rey.blog: October 2008

Nothing-ism

Okay, its been 15 days since I last updated, but really, my weekday life now involves: waking up, going to school, eating, going home, eating and then sleeping. During weekends, it get a bit less monotonous, though I usually have no pictures of these days, so nothing to post about. So here's some random photos from my handphone...

Behold! The PS3 Lab in my school! 40 PS3s+Imbah Computer+20" Widescreen Monitor! The dream lab... and I was having a class in the classroom NEXT to it... It'll be a year before I have access to those PS3s...

When was the last time you ate a traditional Singaporean Atachee Ice-cream! (Okay, its been a while for me too; I have a sore throat and caught a slight fever last night)

Last week at my grandparent's place, I found a baby picture of... me!

When I opened my old 'piggy bank' of coins, I found a leaking AAA battery there which electrolyzed/electroplated my copper/silver coins of varying currencies. Remember the blue of copper? Argh...Chem labs in amkss....

Run-a-ton! When you are absolutely bored to tears and have an out of focus picture on hand, photoshopping provides some form of entertainment... (this was done almost a month ago... Soccer on Tingyi's birthday)
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OT: Quite a few people have asked me about the railway pictures... FYI, the tracks actually run from Woodlands to Bukit Timah to Tanjong Pagar (and formerly Jurong, though I think the tracks to Jurong have been dismantled) The section of track where I took the pictures was at the old KTM Bukit Timah Station near King Alberts Park and Ngee Ann Poly... So yeah, bring your date/friends there, it feels very un-Singapore-like. Just don't get caught (its actually illegal) or get run down by the 6 daily trains that ply the tracks (one around 7+am, one in the afternoon and one at around 9+pm in both directions)

Shi Kai's Birthday

Birthday boy with peiyi

Dinner at Breeks

Some noob waiter spilled a glass of water on Tingyi! (sounds familiar? like when Rachel got drenched at Pizza Hut last year before the Farewell Assembly thing)

Dunking Peiyi's new water-proof camera in a glass of water

Happy Birthday to you....

Blow out the candles

Group shot by the Bay overlooking the Marina Bay Sands (IR)
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Okay, my camera was running out of batteries, so I could only take a few pictures...

Holland V + Bukit Timah Railway Station

Despite having lived 17 years in Singapore, I've never visited Holland Village and it iconic Windmill. So on the last day of the holidays, Jay suggested a trip there...

The icon is abit smaller than i imagined it... (Oh and the M1 ad! argh..)

The super narrow, one way. one lane road and shophouses... very 'Hong kong-like'?

Ariel view of Holland V - alot smaller than I thought it was.. I somehow always thought it was at least at size of say Bishan? But its actually smaller than maybe even J8!

LOOK UP!

BLACK & WHITE + YELLOW =P

Ancient old lift come with ancient old buttons with a nice view..

ROOF-TOP

Frame

Slouch
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After our very short tour around Holland V, we decided to head to the KTM rail tracks near King Albert Park, with its colonial train overhead pass that I used to see every other week in sec 4 when I had to go to SP for Aero Competition...

When we got there, we got more than be bargained for... apparently, we have an abandoned KTM Railway Station at Bukit Timah!

Diverge... [OMG when was the last time u got to step on train tracks?!]

Worn

Switch

Welcome to Bukit Timah Station... Next stop, Woodlands...

Rotten wood

(Basically, me on top of a pile of stones.. since I can't think of a clever title)

Anybody say.. Tandas?

Hey Cold storage! Did you loose a shopping cart? Apparently someone bought one for a dollar to put it beside the tracks..

Path

The rusted Steel Workshop for Aged train tracks...

Hide. We have company...

alive; despite being run over daily by trains...

Yes, this is Singapore...

Peer in... [There was a rusted cone of stone just lying there..]

The 'Cone'...

Criss-Cross

The aged colonial bridge...

STOP@!!!

Time to cross the bridge... to the OTHER side..

cruved train tacks!

Watching the Sunset while stepping on tracks..
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Btw, the train tracks ARE in use... with 3 trains crossing them everyday (6 if u count the return journey) So don't be there when the trains are!

Happy Birthday Tingyi!

EDIT: Heres to missing group shot! (Sorry.. forgot!)

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Okay, this post has been due a for more than a week now. Its a long story: first I lost by SD card reader, then when I found it Rachel's host suspended her account because I left a not so legal script in my subdomain that I forgot to delete. [Apologies to Rachel and those hosted under her!] It just got back online today, so yeah, here goes.
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