I relinked Lynn. I thought I lost her in the last old blog site she used. And now she's back. She's quite a unique happy-go-lucky girl. When she gets into her fun frenzy you better not get sucked in too much hahahhs. And she's the reason why I gravitate towards God and Christianity. Even though I don't go to CHC after her first invitation, I still hold great respect for God. He always saves me when I'm in "that" trouble. He knows what I'm talking about, because I always thanked Him in after that.

And Yuko-chan !!! How we met...Purely me chasing skirts. Me and Howe Wai was from the same OG in JJC 1st 3 months. So we would meet together every morning at a table, sometimes with Stanley Goon and Jessica and the occasional Lihong and Zhao Qing. Howe Wai was watching a couple of girls, ogling if you prefer. After the initial 3 months the Tanglinians drifted apart further, but we both continued to confide in each other about girl-seeing. Howe Wai really liked a girl, Yuko. Infactuation basically. But somehow I wanted to beat him to knowing Yuko first. I can't remember how I first got contacted with her, by searching in Friendster maybe.
We chatted more and more over MSN. I often see her during CCA days too at the PE block where she'll do her TKD. Amazing how people meet?

I'll be a little greedy now again. Learning Sundial Dreams and Eyes on Me. My ears got kinda bored practising the former one.

I always thought I wanted to play a song each from FFVII to FFX.
FFIX and FFX down. 2 more to go !

I reached home after 8pm today. Call me foolish for working my bones out when i'm going to ORD soon. But I don't want to worry too much in the next morning.

My piano got tuned today ! It's now much sharper in its rich tone. Then most of today I just hogged the computer on my optionsxpress account to test the virtual account to improve my knowledge about trading options.

I have even more exciting scenes captured on Sunday. Watch this same post for updates.

YAY ! Jay's new album, Capricorn-魔杰座 is coming out on October 9, 2008. Listen to 稻香, one of the singles in his new album here. Or here to the youtube video.
I did a check of my Jay Chou albums. I have all songs from the 8 existing albums, 1 EP version and the 8th Dimension Live Concert.I went to The One concert which showed on 11th & 12th January 2003. Still have pictures taken then during the concert. But as for the original album copies, I have only less one copy, that is the Qi Li Xiang. Quite sure it's in my sister's Cheverolet Aveo 5.

About Jay Chou, I would say he filled in a big part of Chinese with R&B music in our world today, especially in Asia. And I've been listening to him since the "mumbling words" days in his second album release. I was only entering Sec 2 then. I asked around my friends in class if they heard about Jay Chou. All they showed me is a shaking head. Then months later the guys and girls started mentioning him. Jay gave me the first and fresh melody in my life. I really want to thank him for releasing albums every single year. (Don't believe? Click here to his Wiki data) It keeps the hype and momentum going healthily for him and his fans. Many thanks to his main songwriter Fang Wen Shan too.

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) !