French

Now, exams are over and I am supposed to look for a part-time job. However, I decided to take up learning another new language.

J’apprends Français. Je parle un pur français.

I have immersed myself in the French culture over the past week and must say that it is a lovely subject to learn. I think that it’s easier to learn than Spanish as most of the English words originate from French.

Il y a des monuments célèbre de la France, e.g le musée du Louvre, la tour Eiffel , le château de Versailles, la cathédrale Notre Dame etc…

J’aime French !

I hope someday in the future that I will have the opportunity to go to France and live or work there. I like to use my knowledge of French language to talk to people on the streets, order things…and immersed myself in the culture…

Au revoir

La Tour Eiffel

Le musée du Louvre

La Pyramide du Louvre

Le château de Versailles

La cathédrale Notre Dame

Steamboat!!

After one day of Lunar New Year visiting our relatives, my sister generously decided to treat my family to a steamboat dinner at Liang Seah Street (near Bugis Junction). The little eatery offers authentic Chongqing steamboat style which I may not really familiar with. Though I went to Taiwan to eat their mala steamboat there, this Chongqing style is quite different. However at first when I went there, I thought that the food was quite lousy and expensive as it has few varieties to choose from. However, I was totally wrong. There is a split pot which you can order - one side is rich chicken broth soup and the other side is the herba mala or hot spicy soup. The mala soup comes in three degrees of spicyness so be careful what you choose.

Like mentioned, there are 40 food dipping items to choose from, quite little from my opinion. However, what they lacked in quantity, they make up in quality of the food items. The prawns are very fresh and juicy. The meat fillets are finely sliced and marinated to give a good flavour of the meat. There are authentic Chongqing food like handmade wonton, dumplings and noodles.

Overall, a definitely must eat. It is quite reasonably price for the freshness of the food and its service. More-over, the place is air-conditioned so you wouldn't perspire much when you drink the hot spicy mala soup.

Chinese New Year

On Chinese New Year Eve, our family always have our spring cleaning before we have our reunion dinner. I dunno why but our family always procrastinate until the last min to clean up our house. Then we became so rushed as everything is done at the last min, we became easily frustrated and snap at each other over tiny issues...however, once everything was cleaned up and we settled down to eat our reunion dinner, every bad grudges and arguments that we had with each other simply fades as we enjoy each other's company...weird ah? Every year, our family resolves to do our spring cleaning early but we always procrastinate and do it one the eve instead...

At the stroke of midnight on Sunday morning, Chinese New Year has finally come upon us...there's chinese goodies like pineapple tarts to consume, bak Gwa to chew and most importantly, ang pows (red packets) to collect from relatives. Am I too old to collect ang pows this year since I reached my 21st b'day? Apparently, I am only who thought so. My relatives gave me ang pows like nobody's business even though I am of legal age. Guess so long as you are not married, you will receive ang pows from them. After all, what's not to like money? If people gave u money for good luck, just graciously accept and thank them...who knows? you may need it in the future...

Happy New Year!

Famous Bak Gwa from Bee Chee Hiang

Happy New Year

It’s a New Year!! Whoopee!! The old has passed and make way for the new. At New Year Eve before the stroke of midnight, we make our resolutions for the New Year coming and thank our lucky stars for the blessings we had. As each one of us makes a list of the things we want to accomplish in the New Year, let us also take a moment for those who had left us in one way or another. We make new friendships, lost our loved ones, forgive our enemies and broke up with others all during the past yr. As the New Year progress, I hope that I will be able to follow my dreams and accomplish things that I couldn’t dream of.

New Year Resolution

For the New Year, my new resolution would be to be more decisive and be able to make decisions for myself. The past yr, I always obliged to say ‘yes’ to people when they asked for help. Often, I could not help them in the best way possible and end up being blamed for it. Or I am unable to make decisions for myself when there are two or more possible choices for fear that I could be losing out. I need to learn to be decisive and know when to say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ when the need arises. I guess it boils down to my time in army when I couldn’t say ‘No’ often to my superiors, causing me to be afraid to say ‘No’.

Movies to look forward in 2007

2007 is the year when big blockbuster movies come to our big screen. Click on the title for the link to the trailers

5. Fantastic Four 2: Rise of Silver Surfer
The Fantastic Four gang is back together with a new character, Silver Surfer. Is he a foe or an ally?

4. Shrek 3
The third sequel with the orge and Princess Fiona, together with the Donkey and Puss in Boots.

3. Evan Almighty
The sequel to Bruce Almighty. Nope, it doesn’t star Jim Carrey or Jennifer Aniston. However, it stars Steve Carrell, one of the funniest comedians to watch. His character is Evan and God talks to him, telling him to build an ark like Noah’s Ark in the Bible.

2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The fifth installment of the Harry Potter series…Lord Voldemort’s battle with Albus Dumbledore…cool graphics effect to look out for

1. Spider-Man 3
The last(perhaps?) installment of Spider-Man comics when Spider-Man faces not one, not two but three foes…Sandman, Venom and Hob Goblin will be the villains for this movie.

TV shows to look forward in 2007

5. The Dance Floor - New Reality show in S'pore where contestants have to dance their way to win $50,000. Should be interesting to watch.

4. Heroes - Series returning in Mid-Jan. So far, the storyline doesn't disappoint. More people with powers are discovered and another hero dies...

3. American Idol - Watch new contestants sing before Simon Cowell and hear his snippy, caustic remarks...such a joy to watch...lol

2. The Office - Love the show still. Watch Michael Scott do cringe-embarrassing things...all in a day at the office...

1. Lost - Series returning in Mid-Feb. So far Echo died, more mystery will be unraveled and a castaway might be gone...

So that’s all for this first post of the New Year. Also, by now the new title of the last installment of the Harry Potter series had been released titled “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”. I guess I would look most forward to this last release of the book which hopefully would be released by this year (Jul perhaps?)

I wish everyone the best in this year. Make a commitment to yourself to go out and discover more about yourself that you hadn’t known, live life as you want to and not what others want of you, and most importantly, never don't hold back.

Happy New Year. Have Fun\

Think they are statues? Well think again, they are performers!

Christmas Time!!

Well, Christmas had just passed and I am still feeling the after effects of bloatedness and my stomach groaning from too much turkey, ham and sausages. I went for the mid-night mass at my church and celebrated the birth of Christ with my friends. To me, the meaning of Christmas is not about shopping or exchanging of gifts or even abt Santa coming down the chimnys to give presents which some might say tat he is the Devil w/o the ‘n’. Instead, Christmas is just about being thankful for wat you have and spend more time wif your family…All of us have our ups and downs throughout the yr. However, we should be thankful be grateful for wat we have. As the year is approaching its end, Christmas is also the time to take some time to reflect our past yr and thank God for all the blessings tat we have received. Also, we should take moment to pause and pray for those people who lost their lives during the Asian Tsunami 2 yrs ago. It helps us to remind ourselves tat life is fragile and we should cherish it and continue to live for the moment…

As Christmas has passed, the malls have begun their annual post- Christmas sale. Sadly, there wasn’t much things to buy for the mens’ department as most of the items were still too expensive or not on sale…For the ladies, I guess today must be their lucky day as many items were up for sale…

Another small peeve of mine before I end the post, how come people dun have the decency to clear up their plates esp during the rush hr...took this pic during the late rush hr and it's seems tat the staff and the customers can't be bothered to clear the rubbish...sighx

Video Taken in Taiwan

Ok, I took this video when I was in Taiwan at the Sun Yat-Sen museum.

Taiwan pics!!

For the past couple of days, I kinda write quite a long post, so wanna take a little break now...show the photos of my Taipei trip...

The tallest building in the world

- Taipei 101

A night scene from one of the famous market
- Shilin Market

Lunar New Year suxz - My com spoilt

Arghh, I had a lousy lunar new year last weekend. I can't go out visiting our family relatives and friends coz my father had recently passed away. Chinese tradition deemed as those folks who go visiting during Chinese new year will pass their bad luck to their relatives and friends. So I have to stuck at home. Luckily, I thought my PC will be my source of company as I will be able to watch American TV shows like 'Sex and the City' and 'Grey's Anatomy'. But then, my worse luck came about as my PC spoilt. Of all the times to get spoilt, my PC has to choose this worse timing ever. Now my PC is fixed, all my downloaded shows have been wiped all. Shit, now I have to re-download the shows again...sighz