Sunday, February 05, 2006

JKYH Top 10 (31)

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01. Huo Yuan Chia - Jay Chou (+2) 2

02. Check On It - Beyonce (-1) 5
03. Sorry - Madonna (+6) 3
04. Fa Ru Xue - Jay Chou (-2) 8
05. When I'm Gone - Eminem (-1) 4
06. Don't Forget About Us - Mariah Carey (2) 4
07. Be Without You - Mary J Blige (+1) 5
08. L.O.V.E. - Ashlee Simpson (-3) 7
09. When I Think Of You - Lee Ryan (NEW)
10. All Time Love - Will Young (NEW)
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Saturday, February 04, 2006

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Chinese New Year - Chu Er

Kicked off the programme for the day by going to my Aunt's house. Spent the afternoon sleeping actually (and I couldn't fall asleep at night because of that!), and was a bit groggy when I woke up. Anyway, played Starcraft for the first time in more than a year! It was insane... my heart was racing and everything. I realised that I do actually like to play games - when the right one comes along that is! I stayed till about 6 before heading over to Yishun. To my surprise, I was the last (along with WL, my fault) to reach Ming Boon's house!


Look at the smoke in this photo! That's Ming Boon, me and David! By the time Wee Lee and I found our way to her house, everyone had pretty much finished eating already! Luckily got David and Ming Boon and Jun Qi to accompany me in my 1 hour dinner. The steamboat tasted really good. I think I ate a bit too much rice, but the beef, prawn, vegetables and stuff were delicious. The rest of them played mahjong and blackjack - with golden-coined-chocolates!


Me and David at our crazy best. Again.


We took a class photo quite early because our da xiao jie Angeline had to leave. The class photo this time round is rather good in terms of attendance and the standing positions and arrangements! This one will surely make it to our classic archives. Anyway, as I said, they were playing mahjong before that, so no surprise that the green fa cai was in their hands!


After that David, Jun Qi and I went to Ming Boon's room. There were four huge posters of Jay Chou and I quite liked the feel of her room. Very cosy. I can't believe that it's the first time I've been to her house when I've already known her for two years! Haha! She showed me a bit of something that she had been working on and we all agreed that it was pretty good. Also, we had a lesson of photoshop. It was bloody cool how she could make a fantastic blend in a short time. We spent an hour or so discussing graphics and learning a few tricks of Photoshop here and there!

Ming Boon's mom came in and gave us ang bao also! She was a very friendly lady who was very warm and welcoming towards us, and I really appreciated it.

I wanted to have more time to pour over Ming Boon's collection of Jay stuff but time passed rather quickly and before long, she felt that it was time to entertain her GUESTS. By that time though, the rest of them were going to leave already!


This is one fantastic photos of the guys (sans Mr Tan) and it's been a long time since we've taken one! We had a good warm up taking three photos like prisoners against a white back drop...


... which I've decided to blend over here using some of the skills I learnt yesterday. I must admit that I didn't take too long to do this and it doesn't look like what it should've. However, I consider it a successful completion of getting the three photos together anyway! It really looked as if we were prisoners. Arhm. The girls had their version of it too.


This was the group of us that stayed on till about 1130PM to play tai ti. It was the first time in my life I gambled tai ti and I quite enjoyed it! Oops. Okay, it's probably since I won the first 3 rounds happily. We played 5 people, 4 people and 3 people tai ti even. Kind of desperate for some entertainment! Took a bloody cool photo with Jie Yu with the MTV label too. Arhm, must try to get it from him ASAP.


It was a very fruitful and successful gathering. Looking at everybody and feeling the atmosphere, I really thought that every single person enjoyed themselves a lot. Be it during photo-taking or playing games, everyone seemed very happy. We'll all be meeting again next Friday, but for a somewhat sad occassion. We'll be sending Angeline off to Brisbane, which is like, damn far away! Haha, but it's going to be real exciting to go to the airport again. For Swensons! Haha! Can't wait!
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Chinese New Year - Chu Yi


My family started off in the afternoon because apparently, no one could get enough sleep! After breakfast and plenty of dilly-dallying, changing, hair-styling etc. we managed to get into the CNY mood and started exchanging greetings.


Sort of went crazy with the new camera that I got. This was taken by my sister and I helped the rest of my siblings take photos while they received ang baos from my parents!


A family photo that we took somewhat long to take. It was quite a random arrangement. Apparently, my mother was inspired by the Jay photo that I posted yesterday here and decided to bring out some props for us to hold in order to make the photo more interesting. Also, there was light from the windows at the back and I took a glance at the camera's manual to set the flash so that the photo would come out nice!


A photo of the guys of the house - my dad, my brothers and I. There's a lantern hanging overhead that immediately bursts out into a New Year song everytime you clap loudly twice in front of it. It does get annoying sometimes, because my dad enjoys hearing it at the weirdest times of the day, but at the same time, it does serve to up the festive mood in the house!


We went to my maternal grandparents' place and started exchanging greetings. Unlike my paternal side, where a handshake would suffice, we still take mandarin oranges when greeting. I like and appreciate all these small traditional things because they make the entire thing interesting. This is the aunt who shares the same birthday as me. I realised it when I was young, I thought it was a pretty cool thing because there're 364 other days to be born on! And thus we'd celebrate our birthday together every year.


This is me and my er jiu mu exchanging greetings. Sidetracking a bit, my family was wearing such red clothes that we attracted the attention everytime we walked past the coffeeshop on the way to my grandparents' house. Even when we walked back at 1230AM, when there was a match between Man U and Wolves(?) going on on TV, everyone'd turn around and look. Arhm, haven't seen a Chinese costume before loves? =P


My brothers, my dad, my uncle and me. In glorious red.


You know you're the center of attention and made it big time when there's more than one camera taking your photo at any one time.


I have to announce that... this is my new pair of shoes for the new year!

After that my family went to my paternal grandma's side for awhile before returning. Watched Narnia and I must admit that it wasn't really that nice. The trailer was overly impressive and it made it felt like it would've been a blockbuster like no other, when in fact, it wasn't too good as a movie. I think the book would be a very entertaining read though, so I might try to get my hands on it. Also, the actors were all pretty fantastic, so a big thumbs up to them for that. A bit off topic that, but later on, we went to my uncle's house, which happened to be 4 floors downstairs! Tinkered a bit on the piano when I was there.

There was also this eye-relaxation machine thingy where it'd flash circular, colourful lights and somehow your eyes just feel relaxed after looking into it. I tried it out and it was fantastic. It really really worked, even though my eyes were still contact-lens-bound and dry and oxygen-deprived. He bought back tonnes of KFC (which happened to be on non-delivery during this festive season), and it tasted good! I think my favourite fast food place has got to be KFC.

We also took individual family photos, followed by a huge everybody-in photo. It was using some very expensive, high-tech, film-mode-camera. With the detachable lens and flash, super-professional-camera kind.


The last group photo taken by my cousin of the five of us. I don't really know why but all of us has a gold necklace with our birth-year animal on it. Mine has a tiger.

After that we went played blackjack. 13 people in total. We were all kind of tired after the whole thing though, so it wasn't as crazy as expected, but it was still good.

I am so dreading Wednesday when I realise how much fun I can have when I'm on OFF.
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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Chinese New Year Eve

Yesterday was Chu Xi, and I went to my paternal grandma's place. She looked very happy to see us. I conversed a few short, sparse sentences with her in Hokkien. Even though I might be able to understand what she's saying, I can't reply very well. I only know the very basic stuff. Anyway, she sort of told me she went for dialysis that day, and then asked me to go eat. It's signficant because... that was already the longest conversation I had with her.

Moving on, we went to my maternal grandparent's place and once we reached there, they were ready to cook up a storm. I enjoy being there and being in the company of my cousins who are all around my age.



My brother, sister and two cousins, one of whom was nice enough to lend me the camera. I forgot to bring along mine. Okay, that's an excuse. I was kind of lazy and didn't bring a bag along! Oh man, my Dad just turned on some CNY VCD as I'm typing this and is blasting it using the speaker system. Everyone in the house'll be disturbed awake in no time!


The steamboat sure looks delicious, doesn't it! Ate quite a lot of stuff from there. In my family, the most favourite food item is undoubtedly the crabstick (which we nicknamed hong bai, red-white). And with the addition of the very green vegetables which served to add colour to the soup, it certainly looks appetising.


Me and my sister. Oops at the rather crappy photo though! Never mind, there'd be plenty of chance to take more today!


I shifted over to the BBQ table. It was the sole table with that was able to BBQ out of the 3 that were set up. The butter prawns were the most memorable and delicious. Also, there was an on-the-spot invention of prawn in egg! It smelled pretty good. Meat cooked on BBQ is also more satisfying to the taste buds! Haha...


My two brothers and I.


The table which was churning out all the BBQ good food! We received orders from our uncles even. It was quite cool when they said that the food tasted really good. Of course, it's all thanks to my grandparents who bought a whole lot of food and my grandma and aunt who prepared them. My cousin's an incredible cook too. I think it's in the genes. Hahaha...

After that we played a little bit of Blackjack, and then watched the CNY countdown show. It was quite hilarious at parts but there was obvious miming during the many singing sessions! It would've been nice if it was made to sound more LIVE though. Chris and Fann make a great couple, but they looked a tad awkward on stage together. Or maybe it's just Chris' awkward hairstyle. It takes awhile to get used to, so it isn't really that bad. I couldn't stand it when they got teased again before the countdown! And it seemed that no one could come up with anything better than having good health for CNY. Where's the Gong Xi Fa Cai?! I fell asleep during part of the show too!

Looking forward to all the CNY thingies going on today!

Jay and friends would like to wish us a Happy Chinese New Year!

Courtesy of mbies!

Saturday, January 28, 2006

JKYH Top 10 (30)

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01. Check On It - Beyonce (+3) 4

02. Fa Ru Xue - Jay Chou (-1) 7
03. Hua Yuan Chia - Jay Chou (NEW)
04. When I'm Gone - Eminem (+2) 3
05. L.O.V.E. - Ashlee Simpson (-2) 6
06. Don't Forget About Us - Mariah Carey (+2) 3
07. Ugly - Sugababes (-5) 5
08. Be Without You - Mary J Blige (-3) 4
09. Sorry - Madonna (2) 2
10. Luxurious - Gwen Stefani (-3) 5