21 to Adrian

Happy 21st Bday to one of my very good friends
Adrian Seow Kian Yong

And hopefully next year the present wont pass back to me
HAHA!
If not next year need to leave the country after my bday already
Or else everyone will chased after me
=/

It was a simple buffet dinner with plenty of Adrian's close friends

And then we had a vehicle convoy to Chomp Chomp

2 bikes plus 2 cars

To enjoy dessert and have some drinks at the RK House

And guess what they did to my bike before we left?

(I was test driving Soon Teck's car btw)

They tied plenty of light sticks and I had to spend 5mins untangling them

With friends like them who need enemies?

=p

And another better thing happened

The bike screwed up when I was supposed to turn out from YCK

Took another 15mins to fix

Haiz

But the trip to Serangoon Gardens was worth it

Cuz I got the joke of the day when we visited Frolicks or Forlicks

Anyways it was the yoghurt shop next to the 7-11

Along the street also had Ice Cube

Plus we were also deciding between 一碗甜品 at the back too

Nevertheless, the joke, or the underlying meaning hidden behind the comment

Goes something along this line

Frolicks/Forlicks was a yoghurt shop which Shang Geok intro

And she mentioned that we would LOVE to go there as becuz

its the opposite of NUM and has the same selling concept

Which means that NUM use muscular (or not so attractive currently) guys to attract customers to purchase products

While Frolicks/Forlicks had pretty girls selling yoghurts

But Adrian the bday boy said it was not worth it

And Shang Geok insisted on buying

So only she and Mel went instead

But being the curious me (or otherwise)

Decided to pop in into the shop too!

I mean check out what's the product right?

Right?

And suddenly 10 of us were in the shop already

Ok the 2 girls are really really cute (only one of them to me)

But the thing was.....they were wearing sleeveless top

In the super-cold-air-blasting aircon room selling frozen yoghurt

Which leads to the best comment of the night

Adrian: “ Wah! 这里 aircon 开不够大是不是? ”

And all the guys just laughed as loud as the comment was made

while on the way out

And the guys didnt buy any yoghurt at all

:)

Seriously

Come on

You gotta give it a try

=)

Sports action shots

One of the most difficult kind of photos around to capture

Yes black is boring

Don't ask why I have the Combat.E vest

Or why my knee is still wrapped with the sleeve

Just don't wanna injure my knee in case of anything serious

OOC is a very very scary thought everytime I play contact sports

Whats with the braces nowadays?

Everyone having crooked teeth?

Or everyone getting too rich and just wanna fix some metal onto themselves?

Hmmmm

Hope everyone I see who is having braces better straighten their issues

Literally

:)

The Commando is a very stressed up guy nowadays

The 2 soon-to-be schoolmates ORD-ing personnel

Rei Horng is just 1 crazy guy

Gym must be doing something good to him

=)

I think in my lifetime I can never do that

Already past the age of jumping and stressing the knee

Adopting a more pragmatic approach to playing the game

With tactics rather than physical abilities (or the lack of it)

I only remeber ONE time in my life I touch the rim

And that was in Sec 3 wearing the XMS uniform

While going from my house to Hougang Point to buy my lunch

And on the way I always pass by my home-court

Decided to just try my luck

Who knows Lady Luck was around

=p

But oh well

Jon is just biased

Never comment anything on my pics

Then plenty of others on Rei Horng's

Tsktsk

偏心

"Picture-Of-The-Day" by LYJ21

Hello some pics are taken by me using Jon's cam

Been thinking a lot on whether to get a DSLR or not

Its still a want over a need

And furthermore I have been coming up with excuses for myself

On NOT TO GET ONE

But heres the time again whereby I'm attending 21st bday celebrations

And seeing everyone snapping with DSLR

Makes me feel.....jealous?

Yes jealous is a nice word to use

Somehow I do still have this urge to own a DSLR

%$!@#*^!

But situations seemed to be tilting in the favour of getting a bike 1st

With my co-owned Phantom seemingly in ICU unit frequently

Maybe need to bring her to the scrapyard to meet her Maker soon

And buy a new love in the form of Super 4 / GSR

Or even the R6 which Edmund's friend is gonna let go at 12k

But ermmmm, 12k is a bit over the top now

Still can consider

LOL!

Okok

Don't think too much 1st

Go attend 21st bday celebrations till mine come

:)

5 more working days

And you know basketball is still love
♥

Always

Everytime I meet someone new and they go....."你...."

I hate it when such stuff happens
Especially during the precious weekends

When it doesnt just rains but pours

And yes thats how I spent my Saturaday then

Reformatting my com and fixing the internet connection

Using my trusty self-written manual on how to fix the computer based on previous bad experiences when the computer just show a blue screen

Of course the good thing was that I booked out on a FRIDAY

How cool is that?

Friday is....a good feeling

Almost nearly forgot how it feels like already

=)

Glad to be out this week

Don't know why

But I just got this beast trapped inside

So wanting to book out this week

Not saying that I'm.....feeling.....anything or what

But its just a.......feeling I guess?

Glad for the bball with the XMS guys on Sat morning too

So many ppl turnout somemore

With retro boys like Jon and Rei Horng

Throw in Chris and me and I guess average height was around 178-180cm

Hahaha!

Max Intensity!

And Jon brought his cam along

Don't know how the sports-action kinda photo would look like on com

But I snapped one pic of the basketball at a corner which I like a lot

And Jon got Rei Horng dunk-a-maniac in action

Super cool!

And credits to everyone of us for BBQ-ing at night

To celebrate Cai Ying's 20th bday nonetheless

It was raining furthermore

And we started the fire in the rain

(under the shelter of a huge-ass umbrella of course)

Plus we got to BBQ bouncy prawns with loads of fighting spirit and the iron will to live before sending them to meet their Maker aka the BBQ fire

Don't know why but was super shagged out by 10 already

I could have swear I could sleep while staring at the dirty pool of whatever mixture of continuous recycled water over the Compass Point rooftop
*yawnz*

Till now no pics on the party itself

Photos are being spread around I guess?
Till the next book-out then

Woke up at an ungodly hour of 7+ in the morning

Got ready for my Class 2 Lesson 1 Repeat

Trying to stay awake while watching Nani the piece of shit kicking and

wasting plenty of chances at 2am the night before is just.....torturous

So I decided to go sleep at around 230am

That means less than 5 hours of sleep

Haiz

=(



Still feel that Super 4 looks better than CB 750

With its higher-angled seats and not so plump shape

Definitely better looking

But I got much more in-sync with the CB 750 today

Constant 13sec for plank and no issues with E.Brake

Pylon was smoother and bumpy course I got the 窍门 too

Passed the lesson and 2 more to go before the Traffic Police Test
;)

Artistic view of the CB 600 RR (2007 Model)

Shaik got it for $15,000 2nd hand

I think maybe I can get it from him next time?

Hahaha!

3rd hand - $......5000?

LOL!

Slash $10,000 bucks would be......dream come true!

=p

He told me it was white and red in colour

Just what I was looking for

And just what the above picture would portray

Hopefully its the same

Speedo shows 299 as max speed

ROAR!

Best!

Underseat exhaust is kickback bonus

No worries for pillions burning their legs (aka Kobe)

Been seeing this everyday too

What a beauty!

Till the next "looked-forward to" weekend

2 weeks more to go!

:)

For now

"Bookout Song of the Week"



Imagine standing at the rooftop of the tallest HDB here

Spread-eagle

Arms wide open

♫ Standing on the rooftop,
Waiting till the bomb drops,
This is all we've got now,
Scream until your heart stops,
Never gonna regret,
Watching every sunset,
Listen to your heartbeat,
All the love that we've felt ♫

And dont worry

YOU still can be #123456789 queuing up to say I have 瘦了 ok?

But I still figure its easier to put on the 10kg I have lost over

4 months in just a matter of.....days?

Nearly shocked myself to see I nearly nearly slimmed to 60+

Crazy shit there!!!

Was wearing specs to confirm somemore

*phewz*

Lor Mee, Carrot Cake, Nasi Lemak, Dau Huay with Chin Chow Drink

And Tau Suan for dessert

OWNZ!

:)

The Grass May Not Be Greener On The Other Side

Search for half an hour for 艾莉丝
:)

30 mins of a NSF's time is very precious

Miss so many episodes of 康熙来了
Miss so many episodes of 天才冲冲冲
Miss 艾莉丝 and 刘真
Just totally miss Taiwan's variety shows
:)

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Morale is high
Spirits are up
Body conditioning is up
Combat and physical fitness is improving
Everything seems to be going uphill
Just like life
Irony yet again

And the only thing going down is biking skills
=(

Totally bwang my 1st CB750 lesson today
Took 5 tries to get my pylon saloam(?) right
Took 5 tries and still didnt get my timing for bumpy course
Only thing I did right the 1st time was to lift the
150+kg monster bike off the ground
And guide it around the Figure of 8 track
And I nearly broke my back and everything breakable doing that
=(

Misses

Gonna End Soon

Long long week again...

So long
So long
So long.....TO FIELD CAMP!!!

Oh yeah!
Life hopefully should be good now!

再凶的日子我也熬过了
:)

There's even ppl talking about me in the toilet?!

HAHA!

Luckily they said nice things

And arent nice things the best things to hear about?

:)

Looking Forward

Vivocity
Lots of construction at the other end
Such an eyesore now
Gonna be so pretty next time
Irony of life again isnt it?



Huge ass Xmas tree
Just reminding me of how fast the year is coming to an end
And how so many freaking ppl I know are gonna ORD soon....





Makes me feel inferior seeing so many ppl holding DSLR
There must be at least 20 ppl holding a DSLR at the top level of Vivo

And finally seeing how the RED BOOMZ thingy look like in the day

This time round I like my B&W captures...

They look different on the LCD

So I had hoped that they would looked better in the computer

And I was not disappointed

:)

Yet another huge kickass DSLR

Anyways I like it too

How the picture looked

Below are the better shots which I filtered out...

Fatherly Love

So many children with their parents running around Vivo

Didnt they know the expensive car park fees there?

Ok thats besides the point

But its just a nice sight seeing how the parents go all out

to do anything to make their kids happy

=)

Lonely Kid

Was attempting to capture the 2 kids sitting there

Splashing water with their "flutter kicks"

But then the other boy came along

But anyways still managed to grab hold of this

=D

Below are the 2 better pics which I was considering for

the "Picture Of The Day"

Took me some time to consider it before coming to a decision

See the 3 kids? (including the girl being held by the dad)

Ok for a short description I come up myself

The 3 kids are spaced evenly away

From the top to the middle to the bottom

And how the railing at the bottom of the picture serves as framing

Plus the steps in a downwards circular bend shape

The part I liked best was the one the dad holding his precious girl's hand

I immediately shift my attention to what was happening at the

steps after I shot the picture

This picture somehow gave me plenty of feelings

The dad holding his girl's hand

Leading her gently and slowly down the steps

This shows that daughters always have a special place in Daddy's hearts

Like how they are being pampered and shielded (?) from all things bad

While the 2 boys will be just running ahead in front

Whats best is that after the dad led the girl down to the middle

The 2 boys in front (who had ran down to the bottom already)

They came up

And all 4 of them just huddle together at the middle

A big group hug with the kids all planting their heads at the dad's pants

Just warmed up my heart all over

Somehow I just like the way how kids plant their heads

into their parents thigh area

A very cute and heartwarming scene everytime

:)

Well for the actual "Picture Of The Day"

I chose this.....

Because it looked much better in composition

With the ripples of water

And the kid looking so down and out

Overall the whole picture looked better

But I think it only looked better

Because it's missing the personal feeling comparing to the previous shot

After the evening sunset

Went to Privé @ Keppel Bay

Whoever said it was walking distance must be lying

It looked at least 4km away

(ok everything looked at a distance of 4km everytime I think of route marches)

A very very very nice view of a colour-coded suspension lookalike bridge

With yachts parked there

Bobbling up and down

Strategically-distanced lamp posts

Atas place for drinks

(there's TCC for coffee and privé for drinks)

Awesome view

Romantic ambience

A slight sea breeze
Just a great place to chill out

Either with loved ones or good company

Somehow this place gave me a......feeling

I dono what to say about that place

Or izzit me?

The suspension bridge look so familiar

I see it somewhere

Somehow

But yet it restricted some part of me there

Restricted me from walking down the bridge

But yet I knew

I knew at that night

I would come back to this place again....

Just with different people only

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It's Week 4 now

Yet another so exciting Friday har

My heart and body cant take so much excitement ya?

It hurts from the top (mentally) to the bottom (physically)

Halfway there

Still hanging on

Still hanging on

To whatever

I dont know

I don't wanna come home

Blog about pictures only

I also don't like how ppl keep asking me to buy a DSLR

Like keep bugging me nonstop

Then saying that I just like to " camwhore "

Ask me go there go here take photos

Like order me like a dog

The only thing that kept me from lashing out is civilisation

" Camwhore"

Its a very insulting term to use on me

" Camwhore " and taking photos is different to me

Ya we can discuss the pictures

But the next time you use the word " camwhore " on me

" Prostitute " and " Cheap " is how you will feel next

Cuz I will unleash my dictionary of HURT on you

Grrrrrrrrr

All the anger inside at that point of time is so hard to keep it

down everytime I hear the word " camwhore " come out

=(

I wanna do more

In my weekends

I wanna learn something

Like ride a bigger CC bike

Catch some soccer

Read some newspaper

Meet up with my friends

Play some basketball

Have meals with my family

Have some fun

Have some rest

Suddenly I have a urge
Just need to talk to somebody

Not anybody

Somebody on the same wavelength

Somebody that shares my thoughts

Somebody that understands

Somebody that I wont talk Army about

Somebody that I wouldnt start blabbering about my week

(as if she is interested in listening to Army stuff)

Its good that at least I have some really friends at SISPEC

Who I can really talk to

Ppl like Gordon, Ding Feng and Eugene

Like how all of us are feeling

Just seeing some facial expressions

And the underlying meanings behind it

Not going along with motion and do things for the sake of doing it

Maybe talking to that somebody of the opposite sex would do wonders

Too much testosterone from Monday to Saturaday hurts

Seriously

Having something to look forward to during the weekends is...GODLIKE

I guess the only thing I could do now is to plan

To plan for better weekends

To plan for something to look forward to

At least it takes away some pain...

Waiting~

Cycling Trip #.....(forgot the number already)

Sunday morning always have plenty of people cycling

*thumbs up to better cycling culture in Singapore*

Realised I was super shagged out once I reached Punggol Beach

It's like only 10km?

Must be the.....(ok shall not mentioned)

Felt like a great day to take photos right?

Early morning

Sun is up

Sky is clear

No lousy Saturaday rains

BUT....

It's actually quite difficult to take photos at Punggol Beach

And to think I browsed through local photographers pictures

and they mentioned about great scenic spots there

Yes there ARE scenic spots there

But at different timings only

(like the holy hours of 5am +)

=.=

Seriously could use the telephoto lens

Maybe like 200mm?

Or 500mm (if there is such thing) or 10x zoom that kind of power

Compact just have limited capabilities

Couldnt bring the kelong out at sea into the picture more

The bottom corner has nice rocks as framing though

=)

This sight is always familiar back in the days of studying in 3rd year

Either at CPTC or at Exxon those times

The uncle also not so co-operative har

Been camping below the bridge

Waiting for the speedboat to pass by

Plus waiting for him to sling the fishing rod over so that

the fishing line can be visible

But he keep fidgeting har

Tsktsk

This the sight that greeted me at the other end of the beach

Its really great to have some friends or the model

(which HJ has so voluntarily step out for)

to pose while standing on these rocks

Makes for a pretty picture

*mental note to self*

Thought this rock just sort of stood out while I was walking along

Trying to find inspiration

Or rather search for feelings for my photos

It seems that there are plenty of footprints encircling it

Must be kinda special

:)

Read up on some websites for tips to improve my shots the day before

This technique is called " framing "

Getting some stuff/material/object (?) to fill up the picture...

...Before filling up the picture with a subject!

:)

Tripod is an useful tool for outdoors!

Ignore the top part of insignificant rocks please

Argh still dont want to use Photoshop to edit the redundant stuff away

And the young couple trying to make out

OK!

I don't know if they were making out

But I stole a peek at the girl and guess not

=p

" The Drain "

Like the slight bend and the little stream

Someday I will take a better drain shot

Kinda inspired by a certain photograph of a drain I saw before

Very artistically done

My is like....

Ok next time

No feel this time
=/

Ok now for the picture of the day.....

Similar style again

HAHA!

Boring....

I tell you what...

THIS IS DEFINITELY BETTER!

Like the depth of field with the rocks and small puddle of water behind

Like the colour composition

Like the brown little grain-like grass

And of course the subject itself

A sort of....insect?

Ok it being RED itself adds more colour detail to the picture

I would choose it over the other 1 on top

Didnt sort of like my B&W photos this time though

Just gotta keep taking more and more photos at different placing

To get that correct feel

:)

And and and....

Went to browse through Tomoe89's aka Jonathan Pang's photos

He posted his pics on Deviant Art

Realised he got regular ppl viewing his photos sia!

Got followers awaiting his photos everytime wor!

And I think this is his best pic I found

Even better than the one of the smirking lady at the Ion Orchard

Haha!

Maybe its the lady face lah

See liao also buay song

This one...

Got feel

Must be the back view of the girl

The suspense of finding out how the girl looks like

Like gives you the lust curiosity of checking her out

And the river compostion

Plus the colours combination

And if you see more closely

I appreciate the squarish-seat on the left side

It's reflecting light back onto the ground

And I guess this must be taken around the evening time?

Maybe 5-6pm

A waiting picture once again by Jon

He is getting good at stalking ppl!

Ah Ha!

Gotcha!

Fetish har!

=p

I give a 9/10 for this shot

Photoshop would top it up

=)