I am back quite fast this time horrr.. haha i wanted to update yesterday actually but i think i got too sleepy and went off to sleep instead.
I took a few pics of my office to show you guys what the place i am working at looks like haha.
Here's the overview of the office
Here's where i sit.
And here is me!!!!!
The smiling hog.... indeeeeeed :)
Oh yah look at this logo i saw while i was at Kovan Mrt... does anyone know what this is???It was on the floor near the ticketing machines.
Yesterday my dad's 7th month association had their post 7th month dinner and they got a band and singers to come sing.... a mini getai!! haha some of my dad's friends were moving their butts to the beat of the song and even my dad was happily running around and then bringing angpaos to the singers.
Here's a pic of the stage.
really got a lot of people present ahhh.
and one of the singers sang the following song.... the title song for 881, Yi Ren Yi Ban aka Jit Lang Jit Pua.
《一人一半》 演唱：伍加輝 改編詞:小寒 曲:伍加輝
一人一半 感情不散 一人一素故 感情才會久 時光累計 安靜的淚滴 一心去追 愛那么可貴
Chorus： 這樣的人 這樣地等 無非是等個回應眼神 為愛翻滾 不計傷痕 甘心為你一生都浮沉
這樣的人 別笑我蠢 傻傻的 心痛也不覺疼 就算天冷 就算殘忍 等你想起這沒用的人
一人一半 感情不散 已經找到愛 為何要離開
時光累計 安靜的淚滴 一心去追 愛那么可貴
Repeat Chorus*
一人一半 感情不散 已經找到愛 為何要離開 已經找到愛 為何先離開
The above lyrics were taken from Jeremiah's blog. Many thanks to him :)
Here's the original mTVs from youtube...the individual and duet versions.
The song is part hokkien and there's this thing about hokkien songs that sometimes gets me going. too bad not a lot of teochew songs to go around for the teochew half of Joshy.
Tomorrow is Saturday already, how fast a week passes by man.. what plans do all of you have tomorrow??
Nothing much for now haha i don't even know what to write... guess i best be off to sleep for now :) See you guys soon.
Look at the title of my posting, i am sure at least 50% of my readers have heard of the place before right??Well i googled for Eighteen Chefs and there have been quite a few people blogging about the place and the food there already. Here i am to add my piece :)
Yesterday after work i wanted to go home via number 9(i was at Simei because i got off the mrt at Simei station). The bus was too crowded and drove off so instead of waiting for the bus, i decided to look for some grub at Eastpoint. I remembered walking past Eighteen Chefs lots of times last week when i was at Eastpoint and so i decided to patronise the place.
First thing when i entered, the easy music that was on was instantaneously soothing and i quickly found a place to sit down. My hands went for the menu and wow there was quite a lot of stuff i would have loved to try out. Stuff such as baked rice(you can choose one sauce and your choice of ingredients for the dish, i am soooo gonna try scallops next time). In the end i chose the 3 cheese omelette that I had been eyeing since last week. I added another 4.90 i think for a soft drink,soup of the day,garlic bread and one scoop of ice cream!
I thoroughly enjoyed the food... soup was nice to drink(it was mushroom soup by the way), garlic bread was crunchy, omelette came with fries somemore and the cheese was. what can i say, cheesy? :)
One dish i noticed that I am definitely dragging my friends along to eat next time is the Cheese Baked Red Chilli Crab. The head chef cum owner Benny goes personally to buy the crabs every Wednesday morning - the dish has to be ordered in advance every Monday and Tuesday of the week and its only sold on Wednesdays haha which is today... guess i shall eat it next time.
I didn't take any pictures but go no further than Mr Leslie Tay's website, this post of his captures a very beautiful and yummy picture of one of Eighteen Chefs' dishes. His blog was one of the sites that i managed to google from the key words Eighteen Chefs. It looks great doesn't it?
Hmm songs songs songs, there hasn't really been any new songs that is on my mind right now so the lyrics of the day would be that of an old song... very old in fact. The song's name is Tian Ya Ge Nu 天涯歌女 and it was popularized and originally sung by famous singer/actress Zhou Xuan 周璇.
And here's a Youtube clip which has original footage for this song!
And it turns out its quite creepy because apparently tomorrow on Sept 20th, it would be Zhou Xuan's 50th death anniversary and here i was suddenly having this song pop into my mind.
For the uninitiated, Ms Zhou Xuan was a famous singer/actress from China and she was most famous throughout the 1940s. Just imagine, her nickname was Golden Voice, so you can imagine how nice she sounds. Sadly though, she passed away at the considerably young age of 39 - and inside a mental asylum of all places :( . Her premature death reminds me of another great singer , Teresa Teng.
Random fact out from Wikipedia, Colin McRae of WRC fame, has passed away in a helicopter accident. May he rest in peace.
Ending on a light note though, here's a funny quote for you all.
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'. -Homer Simpson
Sorry for being away for so long again. Not that I have been away or anything but just didn't manage to update my blog. I guess a lot of you have grown tired of clicking my blog and not being able to see any updates eh?? hehe i really got to try and be more consistent in my updating even if its just to comment on something.
Well as the title of this post implies, i just finished my 2nd week of work as a temp. Currently i am working for Accenture as a temp technical writer and i'm working at HQ SCDF. I don't really write anything i guess, what i've done so far is do testing for the software the people are developing and doing some powerpoint slides for the user manuals.
I'm lucky that I manage to have nice colleagues so my time there isn't that bad. The only bad thing is i that i got to wear long sleeved shirts everyday haha... well i guess for work there's no choice?
Loads of stuff happening all around us, Senor Pavarotti passed away this past week, may he RIP. I don't know the difference between a tenor or counter-tenor but i do know that he is a very nice and friendly person. I mean, look at the smile on that guy's face man... he looks so jovial. And yeapz i have heard his voice before and its really powerful and very mesmerizing. The 3 Tenors of which he was a part of will never be the same without him.
A lot of blogs must be talking about the dude who smuggled out his SAR21 rifle and its quite sad that his future will be quite smudged after this incident. This led me to think about an underlying problem which i feel might be starting to grow bigger and bigger in not just Singapore but across the world. The CPL who smuggled the rifle was deemed to have been suffering from depression and depression is one of the illnesses that is striking a category of people who may not have suffered from it for the last 2 decades or so - and that is our young. Although the dude is already 20 and may not be considered as young, the age group i see depression happening most is in from the age of 10 till 18. I think this is the period where education is suffocating a lot of children. Yes, i know i am spouting this without any evidence, but kids nowadays are really doing a lot more different stuff than they did during my school period.
I may not be the best person to talk about education, given my dismal record in my academic achievements, but i do feel that a lot of life is taken out of the children due to truckloads of school work which i feel do not equate to success or happiness in life. A lot of the subjects in our school curriculum do not add value to the student's life and in some instances causes the student to feel demoralised and useless. Now, the student may excel in other areas other than the subjects provided by the school but due to the exams needed to get promoted to the next level, the student will have to get stuck doing something he/ she doesn't like to in the future..and all this is done with the student also not really getting a lot of time for socialising and learning how to get along in society....
Oops i seem to have gone on like a broken record... shall stop here for now on the above topic.. haha otherwise i may rant on for a long time.Ohh haha actually there is this comedian in america who is very good at ranting and diatribes... his name is Lewis Black. He acted in Accepted, which was quite a good movie too and ironically it is abit related to what i was talking about above.
Well its the weekend right now people, what are you all doing? Reading a good book?Watching a good indie movie?Listening to nice music? How about all of the above one after another??
I read online that there seems to be going to be some sort of gathering at Centrepoint today where people are encouraged to wear black shirts... hmm wonder how that will turn out in the papers tomorrow.
Do you guys know about Nan Quan Ma Ma??They are proteges of Jay Chou and they are quite talented musicians too. The lyrics for a song and the link to mtv for today will be for their song Xiao Zhe Liu Lei (Crying While Smiling) 笑著流淚
I am a guy who spouts lotsa rubbish..just imagine a clown who talks a lot hahaha
Birthday : 3rd Feb 1980
Star Sign : Aquarius
Nicknames : Uncle, Biscuit
