late post for sat (24 oct 09)

well, i shall blog a little about my outing with my sec school friends, which was on Sat ( 24th Oct 09).. to celebrate a belated birthday party for Sharon... we went to K box @ Clementi.. (from around 2p.m. cuz i was a little late..hehe to 645pm) K box session was quite fun.. but the room quite cold..haha..

After singing, we took bus 106 to Heeren, to eat Pasta De Waraku.. we thought it would be crowded as it was a sat night.. but it was empty.. haha. when we reached there.. it was around 730p.m. or so le.. all of us were hungry le.. so we ate first, without waiting for Pui Han.. Pui Han came along later, slightly after 8pm... she said she only slept one hour cuz she was the official for a race event..(can't remember the name le.. oops)

well, I ordered the salmon and salmon roe pasta. The pasta came with cream soup. The pasta was nice, and the cream soup wasn't too thick..so its not bad... all of us had student card.. so we were entitled 25% off...but actually it wasn't THAT alot of discount.. let me explain what i mean.

25% discount was before applying 10% service & 7% GST. furthermore, the 7% GST is applied on top of the 10% service charge as "service charge are taxable". So let x be the price of pasta on the menu.

Final price = x * (0.75) * (1.10) * (1.07) = (0.88275) x

Therefore, the overall discount was 11.725%...which I personally felt it wasn't that much.. cuz my pasta was $12.80, in the end i paid $11.30 ( savings of $1.50 only)

Yeah, 25% discount is better than nothing.. but its just me la... $11 bucks for a bowl of pasta, a bowl of salad, which was nice by the way... i won't frequent it as it's a tad too expensive...

ok.. lets not talk about maths.. after tat, we didn't know wad to do. as it was around 930pm.. some said have to reach home early.. so some of them suggested walking from Heeren all the way to raffles city... only got one person complain( shall not mention names.. haha)

and walk we did... and we chatted along the way walking there.. quite a nice experience.. but by the time we reached the mrt station.. we had to drink water and sit down..hahah.. so we took the train and headed home...

it was nice and fun meeting up with them( my sec school friends) again.. and the next time we would be meeting will be the class gathering yl and I are organising... which is on 21st Dec...

so now, have to study hard.. oh ya.. talking abt study.. i took some time to blog this.. as i decided i had to read up for my econs quiz which was today(monday).. but last night, when i wanted to sign in and blog.. its either my internet ( singnet) was becoming "turtle-speed" or the problem is with blogshop itself.. it took ages to sign in blogshop.. and after signing in, the page wasn't loaded properly... i can't click anything inside the dashboard... so i gave up blogging last night..

Twitter

Finally, one month of paid study for using Twitter is over! yeah.. got my total $57 bucks for creating twitter account, and logging in to read tweets from the pple i follow(presetted) everyday for a month.. den did a survey and practice...

well, i felt twitter is interesting and i decided to keep my account.. haha.. but now i have to delete my 70 over tweets.. cuz everyday i log in.. have to tweet "start reading" and "finished reading" ..hahah..

anyway, twitter got a new function!!! it's the list.. meaning now you can arrange your friends to groups.. so that you can control which group of pple to see your tweets.. or u can alternatively tweet different stuff to different groups... i think tats a great improvement man...

so, anyone who is using twitter can tell me your account, den i add u? i think for now i won't be tweeting much yet...hahah..

after Singapore Idol

Last night, my parents and I watched Singapore Idol... for those who don't believe in Singapore Talent.. you should just try to watch one episode.. and pay attention to the girls... they ARE good.. not to mention, some of them have the looks too...

Nevertheless, I believe one of the moving performances that night was by Charles 'Stitch' Wong.. He said "Fall for you" - by Secondhand Serenade.. I found the video, with lyrics... so that can learn the song too! hahah.. enjoy it!

driving & shopping experience

well, ytd (17th Oct), i was able to use my dad's car.. cuz my parents went overseas on fri(16th Oct), and will be coming back on tue.

Talking about fri, i was the one who drove the car and sent my parents to Changi Airport on friday morning..got drive there once before, so i knew the way there. no problems.. long journey and abit tiring for leg..haha..

on sat, i got the car and got to go out with sophie! yeah!... we met in JP, at around 1pm. she had tuition in the morning...we had Thai Express for lunch..i ate the curry soft shell crab with rice.. just as nice..my dear ate beef kway teow(not tat nice, can get the same standard or even better at outside tze char stall) and ordered a chendol ( tooooo sweet cuz of the coconut, though she likes it..)

after lunch, walked around to find laptop case for me.. but can't get any nice-looking one... sainz... so we headed to our next destination - marina square.

I missed out the marina car park the first time.. i didn't realised there was another entrance on the left... i only saw a car park entrance on the right side, which needed me to cut 4 lanes, which i felt it was crazy...nevertheless, we reached there just in time for our movie - Cloudy with a chance of meatballs (3D)... it was both my dear & I first time watching a 3D movie in GV... well, the experience was not too bad... not to mention there was an movie trailer that was in 3D too.. the movie was quite funny at times - like the monkey who got a fetish for moustache and loves gummy bears..however, the plot was veri simple...

after the movie, which ended at around 6pm... my plan was to head to marina barrage to watch sunset.. but i got lost, i didn't know how to get to ECP as there was a number of exits out of the carpark in Marina Square... so like spent an hour circling around kallang, suntect city, nicoll highway area... Oops!hahah...

When we FINALLY reached marina barrage.. it was already at night -730pm.. no more sun set.. but we still just stroll along the circular thingy( i have no idea how to describe that).. just spent some time enjoying the breeze..it may sound bad, but i have to comment that there were many "blanga" workers there..haha..

after that, we headed back the to west... ate our quick dinner at a popular tze char stall behind holland village, which sold XO fish head bee hoon... but i was disappointed that the standard of the XO bee hoon really dropped le.. become lousy le.. i DON'T reccommend to eat there... it's a no-no...

we ate a quick dinner as we wanted to rush to our next destination - ice cream shop at Serene Centre... it closes at 10pm... i think we finished our dinner at around 930pm.. so we had to rush there.. haha... and thankfully the stall, which is called Island Creamery, was still open when we reached.. and i suggested buying two tubs of ice cream back.. for sophie and her family to try.. one tub is 500ml...

This stall i really recommend.. the ice cream is great - no preservatives, no egg, no China product(it was written there, i swear), no artifical flavouring or colouring.... not to mention they have various unique flavours like - Teh Terih, Bulut Hitam, Burnt Caramel, and many more... you can type "Island Creamery" in yahoo/google - you should be able to get reviews of that stall... anyone interested.. the address is :
10 Jalan Serene
Serene Centre #01-01
Telephone: 6468-8859

Well, overall for ytd, the driving experience was not too bad.. learn to recgonise more roads and places.. a bad thing was i got lost for quite a while, resulting in not being able to see the sun set at marina barrage...next time lo..haha..


Let's talk about today -Sunday (18 Oct 09)... i drove over to sophie's house for lunch, with her sisters and mum... after lunch, sophie asked us to derive a general equation for a "O" level maths question.. so that she can teach her tutee using that general formula...so wasting our brain cells and time lo..hahaha.. well, after tat, I drove sophie and her family to JP... our purpose - Shopping!! cuz my dear's elder sister got member discount for G2000... 50% off for up to $500.. at first we thought it was $500 before discount.. but the cashier later told us we can spend up to $500 AFTER discount!!! means we could spend up to $1k on retail price and enjoy 50% discount.. wow!!! so good!!hahah...

so everyone went in and out of the fiting room numerous times to try out this and that..hahah.and in the end, we paid around $350... meaning it was around $700 in retail price.. wow... a "historic moment".. haha.. for me, i spent $90 for 2 long pants(the casual type) - 1 dark blue, 1 black plus a patterened short sleeve shirt (small black circles).. i was really happy.. got to have new and good clothes.. i all along feel that G2000 clothes generally are quite good quality de.. that can be said for clothes that are formal or semi-formal... for those "everyday wear" kinda of clothes.. sometimes i feel the clothes are not veri good quality de... have to see.,.

Had dinner together with sophie and her family... her dad came along after his work.. ate dinner at the kopi-tiam @ the new wing.. after tat.. ate desserts at "Ji De Chi" .. ate a durian dessert with pamelo.. the durian filling was veri rich... can only eat once in a while...hahah

Well, tat was how my weekends ended.. didn't study at all.. which is quite bad.. as i still have quite alot to catch up, esp for my java.. have to cheong le...haha..

P.S. sorry no pics for you all to see.. as sophie used her camera to take photos... so its not with me...

time flies...

well, time really flies... today is 9-0ct-09... this means I am together with my dearest sophie for 3 and a half years!! wow and yeah! haha..

just announcing that special event... hehe.. ^^

driving experience

well, today my sis is going to Bali with one of her friend.. for 3days.. leaving today evening and coming back on Monday... my parents and i sent her off.. and i was the driver! haha

we set off at around 5pm.. when we reached PIE, near bukit timah road, already jammed le... think its because of a accident... den after tat, there was the usual "after-work" traffic jam after steven's road... zzz... it was really a new experience to drive in the highway during peak hours.. but thankfully no accident, only a few hard brakes.. haha

After driving from my house to Changi Airport, we had our dinner at Popeye's @ T1. I really like the "biscuit", my dad dun like it, say its too dry, and "press the biscuit abit, it break already". The whipped potato was good also, just tat it reminded me of an instant-made whipped potato i took during my duty days in CDS..hahah...

After dinner, i drove back.. and now is to Yew Tee. my mum needs to go there. and again, yes again, there was traffic jam in PIE along the way back.. cuz it was around 7plus when i started driving back from Changi...

Can be frustrating and tiring to drive in traffic jams... tats when i will appreciate the benefits of public transport..hahah..my dad said " if there were to be an accident on the expressway, you could be delayed for an hour"

But nevertheless, the car and everyone's lives were safe and sound.. haha.. today was the most and longest time i was on the wheel.. good but tiring experience... but soon, there will be another time.... when i have to send my parents to Changi Airport.. they going to "Hai Nan" ( not sure about the spelling.. but its the place where the famous Chicken Rice originated from)