NeX

Welcome to NeX ala Vegas Style?

Finally, after waiting for a few years, the MRT line and the mammoth Shopping Centre - NeX - is open. The SC wasn't officially open yet but there were already hordes of people there.

I took some time off my "busy" schedule (actually i had nothing to do cos Dave canceled a photography session and my backup plan of going to ECP to shoot some failed due to the weather) and walked over to the SC.

Its big and already about 70% of the stores are opened. It took me about 15-20 mins to finish walking the entire SC with exception to the top floor which houses the Sky Garden as well as the National Library. From the floor below it looked like there is a playground for kids too similar to that of Vivo City.


I liked the store name.


Kiddie chairs in the form of race cars and bikes... look there's Barney playing on the TV in front of the seats at Super Cuts!

Restaurants, Eateries and Fast Food Joints occupy most of the shop space - in addition to the ever present ladies wear/shoe shops. Surprisingly, there were many - too many IMHO - EyeWear and Salons under one roof. What's disappointing is that there were no major clothing brands - with exception to prolly Esprit (does Isetan count?), no major Sporting brands - only Sports Link and World of Sports. I didn't manage to see where the Cinemas' are at too.


Yohoho Carl's Jnr!


Mad Cow lol

In conclusion:

Good(s) and Bad(s) about NeX

The good(s) about NeX would be the choice of Eats, Party World KTV, the library, the no. of Cinema Halls, the (relatively cheap) parking - YES BIKES CAN GO IN TOO - Car rates are at $1.20 per hr, $0.60 per half hr thereafter - Sat, Sun and public holidays are an additional $0.10, bikes go in at a flat rate of $1.20 per entry, EVERYDAY.

The bad(s) about NeX would be the lack of Major brands (i'm guessing cos it's still a neighborhood shopping mall) and the lack of a dedicated Men's clothing store.

Prelude - Back and Refreshed!

Hihi,

I'm back from the great holiday on Genting, will consolidate all fotos before posting them here.

Do check back here regularly.

Till then,



=P

Have a good week ahead!

H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.

Going on a Holiday.

Will be back on Monday night.

CYa next week peeps.

Time to pack.

=)

Weekend came and gone

Its been a boring but good weekend!

Finished the last of the CF-ing of the bike (for now), fixed it on after work on friday.

Totally enjoyed the soccer session afterwards, ran alot(more), had a slice of cheese cake double off as a birthday cake at MacDonald's after the soccer session. Dave and peeps gave me a pair of Manchester United shorts, many thanks to them! Thanks for paying for my soccer and meal, Kenneth!


Belated Birthday for Shelin and Advance Birthday for Me!


Fast and Furious 5 - The Cute and The Handsome.. - oopppsss erm i meant Shameless.


My very own Man Utd SHORTS!


The eyes of pure Evil

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Saturday was spent sleeping, met up with Ervin n Weiting for dinner at Geylang Serai Makan Place, caught the boring but productive game of Man Utd VS Stoke, Man Utd won, naturally, wearing down a stubborn Stoke defence to win 2-nil. Giggs really made an impact when he came on after half time.

Makan was on Ervin, so many thanks to him too! Went to dam afterwards to meet Garfield Tong & Bear, saw Daniel, Jeremy and JieXuan there. Witnessed a very funny spectacle while getting drinks at Yishun SPC, a young lady and her friend driving a Ah Beng Honda Stream (P-PLATE!) coming into pump petrol and did not know where the switch to open the fuel cap was, asking the pump attendant uncle to help them see. In the end, one of us went over to help and got it immediately. When we saw the female driver, she was a hot young thing with very short shorts with nicely shaped buns - CHAR SHAO BAO~!- ehem... opps, heh. It certainly deserved more than a second look although i was more inclined to laugh at her (right.) then to ogle at her buns... =X

Got caught in some rain when we went back, it rained only like for 50 meters before it stopped.. guess i was getting retribution for laughing at people...

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Slept till sunday afternoon and went to Kim's housewarming. His house was quite small, i guess its the way HDB builds them now, i guess i would want to save more to get a older resale flat, i do like my space to be big...

Small Aunt commented i was getting slimmer... though i would say its bcos she havent saw me for like a few months already... HAPPY! - More like jumping for joy, on the inside of cos...

Went home for awhile for some RE5 before going to Kuya Idz's open house. It was small but i did think it was very nicely furnished! Upz for Idz's mums flower arrangements... those look professional!

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Its 4am in the morning, the reason i'm not sleeping is because i'm doing night shift this week, its to condition myself to sleep later so as not to get tired too early towards the end of the shift - i end work at 2am.

It will be the second last night shift i will be able to do this year as school will be starting soon, 19 Oct to be exact. I will be reverting back to morning shift all the way till school holidays start again.

Looking forward to next - oops i mean this weekend... driving up Genting with the peeps - Edward, Malcom, Enyao as well as the gals... Its gonna be gooooooooddddd~~~!

I GOTTA FEELING... TONIGHTS GONNA BE A GOOD NIGHT... WOOOO WOOOO WOOOOOOOOOO

Good night and have a good week ahead!

Cheers!

A very happy weekend

Yo.

Had a very enjoyable weekend this week although i had to cancel my long awaited track session due to the big rain in the morning in SG and PG. Played soccer at The Cage in the afternoon and met up with Ervin, his GF, Nick and Xiao Xiao @ Potong Pasir in the evening. Had a very nice Zhi Char dinner at the nearby coffeeshop.

We were making plans to go somewhere when it rained heavily. I took the first chance i've got to rush back home (5 mins away) and Nick and XX came to my place to pick me up in their car before we proceeded to our usual haunt @ Cine Xing Wang. Loads of people then arrived to look for us - Michael, Roland, Sho, Matthew, Duck, Duck GF, JH - even the newly commissioned Mountaineers, Mr Davie Chai and GF. Talked alot of cock - XX promised to intro her friend to me (yay!) - before going down to YD to some seabreeze. Sat there until like 4+ before we decided to head for home, Nick and XX were meeting their friends to go to Desaru at 9.45am and i was to meet Grant and Co for Paintball Training in Malaysia at 9am.

Slept at 5am, woke up at 7, headed to Grant's house to park the bike before taking his car and picking everyone else up. Rashid could not make it due to work, so we picked up David instead. Had a fab training session, using e-markers provided by Grant on various drills, including a couple of skirmishes against one of the local teams. We lost the first one but won the second one. Got "killed" on both ocassions lol. Playing with E-markers was a great experience, would prolly now consider going into d4 or even d3, provided we can get sponsorship or we can fork out the moola to get the markers. Returned home in time for dinner with the parents. Couldn't sleep until after 1am... Die.

Woke up at 6am, turned off the alarm, and fell right back to sleep. Was almost 8 when i woke. Took halfday. Went back to sleep, Someone was having renovations nearby... drifted in and out of sleep, the next thing i know, it was 12+ Sheeet. Took rest of the day off. Could not sleep anymore so watched movies until it was time for dinner and left for school after that.

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So fast and its already friday morning. Its now 2am and i can't get to sleep. Just WTF ding dongs am i thinking about? Zzzzz... My eyes are red and i've got school tml. Boring DC Circuits. I hope those new units come in tml to allow the time to past faster.

Unknowingly, its friday again. Wish me luck, and TGIF, again.

Busy, busy weekend

Its been a busy weekend for me, studying, gaming, paintballing.

Did a half day OT on friday (replacement holiday for Vesak day).

Played Left 4 Dead with the usual co after school on friday night.

Met Cavin's GF and Lydia (the gang's friend) for the first time.

Was very disappointed that Cavin refused to go for paintball training in JB the next day after the game. I'm beginning to question his commitment for the team... I'm esp. disappointed as Grant had to ask Julya to take Chak's car instead so as to accommodate us in his car and Cavin simply didn't bother. Could see the disappointment in Grant's eyes when we told him he wasn't coming.

Slept at 4, woke up at 7, met Vince, popped over to Grant's place to park the bikes there. Picked up Bryan (spelt correctly?) at Tiong Bahru and went ahead to go to the SX paintball field in Austin Hills, JB. The place is quite big and nicely landscaped as it was a golf resort? The field is located just behind the main building.















The field is quite big, bigger than the SB field in RD. That pretty much gave me and Vince an idea how much different it is gonna be at SPNS leg 2 with the bigger field and all. Did some drills and had a couple of minor skirmishes before we had a rest to eat and wait for the field to replenish some paint.

Me and Vince went to the resort cafe to have our lunch after we became hungry after the adrenaline rush wore off while waiting for the paint to arrive. The food there are quite expensive and were prolly not worth the price at all. Vince had Penang fried kuey tiao and i had Hokkien mee. Drinks was Watermelon juice for Vince and 100+ for me. The bill came up to be a hefty 40+ ringgit. Oh well. At least the paint was cheap. 6 peeps paid about 40 SGD each for 2 boxes of paint! Its so cheap, its freaky! Advice after drills was given by some peeps from the teams who were playing Div 2 in the Malaysian Leagues. Great stuff. Would definitely want to go there again to train. Now abit itchy for E-Markers already... LOL! Left the place at 4 feeling all tired and well worked out. Really wished my whole team was there though... it was good practice.

We got home around 6. Went out with the parents for a "Mothers day" family dinner straight. I napped for a couple of hours when i got home before going to Cineleisure to meet Dave and Ervin. La kopi-ed at Xin Wang Cafe again and left to meet Louis and the others at Yishun Dam. It rained just as we were nearing Yio Chu Kang and we hid under the bridge. Left for dam after the rain let off abit only to find that the gang has left for jalan kayu. Popped over to Jalan Kayu for some tea and then left for dam again. Slacked there until about 5+ and quickly left after the lightning began to intensify. Wacked all the way home, rained when i was less than 2 clicks away from home. Got wet, again. ZZzz

Selpt until 12, going to Jess house later for Tai gong's death anniversary, gonna do my tutorial as well as some studying there as i'm having a maths quiz tomorrow...

Zzzz...

Heh. Alright. Almost.

Ehhheh.

Guess i scared a few peeps about my last post.

Just felt shitty last morning after i came home nuahing at Xing Wang HK Cafe @ cineleisure. Wrote a inspiring note to myself. Got too inspired that i immediately changed and went for a run before i went to work (OT).

The run was too fast, too furious. Going for a high intensity run without proper warm up and no sleep for the past 24 hours was stupid. I ended up completing 2 laps of high intensity run/sprint and going straight home. In the end i broke into cold sweat, felt faint and had problems bringing my heartbeat down.

Tot that i was gonna die like those people who just passed away while running. SERIOUSLY. At first i tot i was low on blood sugar so i gulped down some apple juice. When that didn't help i was like ah fuck it, i'll just go to sleep. If its gonna end like this its gonna end like this. Theres no escape.

Luckily i felt better when i woke up at 12pm. Needless to say i did not go for OT but i was honestly quite relieved that i'm ok. No more intense exercise while having less that 7 hours of sleep beforehand liao.

Met up with Dave, Marcus, Roland and Michael to go Malaysia for a eat cum CSS (Clear Carbon Session) at night. Marcus had a slight incident in which his back tyre got punctured immediately after exiting the Malaysian toll booths. We worked furiously (erm actually Michael - our RSM (Road Side Mechanic) - did) to fix the tyre for an hour before we could resume our journey. The return trip was normal with us helping our bikes clear their "lungs".

Roland and Michael went home as they got work today while Dave, Marcus and me went to our new "joint" to nuah and view scenery. The Xin Wang HK Cafe at Cineleisure. Talked alot of cock, the ones guys always talk about, job, army, gals, certain other disgusting things that still disgusts me even now (and i dun get disgusted that easily) while i am typing out this post now.

OH YEAH AND ONE OF THE WAITRESSES AT THE HK CAFE IS QUITE CUTE. LIKE HER SMILE. FOUND OUT THAT SHE IS AN INDONESIAN CHINESE AND THAT SHES YOUNGER THAN SHE LOOKS... Hmmmm...

=P

Eheh, feel like going for another run like yesterday morning before i go sleep leh. Abit scared like yesterday leh.

I guess, i'll just go to sleep. Busy day later. Morning cut hair, afternoon wash bike, at night watch movie and mebbie abit of LAN gaming with the cousin and friends. Perhaps can pop by Xin Wang again... =x

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

AAR: Touring Trip to Mersing, Malaysia!

AAR:TTTMM110409

Mission: Travel by Motorcycle to Mersing, Malaysia.

Misson Details:

100409:

11.10pm - Watched movie with Dave: The Sniper

110409:

2am: Met Bear @ Mustafa to change money

3am: Went home to change bike

4am: Met at Bjorn's house to discuss the trip.

5.30am: Left for Bear's house for a rest.

7am: Met at Bjorn's house.

8am: Had breakfast at Simpang Bedok

10am: Reached Gelang Patah

12pm: Reached Mersing, had lunch.

2pm: Reached Penak.

3pm: Slacked at Beach before Kuantan, saw a few singaporeans who stopped at the same beach. Saw a nice curvy girl among the singaporeans... WOO!

4pm: Reached Kuantan.

5pm: Got lost.

6pm: Stopped to rest, get directions as well as plan next move.

6.30pm: Got on track.

7+pm: Rained.

8+pm: Freaked out on the dark, wet and curvy roads of Genting.

9+pm: Another 130km to reach KL.

12.30am: Exited KL.

2+am: Stopped at the R&R before Pagoh. Got ear plugs from Bear as i was going deaf.

2.30am: Reached Pagoh.

4am: Reached Gelang Patah.

5.30am: Reached Bear's house. Bjorn already went missing.

6am: Reached home.

6.30am: SLEEEEEEEEEPPPPP. Finally.

After Action Review:

When's the next one?

LOL!!!!

Anyway, the pics are too many, too much for me to post here so bear uploaded it onto a webbie, therefore please click on the link to view all the pictures i took!

Prelude: Touring trip to Mersing, Malaysia!

Hi guys & gals,

I'm going on a day trip to Mersing on my friends' (Bear & Bjorn) bikes (ST11 & BMW). Moving out soon! Virgin use of the new passport! LOL!

Will blog tml night if i'm not too tired.

Have a good weekend peeps!

Titbits!

Hi peeps,

I'm home early! What a surprise yah! lol.

I haven't been home so early in weeks.

Anyways i'll be posting some (others still with Vivian) of the photos taken for the XMas party i had.

But first, i feel i have to reply to one of the comments i have in my CBox (the chatbox on the right) by Pegs as my reply would prolly be too long. =P

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Pegs: HAHA, you dun need another one to be happy..Friends and family can be enough! And you should treasure time alone too. I asked tt ques tt I asked EVERY GUY! HAHAHAHAHAHA..Gonna be les soon..=P

My Reply: I'm actually very contented with life right now, being busy on weekends, meeting friends, going places, playing paintball, going track with my bike. However, i feel that you are only half right when you say Friends and Family can be enough. Sure, i love my family and my friends alot, however, sad to say of cos, they can only provide me with so much.

Why do i say that? Can you tell your family or friend your deepest secrets? How many of your friends would sit by your side and hear your sob stories, lend u their shoulders to cry on (not that i do, i have up crying a long time ago. Its just a figure of speech.)? Even if there was, would u want to let them know everything? Your parents would prolly just nag at you (generation gap), you will wonder if your friends think that you are a bother or even if they would tell others what you have just confided in them.

I'm not saying that without "The One" i cannot be happy, i'm just saying that it would truely complete my life. Friendship, Kinship, Relationship. There are certain things u cannot do with your friends or family. Like sitting down at some beautiful beach, stargazing, soft music, exchanging sweet nothings, listening to the sound of the waves. Cannot do with your friends or family right? Imagine a group of guys or girls doing that. No "WUHEELING" ahh.

You spoke about treasuring your alone time. I do. There are times which i enjoy my time alone, doing my own stuff. However, i have grown to rather hate it as i have prolly been alone for most of my life up until now. As a single child, i have spent my childhood playing by myself. I was shy (still am, only not as shy as i was then), i dun have many friends (now i have alot! BLESSED!) so i dun get to talk much (which prolly is why i'm such a good listener =P). The only peeps i was hanging out with was my cousins (luv them deep deep arh). My parents are the type of people who dun go out much or socialise much. That culminated to me being the way i was.

Thats why i hate being alone, i love to have people around me, chatting, even just sitting down at coffeebean and watching people walk by. Kinda boring i guess, but beats being alone.

Whats up with the les thing sia. =D I think its a terrible waste for girls to become lesbians. Girls are for guys like me(ehhhhh machiam like wat sia =P HO MAN WOR =D) to be cuddle and loved. Girls with girls, not cool. =P So, dun be uncool. It ain't natural. =P

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Completed my reply to pegs, long ya. Sorry then haha. Quite sensitive topic loh =P

Anyways heres some pics for yall to munch on.

House Party - somewhere, sometime, some people.













Too many, so just a few to wet your appetite.

Next!

Track Session on 28 Dec 2008























Alright, thats enuff tibits for tonite, have a great weekend!

Another fun weekend!

Yo.

Had another enjoyable weekend last week.

Allow me to share it with you!

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Thursday

Got off to a bad start, had diarrhea... MCed. Not much thing to talk about. Fiddled around with the phone again. Slept around 3+

Friday

Woke up at ard 5am to meet pegs to go for some exercise as well as exploration of the relatively new bridge linking Mt Faber, Telok Balanga Hill, Hort Park and Kent Ridge Park as i was on leave today.


Mt Faber side of the bridge @ 6am


Hort Park. New place to chill? Free entry for bikes!


Nice view





Hort park is a garden with a two storey building as its centre piece.


Relac only...


Flora Flora








Hort park is big.


Good place to chill. I wonder how it looks like when its dark?


Hawaii so kawaii


Playground for kids.





Lion...


Tinboy.





My pretty friend


Another try.


"Humsum" (not humsup ok) Boy


Take 3





Imagine chilling here at night.


Alexandra Bridge


I just realised we walked a long long way


Winding road?





Flora Tora























Theres a reservoir on Telok Balanga Hill!


Back towards Mt Faber








My Favorite Haunt.





Cutie pie. Not. =P





I'm actually mildly afraid of heights...







Picture taking.


While i'm not ready


Aha!


More of the cute stuff =P





I WANT A DSLR!


Poster Bike. NParks dun summon me pls.

Haven't had the chance to walk to Kent Ridge park yet, perhaps one fine day i will try to walk the whole damn thing again. It's a nice place to go actually, good view and the pathways are easy to walk. Pegs asked a strange question while walking back. Still quite perturbed about why she would suddenly ask this kind of question. Was it something i did? Nah, lets not think too much. =) It was pretty much my forte until these few years which i learnt that its better to relax, go with the flow, and let things fall into place. What will happen will happen, we cannot change the end product, so its up to us if we want to enjoy our lives or just fret about whats gonna happen next. So, lets juz chill boys and girls!

Anyway, went home to slack and nap for awhile before going to Ngee Ann Poly to submit my certifications for the diploma i'm taking. Took awhile to find NP as i forgot where it was, confused it for SP. When i finally did reach NP, i was smiling to myself. Dunno why, but it felt good to be in a younger crowd again. Hope my potiencial classmates are the younger generation too - prays damn hard - although its highly unlikely (as its a part-time dip).

Went home after that and napped until 8pm where i then went to Bukit Indah (Malaysia) with Marcus and Co for a delicious dinner. The Kong Bah was damn good - sorry but in the face of damn good food, the diet has to take a step back. There goes the effects of the morning exercise. - Ben and me ordered seconds. Old man and me didn't dare to take the really fatty skin and the thick layer of fats underneath it though, we just lusted after the sweet, juicy, lean meat under all the fats.

Went full trottle going back, was really disappointed with the original pipe, top speed dropped to ard 260+, must either change pipe or the bike soon. R1 2009 next year perhaps? Went to yishun dam after coming back to SG. After relaxing for a couple of hours there we moved to Jalan Kayu for a drink. Kopi-ed there till 4+ before we all went home

Saturday

Woke up early (9+am) to meet Vince at Red Dynasty to check out some paintball stuff. Big Ben and Jane were not around due to being in Taiwan for a paintball competition. There were loads of people there and i realised that it was the paintball event that SISEU (Singapore Industrial & Services Employee Union) organised. We checked out some of the games played and was about to leave to have breakfast when we met Dixion and co (union members from my company).

I was surprised that my company had anyone in the competition but they looked quite happy to see me. They asked me why i was there which i promptly replied that i was a regular there. It was then i learnt why they were happy to see me. It seems that they were short of a player as their original member had something on and that they could not find a replacement in time. Me, being a member of the union and a paintball player meant that i was pretty much the perfect candidate for a replacement player.

I was quite reluctant to play as i did not have any barang barang with me - my personal mask, soccer boots and PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) - i was in only berms, crocs and my favorite black gixxer polo tee. In the end i agreed as i was itching to play and moreover it was free as they have already paid the participation fee.

Each team had to play two games in the same field (we got field 1) and those teams which had teams winning both their games would proceed to the semis. My team won the first round and lost the second. I was feeling quite fustrated at losing the second round as i managed to take out almost the entire opposition single handedly but one cheater (i will name him as Cheater and the rest of his team by numbers - no.2 onwards) who got about 4-5 shots from me, won the game for them.

The situation goes like this. My team was on the side of the field where the entrance is. I moved to forward left bunker after the "game on" signal, 1st shot headshot cheater (he did not call himself out but ducked back to cover), moved on to No.2 beside him, shot him out. Moved back to Cheater, shot him again once on the head and once on the chest (he ducked back into cover again without calling himself out), moved on to No.3 and No.4 in the forward centre and forward right bunker, took them out and moved back to Cheater. Got him on the head once and i was calling for the ref to check him when i got shot myself. I promptly called myself out and headed back to home base. This is when Cheater came out and took the flag back to his own base and won the game. Didn't know why the ref did not catch it since he was quite near. I wudda contested the game result if i had known that it was Cheater who won the game for them as i was running back to home base. I only found out later that it was Cheater who got the flag from Vince who was watching the game from outside the field. Game results cannot be contested once the captain has verified the result - according to what i have learned at BTO.

Anyway, although i was sore from losing to a inferior team due to a lack of sportmanship - or should i say "HONESTY" on the part of just one player, it was fun and i enjoyed two free games of paintball and i'ma happy boy.

Wud juz like to tell "Cheater", who was sporting a ponytail, wearing a blue MAE t-shirt and specs with progressive lens from Team "ST Aviation 2", I hope u aren't as "HONEST" as u are in your game as in you are in your work, its ok to be dishonest during the game but if u are dishonest in our line of work u will be putting alot of ppl at risk.

Okok back to the topic instead of the sore loser rumblings,

Went home to wash up and collect the drinks from Kai before going home. Went home to drop off the drinks and left for Bear's house immediately as i was due to leave my wave at his place for some "bike improvements". We then went for inspection of our cubs with bear's dad @ Viacom - Changi. After leaving the wave at Bear's place, he gave me a lift home and i met up with the godbro and cavin at ard 4pm.

The night was passed with dinner at Bugis Junction Sakae Sushi where we ate a record of $110+ for 3 persons.

Sunday

Did pretty much nothing as it was raining the whole day.

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Thats about all there is for last weekend, it was really enjoyable weekend for the second successive time, hope to have more enjoyable weekends during the festive period!

I'm gonna have to sign off now, its close to 6am, will update again in a couple of days.

See ya peeps and have a good holiday season!