Colourful Chicks-Trip to Malacca!!!!!!!!!!!

Life can be as colourful as these chicks, don't you agree?



AFter Exam LOH! Already planning how to spend my holidays; Hapa Villa, Kbox, Chalet, Overseas Trip, Sch Trip...

Today is my last paper, envy those in combined science cos they do not have to report to school after their last paper yesterday(: | ) My last examination in 2009 is finally over. I don't hope for much, just smoothly past all subject is good enough. SA2 stretched for about two weeks. Sadly i stayed focus to study only for the first week of SA2, after that i became lazy to study. Perhaps because of the Malacca Trip made me lose my focus.

Just last weekend still in the mist of SA2, my family went for a Malacca Trip on Saturday. It was a whole day trip, we reached Singapore by Sunday dawn. This trip is organised by my sis and dad's company. People in their team who worked under the same Boss were invited to go for the trip. So my family had the chance to go since my sis and dad are in the same team.

There was a "convoy", where the six cars who set out together followed one another throughout the journey. The organiser of the trip would take the lead, followed by the rest of the cars. It is definitely a very nice experience and it made me recall about the last convoy my family had with my dad's friends 6 years ago.I was fascinated by the numbers of drivers we had that day, because at least 2 people in each car knew how to drive, so they can switch drivers as and when they like. So my dad drove his car and his second driver is my bro, my sis drove her car and her second and third driver were her male and female colleagues, and sis's boyfriend drove his car with two other colleagues. The 3 other cars were other members of the team.

We set out in the morning at 8 but unfortunately met with a car jam at custom. When we almost reached Malacca the driver switched to my bro. He was so excited for the first time driving in Malaysia, furthermore in a convoy. I believe he must have enjoyed the freedom to drive as fast as 120-130km/h, unlike driving in Singapore where he shouldn't exceed 100km/h. HAha! I love the journey to and fro on the car, not sure about the two drivers. cos i have my favourite songs which i spent the night before burning into a MP3 disc until 3am plus:P.

Roads in Malacca were chaotic and small with lots of cars. While heading to the location for our seafood dinner, we met with a problem because due to communication breakdown, the convoy was separated into 3 parts because 1 car lost its way. Ohoh.. and that was my sis's car. but at last they found their way of cos. So scary, try getting lost in a foreign country, you will end up making turns but shocked to know that you are actually going round the same place. :D

So well the food we had wasn't much of great taste as most were eaten in rural parts of Malacca, yet the trip was enjoyable because we seldom have the chance to experience and taste those things in the rural Malacca. Main itineraries were roadside street shopping, central part in Malacca, family-made Kueh Bahlu, chendol, durian, visit to a countryside house, seafood dinner and lastly HOT SPRING:)

Didnt take many pictures..




Tongue Tied?

Having twisted tongue when reading a passage??



Use these TONGUE TWISTERS to improve the clarity of your speech!

Audios of Tongue Twisters

Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat.
The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat.
The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye,
And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly.

Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott. Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott. Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot. If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot. But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott. However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?

A Tudor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
""Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?""

Give me the gift of a grip-top sock,
A clip drape shipshape tip top sock.
Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock,
But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock.
None of your fantastic slack swap slop
From a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop.
Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock
With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock.
Not a supersheet seersucker rucksack sock,
Not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik's sock
Off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-botched block.
Nothing slipshod drip drop flip flop or glip glop
Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.

Federal Express is now called FedEx.
When I retire I'll be a FedEx ex.
But if I'm an officer when I retire, I'll be an ex Fedex Exec.
Then after a divorce, my ex-wife will be an ex FedEx exec's ex.
If I rejoin FedEx in time, I'd be an ex ex FedEx exec.
When we remarry, my wife will be an ex ex FedEx exec's ex.

I bought a bit of baking powder and baked a batch of biscuits. I brought a big basket of biscuits back to the bakery and baked a basket of big biscuits. Then I took the big basket of biscuits and the basket of big biscuits and mixed the big biscuits with the basket of biscuits that was next to the big basket and put a bunch of biscuits from the basket into a biscuit mixer and brought the basket of biscuits and the box of mixed biscuits and the biscuit mixer to the bakery and opened a tin of sardines.

Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.

She stood by Burgess's fish sauce shop welcoming him in.

How much dew does a dewdrop drop
If dewdrops do drop dew?
They do drop, they do
As do dewdrops drop
If dewdrops do drop dew.

Betty Botter bought some butter but she said the butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter. So, she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter and she put it in her batter and her batter was not bitter. So 'twas good that Betty Botter bought some better butter.
-Audio:Betty Botter

Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

When a doctor doctors a doctor,
does the doctor doing the doctoring
doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or
does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.

How much dough would Bob Dole dole
if Bob Dole could dole dough?
Bob Dole would dole as much dough
as Bob Dole could dole,
if Bob Dole could dole dough.

I'm a mother pheasant plucker.
I pluck mother pheasants.
I'm the pleasantest mother pheasant plucker,
That ever plucked a mother pheasant.
Actually, ...
I'm Not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's son.
But I'll stay and pluck the pheasants
Till the pheasant plucking 's done!

One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.

Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See's saw
Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,
See's saw would not have sawed
Soar's seesaw.
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
Just because See's saw sawed
Soar's seesaw!

A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power
The she-toad vetoed him.

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
sheep should sleep in a shed.

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Do You Celebrate Hungry Ghost Festival?

During the seventh month on the Lunar Calendar, the Chinese believe it is the time when the gate of hell is opened to free the hungry ghost to earth in order to seek for food. The Chinese use this time to pay tributes to their dead family members and some think by offering food to the dead can ward off bad luck and bring good fortune. As a Chinese, my family also followed some traditional practices such as burning the hell notes and offering food to the dead. Every year, on the first and the last day of the seventh month, my family will burn incense papers. It is a belief that the Chinese burn incense papers on the first day in order to welcome the ghosts who are just released from the gates of hell, and the last day is to send the ghosts off from earth.
People pay their respect the dead by offering foods and burning incense paper.
Organisations under certain Buddhist and Taoist temples also collect funds from donations to hold a function where the Chinese will go to the temple to pray and do offerings.
Usually people you see at the temples are mostly aunties and uncles who are more traditional and have strong belief in paying respect to the dead. They believe by doing so it can bring their family good luck and have a smooth sailing life.


The grandeur of the functions depends on the amount of donation an organisation receives. Smaller functions are held in the temple itself while others are held by building a large tentage at the nearest field from the temple.



Preparation of food baskets should not be neglected at such functions. With the donations from the public, organisations will prepare baskets of dried packaged food and rice to allow people to buy them. Chinese believed that buying the food baskets is doing a good deed as the money collected will be donated to charities. My father used to buy the food baskets during the seventh month and i noticed some of the packaged foods were instant noodles, packets of coffee powder, canned foods, bottles of soy sauce and packets of salt and sugar. A food basket usually costs $50-$100.
It is commonly seen that during the seventh month, crowded places around a shopping centre or a MRT station will have a stage built up for the live performances for Hungry Ghost Festival-Getai. The significance of the Getai is meant for the spirits to enjoy entertainment and also for the people who are interested. Older adults like my mother, enjoys watching the Getai where the singers sing in dialect. Hokkien songs are the most popular songs sang at a Getai. The performers tend to dress themselves in very bright and glittery clothes and they will crack jokes in dialect that often bring the audiences laughing away.




Sometimes, you may notice the first row of chairs in front of the stage will be empty, and no one will sit there even when the rest of the chairs are occupied. This is because the chairs are reserved for the spirits to sit, Chinese believe whoever sits at the first row will definitely have bad luck and even worse, getting possessed by the spirits.
More traditional stage performances will be the Chinese Opera, which is more uncommon nowadays. Also known as Wayang, Chinese Opera consists of actors and actresses with very thick makeup who perform traditional stories.
I remembered when i was 1 or 2 years old, my grandfather and my late grandmother would bring me along to watch Chinese Opera during every Chinese. I would prompt a lot of questions to them, asking them about what the performers were saying in dialect. And they would patiently explain to me about the story.



There are quite a lot of superstitions that the Chinese believe. Some of them are:
-Do not swim during the seventh month (evil spirits can make you drown)
-At night, when someone calls from behind, do not turn back (it might be a spirit, if you turn back you can be possessed)
-Do not set wedding dates in this month (unlucky)
-Wear clothes of brighter colours

On the last day of the Hungry Ghost Festival, the Chinese will burn incense paper to send the spirits off from earth. There are some procedures which we follow:



Firstly, we light up the two candles.
Next, we prepare the incense papers by taking them out from the wrappers and strings and lay them out on the floor. The incense papers often consist of paper clothing, money, gold, silver passports (for the spirits to enter the gates of hell) and some foods.


We light some incense papers by the flame from the two candles in order to set fire to burn the rest of the incense papers.



The Hungry Ghost Festival lasts for a month. After which, the Hokkien stage performances and the burning of incense papers will stop, and the Chinese awaits the festival the next year.


Subconjunctival Hemorrhage

If you noticed my eye today in school, there was a small white dot in the white of my left eye. It was frightening. When i shared this with my close friends, they were all shocked by the bright red dot in the eye. It just appeared when i woke up and looked into the mirror this morning, but that eye appeared to be red last night. I got rather worried about it, cos i wondered what it was and later began to develop fearful thoughts. I pondered over it, preparing myself for the worst situation.



That red dot in the white of my eye is called a Subconjunctival Hemorrhage. It appears when one of the small blood vessels in the eye bursts. The broken vessel would cause bleeding in the white of the eye, thus, forming a bright red patch or dot. And there is no experience of pain or major irritation. This is usually caused by:
- Strenuous Exercising
-Coughing/Vomiting
-Sneezing
-Touching/Widening of eye
-Choking
-Severe Hypertension
-or High Blood Pressure

A more serious one would be the one below..(A foreign patient)


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Which one do you think is the most possible cause for the Subconjunctival Hemorrhage in my eye?-I'm not sure.

This red dot will probably last for a a few weeks. I am glad it is HARMLESS. It had really gave me a fright!
PhEWwww!

Be HAPPY!


Be Happy.
Ch3ryl wants to wish everyone to be happy and trouble free!
Sometimes, we may faced some things that upset us, but we shouldn't have further thoughts about those unhappy things.
Think about these dolphins, the least we can do for ourselves is to be happy:D

Have you heard of the song:" Always look on the bright, side of life. Too doo! Toodoo Toodoo Toodoo...!"
I quite like this song, cos heard before on TV, very cute song too.

10 Ways to Stay Happy
1. ALways look the bright side of life
2. Look for SoLutioNs, not ProBLems
3. Listen to relaxing, soothing music
4. Watch FUnny comedies
5. Always look at things that you have done and be proud(but humble) of it
6. Look at what you haven't done
7. Do something good for yourself everyday
8. Do not envy people who are happy. Be happy for them.
9. Associate with happy people. Learn how they stay happy in a right way.
10. SMILE!

Taiwan Trip

This trip consisted of my sis, her friend Shu Fan, and myself. I must say i have experienced quite a lot of things, since it was the first time i went there. We took China Airlines and landed in Taipei. For the 6 days, we only toured around Taipei City, which is already much bigger than Singapore. We stayed at Xi Men Ding-the place where taiwanese youngsters like to hang out, some what like Orchard Road to a Singaporean.

I realised Taiwan is really a food paradise. Everywhere you go, by the streets or along the shophouses, you'll see stalls selling all varieties of finger food. It would be quite impossible not to gain weight after going to taiwan. I enjoyed eating at
Modern Toilet, it is a toilet-themed restaurant where the foods and drinks are served in toilet bowls ranging from those for sitting, squatting or standing.

Also able to name it as Shopping Paradise, Taiwan is a GreAt GrEaT place to shop for clothes! The NiceNice tees, knee-length dress, shorts and all kinds of fashionable clothes and accessories are found there. The price is also much more cheaper than in Singapore. $7-8 for a nice knee-length dress, $9 for a normal shoulder bag, 6 pairs of good quality and great choice of colours for socks are just $4.50.
WOW! Most of all, for a person like me would not miss buying earrings. 4 for $4.50, not 3 for $5.

I often got confused by the money there, because S$1 = NT$22, so i sometimes had a bit of problem doing mental calculation. :D

Of course, we also went to explore on the hilly areas, and you will see us wearing the clothes we bought on the previous night. The transport system is also quite convenient there. Like Singapore, they have their MRT called Metro. Something i find it very interesting, everyone know that in Singapore if you do not have EZ-Link, you have to buy standard card right? Over there, since we did not have their transport card, we bought a coin which functions are similar to standard card. It looks like this:

We tapped this token at the machine to enter, and upon reaching the station, we dropped it into the machine in order to exit. This is so
COOL!

In one of the days, we took Metro to a place where we then found our way up a hill to the hot spring. The weather there was rather warm, just like Singapore. So we felt so glad to have reached at the hot spring. We paid NT$40 each to enter the public hot spring. Interestingly, there were a few pools once we entered. There was the
hottest pool, hot pool, not so hot pool, a bit cold pool and very cold pool. LOL! ReallyXD. I CAN'T STAND HOT POOL! Those friends with me at the spa pool at Vanessa's house would probably know, i can take 30 min just to adapt to the temp of the pool before i can soak my whole body in. I seriously prefer the a bit cold pool at the hot spring, although it isnt hot. And adding to my knowledge, initially i didnt know one cannot stay in the hot spring for more than 15min. but i dun think it matters in the cold pool.


And so, the next day was a visit to countryside, also a hill, which i thought it was as tall as Genting, judging from the time we took to travel up. We took Metro and then a public bus to the hill.

I was somehow amused by the way the bus driver drove. It made me feel unsecure, but at the same time thrilling. The way up the hill was full of sharp turns. And guess what? Almost every turns I didn’t feel the driver slowing his speed. That means, at high speed, the driver managed to turn at the sharp corners. And WOW! I was like on a roller coaster man.

Our motive there was to see the waterfall, and hopefully to have a ride on the cable car. From a village, it took us 1 hour to walk up to the peak of the hill, while taking pictures of the beautiful greenly hill. Unfortunately, lady luck wasn’t on our side, we didn’t get to ride on the cable car because it was closing soon. So we headed back to the village and had a Fish Spa! That made our legs so itchy. Before we went home, we had a very special dinner at that village. All the dishes were wild. As in the vegetables were leafs of the plants in the forest, the small prawns and fishes were caught from the rivers and the soup was boiled with wild flowers. Indeed special especially the rice was served in bamboo stick.

Back in Xi Men Ding near our hotel, we strolled along the streets and saw 2 squirrels! They were owned by an uncle who earns a living by displaying his squirrels for people to take photograph. The price was up to us to set, some people even took pictures with the squirrels without paying any cents.




Approaching the end of our trip, we did random shopping around Taipei city. Went to visit a Hello Kitty shop selling all kinds of things about Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty bottle, shoes, calculator, laptop bag, drawer, hand phone, utensils, apron and many many more. Then visited the Taipei Train Station, which looked very similar to an airport. That was where people wanted to travel to other parts of Taiwan. At night, we had our dinner at Taipei 101 building, the tallest building in the world. That meal was treated by my sister’s Taiwanese friend who owns a bridal shop.

DO YOU KNOW? Taiwan actually sells pig in a pet shop. People are allowed to own pigs as their pets and take them around with a collar and leash! Of course the pigs are mini size one, not big size one. I managed to see a few at a pet shop. SO CUTE!!!!

Next day afternoon, we departed from Taipei, feeling so unwilling. Taipei is definitely a great place to experience something different from Singapore. The essence of the Taiwanese language won’t be fascinating if you do not experience it yourself. Their culture is worth learning- very friendly, polite, and respectful. Serious, you should see how the commoners queue in front of the train door, and only to stand at the right side of the escalator to let people walk.



This is a great trip with Jie Jie, managed to catch up with her a little. Felt nice to be able to share a room with her again. I want to say

THANK YOU JIE JIE!!! :D

MY CuRRy BOwL!!!!!!



My CuRRy BOwL!!
YUM YUM!
mama's cooking, often served as dinner with just chicken curry with potato and rice. It's spiciness is just nice for me as someone who doesn't eat very spicy food:)

With the curry filled above the level of the rice, i can easily have a sip of it-SLuRpPPp!!!

DIfferent people have different taste for food, I must say this curry bowl is making me DrOoL...

New Northpoint

The Yishun Northpoint is now renovating, most of the shops have started to open. Very impressed by the whole concept of northpoint, the first time i went there i almost got myself lost at the basement. i must say the newly renovated one will be really huge, like a shopping paradise. My likings are the Japanese themed foodcourt(SUSHIs arE cHEaP), the disc shop at basement(I CaN WATCH BOF whenEVEr I WalK PasS), SweeET TAlk(FavouRite PEarLY MIlkTea), PeT LOveR's CentrE(although i seldom visit it, the hamsters are cute), POPuLAr( I always GEt My PEns THEre ON sat). XD

ISHI MURA-JAPANESE THEMED FOODCOURT



Very well Designed
All the foods are so special, definitely not local delights.

Woody tables and seats that are always sitted with butts on weekends

Unagi Rice

As a teenager, i wouldn't think the dishes are very cheap, but i believe is considered fair as Japanese dishes.

Prawn Ramen


Mixed Seafood Okonomiyaki: 8/10


Rice BurGER
-reminds me of Mos Burger

Some day in the future i would want to try the pizza..



OH I JUST LOVE THESE!!

never tried this before..

I know...:
Northpoint is actually built in 1992, two years older than me, and served as the only shopping mall in Yishun.
Last Sunday i just went there to explore with my parents. Is really huge, and mostly selling food especially at the basement. I kept trying to imagine how the shops were like in the past, but just couldn't illustrate which shop is at where at where...

Let's wait FOR the completed NOrth Point! :D

Netball Schedule For Coming June Holiday

NETBALLERS!!!
My apologies that i didn't pay enough attention to the C' div schedule. But as far as i know...

Holiday Training(B' Div)
*Every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Tuesday----8.30am to 12 noon
Thursday---8.30am to 12 noon
Friday------2pm to 6pm

*NOTE!
First Week of Holiday:
-[2 June] Tuesday Usual Training at 8.30am to 12 noon
-[4 June] Thursday NO Training
-[5 June] Friday be back for Self Training (preferably in the morning 8.30am to 12 noon)]

SRC Carnival
Date: Saturday, 20 June 2009
Venue: Padang

2 Days 1 Night Netball Camp
-2ND week of Holiday
-Date not confirmed( Might be any 2 days between 9 June to 12 June)

Umpiring Course-Theory Session
Date: Monday, 25 May 2009
Time: 2pm-5pm (we will be excused to leave class early)
Venue: National Stadium
*People who are absent for today's training, you have to get those consent forms from Ms Zeng

Forms To Be Handed In By Thursday
1. SRC INDEMNITY FORM
2. PARTICIPATION FORM for Umpiring Course
*Both forms are to be handed in to Cheryl, if not to Ms April Lee.

Verryyy Colourful, Informative and Useful right? hahaXD.. Tell me if there is anything to add on:P

Yoon Ji Hoo--> Kim Hyung Joong

ATTENTION!

Remember to watch Boys Over Flowers, only on Channel U every Saturday at 9.30pm.
You will definitely spent a wonderful time watching this Korean drama! It is really a comedy and romance drama, funny in the mean time touching.
Then pick out someone in the show who catches your attention, for example:
Kim Hyung Joong, as "Yoon Ji Hoo", one of the main lead in BOF.

In the show, you will see him as a very quiet and cool guy who doesn't really like to express his true feelings in front of other people.

He is always there for Jan Di when she is feeling down or when she and Gu Jun Pyo encounters problem on their relationship. Ji Hoo make Jan Di feel very comfortable being with him.

and this guy(Bottom left), real name Kim Hyung Joong, is actually from a famous South Korean boy band "SS501". They sing mostly Pop songs and have multiple albums ever since 2005. Most of the theme songs in Boys Over Flowers are also sang by SS501.

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Because I'm Stupid MV(Jan Di & Gu Jun Pyo)

For more songs, search for Making a lover, Wish Ur My Love, Fight The Bad Feeling...

Because I'm Stupid MV(Geum Jan Di & Yoon Ji Hoo)


Back To Playing Neopets!!!!

I'm back to playing Neopets!
Just got the privilege to have my Neobadge!:)


buburussel got their Neopet at http://www.neopets.com


This is the species called Kacheek, name is buburusselbaby.kekexXD

Against All Odds-Westlife & Mariah Carey