I love merly :)

I'm now on the mrt back home. Met yixin after work and took a walk around suntec. We really don't go to the city often. Chanced upon gelare and had their half-priced waffles. In the end we were too full to have the buffet I really wanted. We wanted to catch a movie too, but the timings were too far off:(

Yixin's drooling on my shoulder as I type. Haha alright that's an exaggeration. He's happily sleeping and nodding vigorously.

As we simply could not decide what to do with ourselves( to think it's our like 3yr2mths anniversary), we started walking. And we did walk very far. To the floating platform where we were rejected entry due to yog rehearsals, then along the bridge, past the merlion, through the Fullerton bay hotel, and finally we reached the place where they were having yog celebrations. I'm really bad with the names of places in town-.- There was a rapping performance going on, and halfway through fireworks appeared in the night sky, though not as long and pretty as the one I saw on Friday night. I decided we should walk on and find ourselves a bus stop ( while making yixin walk around on tiptoes for being irritating), instead we found this underpass which brought us to raffles place mrt after walking like 24km on foot.

This morning I had yog duty again. Took advantage of the relatively smaller crowd and took photos with the 2 cute mascots! Lyo was being exceptionally flirty today, and kept bullying quiet little merly. But merly was caught pulling lyo's tail too. Ahaha. I would miss seeing them once the whole thing's over.
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Haha it's actually in the morning now, didn't get a chance to post them last night. Photos coming up:















And that last one is me successfully doing a baby freeze, though still far from looking nice. Alright I gotta get to work, finally the last day!

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YOG

Haven't blogged about my volunteering experience at yog! Some photos to share:

This very cute baby is just so lovable! He would always laugh whenever his grandma sang "twinkle star" to him. He let me carry him, and I took the opportunity to get a picture. When his parents sat him in the big O, he kept rocking forward and backward and scaring all of us. Wonderful baby :) Lots of babies pass through the area everyday, they're such a joy to watch!

Yea this is the place I work at, and when there are times like this when there's not much crowd, we take photos!

That's the merly plushie they're selling over at the store. I'm so gonna get one for myself, when prices drop. I haven't been able to take photos with the mascots though, they're always surrounded by people when they come. Hopefully during my last two days of work I'll be able to get a picture!

Last friday some guy came around and told us there'll be fireworks at marina wherever. So after work we made our way to the merlion place (while getting lost on the way there, but we made it in time) and saw the most wonderful fireworks display I've ever seen. It sure wasn't as magnificent as the display at the opening ceremony, but I definitely had a very very good view. The photo above was taken with no zoom on my n93i. I was at the end of the platform, and the display happened right in front of me, above the surface of the water. It was loud, and smoky, and brilliant!!! :)

On sunday my parents came to the yog exhibition and we went off after my work to this restaurant that has "best ribs in america". Haha I forgot the name. There was this pretty koi garden right outside the restaurant, with big fat kois lazing around. We had 2 full slabs of ribs that were really delicious. Well worth the money, even if we didn't have the discount coupons.

My volunteering experience has been nice so far. I felt really proud when an egyptian official told me "Singapore is a beautiful city", and when this caucasian women came over to shake my hand and said "You volunteers are wonderful". Feels really good to know that we're appreciated. Food's great, and the other volunteers I'm working with are such fun people! We actually went to try out boxing, and I realise throwing punches is not as easy as it seems. Haha. I'm looking forward to the Universal Studios trip they're gonna give us as appreciation! :)

I spent some time reading articles with very negative comments with regard to the YOG, and can't help but feel sad. It's not like what they're complaining about is wrong. But all the negativity and pessimism radiating from the comments makes me feel depressed. I keep thinking, what if those people who slog their guts out trying to make it a success read this? Knowing that all their efforts have gone down the drain, not appreciated. I'm not talking about myself, so far it has been a great experience as a volunteer. Got to meet new people, learn new stuff, see cute korean taekwondo guys in action heh. I don't understand why people our age (i'm guessing from the way they type) can be so negative, only harping on mistakes made but not complimenting jobs well done. Is it the norm now, to blindly oppose whatever decisions our government make? Immature. 无聊. Such highly-biased, one-sided opinions...confirm fail GP-.-

每次我想要不顾一切朝着梦想前进，现实的包袱总会出现，我只有背着它走；走着走着就习惯了，脚步越来越轻，好像又可以继续冲刺。但它又出现。我很累，但我顶得住。只要我还看得见梦想，看得到我努力的意义，那再重的包袱，我也要扛着走下去。小小的蚂蚁可以，我也可以。

Jay Chou Concert 2010

Finally, the long awaited Jay Chou concert! How many hours have I spent sitting in front of the computer, clicking the refresh button every few seconds just to get myself a pair of tickets. I actually forgot all about it on the final day of ticket sales, but managed to secure 2 pairs (for mingte too) eventually. But the performance was definitely worth the price and effort! Love how he changes tunes and especially the lyrics, to keep his singapore fans screaming :) Wish I could have been in the front row though, to shake his hand! His singing ability is fantastic, didn't show any signs of fatigue right until the last song 霍元甲， which i think was unplanned since there weren't any lyrics shown. He was super high, as were we, and he insisted on ending the song with chants of 新加坡，新加坡 HAHA. Damn high, the whole stadium was filled with our chanting. I wish it didn't have to end so soon, I wanted to hear songs like 发如雪、菊花台...too many songs to choose from le la. It'll probably be very hard to choose songs in another ten years. Oh and halfway through the concert he tried to make us all stand. "椅子不是用来坐的，是用来放包包的。。。我知道新加坡人很害羞的，你们不站，我就不唱！”Heh. So we obligingly stood for the rest of the concert. Which isn't a bad thing, I find it's easier to get high this way.

...I'm already looking forward to his next concert in singapore! :)

Night safari on a random monday

Yup looking at our one and only photo we took at the night safari I realised I haven't blogged about it at all. Haha. So on a random monday, I forgot which day was it, yixin and I set off from AMK mrt on a very old bus that makes a lot of noise to the night safari. It was a long trip, we should have taken the bus from CCK instead.

There weren't a lot of singaporeans, the place was mostly filled with tourists from all over the world. Not much food to choose from, given that a plate of chicken noodles sell for $15 there. We settled for the more reasonable western food, and ate by candlelight. Haha. First thing we did when we entered the safari was to queue up for the "Creatures of the Night" show. We took the photo while waiting for the show to start! :) Yea specs on, so I won't miss anything heh. Hmm, i remembered the crowd freaking out when they announced that they lost an animal and it turned out to be a snake? python? hiding beneath a row of seats. And the cute otters too, trying hard to toss metal cans into the recycle bins. I suspect they are the same little otters at the zoo.

After the show we hopped onto the tram and looked at animals. The deer came especially close! We hopped off halfway to take the leopard trail. We did see a lot of leopards, but I was more fascinated by the fruit bats! The small little things just fly around the enclosure and amongst the visitors, as if we don't exist. Some of them were happily gnawing at their fruit, placed strategically along the pathway so that we get to see their cute manner. The flying foxes looked a little scarier, hanging from the trees upside down and looking as though they might transform into a vampire anytime. Not a bad thing though! We went to another enclosure with the red flying squirrels, but they were more interested in eating than fly around. Such a pity, I wanted to see a real flying squirrel in action.

There are 4 walking trails in total to cover, but we were so tired after taking the tram back that we headed straight home. A bit wasted! If I'm ever going back again, I'm going to get more sleep the night before and wear comfy shoes.

PANDAMEN ♥

Finally, two more days of work and I'll be free! Been slacking a lot these few days, usually I spend my afternoons watching PANDAMEN ♥ It really isn't that bad, not the worst that I've watched so far. Love the behind-the-scenes after every episodes, I get to see Jay working hard. 认真的男人最美丽！

Finished the second book Daniel lent me - 楼下的房客. Immediately after putting down the book I googled the song "Gloomy Sunday", and it gave me all the creeps. I know the myths about it being linked to suicides is not true, but when associated with the storyline...I cannot fully explain it here, but imagine this scene: A petite lady, wearing a silky white dress, makes her way down the dim staircase, dragging with her a large black garbage bag. The uncomfortable dull thuds the bag makes with each step, the light yet crisp sound of her heels, and her quiet humming of "Gloomy Sunday". The bag breaks, a streak of red substance appears, and the sight of a head with 2 pencils stuck in each eye... Yea, that scene was even more vividly described in the book, in chinese! Urghh I'm having goosebumps just writing about it here.

On a happier note, er, urghh that image, yea I shall write about what I've learnt during this period of work. I've definitely met a lot of people I wouldn't have a chance to meet if I were to remain in my current social circle. Shiyun Qiaohan and I are probably the only people in the office to have been in university. Most of the rest graduate from ITE. The way they speak is definitely not what we get to hear every day, but they do know of things that I usually don't think about. It's like, their problems are more related to their survial, literally, like having money to feed themselves. Me? I worry all day long about not getting a scholarship to please my mum. It's the same issue - money, but somehow I feel my worries are superficial. And then I get to talk to the older girls too, and learn that they think the young ones are too immature. The older girls are more experienced in their way of handling work and people, they don't show displeasure or complain openly, but talk about it in private. I'm like stuck in the middle - I can relate to the younger ones (actually almost my age) and I can hold a conversation well with the older ones. In a way, I get the best of both worlds! Ahaha. My Excel skills have also improved loads! But I don't think I'll do a lot of excel work in my future career.

Hmm, looking forward to Jay's concert next next Sunday!