St James

Just the night before I was at St James for the first time, it was a great night. We had pretty much fun. Other that the thing that the place took quite a while to warm up. St James is made up of a few clubs and pubs. So we only had to get the entrance to any one of the clubs and we would have access to all the clubs. We decided to sign a membership, which allows three of us to enter for free plus we get a free bottle. There were 7 of us, Me, Yuliang, Zhen Rong, Ah Bee, Howard and 2 of Yuliang's friends, Wei Lun and Jun Long (if I remembered their names correctly). Wei Lun is a bartender at Bala's so he smuggled in an extra bottle for us. The 2 of them were pretty cool guys so getting along was too difficult. Then, after being in the club for a while Wei Lun's girlfriend came.... And to my surprise, it was Berlinda!!! Sean's best friend. Yup I sort of know her, not very well though. It was quite a surprise, I mean the world is sooooo small. Well Gaberial joined us later at the club, he had water polo training. As I said, the place was pretty cool, we started off at Powerhouse. Music there was ok, but the crowd sucks. We were there at 11 and there was still no one inside. I think the place only started to get a little better after 1am. Even at that time the place was not packed. Well of course while we were there we went to check out the other clubs as well. Walked over to The Boiler Room, which was packed with people, a stark contrast to Powerhouse. It makes me wonder how come there is such a big difference. Well we still took our drinks at Powerhouse, Wei Lun didn't want to drink much because Berlinda was there, so he did his thang, by mixing the drinks for us. One thing to comment, Powerhouse gave us a jug of green tea plus another 2 jugs of plain water. I don't know if it was us who ordered the plain water, but if it wasn't, it was damn cheapskate lo. Plain water plus hard liquor is not the best combination. The last time I had that was in BS. Its sooooo Ah Pek. Anyway we still finished our drinks. By then Wei Lun and Berlinda had already left, they had work the next day, so didn't stay too late. We finished up the drinks and went to walk around the place. Oh yah did I mention anything about the dancing, its been a long time since I came to a club, so its been ages since I last danced and I think age is catching up on me. Was a little tired after the dance. Anyway after the drinks we went over to dragonfly. Dragonfly was interesting, it was like a 歌台. Every now and then there will be like people getting on stage to sing. It can be english, mandarin or canto pop. And the singers were very good, their voice were quite power. Quite a refreshing change from normal clubs. But I think it does get a little difficult for some to accept this concept, haha. Ended the night at around 4am, of course I drove. Didn't really drink much that night. There were like 8 of us with 2 bottles. So it wasn't really a lot. I was pretty sober, but of course in the eyes of the government I wasn't. Well luckily I didn't meet with any road blocks that night.

Resting and watching soccer beside this huge beer mug (if I'm not wrong its at Tiger Live)

Enterance of Dragonfly. Oh yah someone was fighting here just mins b4 we entered, he was later pulled out by the bouncers in front of us.

Singers at Dragonfly. Great performances!

Credit to the person who drew my header graphic

Okie, although I did mention just a few minutes ago that I'd like to thank this person for his work. But I thought that I should be a little more sincere by saying a big thank you to him in an entire blog post just for himself. So to csm2mk (whoever and wherever you are), well you have quite a number to great designs, the one that I took is fabulous, good luck to you and here's wishing that you'll continue to come up with more creative and great designs. Kudos!

A new look

Of course when I say a new look, I'm not referring to myself. I'm talking about my blog. Yup, for those who actually saw what my blog looks like previously (yah right, who am I kidding, I'm the only one who knows how it looks like), my blog now comes in a funky green look. I think this looks pretty cool, and it does makes me feel a little younger. And for those who of my really bestest friends out there who might think that I did the header myself (I know you bastards too well, you'll probably not think this way), I have to disappoint you guys. I found this design online on flickr, its from this person called csm2mk. Yah, if you ever see this, thanks a lot. Anyway my only contribution was take his design and added in some words to it using photoshop. That probably only requires like 0.5% photoshop skills. Well I did try to understand how the template thingy works, but my brain has limited space now, so I have not been able to fully grasp that, so other than a change of colour and a header, and different fonts, everything else is the same. Well, you should know that its not easy to understand all these computer jargons, especially for a computer idiot like myself. So after serious consideration, I thought I'll just fuck it, maybe I'll be able to understand it in the future.

Okie some updates of my exciting life. Yesterday I went for another shooting of Jack Neo's movie. This time I was a male (of course male, this was never a point of doubt) nurse. Didn't do much for this shoot, all I had to do was just to walk down the walkway. It was sooooo stupid. And for the first time, I had to do an overnight shoot. I reached the venue at Balestier at about 9pm, shooting went all the way till 4.30am in the morning, OMG!!!! And the best part of it was that I was only used from 11pm to about 1am. The wait was terrible, I was so tired I just slept on the sofa while they were filming inside. Sometimes I really don't know what they were thinking. I don't blame the AP, or casting crew (Olivia or Marcus), it not their fault not to release us, because they have no idea what the director wants to shoot later on. But I was thinking that the director aka Mr Neo, should have known better. If he knows that he is not going to be doing any wide shot anymore through the night, then just ask his men to release us lo. But still filming is fun lah. I can't deny that, though the wait is horrible. Below are some pics of the shoot...

Helloooooooo nurse!

filming took place at Parkway healthday, medical center (its near MHA)

兴昂 adjusting his camera

In the movie, we're working in a hospital called Si Ren Hosipital, get it 私人医院. Corny

everyone crowding around the monitor to see if the take is ok. The guy infront is Director Jack, the lady in red is one half of the 明珠姐妹, don't know which one though

Taken while the actors were doing the shoot

兴昂 trying to take pictures of the cast while they were filming

Tonight I'll be going to St James for the first time. Will be meeting my GIP mates there. They meeting for dinner, which I've given a pass. Will be joining there later.

Makeover

Yup, I'm currently on a revamp of my blog. As you can see, now my blog is very dark and gloomy with everything black in colour. It like my life is soooooo sad. Well all that is set to change soon. I'll be changing a number of things. The first step is of course the title. Yup, I've already changed that. Will be thinking of the colour schemes and finally make a new header for myself soon. I've seen other people's blog, and how funky they look, but sorry, I'm a hopeless with the computer, so its not going to be easy for me to make those specular stuff on my blog. Sounding nice, I'll just say that I like to keep things simple, but of course in actual fact, its because I don't fucking know how to do it. The changes will take some time before it comes out fully, so stay tuned. What the fuck, no one's gonna read this anyway. Well, so the above statements are directed to myself.

Window Shopping

One of my absolute fav past time is window shopping. Well its because I can't afford to buy everything, so more often than not, I can only satisfy my eyes. And window shopping is made even better when you do it with people you just love. And yesterday I went to Ikea and Giant with my fav friend/brother/sister/whatever you want to call him, Imran!!! Yup, been some time since I saw him and I always such a good time talking and gossiping with him. He always have so many stories to tell me. Even though I still cannot think of any similarities between us, we are still such great friends. Sometimes friendship is just such a funny thing. Maybe thats what they call affinity. People from such different background and personalities can come together and be comfortable with each other so much. Sometimes it just amazes me. Well we had a great time bitching about everything around us, and having lunch together. Yup, this few months a a lot about meeting people I don't see often. It started in CNY when I met my bandmates from sec sch and JC. Those people whom I haven't seen in like maybe 2 years or more. Then its Imran, not that many years, the last time I saw him was like probably 3 weeks or a month back. We not meeting up as much as before. Then I got a call from my long lost sec and pri sch friend, Zhi Xiang!!! I haven't seen him in like at least 5 years!!! I lost his phone number so couldn't contact him. He wanted to meet me to catch up last week, but didn't follow up. So I guess he's pretty busy now, I'll probably wait a little while more before I contact him, don't want to trouble him. I think he's working now, so the timing might not be as flexible as mine. We'll see....

Planning

Haiz, writing this blog at 1.30 in the morning, and in school. Yup you didn't hear wrongly, I'm still in school. Doing some planning for the euro trip. Well I have not had dinner, told my mum that I'll eat at home, so I'm saving it for home dinner. Think I'm also done already, so probably will be leaving soon. Tired!!! Today I've booked a total of 1 hotel for the gang, at least I have some contribution. hahaha. Well the reason I'm staying is because I came to school for lessons today, after lessons I went for a jog around school (been some time since I jogged around school, luckily I didn't lose too much on my timing). Anyway, I'm still a little sick today, haven't been feeling at my best lately. Got a little flu, now I'm slightly better. Hope to get even better soon.

Presentation

Forgot to mention something about my presentation today. Today my group had our 4E03 presentation. We had to present our report in front of the lecture, and of course we were less than prepared for the presentation. But luckily, with the blessings of the gods, we pulled it through. The member that worried me the most was Fergie. Although I hate to admit it, but the fact that he's a foreigner makes it a little difficult to do stuff. There is just something about the way he speaks that really confuses me. I can hardly understand what he is saying throughout his 5 min of presentation, needless to say, the audience. Even during the question and answer, I think the answer he gave just confuses us further, haha. Darren was surprisingly alright. This is my first time working with him, so I did not know what to expect. but his presentation, although it should have been one of the least prepared one, sounded quite convincing. So kudos to him. It was also the first time I am working with Ying Xin, she was actually ok lah. Her biggest problem was that she was looking at her notes all the time. So it looks like she was just reading from the notes. I've already done countless presentations with cy and huan, so I knew exactly what to expect from them, and they didn't fail me. As usual, huan gave me the slides at 1 in the morning (but he wasn't the latest, Darren sent his slides to me at 3). And with cy's gift of the gab, he could handle the presentation well enough. For me, I think my biggest problem today is that my presentation is a little short. I didn't have much to say. But presentation wise, I'd like to think I did ok. But the killer came during the question and answer session. The questions posed to us were super difficult. There was this Ah Pui, who asked questions that were like trying to kill us off. Fuck lah, we're all in the same boat, must you make life so difficult. Can't you just ask some dumb easy question for show only. He even had to relate our topic to a past lecture by the prof, I mean what the fuck. Well I'm glad its all over, now there is only 1 presentation left, and thats my FYP presentation, Lets hope I can get through that with flying colours as well. Once again, Kudos to my group... Well done!!!!