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Before I start the post proper… The school T/O just reformatted my work desk computer! All of my hard work for the past 3 weeks, GONE! $*#$(&*&*&^^% My last backup was quite some time ago, so it would really suck to have to redo all that work. Arghhh! I’m running a recovery software on it now and praying REALLY hard that my files are still there somehow. So in the meantime, I’m gonna write this post instead of just rotting infront my of screen.

EDIT: Yay! I’ve recovered 90% if my work (pretty much all the important stuff) and I’ve only lost a few of the easily redo-able things I’m now waiting for admin access to reinstall all my softwares, databases, servers, yada yada…

We took this just before we left the place.
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The guys booked a chalet for Kel & jon’s birthdays…

The room was pretty nice, and the chalet was very well equipped (especially in the kitchen department)
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3rd Sept – Went to ECP with Xun n Jay for skating… its been a long time (last time i skated was Runway skating!)

At the west end of East Coast, where the path ends, the ‘extention’ toward the city will open 20th Sept… but since it wasn’t really blocked out, we decided to go in for a look…

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We had subway after that. Subway meals at ECP cost only $5.50! (only 1 cookie though)
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4th Sept – Preparations for YEP (OCIP) to Chiang Rai at school…

Team Building

Sadly, the next day, the trip was officially cancelled due to the political unrest in Thailand…

My sister’s birthday
We went to this Disney Restaurant for dinner. It came highly recommended by my aunt, but we were in for a bit of a surprise. We were under the impression that that restaurant was big and at least of Sizzler’s class of dinnning. But it turned out to be some tiny fast food-ish place that overcharges (a LOT), that has a Disney logo, and serves Mickey-shaped pizzas.
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The Exterior didn’t look too bad YET..

Walk in… Does this look like a restaurant to you? Or does it a Candy store?

My sister up close… while waiting

the place was well done up with disney characters and kiddy designs

the hand-washing area?

This macaroni and cheese cost ten bucks!

The signature Mickey Mouse Pizza… (about the size of a pizza hut personal pan – $15!)

my dad n I

the other pizza…

the free ice-cream given to the birthday girl…

my other sister posing with the disney characters

I took this outside the mall (i thought it looked nice somehow?)

Cutting cake back home

The cake + dry ice

Out with Tommy and his Korean friend
We went to army market for dinner (but mansaku was closed!), then walked to National Library and went to the sky garden there. We brought (insert name here) to Bugis Junction and Bugis street..
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National Library sky garden – really windy and with a pretty nice view (a good place to study – if i ever need to again… reminds me of amkss days)

Tommy tried on this very yellow, yellow shirt. Rachel if you are seeing this, he wants your opinion on this shirt as he needs ur assurance before blowing money on it.

Oh and I went to the PC show to buy harddisks, printer ink, etc few days before that.

Random NYP pictures
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we stayed back one thursday after web d to maya. And while Jay was so engrossed maya-ing, wei shun decided to be a hair stylist for the hour

Ninja Kel

After several postponements, we finally went for the mouth watering Dim Sum Buffet. I chose the River City Restaurant at Peninsula Excelsior Hotel since I clearly remembered my supervisor treating me to lunch on my last day of work at the National Heritage Board and it tasted pretty darn good. (Sec 3 June 1st Job)
Despite PX’s very early planning (2 weeks advance notice!), not all of FC was able to make it. (specifically Rachel being noticeably absent)
The day out included cycling (or skating for me) at ECP after lunch to work off the heavy meal.
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PX n Carline, waiting for the dishes to be served.

We all went nuts eating nuts during the long wait (okay, it wasn’t that long, we were just hungry)

Some fried prawn thing (NICE!)


Cha Siew Soh

Century Egg Porridge (Pei Dan Chok)

Char Siew Bao

猪肠粉

WL who came really late and who was very over-dressed, stuffing an entire Bao into his mouth with ease.

Everyone

The girls

Tommy and his korean friend – Tommy is a bad host!

Desert – gui ling gao (the other option was mango pudding)

KL who only came AFTER we finished lunch – his expression after realizing the gift we got him was ’special’ *ahem*

PJ n WL leaving in style (or rather lacking it – they tried jay-running across the road and failed miserably)

Tommy’s very bored (and probably still hungry) Korean friend. (I don’t remember his name)

Waiting (not sure for what..)

KL

Carline n PX – We were waiting for bus 36 at Raffles Hotel

Tommy n (insert name here)

I took this on the bus (I’m not sure why, but I like it a lot)

Tommy drinking KOI (at Marine Parade Estate)

It sells great tasting bubble tea and ridiculously high prices at all the wrong places. (I mean, have you seen Starbucks under a HDB flat, smacked in between a 99cents shop and a mini mart?)

and $6 just flew away…

Drinking…

KL wanted to be in the picture… so yeah

Showing off his plaster…

Walking into ECP

There were people on the Ski 360 thing…

Tommy trying to call

Stopping at Bedok Jetty for a short break.

Doesn’t this look like some advertisement trying to sell jewelery?

Oh wait no. It an Ad for Polar Mineral Water.

Yup. Refreshing~

You’ll look grumpy without Polar Mineral Water.

You can see the Singapore Skyline for here! (I said sky line right?)

(insert name here)’s candid shot

Fish

Hit the road!

EMO

Apparently there was some Sailing event going on

Look up (I wish the sky’s gradient was stronger)

Cathay Pacific files you to the moon (okay, not really, but close enough)

Oil Rigs (in Singapore? – I never knew we had oil. Do we?)

Singapore Airlines – A great way to fly.

(What plant is this?)

Lionair’s 737-900ER

Shadow Lite

And heres another Polar Mineral Water Ad. The refreshing choice~

We were next to the runway (now, if only the trees weren’t planted and the fences would just fall off, I’d have a good shot)

The track being parallel to the runway, was impossibly straight and seemingly endless.

Our 3 hours were almost up and half way back… DISASTER – PX n KL fell (as correctly predicted and expected)

Garuda

Back up on their feet

Phone

We were heading back, so were the hundreds of sail boats…

Ok, and thats all folks!

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The first thing you see after alighting from bus 82 at Punggol Road End.

The place

Dao Bin performing the art of Kung Fu Sweeping!

Boon Wai arriving…

To Reflect

We had enough drinks to quench the thirst of a hundred or 2. (not an exaggeration)

Playing around with aperture on my uncle’s D80!

Kel at the Top of the world

Look out Window

Similarly Different

Focus

‘Don’t push me, cos I’m close to the edge.’

We ended up playing Monopoly while waiting for the rest to arrive…

Still

Preparing to start the fire

Horizontally Vertical (Norgel’s attempt at starting the fire)

!!!(The charcoal was lighted and burning!)

Miss-terious

Jay holding up a burning charcoal (it was, a few milliseconds before the shutter)

Ang Rong

A blurred shot at the burning coal (badly blurred… but still…)

Our beloved OGLs
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After this, I cycled out with Jay to his house to buy charcoal and fire starters and to get his wii output cable. (it was a long way out and my bike’s seat was meant for someone at least 20cm taller then me! Argh!) Jeffery took some pictures while I was away…

Side Profile?

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All fired up!

Hmm…

FOOOOD…

The girls (off centre, no?)

Yvonne

Is there something wrong with this picture?

Hong Leong

More food!!! =]

One of our chiefs hard at work

BZ wii-ing

HZ got so engrossed in wii-ing that he failed to notice my camera focusing right in front of his face!

Edwin (dead without the cube )

Jay was trying to shock BZ (look where his hands are and imagine the reaction a half second later)

Mini Pretzels (while we are telling ghost stories)

The crib…

The girls (and Heng Zhu) leaving…

It was a starry night! :] (60 seconds exposure!)

We climbed up to the roof trying to take a group shot using a stand (this was a failed test shot), but never got to it because…
THE POLICE CAME!!!! And we all ran down stairs… Apparently they thought we were illegal immigrants seeking refuge (thankfully they didnt think we were committing suicide or anything like that) They asked a shit load of questions and collected everyone’s IC…

Police 1: Edwin Poon?
Police 1: What is your address?
Edwin: Yishun street… erm… erm… I forgot.
*everyone laughs*
Police 2: Huh! How long have you been living there, got more then ten years anot?
Edwin: Erm…(starts counting in his head) I’m not sure leh… since… err…
*everyone laughs some more!*
Police 1: How can you not know your address?! You better think! If not I can say this is not you, and take you back for questioning!

After about half an hour of checking our ICs and asking everyone questions, Police 2 (more senior one) ended the interrogation on a very authoritarian note. Dictating that we were lucky to be ‘let off’ and that if he wanted, he had enough evidence to hold all of us and call Eric’s mom (the ‘offical owner’ of the place) down to the station for verification. (Really reminds me of Quah Poh Yong!)

the commotion… (that was as good a shot as i could get, cos I technically wasn’t suppose to take any pictures)
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So after that, we watched some movies until 5.30am and wii-ed for an hour before going out to catch the sun rise by the beach…

BZ refusing to wake up in the morning…

Th

e still dark sky when we arrived with the lights from Malaysian ships…

I took this at the pier (looks like I was out in the high seas =P)

The waves crashing… (okay, so maybe not crashing…)

Some light has started to trickle in…

Those that bothered waking up….

(The idiotic guy raising his hand is Jay)

He wrote this…

I always see this pigeon on beach shots in photo galleries… so I just had to snap

ahh… The sun finanlly rises with an old Ubin boat crossing

The trees here are of a different species from the boring ones you see everywhere else…

fly

bad shot, but the only one I got(i wish those trees weren’t there!!! argh… spoil the picture…)
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After that we went back to get our stuff and took bus 82 back out to the main road. I went for my photography club meeting at Hort Park near commonwealth (See the post above)

This was a really last minute thing (the night before?!), but yea, I’ll let the pictures do the talking…
[sadly, most of the pictures I took were on peiyi's camera...]

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Met up at TPY MRT…

on the train…

took this from the Sentosa Express… “Future Developement Station”









timer shot

junwei just had to put his butt in front of the camera~

2nd timer shot

unveiling the new ‘Sand Massage Therapy’!

going back..

(whats with the expression?)

errr…

Presenting the Emmey Award Winner for stupidest face caught on camera to Anny Tan!

At S’rangoon MRT Station… we bumped into Xin Yu!

eating at Chomp Chomp!

timer shot (i wished i had removed the cups…)

walking back from AMK Central all the way to my house!!!

I went for the NRWCS(30km) with Clarissa and Yihui. With yihui and I completing the full 30km (my legs HURT!) and Clarissa dropping out at the half way point…

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Paya Lebar Airport Passenger Terminal Building

-i have no idea what plane this it-

Heading to the start point

waiting for flag off

guest of honor was late, so we sat by the runway’s edge waiting…

the 16KM mark…. (note the gradient in the sky XD)

Take off!

After 29.7km, heres the magical blue sign…

Went to ECP with Yihui and Clarissa to prepare for tomorrow’s 30km Runway Skating and also practiced some slides and slalom…

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Clarissa’s damaged-beyond-repair wheel

Lunch at BK

Clarissa brought her camera too…

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resting after slalom…

Introducing the Finepix Lumix Hybrid Cam

rocker!~