I went into the Circuit Park before Edmund reached City Hall 20minutes later. The Aston Martin race was going on already. There were Singtel Singapore F1 merchandise stalls and F1 Team Merchandise stalls. Both types are frequently mobbed by F1 tourists and locals.
Just a few seconds after taking the shot above, a group of entertainers paraded behind me. A handful of females and 1 male groupie. The guy keep muttering words like " C'mon let's have some love. Yeah" and "How're you enjoying it? Smashing, aren't they?(referring to his female counterparts)"

Day 2 : Practice Session 3 and Qualifying Session.

Pole Position-F. Massa

P2- L. Hamilton

P3- K. Räikkönen

The qualifying rounds were absolutely exciting last night.

Here's how the qualifying works. Now F1 GP has 20 cars racing ( less 2 since the Super Aguri team quitted early in this 2008 season).

All cars hit the track one after another for 20mins to get their best timings. Top 15 gets through to the next round. Slowest 5 in this 1st round will sit at the last 5 spots of the actual race's starting grid.

2nd round lasts 15mins and will start after a short break from the 1st round. Top 10 in this round will advance to the final and 3rd round of qualifying. The slowest 5 in this round will be placed from 11th-15th spot on the starting grid.

The 3rd round is the same as previous Q. rounds. Whoever is fastest in this final round will be on the pole position at the start of the race.

One point to notes is that the qualifying rounds don't give credit to whoever that gets the fastest lap timings. A driver would need to get consistent fast timings in Round 1 and 2 to make it to the final 3rd Round to be able to fight for the pole position.

If you crashed or failed to survive it back to the pit lane after the round is up, you will be placed at the starting grid as the slowest spot of the round. E.g you failed to finish(Fernando Alonso was the unlucky one) in Round 2, you will be starting as the 15th spot, as would normally the slowest driver in Q. Round 2 will get.

F. Alonso was 6th fastest in the 1st round. Then his car's fuel supply failed him at the turn in front of our grandstand during the 2nd round of qualifying.

Here he retreats to the back of our Bay Grandstand.

I went to the ground level behind and below our grandstand.

Here's the unobstructed view behind the support paddock.

Then I got to the middle of the stairs and took some more pictures from the stairs opening.

Around the stairs area.

Hamilton zipping through underneath the grandstand tunnel.You can probably guess from the picture below how many people actually went on Saturday.


Another random shot.

Here's a quick report on my trip to the Marina Bay Circuit yesterday. At 7pm sharp, the track lights had come to live. Somewhere near us(Bay Grandstand aka the NDP grandstand) the first F1 car started revving down the road from its pit lane. We know because we saw it on the big screen in front of us and the thunderous engine roared somewhere else within the city area. About a minute later, the purring of more car engines got louder as the cars raced down the Marina Bay Street Circuit. Without any asking, everyone in our grandstand rose from their seats in unison to welcome the first F1 car into our sights, and through new grounds of the under-grandstand pass.


This Singapore F1 Gran Prix has made numerous "First". One of them which relates to our grandstand is the unique never before seen pass underneath the grandstand. I am glad I bought Edmund and myself a seat in the Bay Grandstand. There were several spots around the grandstand that I was able to capture the cars in action. The most obvious option the audience chose is the front where the cars are about to make a left turn beneath us. There were alot of people with D/SLR cameras getting shots up close, so much so that the ushers and police were trying to herd them to the side end of the stands.


Look at the above picture. If the car went straight ahead and missed the left turn into the grandstand, the driver would've found himself in a tight dead end. A handful of drivers drove right ahead. From what we can hear, it's like a dragon flying down the track and groans when it gets into the dead end. For Mark Webber in the early rounds of the 1st Practice Session, he missed the turn and crashed into the barrier of the turn. Here his car is waiting to be picked up.


Second spot was in the middle of the granstand, the level where the toilets are. It is extremely loud in there because of the echoeing effect. You can survive without ear plugs up at your seats, but it's a must when the cars pass below your feet here.


The third spot I tried was at the very top and back part of the seats. At this point you can see the cars turn out of the grandstand.


Today I will move off the grandstand and down to the track side behind it. From there I am able to capture the car coming straight at me and another nearby spot I can capture the back of the cars.

still quite bent on quitting maple. but I realised I got some threads still going on in the forums. Gotta be fair to other users. I hope to sell off the asura dagger at 10m(c/0) or more, then buy back another dragon's tail and scroll the hell out of it with 60% and 10%. NO MORE DAMNED CURSED SCROLLS. I still got 2 more times of 24hr exp to use in my cash shop. So I need to finish that off too before the deadline.

That should put my game to an end on a good note for now. I need a maple break !

Ya Ta ! Under 50 days to ORD ! Days after quitting maple feels more objective for me already. No more sticking my face in front of the screen playing a 2d game.
I helped to make "jiao zi" today ! But my fillings were small compared to mum's 'cos i can't put so much "liao" into 1 dough piece and mould it with my hands. I probably made about 1/3 of them. Also helped in rolling the dough and cutting circular shapes out of them.

Dad tried to setup the Mio modem this afternoon but we all got stuck real bad. We only found out that the user/password we used was wrong late in the evening. In actual fact, dad changed the password years ago from the unusual default password. Everything's fixed up already-the main comp in the master bedroom, this laptop i'm using now, and the desktop in my sister's room.
Otsukare(good work) !

I'm taking a quiz on military.discovery.com to find out what kind of gun I am. So...I'm a....

You are an Uzi!

Who doesn’t love an Uzi? The compact, yet powerful Uzi is a favorite of special forces and elite soldiers. When John Hinckley tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, one of the secret service agents pulled an Uzi out of a briefcase to defend the president.

My comments:
I especially hate this type of guns ! Looks so short and possibly unstable aiming. I realised there's Discovery Channel websites to check out on the web. I've always loved science channels and archaeological shows even though I've never got Cable at home.

Quitted Maplestory on September 19, 2008. Cause of retirement : Unfair scrolling experience.
Uninstalled every shit files related to Msea, less the screenshots I took with the guild.
Everyone around me will be glad I quitted this addiction to an endless game like this. I especially hate putting things to chance (like scrolling). FUCK THAT SHIT. I'd rather look at stock charts all day. At least stockmarket can grow my wealth. And 1 advice if you're trying to come into investing. Don't go for those 40% growth in 10 years if you follow my system in stocks investing. FUCK THAT TOO. Imagine you have S$1000 now. Do you want to see it grow to S$1400 in 2018 ? I want three more zeros behind it.

Similarities behind the self-made wealthy people
1. BURNING DESIRE

Today's off for me !
Maple maple, piano piano.
boomed my dt last night, gonna do another one tonight.
Started learning Sundial Dreams on the piano. It was relatively easy because the score repeats itself alot. Easy to work with both hands as well.

My saturday started at 10am with a Wealth Mentors seminar at Amara Hotel in Tanjong Pagar. Everything was great about the seminar and it was more than enough to convince me to sign up for their mentor program on the spot. I paid down a deposit and will pay the rest by instalments over 24 months. It must be a good sign from God. Because I noticed they were using optionsxpress as their coaching website and I already have an account from optionsxpress(but zero dollar capital inside for now! >.<)
Edmund told me he went for the seminar years back and it was conducted by a pui pui male. For this one I went, it was a pleasant looking lady who's already a mum. Can't see that from her figure really.

After all that dream-catching moments, I was set to watch Boys Over Flowers at The Cathay. WTF is wrong with me? I saw the both the box office attendants' name tags(Malay names) on the table before I was served, and I asked, "1 ticket for Hana Yori Dango." She replied a "Huh" and I said the same order again until when her second and louder "HUH?" shook me to reality. Inside my head was something like, "HEY WTF man...They don't know the japanese name for the movie la fk!" Daniel was going to be very late so I had to watch it alone but he eventually hopped across my seat about 40mins into the movie.

Phoebus Chan here performing Minami Piece of Sena. Kimura Takuya played the piano piece in his competition in the drama Long Vacation. "Kimura" was a avid pianist who wanted to do well, but a girl interrupted his life one day and he finds it harder and harder to play with more affection because he had too much relationships in his life after that. But he won the competition with this piece because he played with his heart to show how much he cared about Minami.


*Phoebus said in Cantonese, "I played it until it spoilt :) :)" after he rehit the missed note.

I'm going to clean my room tonight ! Kept getting blocked nose due to dustmite when i sleep in the room.

I just hopped to many friends' blogs to look at what's going on in their lives.

Yong Zen stepping into army on 10th Sept ! WOah ! Like Takuya says it, "~~Yeap. The time has come !~"Shawn's going for the "island life" in sept too.

The girls...Having fun in universities...oH crap I'm going to be like 2 years their juniors! Back to *lil brother again !
*I was almost always the youngest in class with DOB 13 dec.

For one girl, she morphed into some hot goddess ! Yup i'm talking about Kaini ! I wun forget the farnie and good times we had as a track team under Tham Tham. Those were also tough times, but also life experiences. Thank God for filling me with that wonderful part in my life. I've been tracking Kaini in her modelling career, or rather by chance...Found out by accidentally that she was one of the 44 Grid Girls for Singapore F1. But seriously, it was so not you in that grid girl video. Camera frights i supposed hahah. Inside her blog was a video about how Singapore's Rich could be getting richer but leaving behind the poor to only get poorer. Then the plentiful captures of frail grandmas doing the rounds in hawker centers and walkways to hawk their tissue papers miserably. One thing I can't stand is the idea of grandmas going out to the streets to peddle their goods or scourge the back alleys for re saleable paper boxes.

Don't ask me why I never buy their tissue papers when i see them since I said I pity their plight. I'll think of an answer for that question with a big part of my lifetime. I will give up my seat to an elderly though, that's for sure. My cousins are VERY very different from my perspective and respect for elderly. They, for one, take my grandfather for granted. My er jie shares my view too, but she always shoot me back the question, "Why don't you teach them?" You know, I'm not those kind of good'O cousin who cares about other things/people that much unless it does matter directly to him. On another hand, I can't blame my cousins for having such disrespect to elders. They have a different heretical background and poorer quality of teachings.

Conclusion: I probably love myself too much that it affects my feelings for other people and things.

Heys nette, I got a place in NTU mechanical engineering.

Yesterday, I re-made my investment site after that last host server crashed on me. All my investing progress will be documented there.

I also tried my hands on Google Chrome last night. It was a neat explorer until bugs started to appear. I typed in a website url and i found a similar one under its history list and click on it. But it just won't get to the website. I pressed on the HOME button and it just didn't budge. I gave up after that. The website tabs were flushed too high up to the top of my screen and it didn't feel comfortable for me. One good point it had was it can display the playpark forums proportionately instead of expanding the thread box side-ways like Firefox did.
It's still beta version so I'll wait for a better version.

How should I spend my last 64 days of army? I'm getting more and more restless lately bcos I can't wait to get out of my 1yr10mth army stint ! I will probably work out twice a week for a toned body to prepare myself for Wings Club. I find it too premature to join them with a set of weak muscles. No face too. That should keep my mind off counting the days left.
I'm still the same old me. Talk more than action. I'm trying to change that.
From what I think, great opportunities pass u by when you don't act upon it. Many times, I see a friend on the road but he/she didn't see me, I don't dare/bother to chat them up. But those occurences are just too fast, like flashes of light. Maybe, just maybe I didn't want to engage it badly enough.

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Jeffrey is doing duty with me today and we chatted alot about money, investing, life. He acknowledges that I have a bright future. Heh, thanks dude. Day in and out, almost all the thoughts in my mind are about how great I can become in time to come. JYJY to both of us in trading.
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I really fancy the idea of signing up for SCV sport channel group. That way, I can watch BPL and F1 plus national geographic and discovery channel on my TV. ^^No more poor live streamings from free internet sources. But too bad the time wasn't ripe during the last Comex fair. I wasn't making a steady income to finance the monthly S$50 subscription fee. And I didn't have so much time at home to watch so much cable TV.
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I wonder if JJ is open to public on Sunday. I know I can sneak in with a JJ t-shirt on Saturdays :P There's a baby grand piano in LT 5 ! Again, to reiterate that baby piano was a superb place for me to unwind after school(and during school) even though I wasn't so good in playing it heheh... I've memorised Melodies of Life but the last few parts need some practising.
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Pics from Finian's sending ceremony. He'll be back on Dec 20. Just in time for Christmas. And I got so elated when I met Dian Xue when I was touring the ship. Glad that he came over from his family and greeted me. ^Friends Forever !^

Oh shit...I got cheated $100 out of completing my registration at XXX trading site ! They said they'll give me $100 if I fill up the application form and submit back to them by 31st August... I beat the deadline fair and square. But god-damned they now said must fund it by 31st August. I feel so dumb and unhappy. I won't send them any more messages again.

I'll wait dearly for my ORD to come and go for course at wealth mentors. The course is rumored to be $5995 (saw the seminar slides on a anonymous website). But I kind of trust the pro trader Mirriam because she made $2 million from $10000 in 2 years and appeared on so many local media interviews shows.
*My bosses want me to extend my ORD to help them on many occasions but I'd just giggle and let their persuasions pass. I thought of the extra money I could make if I sign a 3 month or 6 month contract, but that would mean I won't have time for the options course and membership with Wings Club. I haven't tried calling Wings, but I guess they really wouldn't mind taking in another high jumper to back Ronnie up ! I'll kick some ass, beware Ronnie !

Right now i'm mugging real hard with new options books from the library nearby. Finally I understood the meaning of the simplest trend. Uptrend/downtrend. Those 2 new books I borrowed, were like 2 blocks of stone. One was published in 2007 and the other in 2005. Relatively new and both explains what strategies to use during different market trends. Like all options book, you need to read through the trade examples to see how the strategies are used. That, can make me go to sleep.

Mum was asking me to save the money I earned from army for my Uni. I wanted to tell her I'm going for the 6k options course, but the words couldn't come out. Taking the course will leave me with less than 4k for capital to trade. I wouldn't blow all 4k into my account of course. We'll see how things go. But I just dunno what jobs to look for so I can train with Wings and go for the options course.