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Fever...

my temperature blew hot & cold today.
had fever on and off.

i think im dying soon!
wonderful.

posted by Jeremy @ 9:55 PM 0 Comments

New Fengshui Position...

Contractors came to my shop today to fix up some cabinets to display new items in the shop... Installed many drawers too so that we could store all our spare strings for the music instruments... looks abit like those Chinese Medicinal Shops in olden days where people grab different herbs to make into chinese medicine... haha

Anyways after the cupboards were installed, boss decided to change the positions of both mine and his tables (Thank goodness, FINALLY!) The previous position i was sitting at was facing the West, and this year the Presiding Deity of the Year (Tai Sui) is located in the West, so sitting directly facing him is NOT the position you'd wanna be in this year cos u'd be in "direct confrontation" with him.
Haha all these fengshui information is beginning to rub off on me .. haha... Until now i still carry my San Bao Chuan (3 Chinese Zodiac Animal Friends) with me and wear my emerald Fengshui ring everywhere i go...

Met up with Ed @ Esplanade after work... we were reminicing about old times and looking back we both realised how much we have progressed and matured over the years and how much we have affected and influenced the people around us that we care for. Had dinner at the hawker center next to the Esplanade though. Tried the Oyster Omelette there (muz try from all over Singapore)... Cooked differently from the rest cos the cooking process was like mass production (4-5 plates at once)... tHe taste was very even... but the oysters were very well done.. not too raw and not too overcooked. just the way i like it. Overall the taste of the flour & egg still loses to the individually cooked Oyster Omelette at Bedok's 85 Market. But their oysters rule in terms of size and taste.

haha i should become a food gourmet someday.. =D~~~~

posted by Jeremy @ 2:59 PM 0 Comments

Grandma's Birthday...

the day started out wif mingx coming to my house from his chalet... he muz be a superman... not enuff sleep still can tong chalet for 3 days, go hsinghai for percussion sectional practice, go gaming with me then after that STILL go to Merchant Court to work ... muz be an Iron-Man or something. If it were me i would be half dead by now...

Today's practice was pretty productive... ironed out some parts of the few songs we were playing for next month's concert at the Esplanade... Kat & Lieyong came down to help out too! so happie. haha. anyways they're 2 really reliable people i don't really have to train cos they've played LTHY for like billions of times already... haha... by the way i whacked my finger into the drum stand for the Da Gu. The whole thing swelled up and became red.... Hurt like hell until the swelling subsided and now im left with a black'n'blue patch on my index finger!!!!!

Skipped down to city hall mrt to meet my cousin to go to Yishun for my Grandma's Birthday Dinner... had some good food such as Sharks Fin Soup, Abalone and also my favourite Black Pepper Crabs... muahahaha

eat until now my fingers still have abit of black pepper smell.... after washing my hands so many times... hahaa

posted by Jeremy @ 2:59 PM 0 Comments

Finally.......?!

Finally after ages and ages past of losing money at mahjong i eventually emerged winner tonight! Won $22++ in total (covering last week's loss) haha

Lucky day today... first hand i won maximum liao... then went on to win every hand in the East Wind...

First time in my life i came close to getting a xiao san yuan (3 Red Dragons, 3 Green Dragons and 1 White Board for eyes) but too bad couldnt complete the hand... but i think if i did the guys would kick my ass... haa

Got on the taxi home... then taxi uncle forgot to press meter until 1/4 of the journey... duno really anot (i suspect he k-siao wanna beat the 12midnite mark before he press so he got free $1.20 Midnite charge) but i reminded him at around 23:54pm so he LanLan Suck Thumb have to press... haha

When i got home the meter fare only $6.80 from Serangoon North to Bedok... sKiLLed

=D

posted by Jeremy @ 2:59 PM 0 Comments

Sanur Indonesian Restaurant

Met up with Ed & Simona after work today... went to have dinner at Sanur Indonesian Restaurant... Ordered Tauhu Telur (Fried Tofu with Egg), sayur lodeh (Curry Mixed Veggies), Sambal Kangkong, Fried Chicken and many other dishes with white rice...

Overall not too bad, but i had better. Sambal Kangkong was my favourite for that meal anyway(YES i do eat SOME veggies)!!

posted by Jeremy @ 2:59 PM 0 Comments

Financial Planning

Met a Financial Advisor called Jessie for a session of Financial Planning after work today...

Her company, Philips Capital, is located at Parkview Square... the VERY exclusive office building opposite Raffles Hospital at Bugis... The bronze carvings and Interior AND Exterior deco made the place look very classy...

There was this nice bar in the middle of the lobby area with a raised platform with a piano player and a bassist there playing jazz music while all the customers there were enjoying their drinks... nice.... =D~~~

Muz go there for a drink sometime... Who wants to check it out with me? (pls lemme know)

posted by Jeremy @ 2:13 PM 0 Comments

Kungfu Mahjong!

Met a lady from AIA to discuss some insurance stuff today... she also analysed the results of my character aptitude test for me today... Using the DISC system...

Seems that i'm a "CI" person... Politically correct, principled, conservative, black-&-white-rulebook-follower, innovative, inspiring and most of all a people-oriented person. I also don't change even when under pressure, so that makes me a very stable person and a reliable friend... but the downside is that i can become very inflexible and cannot change act according to circumstances.

On a lighter note, met up with weiming after that to catch the movie Kungfu Mahjong... good movie if u are a mahjong addict... haha (like me) Too bad my family members know next to nothing about the 144 tiles we use to play this wonderful game.

Settled down for abit of LAN gaming after that... then had dinner at Mcdonalds... cos I had to conduct a percussion practice at hsinghai after that...

Overall a very fruitful session of percussion practice, although STILL can't get full attendance cos Yingqi was having night classes... Managed to whack my members in shape abit more during the practice... Treat them to a round of drinks after that at the kopitiam and made fun of the "zhu chao" auntie (Sensormatic) there... hahaha

posted by Jeremy @ 2:53 PM 0 Comments

Star Wars Horoscope?

Star Wars Horoscope for Capricorn

You have a ton of ambition and inexhaustible desire to reach your goals. You are very loyal, going to great lengths to help someone out. You are a very social unit, winning the hearts of many with your cute personality. Star wars character you are most like: R2D2

posted by Jeremy @ 2:13 PM 0 Comments

Shi Zi Lu Kou?

haha my shop became one of the Pitstops for the Food Game played by Swiss CO today...
so fun! never seen my shop buzzing with activity before...

They really turned the originally sleepy neighbourhood of Stirling Road into such a lively place today... I take my hat off Zhiyin, Vivian & Wanting for coming up with such a nice idea... At least i was pleasantly surprised... haha

Anyway I'm glad Wanting liked the erhu i chose for her... Its rare because of the wood material it was made out of, and a good example why older woods produce better sound quality! Gave her a nice Erhu case for a birthday present too... and saved her some money so she could give zinc & vivian a treat after that.. haha (I'm still waiting for my treat...~)

After they left juz worked and worked till 9pm. Bummer. At least after that managed to catch dinner with Eddie & Xinwei @ Bedok 85 Market...

Reached home to find an envelope "ON GOVERNMENT SERVICE" onnit. Damn. Opened it to find out that it was only a scare. No SAF100 no callup no nuthin'. Just some "How to be a reservist" stuff. Phew.

posted by Jeremy @ 3:07 PM 0 Comments

basket

Basket... lost $21 at mahjong today. Ed was complaining the whole night about being unlucky... i guess he really is unlucky enough... never seen him win ONLY $3 tonite... (Ed's usually the big winner)

i guess angry people are able to win easily cos that has happened to both Simona & Ed... mebbe i need to climb up mountain to learn from the master... which ironically is my apprentice mingyawns.

Percussion-wise im the master he's the apprentice. Mahjong-wise he's the master... Cos i dun call him "Chup Sa Yeo Kia" (Hanyu Pinyin: Shi San Yao Kia). Mebbe he can give me some tips to collect the 13 Odds in Mahjong... muahaha

Need to catch some sleep. Working early again tomorrow. Bet boss doesn't even know that i stayed till 9pm to finish all his stuff. For working 11 hours in a day i really feel like i'm working my ass off. Gotta work smart rather than work hard. Sighz.

posted by Jeremy @ 4:45 PM 0 Comments

Japan Hour??!!

Just finished watching Japan Hour on ChannelNewsAsia.... they had a show on package tours around the different prefectures in Japan....

So much nice food and onsens(Hot Spring Baths) in Japan!!! hahaha makes me wanna go there and soak in the warm water during winter time... surely feels good...

Then they showed the local delicacies of Matsushima, a short trip to the Oyster farms, then the cooking procedure and the final oyster meal ... =D~~~~~~~~~~~~

Looks SO YUMMY! I have loved oysters ever since i ate my first one... and i have never seen oysters THAT BIG! haha maybe i mountain tortoise (Swakoo) but for one i would really wanna take a trip to Japan for a vacation...

Anyone up for it?

posted by Jeremy @ 8:22 PM 0 Comments

Zen Micro!

Spent almost the whole day playing around with my new Creative Zen Micro 6GB Mp3 player... so many functions and recording stuff!

Added my whole collection of 553 mp3s into the player and realised that they only took up 2.48GB.. haha still got much much more to store... the recording function rocks too.. planning to record my practices tomorrow.... hehe

Its confirmed: My reservist unit is HQ 8 Singapore Armour Brigade... at the new Keat Hong Camp opposite Tengah Airbase along Sungei Tengah Road... Very very inaccessible and out of the way, yet only 15 mins away from Lot 1 Shopping Center. Opposite the camp is an airbase, to the left are the Christian and Parsi Cemetaries, to the right is a construction site...

Oh and i noticed that 80% of my reservist unit all are old uncles.... =P

posted by Jeremy @ 10:03 AM 0 Comments

Teaching

Took a trip down to Karl Heng @ Bras Basah today... went to buy a few Suona shao zi for my students... then sat down to have a chat wif Fenglan-jie & Mr Yeo... Checked out the HKCO cd collection there and set my sights on "the Journey to Lhasa"... Next on my Shopping List! (growing... So many things to buy!)

Taught my classes again today at Holy Innocents'... Suona & percussion TOGETHER... so in the end i decided to switch my attention btw the 2 groups... SIGH! why do i always get the attitude problem students? mmm maybe i can see it as a challenge for me to nurture them into talents, but at least today i finally showed my students how much they had actually improved in the past few months of training...

Only 2 bad incidents marred my almost good day of work because of my 2 most hyperactive and problem kids... One comes from a broken family with no one to look after him, the other one is talented but his parentz didn't teach him the right things...

Decided to take a bus ride home today... regretted the decision 1 hr 30 mins later when i was STILL on the way back home. Moral of the Story: Taking a bus from Queenstown to Bedok takes a LONG, LONG, LONG TIME. =P

posted by Jeremy @ 2:38 PM 0 Comments

Madagascar

Woke up bright n early to collect a permit from AVA (Agri-Food) & Veterinary Association for the purpose of re-exporting the snakeskin of an erhu to another country.

Was in the tanjong pagar area, so i met up with da dawg yongchoon for a light lunch... ended up with me paying (again)... haha...

Met up with Hans later at Tiong Bahru, went to catch the movie "Madagascar"! haha Although juz a cartoon, but its quite funny, to actually see a zoo from an animal's point of view... BTW the penguins were the best part of the movie... On the whole a watchable movie... if u have the time and money to spare.

posted by Jeremy @ 12:52 PM 0 Comments