We thronged over to Vincent's place on Sunday for his birthday celebration. It was quite cramped, and the corridor and lift landing were packed with his friends and relatives by the time Yock Song, Dennis and I arrived. We were late thanks to a wrong turn at Toa Payoh. The sumpteous buffet dinner cumulated in an alcohol overload on the poor birthday boy, thanks to the generous contribution of liquor by Ivan. Well, it's a good thing I got him something that might help jumpstart his liver again...
NSSonline
There is an associate professor by the name of Chew Shit Fun. It is a perculiar name, no doubt, but there are some rather mean remarks on the net regarding the poor lecturer. Hell, there is an unofficial mirror page dedicated to her. It's certainly most depressing to be made fun of on campus, much less the monster of an internet...
Dear Visitor,
A very warm welcome to my Blog. NSS@Home is very much a personal Blog as it is an information Blog. It is an attempt to capture my many experiences, be it good or bad, in and around Singapore, including eateries, movies and other services.
Thank you, and have a pleasant day ahead!
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Oh yes, for all Magic: the Gathering enthusiasts out there, The Grand Prix: Singapore held at Suntec City from 18 to 20 March 2005 was won by Itaru Ishida.
Here's a teeny update:
Backdated entry:
03 March
Lunch at California Pizza Kitchen with the ORD fellas - Joshua, Daniel and Connor. We ordered a 2 pizzas and a pasta for only 15 bucks per person. And I'd say it was quite filling. I then went on to the GenCon near Funan Centre and bought four cool Marvel Card containers for 2 buck apiece.
25 March
Good Friday. Went out for lunch with Zi Rong and Loren at Foodmore (Yep, that's 2 weeks in a row...). This time round, I tried the 'fried' rice wrapped in an omelette (S$4) and fried dumplings (5 for S$3).. The rice was disappointing, but the dumplings were quite savoury.
We hopped over to Sim Lim Square after that to source for a budget computer. For under S$350, one can get a rather functionable 2 mHz system with 128 MB RAM and 40GB HDD. That's cheaper than most electronics gadgets nowadays. Most probably will be returning on Monday to make my purchase. Laptops, opn the other hand, cost no less than S$1,400 for a respectable one. Looks like I'll have to wait till SMU engages a distributer before I can finally lay my hands on mobile PC technology. Loren wanted to buy a Philips 15-inch LCP monitor, but there was not a single attractive, female promoter there, so he turned tail and decided against getting one. Tsk.
Backdated entry:
03 March
Lunch at California Pizza Kitchen with the ORD fellas - Joshua, Daniel and Connor. We ordered a 2 pizzas and a pasta for only 15 bucks per person. And I'd say it was quite filling. I then went on to the GenCon near Funan Centre and bought four cool Marvel Card containers for 2 buck apiece.
25 March
Good Friday. Went out for lunch with Zi Rong and Loren at Foodmore (Yep, that's 2 weeks in a row...). This time round, I tried the 'fried' rice wrapped in an omelette (S$4) and fried dumplings (5 for S$3).. The rice was disappointing, but the dumplings were quite savoury.
We hopped over to Sim Lim Square after that to source for a budget computer. For under S$350, one can get a rather functionable 2 mHz system with 128 MB RAM and 40GB HDD. That's cheaper than most electronics gadgets nowadays. Most probably will be returning on Monday to make my purchase. Laptops, opn the other hand, cost no less than S$1,400 for a respectable one. Looks like I'll have to wait till SMU engages a distributer before I can finally lay my hands on mobile PC technology. Loren wanted to buy a Philips 15-inch LCP monitor, but there was not a single attractive, female promoter there, so he turned tail and decided against getting one. Tsk.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Did monitor consistently my BP for the past week. On Tuesday, it was still high, but by Wednesday, it returned to normalcy.
BP Monitoring Chart:
140305 / 1600 155/70
150305 / 1130 130/70
150305 / 1800 148/100
160305 / 1035 121/68
210305 / 1120 120/70
Met Clarence Heng from ZHSS in the sickbay on the 11th. He's now a cadet in my camp.
Joined in Jin Yu's Birthday dinner at Fish & Co., Bugis Junction. We had a Seafood Platter for 2, a Whole line fish and a smoked salmon salad. Someone commented that the Whole line fish, my recommendation, looked erm... 'ugly'. It certainly looked different from the one I ate at Chua Chu Kang with my camp mates, but thankfully this did not affect its taste. Prior to that, I was looking for them at Yogi Hut, an organic food cafe near Tekka Food Mall. What was supposed to be an easy trek from Little India MRT soon became a mini city tour for me, as I hunted down the elusive cafe. Just as I was getting exasperated, I saw a little Inn, and asked the friendly receptionist for directions, to which she promptly directed me to the cafe, just FOUR UNITS DOWN THE ROAD! Sheesh...
Will be doing this Thursday's duty in lieu of Zhi-Yang's wargaming exercise... Well, it's a Good Thursday duty, which means I'll only get to book out the following morning.
On Sunday, I met up with Zi Rong and Jian Ming at Sim Lim Square, after which we went over to Foodmore for lunch. The Chicken chop rice (mini-wok)(S$4) was quite tasty, and the portions, generous to say the least. After lunch, we trooped off to Sim Lim Square again, and Zi Rong bought a limited edition Blue-cased I-River for S$470 nett. What a bargain! And bundled along was a polaroid camera. Lucky! I settled for a score of ultra-thin CD cases and knowledge of a workable AMD 2100+ PC with 40GB HDD and 128 MB RAM going for S$338! Might consider getting one for dad to work on, since the one he's using now is a 200 MhZ one.
My Maple Story is up and running again! Heh, now can start training my level 30 Cleric, in anticipation of Ossyria and the next job upgrade of Priest at level 70 (Summon Dragon)!
BP Monitoring Chart:
140305 / 1600 155/70
150305 / 1130 130/70
150305 / 1800 148/100
160305 / 1035 121/68
210305 / 1120 120/70
Met Clarence Heng from ZHSS in the sickbay on the 11th. He's now a cadet in my camp.
Joined in Jin Yu's Birthday dinner at Fish & Co., Bugis Junction. We had a Seafood Platter for 2, a Whole line fish and a smoked salmon salad. Someone commented that the Whole line fish, my recommendation, looked erm... 'ugly'. It certainly looked different from the one I ate at Chua Chu Kang with my camp mates, but thankfully this did not affect its taste. Prior to that, I was looking for them at Yogi Hut, an organic food cafe near Tekka Food Mall. What was supposed to be an easy trek from Little India MRT soon became a mini city tour for me, as I hunted down the elusive cafe. Just as I was getting exasperated, I saw a little Inn, and asked the friendly receptionist for directions, to which she promptly directed me to the cafe, just FOUR UNITS DOWN THE ROAD! Sheesh...
Will be doing this Thursday's duty in lieu of Zhi-Yang's wargaming exercise... Well, it's a Good Thursday duty, which means I'll only get to book out the following morning.
On Sunday, I met up with Zi Rong and Jian Ming at Sim Lim Square, after which we went over to Foodmore for lunch. The Chicken chop rice (mini-wok)(S$4) was quite tasty, and the portions, generous to say the least. After lunch, we trooped off to Sim Lim Square again, and Zi Rong bought a limited edition Blue-cased I-River for S$470 nett. What a bargain! And bundled along was a polaroid camera. Lucky! I settled for a score of ultra-thin CD cases and knowledge of a workable AMD 2100+ PC with 40GB HDD and 128 MB RAM going for S$338! Might consider getting one for dad to work on, since the one he's using now is a 200 MhZ one.
My Maple Story is up and running again! Heh, now can start training my level 30 Cleric, in anticipation of Ossyria and the next job upgrade of Priest at level 70 (Summon Dragon)!
Monday, March 14, 2005
REDCON 2A!
Whee... We managed to achieve that despite some minor hitches, so that means we're now Operationally Ready! Next ATEC is in ten years time...
We're now doing Alert manning again; this time it was (as usual) uncalled for (unplanned, unexpected, whatever...). One whole month of Alert manning. Hopefully there're be no bank robbers escaping to Tekong or terrorist threatening to blow up our critical installations, because WE WILL BE THERE IN 4 HOURS AND GUN THEM DOWN. Now, that said, our REDCON 2A battalion will be ready for anything.
Friday, 11th March
Despatched two-odd stacks of FFI forms to Kranji Dental. They complained that they were running out of forms. Sheesh... Anyway, Ming Hui's going to start clearing from End April. Thanks to a whooping 14-days off for our better-than good results in ATEC, I'll be starting from the start of next month. Heh, gave him a treat; That's for being a great (and patient) buddy during BMT, for going through CMC together in the same platoon, and for covering our ATEC.
Saturday, 12 March
Went down to SUNTEC today for the IT Show and Shin Min Daily Record setting attempt. The IT fair was understandably crowded. There were some great deals, such as the USB adapter (S$ 29), Ethernet modem (S$ 115) and HWM subscription (S$ 120+), which comes together with a free 128MB thumbdrive. What I got, though, was a stack of CD jewel cases; the selling point is its capability to stack on top of each other. Innovative!
Monday, 14 March
NSC appointment today. The Specialist was a visiting fellow, a Sinhalese, whose accent was so strong, I was trying to figure out what he was trying to say half the time. Thankfully my Singaporean accent did not affect his ability to comprehend my sentences.
RHG Check up in the afternoon. Did an X-Ray and check up, all for the price of S$ 18.90. I suspect SMU subsidizes the Check ups. The doctor told me that my BP was quite high. This is of particular concern to me, as the highest I've had so far was 138 (systolic), and that was in Secondary School. He told me it was more like 155! Either the machine's faulty (it's a manual sphygnomanometer, by the way) or the doc's wrong. Well, either way, it's time to buck up and start intensive training. The blood vessels are complaining!
I met a P017 coursemate at Comics Connection. (?)Jake's going to ORD in 2 weeks time. My turn will come soon.
Whee... We managed to achieve that despite some minor hitches, so that means we're now Operationally Ready! Next ATEC is in ten years time...
We're now doing Alert manning again; this time it was (as usual) uncalled for (unplanned, unexpected, whatever...). One whole month of Alert manning. Hopefully there're be no bank robbers escaping to Tekong or terrorist threatening to blow up our critical installations, because WE WILL BE THERE IN 4 HOURS AND GUN THEM DOWN. Now, that said, our REDCON 2A battalion will be ready for anything.
Friday, 11th March
Despatched two-odd stacks of FFI forms to Kranji Dental. They complained that they were running out of forms. Sheesh... Anyway, Ming Hui's going to start clearing from End April. Thanks to a whooping 14-days off for our better-than good results in ATEC, I'll be starting from the start of next month. Heh, gave him a treat; That's for being a great (and patient) buddy during BMT, for going through CMC together in the same platoon, and for covering our ATEC.
Saturday, 12 March
Went down to SUNTEC today for the IT Show and Shin Min Daily Record setting attempt. The IT fair was understandably crowded. There were some great deals, such as the USB adapter (S$ 29), Ethernet modem (S$ 115) and HWM subscription (S$ 120+), which comes together with a free 128MB thumbdrive. What I got, though, was a stack of CD jewel cases; the selling point is its capability to stack on top of each other. Innovative!
Monday, 14 March
NSC appointment today. The Specialist was a visiting fellow, a Sinhalese, whose accent was so strong, I was trying to figure out what he was trying to say half the time. Thankfully my Singaporean accent did not affect his ability to comprehend my sentences.
RHG Check up in the afternoon. Did an X-Ray and check up, all for the price of S$ 18.90. I suspect SMU subsidizes the Check ups. The doctor told me that my BP was quite high. This is of particular concern to me, as the highest I've had so far was 138 (systolic), and that was in Secondary School. He told me it was more like 155! Either the machine's faulty (it's a manual sphygnomanometer, by the way) or the doc's wrong. Well, either way, it's time to buck up and start intensive training. The blood vessels are complaining!
I met a P017 coursemate at Comics Connection. (?)Jake's going to ORD in 2 weeks time. My turn will come soon.
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Has been a fortnight since my last update, thanks to ATEC preparation last weekend.
230205
Went to Jurong Point for Night's off. At Harvey Norman, I had a half-hour massage therapy, courtesy of the iSqueeze and the iMedic. OSIM's iMedic chair was officially launched in Singapore in April 2002. The designer of iMedic, Dr Matsuura, specially made a trip from Japan to give a presentation during the press conference. And I can see why. One must try out the iMedic's range of therapeutic treatments before commenting further on its price tag - a whooping S$4,700 odd.
240205
Battalion Movie Night. We were called back to company line after fifteen minutes, to prepare for a field pack inspection.
Pillow fiasco. I found my support pillow missing. Someone cleverly swapped it for a low-grade SAF one. Upon further investigation, I found out that mine was not the only one missing. Jian Zhong also had his removed, but then again, it was his second last night then, so oh well...
250205
Most of the company booked out after 0900 hrs, but we had to stay back till five or so in the afternoon, thanks to some last minute Medical Continual Training, as well as to familiarize our new MO, Dr Timothy, with our outfield arrangements and SOP.
Will update on ATEC next week! Keeping my fingers crossed for a high REDCON 2A first...
230205
Went to Jurong Point for Night's off. At Harvey Norman, I had a half-hour massage therapy, courtesy of the iSqueeze and the iMedic. OSIM's iMedic chair was officially launched in Singapore in April 2002. The designer of iMedic, Dr Matsuura, specially made a trip from Japan to give a presentation during the press conference. And I can see why. One must try out the iMedic's range of therapeutic treatments before commenting further on its price tag - a whooping S$4,700 odd.
240205
Battalion Movie Night. We were called back to company line after fifteen minutes, to prepare for a field pack inspection.
Pillow fiasco. I found my support pillow missing. Someone cleverly swapped it for a low-grade SAF one. Upon further investigation, I found out that mine was not the only one missing. Jian Zhong also had his removed, but then again, it was his second last night then, so oh well...
250205
Most of the company booked out after 0900 hrs, but we had to stay back till five or so in the afternoon, thanks to some last minute Medical Continual Training, as well as to familiarize our new MO, Dr Timothy, with our outfield arrangements and SOP.
Will update on ATEC next week! Keeping my fingers crossed for a high REDCON 2A first...