Mahjong.

I learned something new this Chinese New Year.


I learned how to play mahjong.

It's one of those things I've always wanted to try, but never got the chance.
Whilst going group visiting with my friends, we went to someones house whose household played mahjong.

Being interested in learning to play this game, I immediately and excitedly went over to learn how to play the game.


Now the problem was, mahjong is a very Chinese game, and my Mandarin sucks. So I didn't understand almost all the terms. Luckily, I had a friend who kindly translated everything for me.

In fact, one of them said ' This is the first time I've played mahjong, and heard someone speak English' in Mandarin of course.

And the best part is, I actually won a round! Wahahahaha! Beginners luck.



Ja-ne!!

How to blow up an orange.

1) Have an orange.
2) Get a firecracker.
3) Stuff the firecracker into the orange.


4) Light the firecracker.
5) Run as far away as you can, cause you're gonna get splattered with orange bits of you don't.

And this was all I could find.


Trust me, the smell of smoke and citric acid do not go well hand-in-hand.


Ja-ne!!

V-day.

Valentines Day. A day where there are 2 main emotions floating around in the air. Love and despair.

Like all situations, there are 2 sides of the coin here, the side everybody looks at and the side everybody just simply ignores.

Side 1: Love
.

I'm sure you all are familiar with this emotion This situation is mostly for couples.
During the build up towards V-Day, you see boyfriends fretting on what to get for their girlfriends. Some ask for advice their friends, some ask advice from their girlfriends friends. Some don't anybody and just get a gift themselves.

This is also a time where you see lots of couples sprouting out left right and center. Everybody thinks this is the perfect time to confess to the person you like. Send them a gift and ask them to be your valentine. If you get accepted then it's Happy Valentine's Day! for you, if not then its despair for you.

Anyway, so girls are normally showered with gifts and some guys are given gifts as well. You see clubs going for class to class delivering gifts ordered by other people. And you see quite a number of teachers annoyed by this.

Not to mention the fact that there are always those couples PDA-ing oblivious to the outside world. And if you have more liberal parents and a deep wallet, you go and take your girl out on a date. Go watch a romantic movie, have a fancy candlelight dinner, topped of with a late night stroll in a park somewhere.


Side 2: Despair.


Most of you would be familiar with this emotion, especially if you're older. This is situation is mostly for those who are single, recently single or recently rejected.

You walk around everyday, looking at the happy couples around you. You wish you could be like them. If you're older(like 25 and above) you wonder when you're gonna get a girlfriend, and maybe marry her and settle down.

If you like someone, you can only gaze at a distance and dream of being with her. But you know of the harsh reality that, that will never happen. You do weird things like stare at her picture for hours at a time, wishing that she'll accept you. you curse yourself silently for not having the guts to go and tell her your true feelings.

Basically, you despair because you don't have what the people on side :1 have.


Obviously I'm talking from the relationship point of view of Valentine's Day. I'm sure some people would beg to differ on my definition of Valentine's Day. I understand that there are various ways to view Valentine's Day, But just I'm talking about it from this angle.

1

Well guys, it has been 1 year since I started this blog. Man time really flies doesn't it?

I don't really know why I started this blog. It definitely wasn't because everybody was getting one, cause by the time I set this up the craze had died down.

I think it was something I had always wanted to do but never went around to doing it. And finally on the 14th of February 2009, I started this blog.

I must say I done quite well so far. Admittedly there have been times where I felt really too lazy to blog and just out on some crappy post for the sake of posting something. I'm not addicted to blogging like some people.

Blogging has kinda like become part of my lifestyle now. Though taking pictures for my blog can be a hassle at times.

Looking back at my earlier post, you can tell that I was being very generic with my post not revealing much about myself and all. However now, as you can see, my blog has become a little more personal.

I'd like to fool myself and think I have a lot of readers, but I think I don't have many. The only person I know which constantly reads my blog is my dad...... sad isn't it?

So anyway, a year has passed and now I'm living in troubled times with my studies and attempts at courtship.

Wish me luck in another year of blogging guys!!

Ja-ne!!

3 in 1

Today is a very special day, cause I'm celebrating 3 things today.

1) Chinese New Year.


2) Valentine's Day( Okay.. I'm not really celebrating this cause there's no one to celebrate this with)


3) My blog is now 1 year old!



Ja-ne!!

Inter-class Debate Competition 2010.

Yes, I know it's a very long name. However that was the name given to me by the person in-charge of the whole thing. In fact the full thing is, ' Inter-class debate competition 2010' organised by SMK Green Road English Language Club.

I am in no way getting paid for this. Ohh how I wish if it were so.

Anyway, last Saturday the English Language Club organised an inter-class debate competition. Which was a week after the debate workshop in Lodge, which I sorely regret not going.... sigh...

Their debate shirt. I like. The squirrel part is an inside joke. They're not actually squirrels. Don't worry.

Moving on.... so I was helping out since I had nothing better to do plus I wanted to integrate myself into the group before the 27th.. haha

The debate competition was on Friday and Saturday, unfortunately I only brought my camera on Saturday, so I only have pictures for that day.


Karen, the person in-charge of all this, and the person who gave me the super long name.

On Saturday, was the semi-finals and the finals.

Here are the semi-finalist.


Team 1

From the left: Avery Sim, DeeDee, Bibiana Kueh.

VS

Team 2

From the left: Doreen Kho, Karen Ho, Jonathon Jong.


Team 3

From the left: Eswinder Kaur, Tsai Ching, Krystle Ong.

VS

Team 4

From the left: Malachi Ting, Wong Hui Mei, Melanie Chan.


And here are the people who didn't get into the semi's but did a good job.

Tho bloody idiot who took the photo, accidentally added someones head.

I helped out in the debate between Team 3 and Team 4. I was the timekeeper.


The adjudicators. Karen, Arianne, David

So, Team 4 won this round and Team 1 won the other.

So the finals were between these two teams. Unfortunately, I had to leave early and didn't get to see who won the finals. But I was told that it was Team 4. Congrats Guys!



So ya.... that was roughly how the 'Inter-class debate competition 2010' organised by SMK Green Road English Language Club went.

Next up would be inter-school.




Ja-ne!!

Solar powered... flashlight???

We got this as a free gift while buying bak gua.

This really just cracked me up.

Lets see......
You use a flashlight when it's dark, like when it's night time.
Solar powered would mean it requires sunlight to power it.
So to use this flashlight, I would need sunlight to use it....when I would actually use it when there is no light....

Get my point now?


Okay, I know it actually means that the battery can be recharged, however at first glimpse that's what I took it for. I mean, seriously.........

How many of you would have understood what it really meant at first glimpse?

Ja-ne!!

Kuih Momo.

On Saturday, I bake Kuih Momo! Yes, I bake...

Apparently it's not really that hard, all you've got to do is add Ghee,


flour, icing sugar, milk powder, mix it very well and it becomes this thing.......... I have no idea what to call this


Paste?

Anyway, then you just manually mould the shapes you want. And the you get this,

Ta-da!!



When you're done, just chuck it into the oven for 15 minutes, and coat it with more icing sugar.

Sadly, it didn't turn out as soft as I hoped it to be. As you all know, Kuih Momo is suppose to 'melt' in your mouth, unfortunately mine didn't. However, all in all I think it was a general success.


Ja-ne!!

Avatar 2.0

Maybe he'll be the next Avatar movie. He certainly looks the part.

Need I say more?

Ja-ne!!