Wow look what HSA mailed to me ! A donation record card. The only detail that I was looking out for was the date I first donated ever ! Edmund Lee JC(my gd colleague/buddy in camp) and Lee JC went together on our first visit as well on that occasion. I was a little surprised that transfer cord didn't hurt at all and my blood was flowing out before I know it. Maybe i'm more athletic so the blood flow was unstoppable hehe...You guys should go donate blood if you have the time. It won't hurt at all during the process. The most I got was the initial painkiller injection near the wound which felt like a one-off ant bite. Just think of something beautiful in your life and your blood pack will be fully filled in no time ! I had 2 surgeries in my life before if you didn't know (one on my forehead and on the dislocated elbow) so I thought I might do some good refilling the blood bank from which I spent in the past.

The most funny thing about it was that I got a skin-coloured dressing cloth on my elbow while Edmund enthusiastically asked for the pink colour. He joked that if anyone commented that I went for blood donation, I should reply, “No no no 我去受血，不是去捐血。” I was like HAHAha zomg this is so hilarious!

Some pictures for u visitors out there. I found a superb place to hang my name tag from the Smart Trader course. It's a perfect spot ! I really find that this picture reflects a very positive attitude !

Name tag on my SAFSA trophy !

Next is a shot on my whiteboard. I bought this to put in my camp's office for personal use and brought it back home when I left army. It serves its purpose excellently now !

Planning my Dec 08

Then there's this kitchen bowl of ?Chestnut/Garlic? of some kind placed by my mum in the laundry area. I have no idea what is she trying to do with it. I don't think she's attempting to test the evolution theory that the start of living things came from water*?


*There was an experiment in which a scientist passed continuous electric current through a round flask of water and some methane gas in it over a period of days. The water turned green and he deduced that life on earth could have evolved from water.

I just learned a new word today. Sabbatical- usually means taking a long hiatus/break from your current occupation. In some instances in the past it relates to have a super long break every 7 years.

And oh, everyone thought the Singapore F1 Night Race was superb in sights and sounds right? yeah I totally love it all. But from the technical aspects of it, Ferrari's chief Luca di Montezemolo hates the circuit for its bumpy roads and design. Here's the article. But do note that he said that after his 2 Ferrari drivers failed to bring in any points at all during the first night version of the famous championship. If they got 1,2 spot again, I think he would've simply said something like, "Well the road was abit rough and tight, but we managed to accustomise ourselves to it quick enough and we came out fine." I must agree with him about the technical parts of the track, but hey, it's your own(team) fault that Massa ran off with that fuel hose still attached to his car. DUH !~!

These few days I'm totally hooked on the net doing my trading stuff and surfing the finer parts of the world wide web. I've lost count of how many posts I did over this 2 days alone.

This is my first time watching this mtv of Lion Heart by Smap. Hope you like it as well. Truth is that I only support them because Takuya is in it. But I don't look at him all the time. I'm starting to appreciate them as a band in its entirety. Their SMAPxSMAP variety show was a stunning hit on the japan tv.

I just finished watching SMAPxSMAP dated Dec 1, 2008. I was appalled by their ability to invite some very distinguished American guests to their Bistro variety show. Some star guests include Matt Damon, Harrison Ford and Nicholas Cage. The hosts will usually do a skit related to movies they've done in front of them and every part of it is laughter and more laughter. Sometimes they show funny scenes and stuff like that.

I loved the part where the man who acted as Takuya Kimura's father in Karei Naru Ichizoku came on to the show. He came into the camera and was egged on by the host to give an opening greeting. He hesitated, then the Karei Naru Ichizoku's theme music(it's a very depressed and emotional one) started playing lol....The funny part here is that the father in the japanese drama was one who held a supreme iron fist in his business and family. The whole family and the Japan industry in the drama hates him for that.
Later on, one of the SMAP band member walked out from one side skit-playing as Takuya Kimura of the jap drama.

I better learn Japanese in the near future ! So much great and funny things that I can understand if i mastered Jap !

Human civillisation existed for thousands of years, but even the simplest things still turn up a surprise. Check this out.

http://news.sg.msn.com/oddities/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1829164

I have discovered this revelation today.

When people come together and learn the same things that will potentially make them successful and that what one do with what he learned will not affect another's progress to success, these people tend to be amazing and naturally helpful to each other ! They will only get more successful at a increasingly faster pace.

Yesterday I had great difficulty trying to sleep. Before 9pm I even bid farewell to Liu Yun on msn for the day so that I can have more time trying to get asleep. But I was fully awake all the while until about 4am? Why I know that? Because I simply got out of bed at around 2am to blog about the origin of my interest in piano. I thought it'll be totally cool to do that post in chinese characters fully. That will also help abit in welcoming Chinese language writing and learning into my life. Wouldn't that be great?

So I finished and left the laptop in my room to snooze in peace while I continue to battle the A Monster (if Z Monster is the one making you sleepy, then A Monster will be the one making u awake right? lmaoz !). However the A Monster took coacaine and fought energetically like the recent terrorists in the Mumbai hotels. I make many flips and rolls, and even changed my weapon(pillow) but still flashes of what I learned,seen and heard in the course ytd filled my mind. I thought, zomg zomg I'm so absorbed by what I've been learning recently from the gurus? Then I thought of other possible causes of my strange insomnia ytd night. About 4am+, the EUREKA moment came. I had 3-4 cups of coffee yesterday during the course ! I don't usually drink coffee at all and I drank that much just to keep myself focused during the course. That must be why I couldn't sleep at night!! Geez, last night I felt the back of my brain was as if powered by a faulty D.C supply that wasn't able to shut down. I even felt like it had daylight in that part of the brain. But thank God I was still more energetic than I thought I will become at 7am when it's time to wake up for day 3. No signs of eyebags too ! Co0l !

That's all for now. I'm getting dizzy just typing and thinking about that sleepless experience. I'm going to do some homework for the US market opening later on. Cya sss !

今晚又是睡不着。满脑子都是对个种自己生活上的感想，这过去几天中经过的重大的人生转劣点。明天一早九点还要到唐人街区上第三天的投资课程呢！最可笑的是明天还是公共假期啊！

但首先，我要说说我对钢琴的兴趣是从哪来的。
就在念裕廊初院第二年头时，我班的 Cheng Wai 同学在一次 大课后在钢琴上秀了两手。有一首曲子是我超爱的，也就是 Final Fantasy X 中最受欢迎的 To Zanarkand。至从那一天，那一刻起，我决定要让自己学会它（To Zanarkand)。每当我知道或看到 Cheng Wai 要去弹琴时，我也会跟去。但很遗憾的，他并没有在我接二连三的请求后教我。我记得他的理由是一，他没有曲子的琴谱应为是想旧同学学的。二，这曲子不容易，得要时常练习。他也没有办法经常现身来教我。

不久后，我买了一架66键的电子钢琴。普通钢琴有88键。To Zanarkand 的高低音超出66键钢琴可发出的琴音。我勤练了一大半,才发现这点。

进兵了十个月一天后,大日子来了。我用多年存下的钱,到了一家钢琴还售店的货舱选了一家二十多琴年的 Yamaha U1 钢琴.我有调查过,旧钢琴有比较优美和深厚的声音。为不人知的秘密是,我试弹了舱里的一些钢琴后就在老板娘的建议下定了那架U1。我承认我有店冲动,有点志在必得的心态.不过我有上网查了旧U1 的价钱, $3200 还算买得过去。

目前,我已经学会了原钢琴班的 To Zanarkand。好大的满足感哦！钢琴不但为我家的客厅增添了许多黑色的独特装饰气氛，也让我发现自己心中内在对钢琴的兴趣。

Cheers ! Week 6 of AA training has ended on a punctual note. Neat ! Only trouble I felt was the slight recurrence of shin splint. But not worries since I will enjoy a longer rest weekend as I'll be at the course till tuesday. Man, those people dun rest on festive days? 8th is Hari Raya Haji ! Finally tomorrow I am going to meet the options guru Mirriam who will fly into the country just to give this batch its lectures.

Cheersx2 ! I pulled myself out of bed at 7am. I was hoping to catch my dream car brand on Primetime Morning on CNA at the 6.30am timeslot but it later said the preview is at around 9.15am. The nicest looking Ferraris in Singapore are the 360 Modena and F430 F1.

360 Modena (Saw a second hand selling for S$388,000 only !)

F430 F1

It's funny to know that I support Mclaren Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and yet adores Ferrari cars. We're talking about a young man and car brand here ! You can't put the two types on a balance scale !

Ytd while I was waiting for the lift after getting my lunch downstairs, 2 law enforcers were escorted out a Malay teenage with his hands cuffed behind his back out of the lift. What a shameful sight.

These days, it's getting more fun at the piano. I'm now breezing through the opening version of To Zanarkand. That's the piece played when everyone sat down around a fire at the Zanarkand Ruins. I'm still doing my best trying to finish Eyes on Me.

Test posting from hotmail

Nov 30th 2008.
 
Attended 2 big events today. One was a malay wedding whom the bride is the godsister of my cousin Anddy. It was really an eye-opener because I saw how the newly wedded couple had guests doing their own individual dance in front of their wedding stage to greet them. All the dancers were males though. It seems the males have to learn it some point in their Muslim life. The venue was a short walk from my house so Anddy knocked on my door around 12pm and 5(er jie, daddy, da gu gu and gong gong) of us went.
 
The second occasion was actually a BBQ session at ECP(37 D pit). It was organised by our Raub neighbours(Qin Qin and her sisters) so I tagged along with my jie jies and da gu gu and mikoo. We first drove over to their house(rented from one of my distant ah yi whose from Raub as well. It was a bigger surprise. Their apartment is the old fashion flat in Bt Merah where you have spiral staircases at the back of the block. And they live on the fifth floor ! The way up to their door is one-way cramped stairs. No lifts uh huh. I'm not looking down on their living conditions at all here, I'm just purely awed. The rest is just makan makan and talk talk. We had trouble burning up the charcoal I brought from home because it's not been used for far too long. So I called da jie to buy some from the 7-eleven and the new pack did the job. I'm going to make some of the food da jie always make for picnic nowadays- the bacon roll with needle mushrooms. It rox !
 
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Chelsea against Arsenal EPL match !
 
 
neXt in the week
The options course will start on Saturday. I will try my best to pull back my wake-up time from 10am to 6.30am since I have to get to Chinatown for the 4 days by 9am.

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