Cowabunga!

Met up with Sarah at J8 for dinner together and to catch TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the mis-informed..)

We had dinner at Ajisen Ramen and had a great time chatting and catching up on each other. After all, it's been 10 years since we met! Lol... It was great chatting with ya. ;)

Later we collected our tickets and shopped around J8, looking for a deck phone and other random stuff. She also contemplated getting a camera and I showed her my Ixus 50 for her to try it out. Hehe~

We had dessert before the show at Haagen-Dazs and this is a sample of what she took.

Not bad right? Nowadays point-and-shoot digicams are designed for amateurs like us so shouldn't take much effort to take decent pics. So I had a go and took a pic of what we had for dessert.

This is called Divine~

Caught the show and felt it was not bad. My fav cool Raphael, still typical bad boy.. and Michaelangelo still so funny... Something interesting Sarah and I shared between us. The first TMNT movie was our very first movie~ How cool is that? No wonder we wanted to catch the show...

It was pretty much an enjoyable evening and probably next time we're going to play pool or she's going to bring me to taste "Best Chicken Rice in Singapore! Really!" ard her place! Looking forward~

=)

Is being nice enough?

Saw deb online yesternite. It's been a while since she went to London to do her Masters and I was in for a surprise when she said she was in Singapore! A little short trip to surprise her mom for bdae celeb. How sweet can that be?

Anyway, she saw my MSN photo of Jung Ryu Won (pic below) and asked if whether I have a gf. I replied "What do you think?" and she said ""yes!!!!"



I told her no and then we went into a lengthy discussion of self-confidence and stuff liddat. And then at one point of time, she suddenly said "But Jaron, you're a nice guy and nice guys are hard to come by nowadays." I was slightly taken aback cos I seldom receive such compliments, let alone from a hot babe like deb. Din know whether it was said to cheer me up or it was really for real (oxymoron there). But I was touched. Thanks deb~ That really made my day.

I chose to reply that being nice doesn't really attract girls in Singapore. To that she said, "you'll be surprised, in relationships, it matters!" Lotsa girls might want to rip my throat after this but I kinda feel that gals in SG are typically looking for the whole package. Good looks / physique is one thing, having a good career is another, having a car is definitely a bonus. Being nice is the icing on the cake. I have seen my gal-frens falling for bad boys, only to have the bad boys cheating and bullying and abusing them and the girls just can't get enough of them. *rolls eyes*

But average guys like me out there who are reading this, have no fear. I have guy frens too who are average like you and me, who have found partners who treasure them for what they are, who know that character lasts in a relationship and almost / are happily married.

That gives a glimmer of hope in my boring, mundane and sometimes sad life. But that's how I remain optimistic all the while. You'll usually see mi smiling even though I'm down cos there's always something to look forward to every now and thenn. =)

Cheers!

Yes! Finally won at Settlers of Catan!

After a long, tedious, always-getting-mocked losing streak of 18 games with GY and Law, I finally won a game of Cities and Knights of Catan! With 2 metropolises (someone correct me if the plural form is wrong), 3 cities, 2 settlements and 1 merchant!

Thanks to GY and Law for the win~

Anyway, thanks to my sis who bought I-weekly for me cos there's Fiona Xie! *beams* see if i can upload one pic from the magazine to here or not...

Feet still hurts so limping to office tml! Peace ppl!

=)

Happy Birthday Weihao!

Met up for lunch with Weihao and Yiliang at Amoy. It's been a while since I met up with Weihao cos he's usually busy on Thursday. Haha~ So he suggested changing our usual lunch day to another day instead. So decided to change it to friday then~

What Weihao din know is that some of us are planning a surprise bade celeb for him in the evening. So kinda felt weird to meet him for lunch AND dinner on the same day. Haha~

I had second thoughts of joining the group for the celeb cos that would mean that I would have to limp from City Hall to Suntec City... *ouch* but for Weihao's sake... grin and bear with the pain!

We had dinner at Crystal Jade Kitchen, which isn't my top-rated choice chinese restaurant.. Haha. It's in third place below Ding Tai Fung (2nd place) and Imperial Treasure (1st place). And when I tot I was late, I hastened my pace and ended up seeing ONLY yiliang there... The rest were late! *roar* then one by one, the rest of the group turned up. Weihao was genuinely surprised to see us! Maybe he thought he was only going out with Wee May, who was actually trying to delay him for the rest of the grp to come!

So here's wishing Weihao a Happy 26th Birthday! May your wishes come true, buddy~

P.S Cat, where's the group photo???? Quick send to me! Thanks!

Editor's note: Finally here's the group photo! Thanks to Cat~

I miss you so...

"Where'd you go?
I missed you so...
Seems like it's been forever...
That you've been gone..."

Fort Minor - Where'd You Go

X-ray!

A for apple, B for ball, X for ... X-ray! Just went down to Yishun Polyclinic to get an X-ray done on the advice of my GP. Thanks to Law for accompanying me down but it was our first time visiting the polyclinic. Since my right foot hurts, no choice. Took cab to and fro.

Cab ride to and fro: 3 dollars. X-ray: 21 dollars. Pretty radiologist and receptionist at polyclinic: Priceless! Law also agreed. :D But too bad I can't get to know the results of the x-ray. The report and film will be dispatched to my GP and she'll let me know soon. Nice of her to call me and check on my foot just now while I was at the polyclinic waiting!

Now I need to rest my foot more. Doesn't hurt that much now though, after taking the new painkillers. But then again, it only numbs the pain, but I might be doing further damage to my foot without knowing.. Better play safe and limp around bah...

Peace~

P.S: Just added a music player that only plays one of my favourite songs by Fort Minor called "Where'd You Go". Go listen to it! It's below my chat box. =)

Pitstop again~

Met up with Huiru and her friend, Esther for lunch today. She's working at Deloitte as a tax assistant (I think so...) and is in the same building as I am! Left early from work to go for medical appointment at National Skin Centre (Thanks Mr Gary!) and then later met up with Irene for a little shopping around Raffles City. Both of us were saying that it's been a while since either of us came to Raffles City to shop... haha..

She bought a blouse (or shirt?) from G2000 and I was tempted to get a shirt but it's so expensive! Maybe wait for sale then buy bah... haha~

After that went to meet my Law, GY, YY and BZ to eat at play at Pitstop Cafe! This should be the 4th time I've been to Pitstop already and the v first time eating at a Board Game Cafe. I had Fish and Chips and it was not bad! Then we played games like Blokus, Pit, Kill Doctor Lucky ( a draggy game) and a fun game called Squint! Squint is like taboo except you have to use shapes on cards to give clues to let people guess! Hehe.. And of cos the usual suan-ing from Eve, ex-schoolmate and lady boss of Pitstop! But it's ok lah. It was v enjoyable that night!

Played till about 11 plus and managed to rack up a 100 bucks for Law to get a membership card. So now both of us are officially Pitstoppers! Here's a pic of the group that day!

And here's a pic of me and Irene! *beams*

On another note, I hurt my right foot badly by wearing my Renoma shoes on Thursday. Just went to see the doc this morning and she said that the insoles or shoes were not of the correct fit and my foot hurt like hell right now! Now I wince with pain with every step I take.. *Ouch*

Bad things come in pairs..

I was working at my desk at 11:50am yesterday when I thought someone pushed my chair from behind and that my headache was getting worse when I saw my monitor shake a little too much.

A commotion went around the office with people complaining of the same stuff. Then someone shouted "Earthquake!" I was thinking how is it possible that Singapore can experience a earthquake right at the doorstep? Could it be that the tectonic plates have shifted so much already? Next thing I knew was my director was passing down instructions for people to evacuate the office. Weird thing is people were still taking their own sweet time to leave... Wondering if people will still do the same if the actual thing were to happen...

So early lunch for us as we stepped out of the office with the security guard asking everyone "Building shaking ah?" Thinking about it, this is the first time I've experienced a tremor of the like cos usually Yishunians like me dun really feel anything way up north (but my parents felt it back at home yesterday too...)

Read from the papers that ppl evacuated again during the second time but our office still remained in our seats... Haha... Also read that 80 ppl died in the quake with more ppl trapped under the flattened houses.. That's terrible.. *offers a silent prayer of the vics*

Oh well.. Went to the company doc to get some medicine for relief of my sore throat and was told that there were 2 ulcers on my tonsils! Ouch~ that explains the constant pain when I eat, drink, breathe...

Oh well... to avoid spicy and sour food though... Anyway, I went to collect my JLPT3 cert from JCS with Wins, Kaye, Yafang and her frens... then had dinner at Parklane Wanton Noodles at Sunshine Plaza with a few of them. Wins had to rush home to catch his 9pm show.. *rolls eyes*

Hopefully I can take a nice photo of the cert and upload the pic soon. Now on MC for 2 days. kena condemned as MC king already lah.. Sianz...

ＪＬＰＴ３級合格！

I passed my JLPT3 exam with 92.25%! And it's better than my expectation of 90%!

*beams*

Featured!

Had dinner and caught Epic Movie with Huiru at Cineleisure Orchard yesterday. It's been a while since I saw her with her friends at Manhattan Fish Express the other day. At first it felt kinda weird cos we didn't really chat much when we were working at IRAS, cos I tot her as dao and we were in different offices that time too..

We had a great dinner at Xin Wang HK Cafe as we chatted almost about everything. Turned out that our Mandarin was buang. Haha~ Laughed ourselves silly from start to end of Epic Movie. To those who are going to catch it soon, stay all the way till the end of the credits. There's something funny at the end~ ;)

Everything was fine except I did not feel too well during work in the late afternoon and even out with Huiru to. I shrugged it off, thinking it as fatigue. Only to realise later that I was running a fever! Must have my sister who passed to me! *Roar* Took 2 panadols yesternite and went to see the doctor this morning. 2 days MC but if I can recover soon enough then I should be able to return to work on the morrow.

Until now, you guys must be thinking what's my title gotta do with this, right? Just take a look at the webby below to find out

That's me in the red oval!

Courtesy of LoveByte

I've joined the MCYS (former SDU) after graduation from university, never to expect this! And now I've received 2 messages from "Interested Members". Just replied to them only. Oh well, see how things go then... ;)

Peace~

楽しかった！

Means enjoyable! Hosted a high school student from Joyo Senior High School in Kyoto over the weekend and had a blast of a time bringing them around on Friday and Satuday. Places included Night Safari, Orchard, Suntec, Bugis Street. Even brought them to Pitstop too to show them how a board game cafe looks like!

A pic of me and my hostee, Taizan

I travelled around with a few other hosts and hostees over the weekend. Surprised to see Karen from my YCK session. Turned out that one of her friends was hosting 2 girls as well. Double surprise to see Fengrong who also joined me bringing my Osaka friends around Singapore last year too.

A pic of us all!

Seated from L to R: Satomi, Yuuka, Fengrong, Karen and Alice

Standing from L to R: Alex, me, Tomoya, Taizan and Hidetoshi

It was a quite a tearful and emotional farewell at the airport on Sunday. After the sensei had briefed them at the boarding gate, cue in photo frenzy! I managed to take a lot of photos with most of the students. Their group was pretty huge compared to my last homestay, 31 ppl this time! And pretty young too! Only 17 years old!

Here are some of the pics~

Yuuka and me. I usually call her princess cos she looks like one!

Saori and me~ The official cutest girl in the whole group.

Lotsa guys queueing up to take photo with her but she asked to take photo with me instead. ;)

Enjoy the slideshow below or click on the link below to see the album!

Joyo Senior High Homestay

硫黄島からの手紙

For those who can guess the title, yes, it's letters from iwo jima.. had a hard time trying to write the title in japanese cos i tot the hiragana for iwo was just "iwo" and actually it's "iou".
haha~

Caught the sneak at Cineleisure Orchard with TF and JW after bai nian at my 姑妈's place at toa payoh. Weird that the sneak was at 4.40pm though...

The show was good! It lasted for about 2 1/2 hrs long. And TF, I upgraded the rating from 3 1/2 stars to 4 stars already. It's not your typical war film where it focuses on the action. Instead it tells the stories from different letters. From the typical Japanese soldier to the high ranking Colonel and even an American soldier! It also speaks about the extremist loyalty for one's country and the fragility of human life, I think.

For those who are going to catch the show, do enjoy it!

Later went to my aunt's place to play mahjong and I won about 16 bucks! Enough to cover my movie and dinner money sia, with some spare left!

Now going off to another aunt's place for gambling and steamboat (again)!

Happy Chinese New Year to all!

Pitstop again~

Went to Pitstop for a get together with YY, BZ and GY last night. Too bad Law couldn't join us... Good to see Eve again. She got married in Jan this year~. Hehe.

We played a total of 5 games that night. In order (I think), Pig Pile, Sequence, Ingenious, Hey! That's my Fish and Catagena. Here's a pic below we took, courtesy of Pitstop. Hopefully can organise an outing for A07/08 ppl as well as YCK ppl soon.



By the way, Happy Chinese New Year to everybody! Although it's only 除夕today.. LOLx

I Love..

your big, beautiful eyes...

your nice auburn hair...

the way you insist on having it your way...

the way you blush when someone compliments you...

the way you carry yourself...

the caring, kind side of you...

If only you knew how I felt about you this way...

Happy Valentine's Day~

Brewerkz~

Went for team dinner at Brewerkz just now cos 2 of my bank's Global Heads were in town. Not 1 but 2! Very rare occasion, so my boss said. So off we went to Riverside Point at Clarke Quay...

Wanted to take the MRT there, but ended up walking from my office (Shenton Way) to Clarke Quay! Lol.. Then tucked in a hearty dinner of steak and mashed potatoes.. One thing good is that the tab's being picked up by the bank~ Wahaha~

Valentine's day tml le... Just gonna wish ppl happy friendship day here and there I guess... Striving hard to fufill one of my resolutions for this yr...

Gotta go sleep already.. Out late 2 nights in a row. *yawnz*

Peace~

I am...

Unforgiven.

Babel~

Caught the show with peeps from YCK last night at Cineleisure Orchard. There were mixed reviews after the show from everyone but Weihao and I particularly liked it.

It revolves around events happening in 3 different regions around the World that are somehow related. These places are namely USA-Mexico, Morrocco and Japan. Showcases the different aspects of human life like love, hate, war, peace, racism, family, prejudice, politics, birth, death, unacceptance, trust, distrust and many more. (Maybe ppl who watched the movie can try to identify those aspects I said?) It was quite interesting to pick out each of these from the movie and enjoying it at the same time.

So people, if you're looking for a thought-provoking movie, catch Babel now~ But be warned, the show's 2 1/2 hrs long and it's not for those who prefer the usual blend of movies... =)

Peace~

こんばんは、先生！(Good evening, teacher!)

Had my first Japanese lesson in a long time since May last year! Great to be in Kojima sensei's class once again.. Her lessons are always so enjoyable and fun to learn as well~

And time passed so fast that I din even realise that it was the end of the lesson le~ And I got homework... =( when I tot I finished uni already... Haha~

Looking forward to next week's lesson! *beams*

Enjoyed my weekend though it's too short~

Went to Qian Hu fish farm on Saturday for outing with the kids from YCK and had a whale of a time there!

The kids got a chance to try fishing. My kid din catch any, but i helped him to catch a couple of them. And he gets to bring them back home! That was nice~

Today (Sunday) was sweet! Long awaited outing with my brothers, especially YY and BZ cos haven't got the chance to see them in a while. Lawm GY and I met up earlier to get BZ a Mango voucher for her gift and got birthday cards for them too~ Added a little encoded message in the cards such that they had to read from card to card. Hehe...

After dinner at Pepper Lunch, we headed down to Mind Cafe at Boat Quay and played a couple of board games there. Managed to use my voucher (from Blokus compy) and tot i could use my last one to buy a game. But the guy said they doing stocktaking now and not taking orders! Sianz cos my vouchers expires on 1st Feb. Guess it's goodbye voucher~

YY and BZ getting married in April le, and i start to think about my own future as well.. The topic of getting married and starting a family before 30 came up among us. Now worrying whether it's possible to achieve that... I'm already 26 so that leaves like 4 years or so.. No use worrying over it. I believe in fate, although it's been playing tricks on me so far, hope my luck's taking a turn for the better soon... Gotta think of what to get for the lucky couple for ROM gift and i think Law is up to something...

Looking forward to tml! Going to attend Kojima sensei's class at Cairnhill CC. Her lessons are always fun and enjoyable! Although I have missed 2 out of 10 lessons, but i guess that's not so bad. At least I get a chance to use my Japanese and hopefully improve on it as well! Will post about my first class if i'm not dead tired tml..

Peace~

Moi first pair of Pumas!

Went shopping after dinner with Tf and Wy and finally got my first pair of Pumas from Taka~ =)