err....

Great that they sticked to the original colours but they kinda tweaked the original story to make it more appealing to the movie audience and kinda made Tony Stark look soft with the morals-dilemna thingy but apart from that, graphics and sound make it look great.

Favourite scenes were when he was testing his prototype of his Iron Man suit and the scene when he was putting on the suit for the 1st time. Ultra cool and every engineer's wet dream come true! Heh~

Not really a must-see for me, but go watch it to satisfy your curiousity about this superhero who seemed dwarfed by other high-profile superheroes (Batman, Superman, Spiderman, etc). In fact he's a combination of all 3 actually, very very rich (Batman), has a weakness (Superman) and very very smart-ass (Spiderman)

After YH had to go back to office to clear some stuff, I took off for home and had a good rest! And off to the plains of Durotar in WoW for more action....

About WoW, my left elbow is aching now thanks to the non-stop action over the weekend.