被遗忘的世界。。。

Keisuke Tokyo

2010-09-18T10:42:00.007+08:00

Hi, it has been long ever since I posted my last food critic post. I came across this restaurant on the magazines and the reviews given was quite positive so I decided to give it a try when we were deciding on where to have ORD family celebration dinner.

This restaurant was opened by Keisuke Takeda, a Japanese chef that learned french cuisine but decided to revolutionize traditional ramen with french fushion. This should be the first overseas branch they opened in Singapore, its located in Parco Marina Bay and opposite the other famous black sesame pork bone broth ramen restaurant "Nantsuttei".

The restaurant is most famous for it prawn stock ramen, they also have crab stock and chicken stock ramen with chicken stock ramen being the cheapest among the 3 main broths ($12).

Prawn stock ramen

Chicken stock ramen

Crab stock ramen

I am very impressed with all the ramen stocks, they are richly flavoured and the freshness of the prawns, crab and chicken from all different flavoured broths were quite overwhelming.

Ambience of the restaurant was very serene and classy and the service was top notched. This restaurant is worth a try, prices are a bit higher than your usual ramen restaurants but remember you are paying more for quality food. (Price range: $12 to $19++)

Food rating: 4.5/5

ORD loh！！！

2010-08-31T17:13:00.009+08:00

(This passage is written in separate days, my mood for writing in either languages switches everyday. Haha... So do forgive me for writing half in Chinese and half in English.)

一晃就两年了。还记得入伍的前一晚，心情是多么的紧张，完全睡不着。入伍当天一大早就得到　Ｐａｓｉｒ　Ｒｉｓ　Ｂｕｓ　Ｉｎｔｅｒｃｈａｎｇｅ　报到。还好，当时有弟兄姐妹来送行，让我倍感安慰（你们送给我的鼓励手册让我非常感动）。但是我还是充满着恐惧感去迎接一大堆的未知。在　Pulau Tekong　上，卖猪仔般的坐上　Tonner，剃光头，穿着难看的衣服排队拿难吃的食物，让我觉得像自己像在坐牢似的。。。　还好三个月的基本训练就这样过了。最难熬的莫过于六天的　field camp　。。。但在这三个月里让我学习了　not taking things for granted。我的　platoon　也是疯狂好玩的一群，所以才让这三个月的训练没想象中难熬。

三个月的基本训练过了后，很幸运地，我被分配到宪兵部队（MP)，经历了两个月的宪兵基本训练。那段日子我是快乐的。MP 真的是一个很不错的 vocation。

但快乐的时光仅止于此，两个月的宪兵基本训练后，被派到所有宪兵都抗拒被派到的 sub unit, 就是 post out 到某个 infantry unit，能留在总部的美梦就这样破灭。。。

在被派去的第一个月简直要了我的命，我差点就得了忧郁症。。。那里的 commanders 简直不当我们人看，而受到那样的对待是因为他们说想把我们训练到有 infantry mindset。。。什么屁嘛，原本以为当了 MP 就不用再受这样的苦，难怪没人喜欢被派到这里。。。我当时几乎每餐都吃不下饭。。。我猜只有我们这些苦命 MP 是唯一当 MP 当到一点尊严都没有的吧。。。别的人出来就在DB 骂人，我们却窝在这里被人骂。。。过后事情慢慢到了忍无可忍的时候，有一批人投诉回总部，生活才得已改善。。。

Deployment - 我执行了一年多的事情。。。它让我避开了 chiong sua 但也无意中把我带入前所未有的忧郁和孤独感，我感觉跟神和弟兄姐妹的关系越来越疏远，deployment schedule prevented me from attending church. Suddenly I felt the whole world don't really understands me, I became very disappointed with people and was so frustrated with the situation I am stuck in... This kind of feeling lasted for months and nearly drowned me... However things happened in army brought me back to reality and as I felt I couldn't hooked on to anyone for support and comfort, I turned to God.

Actually my Army path is quite eventful, since I am the more responsible one around (I am not being thick skinned, its a fact. Haha.), it did not bring more advantages, but people start taking me for granted. I was always doing extra deployments (3 SIR, APEC & Tekong). A series of events also got me so demoralized (H1N1, round incident & SW deployment with a problematic platoon).

Now as I looked back, all these events made me a stronger person. I realized much more things about human relationships and not taking things for granted. I can say I have matured quite a bit. I am also more happy nowadays so don't worry people!

I am entering another phase of life. Goodbye to my 2 years of service. Its time to go and work hard for my dreams. If everything goes according to plan, see you Hong Kong in 3 years time! I would like to go back to where I belong!

岁月神偷 - 对旧时代的致敬和怀缅

2010-08-26T11:20:00.015+08:00

我曾在此写过这段文章

“香港。一个魅力之都。空气里充满了味道。。。味道来自百多年的历尽沧桑。。。像老酒似的。。。每个角落都似乎有着故事，有着历史。。。今天的辉煌缝勃是这些故事推砌出来的。这也是我迷恋香港其中之一的理由。”

这部戏的故事，就是这些小故事里的其中之一。。。

在家看今年的金像奖时，第一次听到这部戏。这部戏当时在颁奖典礼上的成绩非常耀眼，总共入围了六大奖像，得了四奖（最佳篇剧，最佳男主角，最佳新演员和最佳原创电影歌曲）。后来，电影在新加坡上映，节目《早安你好！》也介绍了此片，原来这部片子讲述的是导演的童年事迹。我对此片便产生了兴趣，上网看了此片。

此片的背景设在六十年代，故事围绕着一家四口的小康家庭，在那艰辛的岁月里，一家人是怎么的一起过活，一起地撑下去。电影细腻的把当年的生活点滴呈现在我们眼前，我是跟我妈一起看这部戏的，听着她应着戏里的情节诉说着当年的点点滴滴，我是感动的，虽然我没有经历过那段岁月，但这部戏让我了解当时的生活，一部戏如能引起共鸣和感动到人，它就是成功的。

电影也把旧香港成功还原，像从山顶观望旧香港的夜景，唐楼，杂货店，等等。。。把旧时风貌完全展现在我们眼前。也因这部戏，取景的永利街得以保留，电影在保育工作上实在公德无量。

导演罗启锐也是《宋家皇朝》的导演，他的片子往往都拍得那么动人，而为何他把片名取为《岁月神偷》呢？因为原来岁月才是最大的小偷。多美的一个片名啊。。。电影是对那段英国统治时期，那段香港人努力建造美好将来的过去，致敬与缅怀。。。

看着这部戏，眼泪是不自禁的流着，那年代的人原来是单凭信念坚持地过日子，所以再苦也能撑过去。再看看我们这一代的人，真的是有点蛮弱不禁风。希望借着电影，我们能继续秉持着香港精神！

郑秀文的见证分享 (华语）

2010-07-13T23:02:00.004+08:00

THE OFFICIAL HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS TRAILER IS OUT

2010-06-29T09:48:00.002+08:00

Ok ok, the previous one was a sneak peek, but this is the real thing. ENJOY~~~

The Long Awaited Movie Trailer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2010-06-07T11:45:00.002+08:00

Beautiful Things

2010-06-07T11:01:00.003+08:00

The Warmth of the Sun

B747-400模型的英姿

2010-06-07T09:56:00.003+08:00

After reading a paragraph in John Piper's book, "Don't Waste Your Life", I think the biggest problem with me is that I respect God, but I don't enjoy him. I pray that "enjoying God" will be my new lesson and direction in life, I hope that I can find happiness and positive power through him because that is what I seriously lack now.

叶问 2

2010-05-10T00:12:00.005+08:00

好久没有好的中文片，好的电影很简单，故事能牵动人心，感动人就可以了。从戏院走出来的感觉是满足的。

这部电影，武打好，故事更好，如无意外，应该是下届金马和金像各大奖项的大热，非看不可喔。Movie rating: 4/5

偶像剧经典 - 败犬女王

2010-05-01T22:52:00.009+08:00

偶像剧曾经不是我的那杯茶，因为往往就是些梦幻没深度的剧种，呈现手法浮夸也不够纯熟，常找来的演员也都是些演技嫩得要命的新生代艺人，可说整体素质差，这种种让我从来提不起劲去追看偶像剧。可这两三年偶像剧的进步是有目共睹的，甚至以进入成熟期。《命中注定我爱你》，《败犬女王》和《痞子英雄》就是近期偶像剧佳作，其中我觉得以《败犬女王》最为突出。

《败犬女王 - 故事》

已很久没那么投入的去观赏一部剧集了（毕竟上一次是几年前的韩剧，《我爱金三顺》，那么巧的是故事也是围绕姐弟恋），情绪竟跟着剧情里的高潮迭起而变化，《败犬女王》确实让我找回看好戏的快乐。

剧集的成功当然要归咎于剧本，故事架构强，情节的铺成出色，台词和演技精彩是此剧的成功之处。故事围绕着一对看似不可能在一起的男女，女方单无双是个事业有成的女强人，但已年过三十，这类女生叫败犬。在阴差阳错的情况下认识小八岁的男方Lucas，两人都有着不愉快的过去但却在彼此身上找到安慰，但基于男方小女方八岁，所以女方即使对对方有着感觉也不肯开始一段姐弟恋。剧集之所以会引起那么大的回响是因为故事让观众产生共鸣，比如剧集带出了很多现代社会问题比如迟婚和不婚现象，姐弟恋等等，因此人物的喜怒哀乐，观众（尤其败犬们）比较能够看得投入，喜剧元素也没有做得太over，总而言之，我看到了编剧说故事的功力和用心。

《败犬女王 - 出位演员》

杨谨华 - 单无双

第一次看杨谨华的戏，竟让我迷上她，被埋没已久的人才因这部剧演技得到充分的发挥。杨谨华把单无双这都市女强人的角色演得超神像，像上了身一样。人物的寂寞，喜乐，愤怒，伤心，绝望，矛盾，挣扎等等的各种情绪发挥得淋漓尽致，人物充满层次感，就像个活生生的人，所以杨谨华，这位女王，会让我很期待的以后的作品。

阮经天 - Lucas

比《命中注定我爱你》里的演技好，也比较顺眼，年轻人的内心挣扎，叛逆，不霸，疯狂都演得很好，人物很有生命热诚，所以也比较容易感染到观众，有几场情绪激动的戏差点把我弄哭。阮经天是红得有理的咯。

温升豪 - 宋允浩

单无双的前男友，也是她大学的学长，两人的意外分离，复合到无奈的再度分离，都牵动着观众的情绪，温升豪把学长演得很完美，很深情，所以单无双会为学长和Lucas这两人挣扎着该选谁，该舍弃谁是非常可信的。两人最后的结局带着浓浓的遗憾和无奈，这样的剧情很生活，很人性。

《败犬女王 - 原声带》

剧集的歌曲配搭得非常完美，歌词也很符合和贴近剧情和人物内心世界，基本上有一大半的歌曲来自梁静茹的专辑《静茹&情歌别再为他流泪》，专辑像是为了这部剧而作的，所以所谓的原声带就是这张专辑。

在这里介绍几首非常好听的剧中歌曲。

《没有如果》 - 主题曲

《找个人》 - 这首歌是单无双内心世界的写照

《别再为他流泪》

《情歌》 - 全剧我最爱的歌

《爱情之所以為愛情》 - 片尾曲

我

2010-03-20T08:39:00.006+08:00

我热爱生命，

我想好好地由我一人去看世界和感受人生，

我要自由，

我想远离压迫感，

我想成为更好的人，

我爱母亲，

我喜欢亲朋戚友所给的爱，

我想谈恋爱，

我想谈恋爱的感觉应该是很幸福的，

我想结婚，

我想交个知心朋友，

我讨厌自以为是的人，

我要更爱主，

我讨厌罪恶感，

我要读完整本圣经，

我迷恋天空，

我对大海有种莫名的恐惧，

我非常热爱飞行，

我热爱航空业，

我喜欢飞机，

我喜欢 B747-400 的英姿，

我喜欢飞机餐，

我喜欢国泰，

我有想当空服员，

我热爱旅游，

我喜欢感受不同的文化，

我喜欢爬山，

我喜欢看风景，

我喜欢有四季的地方，

我觉得冬天很有魅力，

我讨厌炎热的夏天，

我爱香港，

我爱香港迷人的夜景，

我对广东话充满自豪，

我想定居在香港，

我不太喜欢新加坡，

我喜欢摄影，

我想学摄影，

我喜欢写作，

我想学日文，

我喜欢音乐，

我喜欢唱歌，

我喜欢 Sammi，

我喜欢欣赏让人有所反思的影艺作品，

我喜欢吃，可我也迷恋瘦削的身材，

我偏爱古铜色肌肤，因它充满着健康阳光的感觉，

我喜欢健康，

我钟爱马铃薯和蒜蓉，

我喜欢吃面多过饭，

我超爱吃火锅，

我喜欢吃烧烤，

我喜欢日本料理，

我喜欢寿司，

我喜欢吃牛肉，

我喜欢睡眠，

我喜欢精神饱满的感觉。

写了，高兴，像把思绪整理了一样，舒服。

郑秀文 Sammi Love Mi 世界巡回演唱会香港站（2009年12月28号）

2010-03-14T10:15:00.013+08:00

简单的一句和总结：充满了正能量和生命感染力的演唱会。(P.S. 谢谢阿姨！）

红馆

Sammi 总共换了八套衣服，这次没在眉上玩创意，而是用了个夸张的眼装。

当晚的压轴嘉宾，张学友！

张学友献唱名曲， “我的心真的受伤了”。

当晚的第二个嘉宾，陈奂仁。

Sammi 和陈奂仁合唱“Last Christmas”。

临时嘉宾, 梁咏琪！

Sammi 演唱会少了“终身美丽”这首歌又怎算圆满呢？

不要惊动爱情

2010-02-13T16:04:00.008+08:00

如果某天我真的结婚，这首歌会成为我婚礼的主题曲。因为这首歌的歌词正正描绘基督徒应有的爱情观。

原唱者兼作词者，高皓正，香港艺人也是一名基督徒

郑秀文在新碟"Faith"里翻唱了这首歌（她分享说这首歌代表了她现时的爱情观）

很想輕撫你　所以避開你
寧願用距離　去令你好奇
迴避過眼神　先偷偷喘氣
吩咐手臂　放在原地
傳聞浪漫太快　愛戀都走得快
才會　遲遲未步向你　說一世愛護你

＊情太過洶湧像深海　而我卻會忍耐
但求來日你醒過來
這份情像翅膀打開
還沒有相擁別意外　神教會我等待
待情流像細水　才去承諾你
拿一生兌換愛

很心急擁抱　所以在禱告
求甜蜜以前　帶著你慢步
遊歷過旅途　等一天終老
生老病死　一起細數
原來慢慢靠近　更珍惜這一吻
而我停留是為了你　要給予你護蔭

＊REPEAT

能為愛戀學習按耐　情信寄進心內
但求能學會倚靠神
愛被馴服過更精采
連地老天荒亦不更改　時間永遠等待
等你情願那天　才去承諾你
無止境那份愛
我用沈默叫醒愛情　你用期待做你反應
繼續行近直至開始愛

2010-02-10T22:19:00.003+08:00

知心朋友？没有。

健康家庭？不确定。

神的爱？没争取。

时间？没把握。

心态？不健康。

自找？也许。

脱离现状？好恨。

喜欢自己？拥有自信？好想。

做人好累，我要快乐。。。

2010-02-10T22:14:00.005+08:00

当初的热情在流逝，代而换之的是能拖死我的无力感，这两年的生活已把我的灵魂揸干，连渣也不省。

期待阴天的过去。。。

魅力之都之歌颂。。。

2010-01-25T08:55:00.016+08:00

香港。一个魅力之都。空气里充满了味道。。。味道来自百多年的历尽沧桑。。。像老酒似的。。。每个角落都似乎有着故事，有着历史。。。今天的辉煌缝勃是这些故事推砌出来的。这也是我迷恋香港其中之一的理由。

带给你们我眼中所看到的香港（此行所拍的）。

城市面貌

鸭撩街

没得顶的维港夜景不禁让人想起罗大佑的 “东方之珠” 一曲里的歌词， “夜色深深，灯火闪亮”

早上的维港



香港岛的喧闹

金紫荆广场，香港回归之地方

铜锣湾购物区

山顶之美景，万家灯火

Nathan Road

旺角的热闹喧哗

女人街

街市

花园街

青马大桥

机场

城市以外的面貌

昂平360蓝车

心经简林

大佛

凤凰山

大澳

愉景湾

Classics...

2009-11-11T21:20:00.003+08:00

This is what I call classics... From the golden era of Hong Kong music and movies espcially those from Sam Hui whose works reflects the Hong Kong society in those days in a funny way but very true. Gone are the days...

半斤八兩

賣身契

打雀英雄傳

天才白痴錢錢錢

天才與白痴

My Sister's Keeper

2009-11-02T23:28:00.007+08:00

Went to watch "My Sister's Keeper" today and the long lost sense of satisfaction of watching a really good movie was finally back. This is one movie that really touches your heart.

I will briefly touch on its plot. This story is about a family with one of its members, the older sister in the family, Kate, having Leukemia since young, to save her, her parents decided to give birth to a test tube baby which will have genes that matches her sister as both the parents's doesn't match with her genetically. So from young, this younger sister of Kate, Anna has been donating blood, bone marrow and stuff in order to save her older sister who eventually recovered. Unfortunately, Kate had a relapse of Leukemia when she was 15 and her kidney eventually shut down completely, so in order to save Kate, Anna would have to donate her kidney to save her sister, but she "was not willing" and decided to sue her parents for using her body against her will. The story developes from here about the burden of a Leukemia patient in the family and with a twist in the end that breaks your heart.

Kate, the main character in the movie was really human. This movie is different from the other "terminal illness" movies out there. Instead of the usual strong willed character, Kate was weak, she was vulnerable emotionally, that was why we can relate more to Kate. Kate has been suffering since young, when her cancer relapsed, she was really tired of it and wanted to let go as she knows she will not make it this time and she does not want to continue to become a burden of the family, however in order not to upset her mother Sara, she keeps mum about her will. Her mother on the other hand was obssessed to fight her way through to make sure that she gets treatment which in the end made her fail to notice her daughter's plea of letting go (which other family members knows or feels it). Actress, Sofia Vassilieva (Kate) delivers splendid acting and together with the convincing make up of a dying cancer patient, you will definitely feel for her.

Another character in the movie you will feel for is Sara, the mother (Cameron Diaz), if you know what is D.I.S.C personalilty test, this mother is definitely a D. She has been working so hard to make sure her daughter Kate stays alive all these years that she became unwilling to listen to other's opinions and insist doing things her own way. This made her became ignorant or unaware of the emotionally changes or problems that her family members including Kate is experiencing. Her world was so constricted and narrow on saving Kate's life that she became cut off from anybody and everything else. She was a stubborn fighter in life and she makes sure she does not lose and that makes her character seems so pitiful because she was unwilling to move on. Cameron Diaz here was amazing, I am now convinced that other than playing Charlie's Angel and other comedic roles, she can handle a serious role like this.

The understanding between Anna (Abigail Breslin from "Little Miss Sunshine") and Kate was also very heart warming and touching. Anna was so much matured than kids at her age and this was due to what her family has been going through all these years. Their relationship will definitely make your tears drop.

The breaking point of this movie is when Sara finally understood how Kate feels. The scene where she broke down (she did not cry almost throughout the whole movie given her strong personality) and it was Kate who was consoling her was just heart breaking. Before that I was just tearing, at this scene, I was sobbing, Haha... I tried so hard to control but no, it just went all out and it was embarrassing because I watched with two male friends... But luckily I was not the only one crying, bascially the whole cinema was filled with sobs. Haha...

The morale of the story is sometimes letting go of your burden might not be a bad thing, even though its sorrowful to let go, moving on is also just as important.

So if you are intending to watch this movie, please prepare lots of tissue before entering the cinema especially for the females, I highly recommend this movie and I think you will too find it worth the money.

Movie rating: 4/5

神确确实实是有听祷告的

2009-10-29T18:57:00.011+08:00

我会永远记得 2008 跟 2009 年，因为这两年是我最难熬的时期，也是我的成长期。这段时间发生太多不顺利的事了，但件件事都是一堂课，都有让我醒悟的作用。而在今年下半年的时候，当我决意要回到神那里时，我发现路原来没有因此变顺利了，我立刻受到考验。本想在这篇文章细细诉说发生的事情和我从中领悟到的功课，但我觉得这些可以留给年尾时，当我在这里做一个整年的回顾与反思的时候才写会比较恰当。那我就只说最近所发生的一件大事吧，因为我觉得不说好像亏欠了神的荣耀。

认识我的人因该会知道这件事的来龙去脉，所以我不会具体地说，这件事就是发生在我在机场执勤时所发生的事。这也是我以上所说的其中之一的考验。事发当天，当我知道“东西”不见了，当时很慌，知道大祸临头了，（大家因该知道这件事会带来的严重后果），我就祷告说如果那时神的旨意，那我就看他怎么带领，很神奇的，我突然感觉很平安，也突然记起之前在灵修时学到的功课。到后来，当那“东西”好像是没机会找到的时候，我脑里只浮现这句话，“人的尽头，神的开始”，就在最后一刹那，当所有希望都没了，“东西”找到了！“东西”是找到了，但担忧又浮现了，现在那严重后果是没可能发生了，但可能我必须面对一些纪律性的处罚，后续发展我就不说了，大家因该懂，但在上头调查这件事件期间，我其实还蛮焦虑的，因为有太多未知数，我有埋怨神，但往往还是回到神面前祷告，这个礼拜，终于有了答案，上头决定让这件事不了了之，所以我只能说若不是神的带领，若不是神听祷告，这一切不可能发生。

从这件事我发现神又在我的旧毛病上动工，我的旧毛病？小信，爱抱怨，我是个信心非常非常弱的人，但这次我每每觉得很不平安时，就会回到神那里，而每每祷告完后，心里是说不出来的平静。如果从圣经或周围的信徒的身上看看，不难发现“等候” 这个功课是神给他儿女最常见的功课，我还在学，因为好难学啊。。。我也了解是我没有完全托付给神也没有愿意接受神的安排和旨意，而这常常带个我不安和焦虑。我要学习放手让神完完全全的带领。我知道接下来还有同样的功课要我学，甚至现在当我在写这篇文章时，也没有很开心，因为又有不如意的事了，又要上课喽，大家为我祷告吧。。。

FOOD, FOOD and FOOD!!!

2009-10-29T15:30:00.007+08:00

Its been long since my blog was so colourfully filled with photos right? Well, I just want to use this post to declare MY LOVE FOR FOOD!!! Even though that means I have to spent more time exercising. Good food can do wonders like making my day! I even had this bizzare desire of hoping that there will be good food in Heaven. Haha... So this photos bascially makes me happy and I want to share it with you... As you see, alot of them are Japanese food rite? Because I am CRAZILY IN LOVE WITH JAPANESE CUSINE! All these photos of food look delicious and yes, they taste delicious coz the photos I take one mar. Ahaha... Jealous rite?

Watami @ ION Orchard

Azabu Sabo @ Central

Japanese Foodcourt @ Liang Court (Mind you, this is a food court selling AUTHENTIC Japanese food, not some lousy local foodcourt)

Mr Curry @ Central

Aston @ The Grand Cathay

Pasta De Waraku @ Illuma

Sushi Tei @ Tampines 1

Nan Xiang Yuan @ Bugis Junction (Besides this dish, the food there is not very good, not recommended)

Joe Hisaishi Concert

2009-08-29T09:23:00.004+08:00

800 people choir singing to "天空之城" or "Laputa" theme song. Seen here in Joe Hisaishi's (Composer of the music to most of Studio Ghibli's works) concert.

AMAZING!!! Almost teared watching this, so grand and touching! Joe Hisaishi is a genius!

2009-08-14T00:20:00.001+08:00

看到旧时候的我们，莫名的伤心。。。

还好，平日的我已不再那么伤感了，看来我已习惯寂寞了。

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

2009-07-20T12:09:00.003+08:00

The 6th movie Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince didn't fail like the previous movie, Order of the Phoenix (which was really a messy one), infact it is the best Harry Potter film yet! I heard a lot of people saying that movie 6 is boring, I have two guesses, 1, either they didn't read the books and all the wanted to see an action packed movie or 2, they expect every little gritty details to be included in the film.

Book 6 is one of my favourite books in the series, not because its filled with action but its very tasteful story telling leaving you with a lot of question marks that will be revealed in Book 7. And I think the movie did actually successfully captured the main plots of the book and actually TOOK TIME to tell the story, the slow story telling was long gone after the Chamber of Secrets movie. The film was filmed tastefully with the superb CGI, I like the tone set here in movie 6, long gone were the days that Hogwarts has this warm glow filled with magic, this time, Hogwarts is filled with this gloomy atmosphere that tells that doom is coming (Doom did came at the end of the movie, won't be a spoiler in case you haven't read the books or watched the movie). The characters have more soul in this film, (e.g. Hermione, Snape, Dumbledore and Draco Malfoy's emotional turmoil). All these made the film to be the most matured one out of all the movies. Credits must be given to director David Yates that he did not spoil the story like the one he previously did, but made it into one the best Harry Potter film yet.

So if you are just only following the movies and not the books and expect the "WOW" factor from all the actions, that forget it, don't watch (I mean, Harry Potter's phenomenon was always because of its story, not its actions, there are so many fantasy gig out there nowadays, go on and watch those if you like action packed movies), go read the books if you must, I bet you will be hooked. But do come back when movie 7, part 1 and 2 is out, because action is guarrantined as it is the final showdown of the world of good and evil. Anyway, I might watch movie 6 again in the cinemas, who knows?

Anyway 溏心风暴 airing in Channel U soon! One of my favourite TVB classics. Haha...

Movie rating: 4/5

2009-06-30T20:33:00.004+08:00

Last year was terrible for me, but I still don't feel this bad as now. Maybe physical illness will never be as bad as emotional turmoil. My heart has switched to an ultimate sian mode at this point of time. I can only say army has made me mature a lot and in a very short time, I still remember February this year, I am still having some childish mentality when events after events has woke me up violently, maybe it is God's way of preparing me for the age 21, an age when someone is deemed to be mature. But it seems all these problems, human relationships, uncertainty in life, problems after problems in my circle of life has made me into an angry person. I start to hate seeing things going in the wrong way. I am never going to go back to that childish and always happy "Jie Ge Ge", (Now I realise what a disgusting nickname it is, by the way) or whatsoever anymore. I feel numbness in my heart and it has been there for few months. I just cannot be happy.

Anyway, quarrantine is over, I was like a jail bird for the past 9 days. And we have shitty schedule coming up because of H1N1. And people please, if you come back from affected countries, please zi dong yi dian, go quarrantine yourself at home for 7 days, PLEASE! Its not a joke or something that you can throw away from your brain! Innocent people like us is also affected, so have some social responsibility, PLEASE!

Oh, and on a lighter mode, this is the movie I have been anticipating since 2 years ago.

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE!!! *CHEERS*

Out on July 16, but I can only watch after 28. Haiz... Qi dai qi dai!!!

2009-06-28T15:57:00.002+08:00

You are so fickled with the word "sincerity", you have long lost my trust, so you should be the last one to even comment on anything so please shut up...

2009-06-19T15:35:00.004+08:00

很多人说，当兵会改变一个人，对，说得没错，至少它让我挥别了童真与懵懂，也让我看清原来人与人之间的关系是这么脆弱的。我悄悄的隐退（这不是刻意的），竟没人发现，也没有人在意，证明我在那我曾天真以为是天堂的大家庭里面所建立大部分的那些友情是扎不实的根，甚至只是一些吃喝玩乐的朋友。当我需要安慰的时候，伸出双手竟摸不着任何东西，很想大声呐喊，让人注意到我其实还存在，但又何必呢，大家把你忘了就是忘了，当我出现时才说声Hi, 太假了吧，让我难过的是，我在那大家庭里呆了那么久，现在才来觉醒，发现原来在那里想找个比较了解你的人几乎没一个，一切都流于表面，好假，假到痹。大家可以说我怎么不反省，我就是看不到我那里做错了，我做人和交朋友都讲真心，甚至有时还觉得被 take for granted, 但我得不到一样的回应，我心中有很多愤怒和失望，要我怎样参加接下来的“复兴”活动，我也不怕得罪谁了，反正我不会像以前那样投入，应该伤不了我多少吧。我一定要说出来，不让会憋死的。

最近还看到让我觉得恶心的事，这位朋友，你如果不想帮人就干脆说不想帮，没人勉强你，但你何必要假惺惺的答应了在找个烂借口临时退出，如果你觉得你没错的话，那你的 priority 观念一定出了很大的问题，这就是你表现对弟兄姐妹的爱吗？有得玩就预你一份，不然需要付出的最好别找你。你的行为，你以为没有影响力吗？至少你已让我对这大家庭的失望加多了一层。

我说这些不为了什么，我是挣扎了很久才决定写了这篇文章，我不是想挽救任何事才写的，毕竟大家已回不去当初的感觉。

当然，这段时间让我了解一些存在边缘人的感受，我看到一些真心之人，但我需要时间疗伤，希望你们了解。

愁人节 - 谢谢谢安琪唱出我的心声。。。

2009-05-14T15:35:00.006+08:00

手脚冰冷的筋竭衰老的晚间借宿于街角的对佳节有否兴趣
失去依靠的早晚空肚的猛火里丢失所有的谁又来问暖一句
大节日里愿望有伴侣但在你身边是谁独个面对疾病与药水浑沌里烟花迷醉

街里爱人一对对互送鲜花千杯不醉你的噩运继续追无人扶持行前行后也失据呆呆张开一张嘴无缘故会渗眼泪 hey 对你哪有节日会记叙别活在梦幻里

需要温暖的苦恼生计的与遭到威逼欺压的有些会引起兴趣
失去工作的不再坚壮的与一众朝不保晚的期望谁问津一句
在节日里但愿有伴侣现实你身边是谁越去面对越是往下推独自对天闹情绪

街里爱人一对对互送鲜花千杯不醉你的噩运继续追无人扶持行前行后也失据呆呆张开一张嘴无缘故会渗眼泪 hey 世界哪有节日可嘉许消灾解困万岁

普世欢醉燃狂热情绪尽力购物寻趣你却没有睡进驻垃圾场里吃过夜的饼干碎 wow
佳节众人一对对互送鲜花心意祝福句你总只靠两条腿到处去看哪里有个家归去呆呆张开一张嘴无缘故也会恐惧 hey 盼会有个节日可嘉许纾灾解困万岁

衣着矜贵的温暖饱满的与身处福中不觉的这天你有否兴趣听他诉苦几句

Joey Yung StarLight Concert 2009 @ Max Pavilion

2009-04-23T10:50:00.017+08:00

Recently, I went to Joey Yung's StarLight concert 2009 at Singapore Expo, Max Pavilion with Dao Yi and Wan Yi. It was great even though there was a 小插曲 before the start of the concert. I will go into details. As everybody knows, Max Pavilion only has one main entrance unlike Singapore Indoor Stadium which has many entrances. The organizer of the concert did not really did a good job on controlling the queue outside the concert hall. Initially when we reached, there was a queue, however after some hooha, everybody from the back rushed forward and everybody became one lump at the entrance.

Then all of a sudden, there was this lady in her mid 50s shouting at the top of her voice at the auxiliary police standing nearest to us.

Crazy lady: "Why you all never organize properly!!! Why let people jump queue!!! We waited here for so long!!! Blah blah blah..."

Every time the auxiliary police tried to open his mouth and explain, this crazy lady would raise her voice, it is quite obvious that she didn't want to listen to any explanation. However this crazy lady continued to shout until it became a nuisance to the crowd around her. Someone at the back said "泼妇骂街, what can she do by shouting non-stop". The three of us also start to feel irritated, Dao Yi and I was laughing at her disgraceful behaviour, Dao Yi was saying something like, "Go home lar, so noisy", I told him to shut up before I start to rattle off too, AHAHA... I was saying something like, "Shut up lar, so noisy, don't know for what". But our conversation was not meant to be heard by the tigress roaring at the police. We did not realise her daughter was standing just beside us. 俗语说“有其母，必有其女”, her daughter in her mid 30s suddenly shout at me, "Shut up lar! Little boy! What do you all know!?" Hello! I am not a little boy, unlike her mum and her in their mid 50s and 30s respectively still shouting like those in Woodbridge in the public. Suddenly the fire in my heart burnt like people poured kerosene, I shouted back at her.

Me: "Hey! Whats the problem with you!"

Daughter: "Whats the problem with you too!, you all jump queue!!!"

Me: "We where got jump queue, we are just following the crowd, everyone is doing the same thing!" (We REALLY never jump queue lor)

Mum at the background: " You shut up!!!, you shut up!!!..." Don't know for how many times.

Daughter: "Why you talk so much!!!"

Me: "Why!? Cannot talk now is it!? Har!? Cannot talk is it!?"

Her mum suddenly scream, I also don't know what she said: "!@#$%^&*()"

The whole crowd at this very moment "OOOOOORRRRRRHHHHHH!!!!!!" at the woodbridge personnel. This couple infront and few girls at the back said something like “Auntie，浆老了，还喊喊喊！” The guy infront said "Aiyo, shame shame shame ar~~~!!!"

At this point the crazy hag could not hold herself anymore SCREAMED: "ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!!! SHUT UPPPPPP!!!!!!".

All this while after my last sentence I was laughing nonstop with the whole crowd and eventually got into the hall with the crazy hag still screaming at the back. Maybe practicing the screaming session when the concert starts. This two english educated ladies don't know why come here to listen to a pop singer who sings Cantonese and Chinese pop songs. GO HOME LAR!

But come to think of it, this is one of the most dramatic moments of my life and first time in my life, I scold a crazy hag infront of so many people...

Let you see the crowd at the entrance.

After we entered the hall, I realized that we are only 7 rows from the stage!!! I go Sammi's concert also not so near lor. Haha... Wan Yi bought Joey's Hong Kong StarLight concert 2008 DVD right after we entered, haha...

The stage, much much downscaled compared to Hong Kong's.

Woho! Going to start soon!!!

Wah, so many people!

AHHH~~~ Come out already!!! Singing her first song “唇楼”. This 造型 is quite special, she has CDs on her hair!

Joey giving her opening speech!

握手时间!!!

This is the best shot, I have taken so far.

Joey singing "Loving U".

This portion she sang a lot of Singapore female singers' Chinese hits like Stefanie Sun's “我不难过” and Tanya Chua's "Love's Beautiful".

This part was sexy.

Joey singing "跑步机上”.

Every time I go to any concerts in Singapore, I felt like I am in a midst of people watching opera like what Dao Yi said. People here don't get high easily. Come on! You are here to watch a pop singer! Your idol? So please be more high lar!!! Throughout the whole concert, Dao Yi, Wan Yi and I are like three crazy people from woodbridge shouting, screaming and cheering for Joey at the part of the hall we were seating. I felt paiseh at moments you know, but I didn't really care. Haha... But our efforts were not paid off, at the power medley portion, when we were very high and only a few around us stood up, Joey came to the part of the stage closest to us, there she saw three crazy concert goers waving at her and you know what? SHE WAVED BACK!!! AHAHA... See? If everybody stood up and got high, she won't notice us. Haha... Come on lar, Singaporeans, next time be more spontanous can not? Throw face leh, the fans from other countries see liao hor... Haiya...

POWER MEDLEY!!!

POWER MEDLEY!!!

Joey singing “挥着翅膀的女孩”, her super famous song.

Concert's "official" last song, "全身暑假”.

It was only when she came out for encore that everyone started to become very high and started standing on their seats. 这才像演唱会嘛！！！

Everyone stood on their seats. Super high!!!

Haha... Had a high night, lets take a photo with "Joey"! Anyway, I bought the concert poster. Haha...

Conclusion

Joey Yung is probably one of the last divas in Hong Kong, I think she is the only candidate that can take over Sammi Cheng like Sammi Cheng could take over Anita Mui as diva. Her stage presence, charisma and body language is just awesome! Oh! And she dance really really well, because from what I remembered, she could not dance when she just entered the showbiz, through hardwork, she has groomed herself to be a promising dancing diva. I think the concert is worth the money, really enjoyed myself, all the way JOEY!!!

真是天真。。。

2009-04-19T17:27:00.002+08:00

“有时候不是对方不在乎你, 而是你把对方看得太重” ，这句话是我最近在一封电邮看到的，看了感触良多。在我以往的很多段友情里面，我不害臊地说我是那个比较主动的那方，因为我很珍惜友谊这回事，也渴望得到对方一样热情的回应。但慢慢发现每次自己像个笨蛋那样一厢情愿，我看是时候学乖了。现下的感觉就像是自己越飘越远的那般感觉。。。我曾经以为很要好的一堆朋友也不以为意。我发现在他们的当中有没有我的存在已不再重要了。可能也是自己的问题，自己所谓言语和情绪的坦白已伤害了某些人。原来友谊这回事也有底线的，但当初有人说的太理想，让我无意的为所欲为。现实还是残酷的，以为能承受坦白，现在想想也只是非常天真的理想。。。是时候 move on 了吧。。。我想往后会更加懂得经营友情，但当初一些很真的一面可能不会那么轻易摆在人前了吧。

2009-03-20T20:46:00.002+08:00

这是我最近无意间在 youtube 看到的见证辑，是由三位在同一个查经班的基督徒艺人对生命的分享。当然其中一位就是郑秀文啦。这段分享很真，也希望能在这里和你们分享。

2009-03-18T00:44:00.005+08:00

Life wasn't that smooth during the first few weeks in our new unit. Anyway, things are getting much much better now. Days in MPTS was still the best, got to meet up with some of my section mates during the MPTS days on one of the weekends, watched "Marley and Mesome", had dinner and talked about recent life, some are under SPDS course, (another torturous course) but some are enjoying life. Hope to have more such gatherings in the future. Anyway, deployment starting soon, don't know what is it like. Will see... In the meantime, here are some photos of our section gathering.

My graduation photo

I am a Military Policeman

2009-02-24T21:11:00.006+08:00

Woho! POP lo~~~ I am officially a Military Policeman!!!I must first thank God for putting me in MP, I really do like this posting and throughout these 9 weeks, it has been an enriching journey. I learnt things that other normal infantry soldiers would never ever learn in their lives. Now that the basic training has come to an end, its time to really apply the things I have learnt or even learn more new things. Anyway, I am posted to 6 SIR, yes, 6 SIR, the most feared posting for MPs, I am joining the MPs who the other MPs call "the chiong sua MPs", I am not going to say what are we going to experience, this you can ask me personally. I am not quite sure whether will I be happy in it coz I hate chiong sua stuff one, but I must really thank God that 5 of my section mates are posted there together with me, I am really lucky coz we are already quite bonded during our MPTS days. Anyway, thank you MPTS for all the things and of course training my physical fitness until I can get silver, haha...

Zhi Cong and me

Most of my section mates

Woho! MP brassard!!! No more trainee brassard~ Where got time where trainee brassard??? Haha...

遗憾，希望。美。

2009-02-21T22:41:00.004+08:00

今天看了一部戏，一部拍得很美的戏，是自《Forrest Gump》多年以来，另一部好戏。这是一部诉说人生的戏，戏名叫《The Curious Case of Benjamin Button》。看了如果没有感动的人，对不起，我只能说很大可能是你对人世间的一些事还不够了解，可能你生活太过顺利。电影要带出的东西很多，难道你们看不到吗？男主角Benjamin因一生下来就是老人样，从小就被遗弃在老人院里，因为看着身边的老人一个个离世，从小已对死亡有一定的了解，（所以我了解为什么当他养母离世时，他没哭，只有无奈的表情），从小就做着大人所做的事情，看尽大人世界。当女主角Daisy年轻狂妄，意气风发的时候，差不多同年龄的他已经十分得稳重，大家的思想也是因女主角发生车祸后才比较接近，人是必须经历过苦难才能成长。一个越来越年轻，一个越来越老的两个人的恋爱注定是会有遗憾的，但这也是这部戏的主要内容。人生一定会有遗憾，有很多是必须坦然接受，但能够活着去做好自己的本分，是一种祝福，我记得戏里Benjamin当海员时期的船长，在临死前对Benjamin说了这段话(我把大意写出来），“You can curse and swear whatever you want, but when you face it, you have to accept it” 人生就是这样，无论是困难或死亡，到头来还是要面对，所以别太执著。电影里有个痴痴呆呆的老人说 “I have been strike by lightning 7 times, even though I might not think properly anymore or some of my body parts shake without control, but God reminded me that I should be grateful that I am still alive” 我们要学会感恩啊。在Benjamin生活里出现过的人都为着自己的梦想和喜好努力着，生活里的遭遇，阻扰，遗憾会染我们感到挫败，但这些人物没有放弃自己的梦想，喜欢艺术的船长，在自己身上找到发挥的平台（纹身），喜欢游泳的贵妇在六十岁终于创世界纪录，喜欢孩子的养母努力扮演好妈妈角色，等等等。。。电影拍得最成功的部分是它带出了这段恋爱的遗憾美，Daisy临死前说的最后一句，　“Good night, Benjamin”，听了心里不禁的酸了起来，人对很多事都放得开，都可以像船长那样说，“You have to accept it”，但对爱往往执著，Daisy　到最后还是挂念着在她手中去世的　Benjamin。这部戏的成功除了故事好，演员的功力也非常出色，Cate Blanchett把年少狂妄到后来经历沧桑的Daisy 演得丝丝入扣，尤其是车祸后复原初次站在Benjamin面前的她，眼神里没了之前的傲气，多了一份沉淀的感觉，演员没有一定的功力是不可能演出那种感觉的。Brad Pitt 淡淡然的表情是符合剧情的，毕竟Benjamin是个比其他人早看透人世间的事的一个人物。特技也非常的好，老装都化得相当逼真。拍摄手法也一流，有些人说故事发展得很慢，我不这么认为，因为要成功的建立出男女主角的性格和生平，比较慢的故事情节是必需的。《The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 》可能会是我今年看过最好看的电影。

Movie Rating: 5/5

2009-01-17T13:58:00.006+08:00

小娘惹 is one of the best Singapore production I have seen in ages, even though I did not watch much due to the fact that I am in army, but I did watch the final episode. Ahaha... (Thanks to Staff Chua, he let us go watch in the mess! Ahaha...) The filming technique is so artistic and the story telling is so well done, I was actually touched by the plot, (not one Singapore production can do that to me after 出路), wah, can fight with productions from other countries already. For the cast wise, I think pretty Jeanette Aw acting improved a lot, Joanne Peh's acting has already reached an exellent level. I think besides the plot, its the cultural aspect that made the series a hit. It has always been the case that when TV productions put in their efforts to film something about a certain culture, it will always be a hit, examples are like 出路，金枝欲孽，大长今, 宫, thats why I have always believed in what an ex Korean president said “文化是最好的卖点”. That also explains why Korean TV series has such an hit in Asia. I have read from magazines that Nonya culture is becoming a craze now, the same scenario as 大长今 when it was aired throughout Asia. Haha... I did fell in love with Korean food for a period of time after 大长今. I think that's the case with other people now. I heard Perenakan museums in Malacca are flooded with tourists. See how strong a TV series can do to bring people to appreciate certain cultures? Now that the DVD is out, haha... I actually want to buy it. I might wait for the whole series DVD out then buy, cheaper mar. Haha...

Anyway, on the hand, I did quite well for IPPT last Tuesday for the first time, even though I did not pass, but the overall improvement were quite a lot. My SBJ (From 200 to 215, this is why I failed, fail by 1 cm!) haha..., shuttle run (From 10.5 to 10.2), chin up (From 6 to 7), sit ups (41, my usual standard) and 2.4 (From 12.51 to 11.23, from fail to a silver timing sia). So very happy, a lot of people also did well and passed, so we were granted nights out on Tuesday! Haha... Next IPPT I aim for pass every single station!!! Ok, thats all for now.

Happy New Year 2009!

2009-01-10T12:39:00.005+08:00

Hi everyone, its time I give my blog a 大扫除, got a bit lazy and unmotivated to do my blog, but finally got some motivation, so hope you all do read ar.

2008 was like a roller coaster ride for me, do not wish to elaborate on it, 懂就懂，不懂的就不懂，but I do want to talk about army life, when I just entered army, I thought life would be miserable inside, I felt so demoralised especially during the first day's dinner, I felt as if I was a prisoner (everyone botak, wearing the same ugly admin T and shorts, carrying a tray queuing up for sucky food served by irritating aunties). The first 1 month was really taxing on me physically because I have not been a person who is interested in keeping fit for the last 20 years of my life. But before I knew it, the tough training was actually unknowingly building up my confidence as a person and my mental strength. Especially after field camp, I learnt to appreciate a lot of things that I usually take for granted, (anyway, I like live range the best). BMT's life was made enjoyable by a bunch of crazy bunk mates and a group of great commanders! POP straight after the 24 KM route march was a very shiok feeling even though quite a number of people could not take it and fainted during POP. Anyway as I look back, 神真的很恩待我，even though the first half year of 2008 was tough, army didn't seem as tough as I thought it would be.

My platoon photos

My section photo, platoon 2, section 4!!!

Zulu warriors marching down the line ya~~~

POP loh!!!

Photo with Sergeant Fadzly

After the 11 days of block leave, God blessed me with a posting of MP. MP is practically slacker than other units in terms of chiong suaness but a lot of knowledge based stuff to learn, mostly military law. I think I am quite happy with the unit I am in and the things I am learning. In MP, we learnt things that are more practical and useful in life. Ofcourse, the fact of being a future MP makes you feel proud as you are a bit different from normal soldiers, (We are men that are given powers by the law). The no 3 uniform is also super smart (imagine wearing that on MP's POP). MP also quite welfare, for example, we can book in and out in CV. 总得来说，都是神的恩典啦！As for what kind of posting I will get after my basic training, I will again leave it to God, because God always has his reasons in putting me in different environments.

Anyway, thank you to brothers and sisters of CYYAM for the great great support given to me in 2008. We shared joy and even sadness. Its God's blessings, I have you all by my side. Last but not least, all the best for 2009 everyone. Wish all of you a blessed year ahead!

2008-11-01T18:07:00.002+08:00

累，心灵上的累，不知道自己在做些什么，好像漫无目的的在过每一天，做着一些很没有意思的东西，好像无人能了解那种累，经历过的人可能也已经遗忘了那种累，前路一片模糊，我只能一直走一直走，陈奕迅由一首歌叫“路。。。一直都在”，这个道理我从不怀疑，但现在只能一步一步走，等待太阳。我要感谢神，我妈和我阿姨的鼓励，我相信就算全世界都离弃我，他们都会站在原地等我。

另一新阶段

2008-10-11T11:39:00.017+08:00

大家好，好久没有在这里和大家分享了，不知不觉已踏入人生的新阶段。。。我好想好好回顾这三年在理工的生活, 当年报读理工学院时的经历并不愉快，虽然进了一个我自己不太喜欢的课系，但我知道不能因为这样而给自己考得不好的借口，反而我尽我的能力去做好所有的一切。而在这过程，我认识了一批和我一起奋斗的朋友, 这是我在理工学院最大的收获吧。因为他们我在这三年的生活才不至于孤单。在这里分享一下我们毕业典礼的照片，分享一下我们的喜悦。

毕业了！！！和班主任的合照

和父母的合照

我穿毕业典礼服好看吗？哈哈。。。

Le fu family

Do I look like a glutton??? Lunch right after graduation ceremony

Went to 日本村 for dinner

We had fun with this tomato bacon wrap, haha... Jiamin didn't like this and most of them ended in my mouth. The tomato burst with juice everytime it went into my mouth. *Shivers*

理工生活已告一段落，我已进入人生的另一阶段，我在 Sept 15 2008 入伍了。入伍之前，我对兵营有一定的恐惧感，前几天甚至还觉得自己在坐牢，实际上当兵也没有我想象中恐怖，我非常感谢神我的军官们都蛮讲理的一群。渐渐的我已开始习惯里面的生活（不代表我喜欢里面的生活），但我学到了很多，也尝试了我本人从来想也不会去想做的东西。我想这两年的兵营生活会把握建立成更坚强的人。我好想过了BMT 好让我的头发快快长回出来，I look ugly without hair!!! Even my bunk mates say I look so handsome with hair (Those who want to puke, continue)

Went for cycling from Pasir Ris Park to Changi Beach before enlistment.

Thats my "home" for now, Pulau Tekong

Look like some couple in an advertisement? Ahaha... Stupid Jiamin go take this photo de

Dinner @ 日本村

Thats all mine!!! ROAR. No lar, just kidding

Thanks brothers and sisters for sending me off on enlistment day! Thanks for all the support!

Before

After... My hair are gone with the wind... ... ...

My First Book Out

My father specially prepared beef steak for me

This food might look normal to you, but it tasted like heaven to me after two weeks in Pulau Tekong

I had 3 days of rest after the 2 days confinement, went out with church friends for almost the 3 days. Went to ate a lot of good food!!! I miss good food!!!

Went to the airport on the first day

WHERE IS MY HAIR!!!

I'm so HAWT, HAWT! HAWT!

Fans of HAWT girl

Yo yo yo!

Went Ajitei for dinner on the 2nd night

有人一脸嫌弃。。。哈哈。。。

Had lunch with Jiamin, Shu Hui and Nico at a very authentic ramen stall

Hong Kong Trip Final Update

2008-09-09T18:20:00.042+08:00

I was looking at my photos taken in Hong Kong and I found that I haven't upload a last batch of photos. So here they are.

Everytime I go back to Hong Kong, I will definitely find a chance to explore the green side of Hong Kong, which means I will go hiking or what we say in Cantonese "行山”. This time I was invited by Auntie Anney (my Mum's old classmate) and her family and friends to walk a trail that I have not hiked before, its called "梧桐塞”, this trail is famous for its awesome view of waterfalls. I asked my good friend in Hong Kong, Clarence to join me in the walk. We walked for almost 4 hours and went for BBQ for dinner.

Stick insect, can you spot it???

The crystal clear stream

Aren't these water lilies beautiful? They are taken in a pond of a temple in the middle of the mountain

大帽山 is the highest mountain in Hong Kong, we are hiking near that area

The whole waterfall is categorised into 3 portions, main fall, middle fall and bottom fall, with the main fall having the most magnificent view

Bottom fall

Middle fall

The main fall

Youngsters playing at the main fall

View of the main fall from far

BBQ in Hong Kong is very different from the BBQ we have here, in Hong Kong, people sit around the circular BBQ bit and chit chat while they barbaque their food. I would prefer this way of BBQ, because people tend to talk more and are more involved in the whole conversation, if there are new friends around, it is also a better way to build rapport. The problem with our way of BBQ is that only a few people are barbaqueing while others are in their own small groups doing nothing but chat, those at the BBQ pit might feel lonely, new friends might felt left out when they have nothing to do and listen to conversations that does not concerns them. Therefore, Hong Kong style of BBQ is more heart warming.

First time trying the Hong Kong style of BBQ

Uncle Benny and family

My 堂表姐 brought me to 尖沙嘴.

尖沙嘴

We walked past a Charlie Brown Cafe, those who like Snoopy can come visit this cafe located in 尖沙嘴. I heard from my 堂表姐, the cafe's food is quite good. We did not ate over there coz we were supposed to eat somewhere else.

Photo taken with Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Yay!!!

The staircase to the cafe

This store is quite famous, because the food here is very nice! I ate 叉烧串, and its was super juicy and nicely barbequed. Alot of celebrities come here for their food too. Photos I saw on the walls were 张柏芝，任达华，famous food critic 蔡澜，马俊伟，张伟建 etc. Its located at 尖东, anyone going to Hong Kong should visit this store if they have the chance.

After dinner I went to meet my aunt and took MTR home, but before I leave, this is the my snack after dinner for the day, this is our local snack like our waffles over here, its called 鸡蛋仔, it must be eaten when hot, coz its crispy on the outside, soft in the inside when its hot, if cool down already har, it will be soggy soggy, not nice liao.

My aunt bought me to go eat high class buffet on the third last day of the trip. Guess what kind of restaurant is it? Its R66, a relvoving restaurant which means the restaurant turns 360 degrees. One round one hour. Its located in Hopewell Centre, 湾仔 and you could see the whole of Victoria Harbour's skyscrapers in one complete 360 degrees turn. Its good food with good view. Priced around S$50 plus to S$60 per person, half price if your birthday fall on the month you go. Its quite reasonable already, because buffet in Hong Kong is super expensive nowadays (something which Singapore is cheaper in, we can get good buffet in Singapore around S$30 plus already). Really enjoyed myself, I was really excited, but got a bit giddy initially even though the restaurant is revolving in a very slow pace (coz you can still feel your whole environment turning), but once get used to it, you will be enjoying your food and the beautiful night view.

湾仔

Central Plaza

Hmmm... Delicious...

Bank of China building, Internation Finance Centre (IFC - if you saw "Batman - The Dark Knight", this is where Batman jumped down from) and Central Centre all in one view.

This is that classic scene... Batman should actually jump down when the building is on fireworks during the New Year Countdown, AHAHA... Like that then classic mar.

Candle light dinner

Hopewell Centre, one of the symbolic icon of the famous Hong Kong skycrapers, we ate at the 60th storey of this building.

英皇HQ wor... 容祖儿，阿娇，阿Sa，谢霆峰的 office wor, 杨老板的 main office wor. But too bad, didn't see them at all. Ahaha...

On the second last day, my aunt brought me to the newly built mall, "Elements" at Kowloon station, one of the higher end areas in Hong Kong now. We ate at a superbly nice Japanese sushi restaurant named 千两 (only sushi and sashimi)，the food there is super fresh. After that we went to Mong Kok and bought all the sovenirs for YOU ALL and went back there to watch "Batman - The Dark Knight", the theatre there super class lor, the chair actually vibrates together with the explosion scenes, super cool. After that we went walk walk around that area, above the mall are where Hong Kong's most expensive condominums are. At night we went back into Tung Chung and ate Teppanyaki, I treated my aunt for dinner coz her birthday was nearing. Haha...

Semi barbaqued salmon sushi! Oyishi~~~

Scallop sashimi~~~

Salmon sashimi~~~

This will be the next symbolic icon in Hong Kong after the IFC, this is called ICC (International Commerce Centre), meant to be the a twin to the IFC on the shore opposite.

This condominum is called 凯旋门, this is one of the most expensive condominums in Hong Kong. Reason being the great view it provides, tenants have the whole Victoria Harbour's skyscrapers view smack on their windows. You see the bridge between the two buidings, like Heng Wei's house right, but their whole 会所 is located over there, you can swim up there while enjoying the Victoria Harbour view. Unless super rich, if not dream on on buying a unit over here.

Beautiful sunset!!!

Our teppanyaki dinner!

Beef steak

Cod fish
Time to go back~~~

Really enjoyed my time in Hong Kong, a special thanks to Aunt Surinna for making my stay an enjoyable one. Will not forget the times we had together. Hope to come back in near future. I LOVE HONG KONG!!!

Taking photos with the Olympics mascot, Hong Kong is the host city for Equestrian （马术） for the Beijing Olympics 2008.

大舅母，爱华姨妈 and Aunt Surinna at the entrance to the airside. Bye bye~~~ See you all soon!!!

The busy Hong Kong Chep Lap Kok International Airport, Changi is just too quiet for a hub...

Boarding soon...

Flying on an A330 - 300 back to Singapore.

Waiting for disembarkation

Beautiful weather! This is the most stable flight I have ever flown on, with no turbulence for almost 3 hours of flight only slight turbulence towards the end of the flight.

Drinks and snacks service

A330 - 300's cabin

Flight route map showing us we are flying at an attitude of 39 000 feet. This aircraft is not yet installed of the new seats and IFE.

Had chicken chop rice for lunch. Nice~~~

How about ice-cream at 39 000 feet? Shiok~

Old style remote control, hope the refurbish the A330 - 300s with the new seats and IFE soon

Back in Singapore

Hope to fly with you soon in near future, Cathay Pacific!

My air ticket

And yah, thank you CYYAM for fetching me! I won't forget what happened. Haha...

香港始终是家？

2008-08-25T23:07:00.017+08:00

哇！好挂住香港啊！挂住那里的人事物！

I can almost confirm a feeling. I have always dismissed this feeling because I think I am being too 感情用事. However this feeling grow stronger and stronger every time I am back in my hometown, Hong Kong, this particular time, I am not going to deny it, because its too strong to ignore and I am not going to run away from it. There is this strong sense of belonging, this strong attachment. 那里的人，那里的文化，那里的街道，那里的食物，那里的每一件事，每一样东西，对我来说都有着浓厚的亲切感。你们可能会说，为什么在新加坡长大的我，会有这种感觉？因为我发现原来在这 16 年来我没有彻彻底底地被同化，我发现在我内心里，我的潜意识里，那条根，那种对香港的情怀已经扎扎实实地扎根在我心里的深处。我并非对新加坡没有感情，毕竟这里是我长大的地方，只不过“归属感”不在这里。我有尝试让自己对新加坡有多一点的归属感，可是那往往只是假象。我记得有位弟兄曾经问我是否有一天我会回去香港，当时我的答案是很肯定的“不会”，

现在的我没那么肯定了。。。

过了两年的兵役后，我很有可能会回去香港读四年大学，如果习惯了那边的生活，我可能不会回来了。如果有一天我真的离开新加坡，我会感谢上帝在这里让我受好的教育而我最舍不得的是神在这里赐给我最美好的礼物，CYYAM，因为它建立了我的信仰，我的人格，让我董得什么是爱。神会安排我在这里长大，可能是为了让我认识他。常听妈妈说起当初来到新加坡，神怎样让她从新肯定他的存在的经历（我妈曾经离开过神），我常常在想如果我们一家没移民的话，我们可能根本就没有慢下脚步去认识神的机会，现在的我可能也不会是基督徒。所以我相信这一切不可能是偶然。当然如果我真得回去香港生活的话，应该也不是偶然的吧（我还有很多未信主的亲戚）。当然现在一切都还不成定局，一切还要看神怎样带领。那就耐心的等候吧。

Even though I am back in Singapore, I still do want to share with you the amazing food and charisma that Hong Kong has to offer. 香港真的是一个太精彩的地方，所以不是我要帮它打广告的咯。香港人是喜欢新事物的一群，他们爱吃所以很会吃（讲究吃的意思）。在香港是很难找到难吃的食物的。把这两样特点加起来就造成了一个现象，就是食物的款式往往千变万化，这点，你们有机会的话，去去它们的 McDonalds, KFC 和 Pizza Hut 就知道。在新加坡，这些普罗大众的餐厅卖的来来去去就是那几样款式的食物，但在那里，能叫的食物的款式可能会让你傻眼。就拿 Pizza Hut 来讲，新加坡的 Pizza Hut 的洋式汤是cheap cheap 的罐头 Campbell soup, 相信我，以为我常常喝 Campbell soup, 那味道我肯定认得了。香港Pizza Hut 的洋式汤，是高档的真才实料洋式汤。餐单里的食物样式多到眼花缭乱。以下的照片，你一看就明白，试想想新加坡的Pizza Hut 会有这些吗？？？

海鲜面

Mango smoothie

鲜螺锔薯容

Multi-national pizza, (from the left), American flavour, tom yam flavor and wasabi teriyaki chicken flavor

拼盘

Other food...

海南鸡饭, I still prefer Singapore's. Haha...

Went to 铜锣湾 on a particular day with my aunt, 铜锣湾 is like Taiwan's 西门町 or Singapore's Bugis Junction. This is one of the most crowded places in Hong Kong too, other than 旺角. People who like shopping, this is a place not to miss, but mind you, things here are not cheap.

There is this 街头艺术街 in 铜锣湾 named 西九龙文娱艺术街，see how lame they named the street in English... Supposedly, West Kownloon Cultural Street, they named in West Dog Dragon Cultural Street (Read the chinese name in Cantonese and you will know why).

One of the 街头艺术. Free hugs, mind trying one of them? Er... For girls, they are not that good looking for some worthy hugs right? Ahaha....

The bustling streets of 铜锣湾

Trams and buses on the roads of Hong Kong island

The famous 皇后大道。。。There is a song for it, you know? Haha...

Went to a famous Japanese restaurant called 别府 for dinner. Food there was great!

寿司！！！

Grape soda

铁板牛肉

Fried Jap tofu

鳗鱼炒饭

这个一定要介绍，这是香港著名点心流沙包，认识我的人就知道我不喜欢吃甜食，但这个包啊，真的让我欲罢不能。流沙包其实就是奶黄包的化身，只不过里面的奶黄不是泥状的，而是热辣辣的液状，咬入口中时，里面的液状奶黄就会喷出来。。。简直就是 HEAVENLY 啊！！！This is a must try if you have a chance to tour in Hong Kong!

我阿姨煮的港式家常菜，番茄红杉鱼

I was supposed to buy a book of Pei Fern. My friend brought me to the address of the bookshop in 荃湾, and we 顺便 went to this old Chinese style house named 三栋屋 which has already turned into a museum to take a look.

Taiwan Trip 2008 Final Day

2008-08-13T10:21:00.024+08:00

Next morning, I woke up and had my second round of spring bath, after the morning bath, my aunt and I went around the hotel for photo taking, how can we miss such nice sceneries. Breakfast was ok, but the great view compensated everything. After that we set off to our 2nd last destination of the tour, the famous town on the hills, 九份!!!

The view outside of our room

The view you will get while spring bathing

Japanese style bathing with magnificent view

The overall view

The outer spring pools and a normal swimming pool

The overall view of the hotel

The outer spring pools

Swimming pool

Good weather!

The spring water, the rocks have turned brown because of the sulphuric contents in the water

Breakfast with an awesome view!

Ready to set off for 九份!!!

九份 is a town on a mountain, I am going to tell some interesting facts about this town. 九份 name came about because there was nine families living on this mountain long time ago, so every time, these people go down the mountain to buy things, they buy 九份, so this is how the name came about. Because of its beautiful scenery and interesting streets, the town was used as the filming location for the famous movie 悲情城市 whose lead actor was 梁朝伟. 宮崎駿 when coming up with spirited away, used the town as a model of the town he was going to create in the movie . Shocking? 九份 is a beautiful mountain town with a lot of souvenir shops and food! Next Taiwan trip, please suggest this place, its a attraction not to be missed!

The streets in 九份, they look very Jap style, don't they? For those who have seen "Spirited Away", does this look like the street where the girl's parents turned into pigs?

Look at the name of the stall, shen keng, shen keng, like some thing deep from the toilet bowl and its still smelly toufu, haha... But its nice leh... AHAHA...

Shan zhu sausage, nice!

The beautiful scenery on 九份!!!

We had our lunch over there and I bought tie dan, come back share with you all. Hehe...

Ru rou fan, ru rou chao cai and fu zhou yu wan~~~ This is Zhang Ji, quite a famous food stall on 九份, but the ru rou fan is not as good as those in Shi Lin.

Beef noodles~~~

The final stop for the tour is 西門町, a famous shopping district for youngsters, you can find all the most fashionable, most trendy stuff over there. It is also a place where singers always hold their album release events. I bought a few clothes over there and finally ate what the tour guide introduced, mian mian bing!!! Mian mian bing is also ice, but they are ice that looks and feels like snowflakes. Before we headed for the airport, my aunt and I shared a bowl of Mango mian mian bing!

Ximen station

The street will be crowded with fans when singers hold their events over here

Mango mian mian bing~~~ Woho~~~ Kou gan chao zan!!!

Let you all look at the details. This is how the ice looks like. Mian mian de

The bing stall at 西門町

We then headed to the airport. The terminal we used was terminal 2, the newer terminal and the base for EVA Air, few other airlines that uses the terminal include Cathay Pacific and Dragonair. It is like terminal 3 of Changi Airport, mainly for Singapore Airlines and only a few other airlines join in using it. So the terminal was not that packed. But for a new terminal building, I think the design and facilities needs serious improvement. Firstly, the floor was full of dirt marks, making the terminal tired looking, the air side seriously lacks push carts for hand carry items, the toilets were pathetically small, which should not be the case for an INTERNATIONAL airport, and the duty free shops and eateries are seriously lacking at the air side.

Our tour guide, Ying Jie

Taipei Zhong Zheng Taoyuan International Airport (Departure Hall)

My boarding pass

Time to go in

Where are the push carts???

They have a eatery selling local delicacies, but no one there de leh. I wanted to eat the orh ah mi sua, but my aunt say since there is no one eating, the food might not be fresh, so suan le lor. But this very local signboard contrast greatly with the modern terminal building, so quite interesting

Our return flight was on an A330 -200 plane, not my favourite plane and not what I would prefer to fly with. Due to the width of the A330, seats in this aircraft type have to be narrowed and many airlines including Cathay Pacific would squeeze more seats into the aircraft sacrificing seat pitch (leg room) (More seats means more money). Therefore every time I am on an A330, its like seating in a very squeezy space for many hours. However, EVA Air gave me a pleasant surprise! The seat pitch on their A330 is ENORMOUS!!! Even though the seat width was still the same, the legroom was unbelievable! You can seat cross leg or stretch out your leg without ramming your knees into the seat in front of you, making the A330 very comfortable to seat in. The dinner on the flight was better than the lunch on the flight to Taipei, but still, quite disappointing, we had ji si liang mian, I didn't see any chicken, just ham and eggs on top of gray coloured noodles... Service was again great! The cabin crews are all very pretty. Haha... There are PTV on this flight, the IFE is still AVOD, but not as fantastic as Cathay Pacific's. I watched "康熙来了" again, haha... Got to take a photo with the ISM (Inflight Service Manager) before I alight the plane.

A330 - 200

Bye bye, Taiwan~~~

See that enormous legroom!!!

Stredded chicken cold noodles, where is the chicken??? Again another sub standard airline meal, bo bian, who tell us to be on such a short flight...

The beautiful cabin

Photo taken with ISM, the in charge of all the other cabin crews on the flight

Conclusion

This trip changed my impression of Taiwan, even though Taiwan has its rotten media culture and bad politics, this is where we get our feel of Taiwan. Taiwanese actually are a group of very passionate people. As I hear from the tour guide about how the government comes up with solution to solve traffic problems in Taipei, I actually feel that Taiwan in a sense is also quite systematic. Taiwanese are also a environmental friendly kind of people, you can see obvious traces of it everywhere, in Taiwan, they don't provide plastic bags, in Taiwan, you can only on your car's or bus's air-con 3 minutes before driving off, in Taiwan you don't see beautiful packaging, but more food if you buy simple packaging, less food and more expensive if you buy beautiful packaging. And the Taiwanese really follow the rules set. Taiwanese is a group of people that love cleanliness, go visit the toilets anywhere in Taiwan, even those in night markets, there is only one word that can describe them, "clean". Although Taipei did not met my expectation of a modern capital city and the food, even though a lot of variety is really not that great as I expected, but the good points compensated them. There are still so much to explore, but that can't be done in a 4 days tour. I will surely go to Taiwan again in the future!

Taiwan Trip 2008 Day 3

2008-08-09T10:46:00.014+08:00

My aunt and I are always the earliest and the most on time pair in the group. Haha... Next day, our first destination was 忠烈祠, this is a shrine that commemorates the soldiers that sacrificed their lives in WWII. There are soldiers guarding at the main entrance and the main hall. There will be a marching ceremony whenever it is time to change the guard shift. We were there to watch the marching ceremony. I now can understand why Taiwanese are quite kin on not letting themselves returning to China. Over here at 忠烈祠, you can sense how strong the nationalism the Taiwanese has, you can't blame them on being stubborn over the China - Taiwan issue. They have used so many years to build up this country with a strong sense of nationalism, how could they so easily give up whatever they have built up. Just imagine if one day Malaysia insist Singapore is theirs, other countries must accept the one Malaysia policy, how would we feel. Will we be so willing to give up all we have built up all these years?

Thats not a statue, thats a REAL soldier, try disturbing him, all the police will charge at you

忠烈祠

The marching ceremony

For lunch, we went to 伍角船板 restaurant. This is a very special restaurant. It is a dream - come - true restaurant by a lady who dreamt of building a dream restaurant. The outside of the restaurant looks like a seashell, inside the restaurant, you feel you are inside a seashell, with special ceilings, special walls, special decorations and special utensils (Well, like in a cave as well). The only bad thing of the restaurant is that it doesn't have any lift for dinners and the restaurant is as tall as 4 to 5 stores high. The old lady in our tour group had a hard time walking up the stairs. Anyway, I took more photos than eating in this restaurant.

The walls

Her dream is printed on every chopsticks' paper wrappings

The utensils

Entrance to toilet

The ceiling

This is the lady boss of the restaurant

The outside view of the restaurant. Like a seashell right?

The princess of a native Taiwanese tribe

The next destination we went is the famous Taipei 101, we are allowed to decide whether to go up to the observatory on our own will, that is because going up cost you NT$400. My aunt and I however went up, you can see the whole of Taipei city in a 360 degree view on the observatory level which is on the 89th floor. The most amazing attraction is the lift going up to the 89th floor. The lift only takes around 37 seconds to transport us from the fifth floor to the 89th floor! You can feel yourself almost floating as the lift speeds up or down. Anyway, the view was quite magnificent although the weather was not at its best.

Inside the lift, the screen indicating how fast the lift is going up

松山機場

The world's biggest wind damper

小巨蛋

The world's fastest elevator

The next destination we went to 野柳地質公園, it is a beach full of naturally formed beautiful rocks. The famous queen head is also originated from there. The view there is just magnificent.

The famous queen head

Isn't that magnificent?

Finally, we went to the Yang Ming Shan Spring Resort for our stay that night. The resort was very nice, the dinner is acceptable (frankly speaking, besides Shi Lin Night Market, all the meals I had in Taiwan was only acceptable...). Every room has its own spring tub and a Japanese style shower with a magnificent view of the hills behind the resort. I had my first dip of spring water and had my dose of "康熙来了" before going to sleep. Haha...Thats all for that day, will update you all on the last day on another time, bye!

The super comfortable room!

The comfortable sofa~~~

Taiwan Trip 2008 Day 2

2008-08-05T17:44:00.011+08:00

The next morning, we had hotel breakfast. The bad thing about being in a tour group is that you are forced to eat with your tour mates on the same table. The hotel food was a bit of a disappointment. After breakfast we set off for Taipei Zoo. On the bus, the tour guide told us of one interesting fact, in Taiwan, you are not supposed to throw your used toilet paper into the toilet bowl. This is because the sewage pipes in Taiwan are narrow, so throwing toilet paper into the toilet bowl might obstruct the pipe ways. So they will throw it in a little bin beside the toilet bowl (actually I think this is disgusting, haha...), anyway talking about toilets, toilets in Taiwan are so clean! (Even in Shi Lin Night market or places you will expect a dirty toilet). Singapore, "The Garden City" really needs to learn from Taiwan lor. Taipei Zoo nothing interesting leh... Just animals... Can see in Mandai Zoo mar, Mandai Zoo is seriously better than Taipei Zoo...

Hotel breakfast buffet

Taipei 101

"Whacha lookin' at???"

Cute sleeping Koala Bear

Energetic little monkeys

Another monkey?

The guy next to me is our tour guide, Kevin Yu

The next destination we went to is 大溪浪漫花海, this is the filming location for 天國的嫁衣 and 我的祕密花園Ⅱ. It is a flower orchard. We had our lunch in their own restaurant there, the restaurant looks very nice but food was not very great.

After lunch, we went to a D.I.Y lesson for making our own 香草香包, I bought one for my mum too! Then we went out to the flower orchard to admire those beautiful flowers~~~

Kim Samsoon's pig! Shu Mei, sorry, I can't bring it back to you. Haha...

Different 香精 for our 香包

Making my own 香包



Lavender garden

Do I look like the lead actor??? AHAHA...

We then proceed to 士林官邸, this is the old resident of 蔣介石 and 宋美齡. They have a enormous park open to public but their house is not open to public. 宋美齡 likes roses when she was alive, so she had one park of her park planted with 1000 roses, but when we were there, the roses are not that pretty, I think its because its not spring and before that the typhoon might have made the flowers look tired.

In front of their house

1000 roses garden

The car given by the US as a present for 蔣介石 and 宋美齡, they used to use this car to travel around.

The protrait of 蔣介石 and 宋美齡

The last stop of the day was 士林夜市!!! The most looked forward destination for me!!! However the tour guide told us not to put too much expectation on the food. The reason she gave was, firstly Hong Kong is the true food paradise, Hong Kongers knows all about food, how to cook and are very picky about food, steam a fish also can steam it better than other people. Secondly, Taiwan food is more towards oily and sweet, might not be what we Hong Kongers like. The tour guide allowed us to not follow the tour bus back to our hotel, so we are free to shop and eat until late late. Since we were not hungry, we went to shopping first!!! Haha... There were so many variety of clothes there sia!!! Kai En, you should come lor. Shop until you siao. Things are quite cheap also, we did bargain and while doing that we realize a lot a lot of Taiwanese understands and speaks really good Cantonese, this is due to the fact that a lot of Hong Kongers go to Taiwan for holiday, the Taiwanese are already so used to Cantonese already. (Our tour guide is also a Taiwanese, but her Cantonese pro until... You won't even know she is a Taiwanese unless she tells you). We shopped for almost 1 hour plus lor, went around comparing prices, never felt so happy shopping before leh! At last I bought 4 clothes, 3 pants and a belt over there and guess how much they cost??? Just S$100 plus only leh!!! Haha... After that, its finally FOOD!!! There are so many food different kinds of food in the night market lor. 炸雞排 that are bigger than your face, 大餅包小餅 lar, 生煎包 lar, 花生糖 lar, 蚵仔煎 lar, Tempura lar,檸檬愛玉 lar, 青蛙下蛋 lar, 珍珠奶茶 lar, 臭豆腐 lar, beef steak lar, sausages bigger than your arm lar, 滷肉飯 etc... See until eyes tired lor. At last we ordered 滷肉飯, 臭豆腐, 蚵仔煎, fried bee hoon and the famous Taiwan mango ice just for S$6 plus!!! The 滷肉飯 super nice, 臭豆腐 not bad, but like what the tour guide said, the 蚵仔煎 and fried bee hoon is kinda sweet, I don't really like it. I still prefer Singapore's 蚵仔煎. Haha... Now I can confirm, the real food paradise is still in Hong Kong. Anyway, after dinner, we took the metro back to our hotel, when I was in the metro, I noticed a lot of funny comics of Taiwan's courtesy campaign. When we reached the hotel and entered the hotel lift, there was also a comic about the courtesy campaign. From this, can see Taiwanese are really very creative have a good sense of humor. The next day we moved to a spring resort, so we have to pack up. To be continued...

士林夜市!!!

滷肉飯, 臭豆腐, 蚵仔煎 and fried bee hoon!!!

Mango ice!!!

Taiwan Trip 2008 Day 1

2008-08-02T14:56:00.014+08:00

I really experienced God's blessings during the whole Taiwan trip. Especially the weather, as you all know, typhoon Fung Wong was already approaching Taiwan few days before we set off. My aunt and I were following the news closely and to our dismay, the typhoon OFFICIALLY hit Taiwan in the early morning on the day we were supposed to set off. Typhoon Fung Wong was directly above the whole of Taiwan, covering it completely if you look at the satellite images. I remembered we were filled with uncertainty that morning, we kept on watching the news and checking the airline's website for latest updates. When we reached the airport, we were relieved to know that the flight will be taking off as scheduled (We learnt that a few airlines actually cancelled their flights to Taipei). When we touched down in Taoyuan Zhong Zheng International Airport, the typhoon was already slowly leaving Taiwan. By 2.00 p.m. that afternoon, the typhoon OFFICIALLY left Taiwan for China, Fu Jian. This typhoon took away 1 life and left 6 injured, but that was in Yi Lan, Hua Lian area. There were small drizzles during the first 2 days, but besides that, the rest of the days' weather was in great condition, completely different from the weather forecast, if it wasn't for God's blessings, then what was it right?

Olympic games is drawing near, this is the famous China runner, 刘翔

Anyway, we became paparazzi at the airport when we were having our breakfast at a restaurant, we heard a very familiar voice at the entrance and turn over to find us looking at 陈小春 coming into the restaurant. His face super cool and as usual, ugly. A minute later, his rumored girlfriend 應采兒 wearing sunglass (does that sound familiar?) came in and sat at his table. Had a impulse to call the paparazzi, ahaha... Just joking, so this isn't rumored, its real. Don't know why 應采兒 will like him, so ugly lor...

Have you ever seen such a long chang fen before??? It tastes really good too!

Thats my breakfast

This is the first time I am on a tour package (to be correct, second actually, but considering that was when I was 3 years old...) So the experience was quite refreshing for me. Whats good about going with a tour group is that you don't have to worry about transportation and accommodation.

Our trip starts!!! Anyway Hong Kong Chep Lap Kok International Airport won "Airport of the Year 2008" again! Congrats!!!

He is so tall~~~ And I am so short~~~

We flew with Eva Air this time. This is the first time I am flying on Eva Air. Eva Air is a Taiwanese airline, its strongest competitor is of course China Airlines. However, China Airlines always loses out to Eva Air due to poor safety records. Every time they has an accident, Eva Air's business will shoot up. For your information, Eva Air has a clean safety record. Eva Air's flight attendants on average is so much prettier then Cathay Pacific and even Singapore Airlines. They are mostly of the same height. You can see how strict they are with their selection. Their service is above average (Malaysia Airlines to date is still the best) and you know Taiwanese girls has this cute accent (like Lin Zhi Ling, you know what I mean, haha...) However, due to the short flying time (1 hour 40 minutes), the airplane meal is refrigerated so the food is cold especially the Char Siew bun given, it is the worse airline food I have ever eaten. The flight was rather bumpy when we were approaching Taiwan (due to the typhoon, of course), especially during landing, my heart nearly came out of my mouth during a few sudden descend. Thank God we landed safely.

Eva Air B747-400 Combi, Eva Air has a fleet of very interesting B747-400s, the front part of the plane are passenger cabins, the back part is cargo container

Boarding pass

Boarding time!

We took off in good weather

The sub standard cold char siew bun...

Took a photo with a pretty flight attendant!

Landed in bad weather, entered the typhoon...

Landed safely after a bumpy approach

At the new terminal 2's immigration hall, only Eva Air and Dragonair uses this terminal, so its quite spacious, empty and comfortable!

The tour guide told us once we settled down in the tour bus that we cannot go anywhere on that day, it has been 7 to 8 years time since the whole Taiwan closed for business, the reason being the typhoon positioned itself right above the whole of Taiwan. There was one day of free and easy included in the tour schedule, the tour agency will give us a one day metro (train) ticket to go anywhere we want in Taipei. However, since we can't go anywhere on the first day, they changed our schedule and treat the first day as our free and easy day. So they refunded the train ticket money to us. Anyway the tour guide told us some very interesting facts about Taiwan. There are 三多 in Taiwan, 山多, 7 Eleven 多 and motorbike 多. 三少, toilets 少, police 少 and rubbish bin 少, haha... We stayed at 福朋喜來登飯店 for the first 2 nights, its a 4 star hotel. It has computers for its customers (thats how I got online). We had our lunch there and went to 全家便利店, family mart to buy our dinner. In Taiwan, they are so good in 环保, they don't provide plastic bags for you in any shops, if you want one, you have to buy, this is what i am very impressed with. They are really serious about saving the environment. (I am not going to support Hong Kong in this area. Hong Kong is by far the most wasteful place I have ever seen). In the late afternoon we went to the gym to exercise. The cup noodles and 飯团 from the 便利店 is super nice. Haha... We went to sleep after that looking forward for next day's activities.

Motorbike 多. Haha...

Free computers with free internet access!

Woho!!! Exercising before we chiong the oily food in Taiwan!

My delicious dinner!!!

The beautiful night view outside our room!

Hong Kong Trip 2008 Update 3

2008-08-01T15:26:00.009+08:00

My friend Clarence brought me to a place rich with history - checkerboard hill. Let me brief you on the history of this hill. The concrete wall facing Kowloon of this hill was once painted in bright red and white checkered pattern. Planes landing in the old Kai Tak airport will have to make a 45 degrees turn in front of the checkerboard in order to land. In the old days, people will get a magnificent view of planes peforming the turn right in front of them when standing on the hill top. However nowadays, what is left on the walls are peeled off paints which shows the Hong Kong government actually does nothing to preserve a place rich with history, unlike Singapore. A small trivia is, this is the same hill where Ma De Zhong and Wu Zheng Yu have their men's talk in the TVB series, "Triumph in the Skies" which is also Chong Shang Yun Xiao. There is one scene where they recount on their childhood memories about how they came and spot planes over here when they were young.

Overlooking old Kai Tak airport's runway, not blocked by two irritating building...

The wall that are once painted with red and white checkered patterns, the famous checkerboard... Now left only with peeled off paints...

Planes once flew over this buildings... The famous Kowloon city...

This is the place where Ma De Zhong and Wu Zheng Yu have their men's talk...

The patches of red paints are pieces of history that are left...

Lion rock

Fungus pasta

Ya Liao Street

We went to a short briefing for our Taiwan tour at Wing On tour agency's briefing centre before our trip.

Tsing Ma Bridge

The famous Bank of China building

Took a photo with the fake Nancy

In the briefing room...

The briefing centre...

Egg tart (Do you know egg tart is not the invention of the ang mohs? They originated from Guangzhou from the hands of a dim sum chef, its chinese stuff, shouldn't we be proud. Haha...)

Typhoon

2008-07-27T22:03:00.002+08:00

First, I need your prayers. I will be flying off to Taiwan, Taipei tomorrow, but then if you all got notice the news (Xiaoling, I doubt you have), there is a typhoon named Fung Wong approaching Taiwan tomorrow, Taizhong which includes Hualian and the surrounding area will be the most severely hit typhoon area. It will bring along thunderstorms with it. Pray that our flight won't be delayed due to the typhoon, pray that we will have a safe journey to Taiwan, pray that during our tour, the weather won't cause us much trouble travelling around.

Hong Kong Trip 2008 Update 2

2008-07-23T17:49:00.012+08:00

Hi all! Really miss you all!!! This few days quite eventful. On Sunday, my parents and I went to visit my grandparents. It just feels SO GOOD to be in some where you are familiar with, the noises, the sights, the smell and ofcourse the TASTE (which naturally means food, Ahaha...). Hong Kong has this very special charisma that lingers in the air. Maybe because I am born here, deep inside me, there is still this connection with this place, but don't worry, Singapore is still my home, its where I grow up and where all my friends are.

Anyway, the first lunch in Hong Kong already gave me a visual shock, (I only say visual, because I controlled my diet), its like going to the US and everything is double the food portion in Singapore. (E.g. The rice given here is equals to two bowls of rice in Singapore). But don't worry for me because until now I haven't gain any weight yet and I hope this will stay until I come back, every morning, I will go to the beautiful park below my aunt's block and exercise, I am quite proud of myself. Haha!

Ham and egg noodles

Baked salted chicken

Pork chop spaghetti

After visiting my grandparents, we went back into Tung Chung for dinner with my mum's side relatives. Its the first time I see my cousin's baby! He is super cute and ENERGETIC, he is really STRONG. Haha... He can wriggle his way out of your arms even when hugging him tightly. Haha! And none of our relatives successfully put him to sleep except for his grandmother which is also my aunt. Haha... Oh, the dinner at night was super nice~~~ We had Shanghai food, if anyone comes to Hong Kong, I surely will bring them to this restaurant, I am pretty sure the chefs there are Shanghainese, the taste of the Gyoza (Guo Tie) is the best I have ever tasted!!! The thickness of the taste of the pork and the crispiness of the skin... Woho, just high! If any stupid bum comes to me and say Singapore is a food paradise, I will kick him and send him all the way to Hong Kong! Hong Kong and supposedly Taiwan is the real food paradises in Asia ok!

My cousin's baby, Lang Xuan

On Monday, I went to my grandfather's birthday celebration. It is those once in a blue moon type of dinner I would go to. The dishes on that night was those you would see on a rich man's table. There were prawns, Fuo Tiao Qiang, abalone (those you need to use your fork and knife type which means it has a considerable size), Scallop, chicken shark fin soup, claypot Kang Kong, steamed fish, roasted pork, chicken, fried rice, ee mian, shou bao and fruits. Did not really enjoyed very much during the dinner, just a decent conversation with relatives (not very close with my father's side relatives). Anyway, I will pass the gospel tracks to my grandfather before I return to Singapore, hope he will read it.

Steamed fish

My grandfather's birthday cake

Shou bao

Father's side relatives

Tuesday was a really happy day!!! Coz my aunt and I went to a tour agency and decide on going to Taiwan on next Monday!!! We wanted something relax so we chose a more relaxed tour schedule, haha... We will be going to flower and fruit orchard, Taipei 101, Shi Lin night market, etc. What really attracted us is there is a free and easy day on the third day where they will give us a one day subway ticket and we can go anywhere we want! We will be going for 4 days, 3 nights and will be flying on Eva Air, an airline I have not flown before! Haha... Looking forward to the food and the shopping!!!

My mum enjoying her shopping! Haha...

Wednesday, we went to Mui Wo in Lantau Island to visit my father's friend, Uncle Raymond in an old folk's home. Anyway, this is the second time I come back to Hong Kong during summer, I didn't know Hong Kong can have such great weather and clear skies, (My photos will be the evidence), might be due to the government's effort to improve air quality due to the Olympic games. Anyway its quite saddening to see Uncle Raymond's state now, its so much difference from last year when I last saw him, he is bed ridden and has became so thin and he is diagnosed with skin cancer also. Haiz... Just makes me reflect on how fragile life is... Don't know whether will he still be here on our next visit to Hong Kong. Anyway, we went to the old harbor seafood restaurant to eat seafood again (remember the one I introduced on my posts last year when I am in Hong Kong?)!!! I just feel really spoiled, spoiled with good food!!! Ahaha... But the mosquitoes here also feasted on me, my whole leg is full of mosquito bites after a day in Mui Wo!!! Very itchy!!!

Ice lemon tea

Baked fish rice

Baked pork chop rice

(Mind you, the dish you see above is individual portion)

Old folk's home

Haha... Qing shen shen, yu meng meng...

Choosing seafood

Prawns

Fried ginger and onion oyster

Steamed fish

Anyway, I will continue my update when I am back from Taiwan! All the best to you all. Anyway, please pray for my aunt in US, her friend flew over from Hong Kong to join her for holiday, but yesterday, they met with a car accident. Her friend went into coma and my aunt has a bit of internal bleeding. Her friend is suppose to fly back to Hong Kong today but can't now. Her friend has already woken up from coma but has 3 broken ribs, my aunt don't need to go for surgery but have to stay in hospital for observation. Thank God that God saved their lives.

Hong Kong Trip 2008!!!

2008-07-20T17:50:00.008+08:00

Yoyo... I am in Hong Kong already!!! Very long never blog liao. Firstly, thank you those who came to send me off! Really appreciate it even though my departure date clashes with Yan Heng's evangelical birthday party. Thank God that I am once again flying on Cathay Pacific since I flew on Jetstar Asia last year. (Come to think of it, my first series of posts were about my trip in Hong Kong last year! So my blog is already 1 year old! Lets sing a birthday song! "Happy Birthday to my blog, er...", ok, nevermind lets get back to the main point). To those who have flown with Jetstar Asia to Taiwan would know how small and crampy the cabin and seats are, so I am really happy that my flight back to Hong Kong is actually a HUGE B747-400 installed with Cathay Pacific's newly introduced seats!!! (I will go into details later). And yes, I saw the A380 for the first time in my life in T3! Anyway, yes Pei Fern, T1 can link to T3.

My boarding pass

Thank you for sending me off!

The huge bird!!! Singapore Airlines' A380!!!

My plane for the flight.

The moment I stepped onto the plane, I was so excited to see that my plane has the newly installed seats. I can only use one word to describe the new in-flight entertainment system (IFE) on the new Cathay Pacific seats, they are SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOUCIOUS, the new IFE are Audio and Video on Demand (AVOD). The new screens are so much wider. You can navigate through the system to search for movies or TV programmes you wish to watch. You can decide when you wish to watch your chosen programme. You can rewind, forward and pause your programme like watching a movie through a DVD player. I fell in love with the IFE, never ever was I so impressed with an airline's IFE.

The new IFE!

Oh, and the seats. they are just AMAZING! They consist a cup holder (So you don't have to put your meal table down just for a cup of drink), a coat hanger, a adjustable headrest, a foot rest and a laptop socket. However, the main attraction is that the seat itself won't recline, it has a hard plastic back, it is the seat cushion that will recline which firstly won't cause the problem of ramming into the passenger seating behind you when you recline your seat and secondly creates my leg room and personal space. The whole cabin also looks really futuristic or cyber looking with the new seats. Service was great, better then Singapore Airlines I would say. Food was very delicious, they had a choice of pork with rice and chicken with mashed pumpkin, (the mashed pumpkin has a very fragrant buttery smell!) We had HAAGEN DAZ vanilla ice-cream for desert too!!! (Haha... Don't be jealous ar.)

Drinks and snacks service

Pork with rice~~~

Chicken and mashed pumpkin~~~

Cool cabin!

Cool seats with the sliding cushions!

My first photo with a Cathay Pacific flight attendant, they are such great crews!

My heart was filled with joy when I see my 2 aunts at the airport fetching us! It feels so good to be back again here in somewhere I am familiar with. I really pray for God's guidance and blessings for this trip and I hope all are well in Singapore too! Updates will keep on coming, stay tune!

Church Camp!!!

2008-06-11T10:42:00.027+08:00

The last church camp I went was the one in Kota Tinggi, wasn't that super long ago? Haha... It has been so many years already! I really want to thank God for this year's church camp! The feeling of wonderfulness is beyond words can describe. I really enjoyed the kind of fellowship during the camp, like what Wei En said "It taste like part of Heaven". Haha! The feeling of togetherness, wow, just wonderful! The sermon was great especially the first sermon, the accommodation was good, I heard it was much better than last year's. And food, of course, from Xiao Ling's tone and expression was much better than last year's. The schedule was a bit packed, but who cares? Its church camp! Like what Uncle Tai Guang said, if there is none other important business, we should try our best to come! That's right man!

Here are some highlights of church camp:

Day 1:

Went to church at 9.45 a.m. to gather, took quite a few photos before boarding the bus.

Cute Leah!!!

We had fun playing with Kai En's sun glasses on the bus to Changi jetty!!! Haha...

Yan Heng trying to do er... pole dance???

On the ship...

Haha... Yi Qian is my roommate for this year's camp.

This photo is taken from inside the ship, this is I think Changi Beach? Don't you think its beautiful??? Planes usually zoom past this area for landing or take-off.

Off we go!!!

En Xuan is so cute too!

Now, that's classic!

Let me introduce you to "超级无敌大帅哥和和美女们”!!!

拥有超级无敌小蛮腰的大美女，施晓玲！

超级无敌大帅哥，杰哥哥！！！

拥有超级无敌dot dot dot的大帅哥，Yan Heng!!!

整天去 gym，身材fit到漏油的 Tan Pei En!!!

En Xuan and Ah Ma, En Xuan so cool hor!!!

We reached Pulai Desaru Resort at around 2.00 p.m. and had our lunch before they handed us room keys, the lunch was fried rice, nice but so little lor! Not full enough!

Our function room!

Leah trying to learn to play the piano!!!

See that contrast??? Muscular man and small baby.

After the keys handing session, its free time, Yi Qian, Pei Fern, Linda, Wan Yee, Ailing Pei Xian and I went walking around the resort to explore a bit.

Thats a scary hen... in the mini "zoo"... I thought farm would be more appropriate...

Went to beach walk walk, see see, they never maintain the beach sia! So many leaves around and oh my, there was a big Komodo dragon walking right behind where I seated, scared the hell out of me man! But it still look quite peaceful and nice under the bright big sun!

Later in the evening after dinner, we had the opening ceremony where there was children drumming water bottles, a session of line dance with balloons tied to our feet and stepping on each other's balloons! Really had fun!!! Then Yan Heng prepared some games for us, showing us photos of past camps and events and guessing questions posted by him, wah, got feel, memory flooded in, got photos of me when I was young leh... Haha... And all the laughter surrounded YanHeng and Heng Wei's muscle man pose when they were young. Haha...

Day 2:

We woke up quite early in the morning, around 6.00 a.m. like that to gather in the function room to do QT, Yi Qian and I rushed down coz we were late!!! Wah, the resort har, don't open lights at night de leh, we were literally searching in the darkness for the key hole and finding our way to the function room, when we reached the lobby, wah, no lights also sia. They so 环保 lor! After QT, we had line dance and had our first breakfast in the resort, wah, the breakfast super got feel. The scrambled eggs were super nice, there are staff there cooking 荷包蛋 or omelet for you de leh. The harsh brown... wah... Ok stop stop, later you all jealous until don't want to read le. After breakfast, we proceed to the big field and play rubber band passing using the straws in our mouth and find things to build the tallest tower. Uncle Qian Lu very 夸张, he go take a fallen tree branch, not small one leh, super big one leh, after he take, every other group went to take, super funny lor! Anyway we came in third for the tallest tower. Not bad sia.

Then we had preparation time for skit, wah, that day cannot think of anything leh, later I thought of using Return of the Condor Heroes as our main plot, a lot of funny ideas lar, but not yet complete. Then came lunch, I will not elaborate, coz after that I realize all the meals we had there were around the same, though the taste nice, its always lamb, chicken, beef, fish and vegetables, standard de. Then came our sermon, sermon was good, very encouraging, Rev Lai really made me think a lot! Even though at the front, I almost fell asleep, I stood up aside and listened at first. The sharing we had later was really fruitful, I shared about the fear of stepping up and serve the Lord, others shared a lot too, quite a deep sharing. Then dinner and sermon again. Sermon part 2 was more theoretical and practical, it was good, but all the high I people started drifting away, including me lar. Xiao Ling and me were self entertaining, I was asking her, "Hey, do you find Rev Lai looks like Humpty Dumpty?". She give a funny expression and said, "Walou, you very bad leh". I almost burst out laughing, opps so sorry, Zhi Yang look at our direction still, so paiseh, next time I will try to concentrate more! We then break into groups and shared until 11 plus that night.

Day 3:

Fiana dancing line dance with baby Leah!

See that classic muscle man pose by both Yan Heng and Heng Wei???

They went out of glass, so we took bowls for our fruit juices, 我敬你一杯！！！

Had line dance again, this time more people woke up early to join, the breakfast, the singspiration and the last sermon for the whole camp. The sermon also quite theoretical but the last two sermons really pose some very challenging questions to the leaders of our church. Pray that God will continue to guide our church into the right direction. Later we break into groups for sharing again, shared about how we share gospel to others, Leah was with us too, she was happy and noisy, distracted our attention, haha... and she had her delicious beef bolognese, baby version of course, by Heinz, maybe I will feed my baby with that next time, coz it taste not bad. Later we had skit practicing time, the plot already out but we practised too long lar, haiyah, didn't had time to swim, or at least I didn't get to swim, coz by the time we ended its already 5 plus and 6 is our dinner, but Pei En, Wei Hong, Xiao Ling and Linda went to swim, I went to play ping pong with Kai En and Ying Qian, I first time learn, haha... So Kai En and Ying Qian taught me the techniques to play ping pong, I became all sweaty and went back to bathe before dinner. Dinner that night was fantastic, although I didn't eat a lot, it was BBQ food!

After that it was family themed programs, every family have to wear specially for the last night. Uncle James' family won the best dressed family. Haha... We then had our skit, wah, super funny, coz our theme is to imitate other members of the church mar. Was laughing throughout the whole night. Haha... I think the best part is where Vinc's group imitate many other members of the church, laugh until cannot tahan. Our group got a bit disoriented during the skit, haha... but nevermind, I still heard laughters.

The best dressed family!

Vinc and family!

Pei En's 姑姑，冰清玉洁的小龙女！！！

After that, we did not want to sleep, we heard that the KTV open until 1 o'clock, so we excited went down to find to our disappointment, that place is like a pub, and there is only one stage which means you have to sing infront of everybody, mind you, there were strangers in there... Haiz... Then they went to my room for singspiration, haha... nice fellowship, but everyone were very tired, especially me, dozed off and come back during the mist of the singspiration, haha... Before they left, we agreed to go see sun rise next morning and go to have a game of water polo the next morning at 7, wah, so excited lor.

Left: 累到发呆，Right: 累到痛哭流涕...

累到傻笑。。。

Day 4:

Woke up at 6.30 and went to the beach to take photos of sunrise! Then jumped into the pool for the first time since the starting of the camp, really have no time to swim lor, haha... Then had a game of water polo with Kai En, Shun Jie, Ming Yang, Joshua, Yan Heng, Pei En, Wei En, Wei Hong, Heng Wei and Yi Qian. Really had good exercise, then after that went back to our room to pack and rushed down to have breakfast and gathered at the function room, had singspiration with Uncle Hong Cai leading, wah, his sharing was tear jerking, super sad, but a lot to reflect on then we had prize presentation, our game group came in third, YAY!!! And then we had sharing and lighting of candles for the closing ceremony.

腼腆笑容。。。哈哈。。。

灿烂的笑容。。。（路人甲：也太灿烂了吧！）

这是痛苦的表情吗？ Erm, 是吧。。。哈哈。。。

Auntie Jing Yu!!! Our camp commandant! She did a great job, appreciate her effort, round of applause please!

Happy brothers! They look like small kids though. Haha...

Shh... Don't disturb!

Don't care, still disturb!

Then took a big group photo, then after that this became super rushed, fast lunch, fast pack up, got on to the bus quickly and zoom, off we go, the journey back to Singapore. Really enjoyed a lot a lot, I WILL PRAY HARD I CAN TAKE LEAVE OFF ARMY NEXT YEAR TO JOIN 2009's CHURCH CAMP!!! Church camp is a must come, church camp is wonderful!!!

BYE BYE!!!

2008-05-19T08:01:00.002+08:00

事过境迁，也是时候有个结论，这半年是我人生中过得最辛苦的一段日子。。。 2008年的确不是一个好年。。。但能够从中学习的也的确不少。

从去年11月开始我的身体就开始响起健康的红灯，我的情绪也一度掉到谷底。父母也一个接一个的生病。整家人都在病魔的笼罩下。我们也因此花了很多钱看病。这半年，家里的气氛很沉重，我脑里也浮现很多负面的思想。现在想起来我觉得我只差那么一点点就可能患上忧郁症。所以我一直往外跑，不喜欢躲在家里胡思乱想。但让我能撑过去的有两位我要感谢的，一位就是神，另一位是我妈。

神就好像狠狠地刮了我一巴掌，让我看清原来我是多么的小信，这么的弱不经风，让我看到在危机时的我还是那么固执。也因为看清自己是那么的无能，渺小，我才从新的回到神那里去，我第一次感到祷告的威力和平安，神话语里的安慰。记得在那段时间的一个唐崇荣的讲道上，说到关于雅各的生平，神取了雅各的腿，让他一切归零，让他醒悟他一生就在靠自己，原来除了神，没有别的可靠地。他的生命有被神抽打过的迹象，Uncle James曾经说过雅各代表了大多数信徒的生命，我不得不承认，这次神就好像抽打雅各那样的抽打我，让我醒了，觉悟了。

我也感谢我妈，每当我情绪低落，她都会是第一个用圣经的话语来鼓励我，我的恐惧和不安因为她的鼓励而消失。母爱真伟大。

现在也说得上是雨过天晴，郑秀文在他复出演唱会曾经说过：“过往，你看不见太阳，但你看看今天，当你推开窗，太阳终为你而微笑。”，我觉得这句和我的心情写照一样，在这半年，我就像看不见太阳。今天我学习了更会去感恩，因为就像 Uncle James 说的，我们今天能没有病痛，我们还能活着，不是理所当然，乃是神的恩典。缅甸风灾和四川大地震让我也深深的体会到这道理，比起他们的痛苦，我这半年的经历又算得了什么呢？看到这些报道，我的心都酸了，现在说什么都没用，只能够感觉无奈。。。末日似乎越来越近了。。。我准备好了吗？

2008-04-30T20:49:00.009+08:00

Watched "The Forbidden Kingdom" last weekend with Pei En, Kai En, Xiaoling, Mei Feng and Wai Yee. I must admit if it was not for Liu Yi Fei and the first time Jet Li and Jackie Chan are in the same film, I would not have gone for the movie. The movie as I expected was the same cheesey kind of Hollywood Kung Fu film. The plot was rubbish which contains a mixture of all the familiar wuxia characters put together in a film (白发魔女 and Monkey King) what link has it got??? When did the five elements mountain became the heavenly palace? Everyone was speaking in English. I would have thrown out all my popcorn if I am eating popcorn on the very scene where the Jade Emperor spoke English. Anyway Liu Yi Fei speaks really good English, but of course since she lived in America since young. Fighting scenes were cool, the 8 minutes fight scene between Jet Li and Jackie Chan was worth it. Liu Yi Fei did pretty well, but I think the role is just a reprise of her classic Xiao Long Nv character, cool and calm, just that this time its a dirty Xiao Long Nv. Nonetheless the movie is quite entertaining if you are not looking for a movie with serious plot and just want to have some LOL time.

Movie Rating: 3/5, if it were just for the plot, I would give just a 2/5.

包儿最新专辑“东区丁苏”！！！

Happy Birthday Mei Feng!!!

Mei Feng 19 years old liao! Went celebrate her birthday at Xiaoling's house. Xiaoling's mum prepared steamboat this time!!! Super delicious lor!!! So many good stuff!!! 有一点不好意思 leh. Really enjoyed the delicious dinner, I ate so much you know! Anyway, had a surprise birthday cake for her and handed over her debut album and birthday card with the first hit "Dong Qu Ding Su" and bonus track "Ai Ding Su Du". AHAHA... Wah, and her album's cover super sexy, 怨女出动!!! Haha... Then we watched “奇妙物语”, I did scream this time during one of the more scary stories also. Haha... Super scared of such stuff. Hope Mei Feng enjoyed her birthday!

The sumptuous steamboat dinner! So many 好料！

Birthday girl: 让我来介绍！

热腾腾的火锅！

YUM SING!!!

Birthday girl with her birthday cake!

Birthday girl with her birthday presents, can you see her debut album??? Sexy bo???