Thursday, February 25, 2010

I went to 8TV...

to get my PRESENT:

BOYS OVER FLOWERS
ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK!!!^^
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Few days ago...Monday...when I was exhausted
and reluctant to move anymore in Singapore
Sitting down mushrooming and staring at Singaporeans
in a shopping mall...I received call from 8TV
saying that I won the OST for BOF contest whee~
And today I went all the way to 8TV...saw Orange and Siao Yu
in the office....
TV Station....medias....can feel the creativeness and energetic there

The contest was very easy actually...just select one of the sentences you
like the most appeared after the last 5 episodes and state the reason
and email it to 8TV.....
and that time I'm just trying my luck and email~
Almost forgotten bout it until they call me :D

The OST comes with 1 CD...lyrics and a few photos of the casts...
I have got all the music files long ago but still....it feels Differently
when you are holding the real OST right?
(fYI...im not those who willing to spend on CDs except classical...
and even I like Jay Chou I only bought *antique* cassettes-_-
and I have already skipped several of his albums lol)

*Actually I'm still searching for one instrumental piece in BOF...
I wonder why it is NOT in the OST be it Volume 1 or 2...and
it's not found in the internet too...T_T

And they even give me 1 F4 RED CARD!!!
(hah guess only those who watch the drama will fancy it)
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Well I don't usually craze for drama series
but somehow
other than LOVE theme (which is the typical selling point)
I'm lucky enough to be able to motivate myself by chance
perhaps...paying attention meticulously on the conversations
can easily serve as part of my guidance
especially when I'm down for the past months...
It may look silly...exaggerated or whatsoever..
but it's true that some phrases or words or attitudes of the casts
gave life inspirations
and might cheer up your day or even
change your life..
Nobody cares? But I believe it yeah~^^

.

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and now I can stare at JiHoo Sunbae..
day and night
left and right
up and down
XD

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

占卜時間: 2010-02-24 15:12
占卜類型: 求職運勢
現狀:愚者

你現在的心態是很隨緣的,不會勉強給自己太大的壓力,只要自己有應徵資格的工作,你都會去試試。

問題:戰車
現在你要面臨抉擇,兩個以上的工作等你答覆,但你又無法取捨,而且是在不能賭錯的狀況,所以你會去徵詢多方的意見。

建議:倒吊人
雖然求職過程會讓人氣餒,但是轉念一想,說不定這是讓人開始自我沉澱,並且檢視自己生活態度的時候,只要撐過這段時間,就會撥雲見日。

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Experience with KTM's Night Sleeper to Singapore


This is gonna be a long LONG post as I got many things to tell...haha

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Last Saturday night I took KTM's Night Sleeper to Singapore for my interview on 22/2...
hmm everything went well though at the beginning was abit worry for the custom clearance procedures as i don't know how will it be...
YEAh this was the VERY 1st time i travel to oversea ALONE
(UK was not counted as I travelled with a bunch of friends: P
...and Singapore is still oversea right?)

But still...there are friends in Singapore....guess my next challenge for myself is to travel oversea alone...to a place where I know nobody and nobody knows me : D
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Well...for your information...KTM has night sleeper comes with bed (1 pillow+i thin blanket+1 light) with curtains for your privacy. There are 2 classes, 1st class with toilet (obviously more expensive) and 2nd class with shared toilet ....You can take a panoramic view from KTMB website to have a feel of it...the one I bought is Ekspress Senandung Malam (11)-KL Sentral to Singapore and Ekspress Senandung Malam (12)-Singapore to KL Sentral. Online booking is available and you can choose your coach and your bed (upper or lower deck). My KL-Singapore is lower deck whereas Singapore-KL is uppper deck.
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Upper deck is cheaper, RM40 one way....but the space is abit smaller compared to lower deck (just abit...and you will need to bend down to look outside via the window if u're sitting on the bed). However, I would think that upper deck will have more privacy cz:

~1st: because you will need to climb up the bed and thus you can also easily kick down the pple who wana climb up to your bed (provided that you are alert enough : P)
~2nd: just my own feeling that wouldn't be easily distracted by pple walking around compared to lower deck..
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Whereas lower deck is RM46 one way...slightly more spacious... with a big window that you can comfortably sit or lay down for night view (it's a quite awesome experience for me as i rarely have chance to travel as soon as the sky turns dark...)
Thus I have my both way for RM86....though it has a long hours journey but to me it is safer ba...at least I wouldn't need to come down at Johor Bahru + minimises the risk of road accidents + avoid traffic jam ....I think the utilisation of sleeping time to travel has already compensated the time spent on traffic jams during peak season ba...
(and buses from KL cost around rM30+ one way...slightly cheaper from train)..
But there's a weird thing where if you book your ticket and chosen Singapore as your starting point, you will have to pay in SGD.....meaning instead of paying RM40/RM46 one way you will have to pay SGD40/SGD46!!...So there's a tips which I found from another website stating that instead of buying separate ticket for 2 journeys, it will be cheaper to buy a return ticket by choosing KL as the starting point (even though you are only travelling from Sg to KL)...Kononnya the net effect will be cheaper....
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Travellers with night sleepers consist of all sorta pple:
foreign workers..families...babies...oldies...and some single man haha...
no la...it just happened that I hardly see female travellers travelling alone for both of my journeys...

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I took the train at KL Sentral's KTM (upstairs') platform. Scheduled time is 10:30pm to 8:20am the next day.
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10:07pm-
I was already in the train.... and a fair grandma came to me and saying that my bed was her bed.. ooh then i spoke mandarin to her and offering a help to find her bed.. Surprisingly the Coach number (ie. which "box" of the train) and the bed number were exactly same as mine! But at the same time i heard she's mumbling in a foreign language o.O

Suddenly I realize her features and I asked her:
"あなたは日本人ですか?"
(Are you a Japanese?)

Then she said はい 日本人です...ooh...
Japanese po-po 

Hah you know I was so freak ganjiong and at the same time excited cz finally I got a chance to communicate with a Japanese in their language..but my Japanese language is just "Sdn. Bhd." level. I just remember ticket called "kippu"... was trying to tell her that your ticket was wrong
(she was going to Singapore but her ticket was Spore-KL) and I don't know how to say "wrong" in Japanese. So I mixed up Japanese + English (she knows very simple English).

I told her このきっぷはKL え

(This ticket is going to KL)

already forgotten those ikimasu thingy...Trying to say "not Singapore” but then I forgotten that I can use でわありません cz I kept thinking of how to say "Wrong ticket" and the word popped up on my mind was "Aniyo" (Korean's "No")
-_-!!...
(reminded me on the topic which we had when the Scouts gang came to my house for "Bai Nian":" Talking to Malaysians can be tricky cz they tend to mix all the languages and dialects they know XD)

Lastly somehow she understand and she looked at her kippu and kept saying "Alamak...Alamak..." (Surprisingly she knows "Alamak"!). Then she walked off after saying thank you to me....Hah...the chinese guy opposite my bed kept staring at me during the conversation... I know I know...my poor Japanese Language.. haih...but somehow...this is a new motivation for me to continuingly brush up my Nihongo~
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10:29pm~
I heard the train's horn and the engine started (quite punctual hoh)

11:00pm~
They come to check our tickets one by one...
Done...and now you can sleep and do whatever until the next morning...

The train passed by Kajang...Seremban? (I'm asleep after Kajang)... It stopped several times to pick up passengers from several stations.. I saw kampung kampung and red tanglungs... frankly speaking I awake almost every hour throughout the night...not because of the train .....cz there're some foreign workers talking and walking around... I think I only slept "peacefully" around 3am to 4am something? cz they were also in deep sleep during that time and my peace gone when they awake again-_-
(I tell you...it's SYOK to sleep on a KingKungKingKung goyang-goyang bed lo...XD)

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The next day 6.30am~
KTM officer distribute the white card (embarkation/disembarkation card to Singapore) ...make sure you are awake around that time cz they seems like just walk by selamba saja without Ensuring every passenger who is going to Singapore to get a white card (though you can get it later at Woodlands if not mistaken).

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6.45am~
reached Johor Bahru...and the Malaysian officer will check your passport onboard (ie. need NOT get down to Johor Bahru if you're going to Spore)

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7.14am~
the train starts again and we reached Woodlands around 7.20am to pass through Singapore Immigration and Custom (to cop Passport and White card)
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7.50am~
reboard the train and
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7.59am~
train restarted the engine and is heading to Tanjong Pagar KTM (KTM station in Singapore)
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8.30am~
reached Tanjong Pagar KTM...and I walked like selamba saja without knowing where should I walk to XP ....(I did gooogled and street-viewed Tanjong Pagar KTM to Tanjong Pagar MRT but..... at last i just gave up)... It's around 20 minutes walk from KTM to MRT and I tried to take bus which was advised by my friend...but somehow the bus driver said it's very near and wasn't worth to take a bus ride...and:
"对我们中国人来讲走10分钟的路程一点也不是问题~"
(He's a Chinaman driver)
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Okay~okay~well it's early in the morning and to prove that im 龙的传人also (:S)...so i walk lo......and frankly speaking the signage was poor as there is NO indication from TP KTM to TP MRT....Not at all!
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The KTM officer told me..walk along the mainroad along KTM Station's side and turn left after 3 junctions... so I just hentam and ask the pedestrian +remember the landmarks as i need to walk back the same way then ...FujiXerox...M Hotel...Anson Twenty.. and finally i reached Tanjong Pagar MRT ..took MRT to Buona Vista station and took another bus to meet my friend at NUS...

#NUS University Hall#

as for reaching NUS...i also hentam saja: P
agak agak which station then get down from the bus... luckily i was correct
Ooh ya..another friend of mine in Spore asked me to buy
EZlink card (like TouchnGo card) for bus and MRT ..

it costs SGD15 and it has SGD10 inside...
and the amount can be topped up then...
all local pple are using it...and I saw that there's discounted rate
using the card as compared to paying by cash..

Tadaa...this is my friend's uni hostel room where I slept one night there
Soooooooo many patung patung : P


The environment is just like TARC KL campus huh...
Quiet and greeny.....but it's much bigger then TARC


Then my friend brought me to lepak near City Hall MRT
after we found the place that where my interview is

This fountain is said to be bringing wealth etc if u make a wish
and walk 3 rounds along the fountain...

Food Republic @ Suntec City
The books are fake books~but the ambience...some sort like Harry Porter 1's scene



There're many shopping complex around City Hall and Raffles Place MRT Stations
Raffles Place mall...Suntec City...City Link mall etc etc
and they were linked



Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay


Singapore Flyer...Merlion Park...
and the 3 blocks thingy is Marina Bay Sands casino

Merlion

and at night I went to my friend's Biology Lab
wow! It's just like those lab saw in TV..

but one thing is nobody there :S
The corridors...lifts....just like in a hospital~
...
Then I went back to my friend's room around 11pm
Pooi San was so good letting me to sleep on her bed while she

slept on the floor with sleeping bag..Thx dear¬
Without preparing anything for the interview
cz i was too too tired...and I just slept until the next morning...
drag until 7am and get up reluctantly haha
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Talking about interview...
It is considered successful ba...they are prepared to accept me
but the pay wise...it is yet to be notified...
plus I'm still looking forward to another company's inteview in KL...
haih...can't decide yet so don't ask me as I cannot answer yet

They didn't test me anything for the job haha
Just told me how's the job and what's the differences in Spore and Msia...
Talk bout the worthiness of LJMU...

and one of the interviewer said:
"Your english is not bad..no much difference from Singaporean English"-_-!
(1st time I heard this kinda description describing English competency)
and another thing is because I know mandarin it will be an advantage
cz I may need to listen in mandarin but write in English...
These were what they said la...

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So after the interview for about 45 minutes...I left to Orchard
to have my "Brunch" at 11:00am in Wisma Atria's Food Republic
then started my journey along Orchard road..

I thought Orchard Road is some sorta like Petaling Street or some specialty street...
mana tahu it's a road with lotsa shopping complex..

and most are high end shops..


#Paragon#


#Ngee Ann City#
and somemore Wisma Atria...Lucky Plaza...Takashimaya...
I ended up hanging in Kinokuniya inside Takashimaya

for 3 hours~wah 1st time having lotsa lotsa time for me to read...
Actually I prefered Kino at KLCC...the layout...the ambience....cz KLCC's Kino
is "more Baroque" to me whereas this Kino @ Takashimaya...more like "MPH feel"

And
Guess what...half way through reading I heard a guy shouting:
"FXXX your fXXXing attitude!"

Then I heard another uncle keep saying sorry sorry to that guy...
then the teenager walked by me and at the same time
the Kino's worker (an aunty) shouted at him as well:
"Excuse me Sir, mind your language! This is very rude..."
before she can fiinish the teenager again shouted at her:

"Mind your FXXXing language!"
and showed his 3rd finger~
o.O

I thought Singaporeans are very well educated one??

Aih duno what happened ....I only realised that I've been there for 3 hours when I started to shiver in cold... So I left and take MRT to City Hall area... Shopping malls again-_- I was so damn tired...both my legs and the worst my shoulders... I can hardly find a place to sit down inside the several shopping malls until I found some benches which were in front of some shops... Then I sat there for almost 1 hour plus until the shopkeepers started to stare at me wondering why am I there for so long....

And there's a phrase which you can see and hear everywhere in MRT stations:

"If you see any suspicious people or object, please feel free to contact the counter..."
Some sort like this.
(me?me?are you referring to me???)

Haih...no choice...I was really tired and people Shop til broke while poor me~walk til broke (shoulders and legs) . Just the same feeling like when I was in London: (
And I ended up sitting there and
staring and observing Singaporeans for another 3 hours!!

My friend call me Siao and I understand also...sitting there waiting for nothing really drives pple mad... but somehow I have this "talent" to misuse my patience XD
and out of my observations here are some shallow findings:
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~Many old people are still working!
(They work as cleaners...food court helpers etc..)

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~Many Office Ladies are rich!
(I can see many of them holding LVs'...and even teenagers holding Longchamps!)
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~The fact that many OLs are also smokers doesn't change as for Spore /Msia
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~Singaporeans walk faster than Msians...
(and Spore's OLs can walk Fast even in their high heels!)

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~Most OLs...Working aunties...or even foreign workers dressed up fashionably~
(although it hasn't reach the extent that people pay high attention to makeups as in Korea or Japan)

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~Many of the students carrying big instrument box...guitar...violin...
(so envy!!!)

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~Many were holding iPhones and BlackBerry as well!
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~I hardly hear pple communicate in Cantonese / other dialects here!
(most are not bombastic but fluent English...and Mandarin)

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and there it goes i'm back in KL now...
I heard this too often: "What's your preference?Money?"

hmm...Money is one thing...but not everything...another important thing to me is work-life balance...
(be it sounds merely idealistic and unrealistic to others perhaps)..
and I wana spilt out this for long:
I'm NOT indecisive!
It's just that...I CANNOT tell you my actual plan...or somehow it's useless to explain cz some people look at your seriousness as a joke...haha

小时了了大未必佳?
haha...Perhaps I shall prove that
you have used the wrong idiom on me!

XD
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p/s: multilingual is just another fascinating thing to me: D

Friday, February 19, 2010

过年了: D年过了: S再等过年吧: P有工做有钱花天天是过年XD

那天家里有20++人 3大盘捞生一下子搞定!
在英国吃Lobster Pot的人 ekekekek
Woohoo~多热闹哇~I Like It!

今天4辆车14人到彭亨直凉(Triang)找大舅
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明天开始连续3个晚上 将离开自己亲爱的房间到别处流浪
祝我路途平安愉快

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Europe Trip - Day 10~Mount Titlis + Lucerne, Switzerland. 铁力士雪山 + 卢森 ,瑞士 (13/9/09)

年初一真闷
除了拿红包
没有做什么
哈哈等下要
再乱吃一番
酱才像过年
: P


上雪山之前路上的风景 很有色彩!
Day 10 这个folder的照片 每次开都花了不少时间
雪山嘛 了解的 大家的兴奋程度
谋杀了硬碟不少空间也是难免的


未上雪山前的“暖身” 一个零下忘了几度的地方
当时听到国歌有吓到一下
下次有谁到那里去记得按一下自己的国歌: P
觉得在国外听见自家国歌感觉蛮妙的叻

前往雪山的缆车
俯瞰百年的冰川

缆车后要乘搭Ice Flyer才可以到达目的地

Ice Flyer里面
其实就像是吊在冷空中的秋千
只有座位 还有服务人员会问你要不要把盖盖上
原本打算好好体验那种难得冰雪的冷 不想戴手套
结果没到一下 双手已经开始因冻僵而麻痹!
没办法只好乖乖戴上手套
话说手是第二个心脏
以前也看过人家爬珠穆兰马峰鼻子和四肢冻伤发黑的情况
还是不要搞笑 我的手还要弹钢琴的: P

Contrast




西方五指山?

凯翔的RICOH GX200加上他的摄影技术
留下不少佳作


Lawrence的Lumix


雪山上的天气和环境蛮情绪化的
虽然并没有刮大风 就是冷冷冰冰 冰得你一个不留神
就有点僵掉的感觉
时而看见蓝天白云

时而能见度很低
悬崖在哪里朋友在哪里 得小心看


友团自制的雪人

我们团制造的雪人


看后面那个雪山的模样

下山 离开冰雪之地
感觉就像上云顶那样 只是会听见很多铃当的当当声
陆地上有养猪 还有其他动物 就是它们脖子上的铃当
四周都宁静的 只有源源不绝的当当声
感觉有点像是在教堂还是庙宇
hmm
缆车旁的圣诞树
(我都叫这种树为圣诞树)
如果在圣诞的夜晚
圣诞树上都挂满灯
那样的情景就算只是乘坐缆车
已经很赞了
接近山脚 叫Engelberg的地方 登雪山的必经之路


后来我们到Lucerne
名贵的钟表行多的是

我是拿机的那个 也是怂恿她们做傻事的那个: P


卢森的街道挂满旗帜


大马路中间也不放过!
危险动作小孩千万不可模仿
姐姐可是有练过的XD





巨人的钢琴
非也 是湖边一家餐厅外的装饰


Annyoung!
美丽的瑞士~