Wednesday, December 14, 2005 @ 4:47 PM
* eventful?
ok ok. now for some weekly update. This could be a long one as its quite an eventful week. ;)
- 5 Dec
Nothing much really but my replacement never shows up as scheduled. =( Which keeps me wondering whether i will be staying in CGS for some more time. hmm. oh well tidied up my place abit (really is abit.=P) and i have changed to a new desktop!. =) Faster in performance but alas i wont use it for long. D:
- 6 Dec
Today is the industrial visit day. List on the itenary includes visit to the Classroom of the Future in NIE, Red Dot Museum and lastly StikFas
- COTF
Actually i had visited the place a couple of times already. I did blogged about my visits in my previous entries. Go find them yourself if you are really keen to know. =P Well this place is no stranger to me as i went in the Feb and in March with the kids. I can still remember my lancie is being used to transport a total of 6 students + 1 teacher around in the NTU campus all back then. Yep all in one car. LOL. And so we went to the classroom again, going thru the tour guided by Chris. All is the same when I toured back in Feb. After the tour, we were allowed to take one T-shirt back. and this time i chose the black colored tee. Cos back in March, i have got the white tee. =P Just nice. Complete set. tsktsk`
- Red Dot Museum
Next stop Red Dot Museum. But before that we went to visit the place, we had our lunch at the Maxwell market. Man, prices in the city area is really higher. my lunch cost about 4 bucks and im still hungry after that. LOL. ok ok so after lunch, we proceed to the Red Dot Musuem. Its located just opposite the Ministry of National Development. The entire building is red in color so its very difficult to miss this iconic building when you are travelling along the Maxwell road. The building itself is actually the former Traffice Police Headquarters. Red Dot Museum is a place where they showcase creative and innovative concepts or products being invented by people around the world who received the Red Dot Awards in Germany. They have some very interesting inventions displayed there. One example is the glowing seat. The seats itself have sensors thus when we sit on the seats themselves, the lights will change interactively. Quite cool. =D Some products displayed in the museum includes the hardest watch in the world by RADO. I personally like the stylistic magnetic shower hose displayed there. xD
- StikFas
Last stop we went to visit StikFas. Its a local toy company which took the toy world by storm in the recent years. The toys that they made are very compact and flexible. You could do what you want with the toy as the joints can be interchanged. Their office looks more like a chalet to me. Cos besides toys, theres a 9 feet pool table, 1 xbox, 1 PS2, 1 gamecube. WOOT! Their boss room is a very spectacular place where it houses his entire collection of toys which he had including Pokemon, FF7, Transformers, Kamen Riders, Godzilla, anime figures and many many more! Its so amazing how many toys he had!. The staff told us that if he has to do cleaning for the toys, normally he would take 1-2 weeks to finish cleaning them, displaying them. WOOT! I played 2 games of pool with one of the staff there and man hes good. (becos i sux..=P) Lucky enough, i never kena dragonball from him. LOL. But paul kenaed 2 times from him sia. PRO! At around 6 we ended our industrial visit and went back to school.
After the visit the whole group of us went to Stanford building for dinner. We went to a Japanese curry shop. Food there is nice. Had pork curry there. :D~ Then desert. Sometime back, i was wondering what does "Death by Chocolate" means as mentioned in Joyce's blog. Its one of the desert's name. Chocolate brownie cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. nice. =D Sorry for me sua-ku-ness. Cos i seldom go out to eat good food. LOL. The dinner was sponsored by my boss. Thanks man. =).
After dinner, we went to pubbing. Since i dun have the responsiblity to drive, i followed them to go for a drink. We went to a pub along neil road. SPEED is the name of the pub. i also first time go there too. They ordered basically nothing but beer. then we played dice games with forfeit and everyone of us were enjoying the boose. =P but sadly no chicks (cant include the
teachers leh..tsktsk`). HAHAHAHA. xD Nevermind, sang some songs in the pub too. Guess i dun really care whether my voice is out of tune or what. LOL. the people in the pub wont know who am i also. HAHAHA.
Kelvin mentioned to us he can drink well and was quite zai with it seh. But then that day dunno whether is he off form or what. Drink drink drink, he go vomitted later and pass out on the couch. xD BAHHH` In the end i myself who cant really drink is more sober than him which in fact i drink no less than him. -_-" LOL. SOMEONE (which i shant mention to protect the
identity) was damn high that night cos she always kena forfeited to drink. LOL. Shes so high that she actually go preach at my bro when he came pick me up the time. HAHAHA. My bro was like stunned also. LOL.
At around 1230 my bro came and i bid farewell to the peepz left in the pub. Again the bill was settled by my boss. Aiseh thanks man. ;) Dropped kelvin off at his place and i went home. Tired, a wee bit of drowsy cos of the alcoholic effects me went to shower and after that im dropped
dead on the bed snoring away. xD
7 Dec
Woke up the next day still have some after-effects of last night's activity. Dragged myself to school and also not much things in school also. In the end went home earlier than usual. LOL
8 Dec
Nothing much also, do my stuff in school and thats it for the day. =P
9 Dec
SAME AS ABOVE. just that after dinner me went to AMK FL to train for the team match held the next day at Atrium. =D This is also the day which i learned my stay at CGS was extended till the 27 Dec. -_-" Cos on the 20th my replacement then will come down, letting him familiarise and orientation abit for bout a week or so then i will officially hand the post over to him. ;)
10 Dec
Yes yEs, the big day has come. NY3OC vs FREE. Im playing Usui right and Happo OB for the team. Using my trusted o-buddy R32
as my battle machine for the day. LOL. Below is the action of the match which im playing. =D
Match 1 - Usui Right Dry - R32(lance_han) vs R32(RooP)
Round 1.
lance_han head started first as this game was played using "Takumi mode". All is well for me to keep up with him. My black R32 is roaring down the roads clinging tightly on lance's R32's butt. But alas, mistakes happen at the C121 portion and my R32 kissed the inner wall of that part losing some speed. But lance's R32 was of no better. He too made mistake at the c121
portion and the r32's butt scrapped a teeneey wee bit of the metal railing. Despite the mistakes, im still able to catch up with him and at one point of time my r32 was poking lance's r32 butt. =P
But the turning point of the game came when we approached the big turn of the map. I did a revised method of TST for my r32 (which i think will make the r32 turn more and easier) at that corner. All is well when i executed the move but when i applied choking of the gears when cornering, the gear shift tripped one gear downwards!!! causing a great loss of speed for
my r32. =( I quickly shift back to top gear but the speed loss was too great and from there onwards, lance's r32 was getting smaller and smaller and eventually disappeared from the driver's view. ;( In the end he won me by a huge distance of 86m.
Round 1 lost. D:
Round 2.
This round was my turn to head start. Becos of my mistakes in the first round, i have a handicap of 86m on me. 86m in an ID game is considered quite a big difference cos given 2 players its quite difficult to win at least 87m if your opponent doesnt make any mistakes. Thus it was stressful for me. Does this mean i would suffer another defeat under the name of NY? I tried
not to think too much and focus fully on this round.
3..2..1 GO! and there i was, my turn to head start. My trusty r32's engine roared down the road. Calmly i took the first small corner and i exited without a bang on the wall, thus i proceed steadily down. I glanced up and take a quick look at the difference meter and found that the difference was increasing. Looks like lance made a mistake when he took the small corner
the time. Despite that, i still need to concentrate on this round cos it was far from over.I made sure that i dun make anymore mistakes during the game and finally i was able to drag him a good 160m of advantage for me. =) Because the match's overall result wass being determined by difference, hence i won the match for NY. =D GOODUH!! I finally sigh a sign of relief
and escaping another loss under me. xD
Round 2 win. =D
Overall - win
Match 2 - Happo Outbound Dry - R34(ahphilz) vs R32(RooP)
Round 1.
ahphilz head started first in this game. Hes using the BNR34 also known as the elephant car of the IDAS game. Cos of its big butt. Despite the weakness in cornering for this car, its big butt is able to block the opponent's view when he behind this car, thus causing frustration for the player behind and often becos of this made mistakes in the end.
ahphilz had a good head start with his r34 and my r32 can only try to smell its exhaust. =P But he made mistakes in the first part of the map and without hesitation, i overtook his r34 and continue to cruise down the road of Happogahara with my r32. Roaring with the sound of the RB26 engine under the carbon hood of my r32, i proceed on steadily and finally i reached the
finishing line with a very huge advantage. =)
Round 1 win. =D
Round 2.
This time round i will head start first. 3..2..1..GO!! Both our GTRs roared with life but becos of the game nature, it was my turn to head start. Cornering thru the bends with fast and precise hand movements, i passed the first part of the map smoothly. ahphilz had made mistakes at the same part where he was overtaken by me in the earlier game thus his car slowly disappear from my rear mirror view never to appear again. I proceed steadily through the map and thus this round i won too.
Round 2 win. =D
Overall - Win
Overall NY3OC won the match with a result of 11 wins n 1 draw n 2 losses from the 14 maps which we had played with FREE. Nice job peepz!!. =D
After the entire match was over, we went to Long John Silvers for dinner. Its been quite some while that i had my meal there. Man the prices sure are getting more n more expensive. Gone were the days when its combo 1 meal was just $2.99. Its just getting more n more expensive now. =(. After dinner, we went back to Atrium and managed to break my Akina timing n Usui right timing. Nice. xD
About 1030 me and channon bid farewell to the peepz and went home. tired. x
11 Dec
Today is Sentosa day!. Went to sentosa today for beach volleyball (i is the sux), and for the sun the sand and the sea! LOL. And i couldnt believe i would actually hollanded in sentosa. -_-" This year the turnout is quite big compared to last year. LOL. Joining us got some students too. The weather was very good. Some of them built sand castles by the beach while me and
vincent and kelvin chose to cool off in the sea. The feeling is shiok ah and not forgetting feasting on the bikini babes too..LOL!!. xD~
Played some beach volleyball and realise how sucky i am with this balla sports. =( Also played some frisbee on the beach too. Played a couple rounds of dai-dee and also some pool. After which we went to shower up and left sentosa for dinner. Pasta mania is the place where our dinner was. My sua-ku mode was on again as this was the first time i had dinner at
that place. LOL. see how turtle i am sia. The pasta there not bad. or is it becos im very hungry from the day's activity? =P
After dinner we went to jalan around HarbourFront for a while and went home-bound. Took the train with kelvin n yingying as kelvin is alighting at Hougang to take a bus back to AMK and yingying stays in Punggol. Reached home, had a nice cool and refreshing shower and dropped dead on my bed after my hair had dried. xD
WOOT. ok ok think i should stop here. cant believe im so loh soh. LOL. Till next time JA NE~
