KL TRIP (1st Day)

After waking up at 5.15 am on thursday, i was all set for the KL trip although i had only slept around 2 hours the night before. Had breakfast at a Rochor Centre coffee shop before setting off. On the coach, the excitement lingered on for some time and most of us were unable to fall asleep until after around 1 hour. Took some photos on the coach.

After 2 hours plus, we arrived at a hawker centre stop for food cum toilet break. Took a pic in front of the coach.

After a total of 6 hours in the coach, we finally arrived at Royale Bintang Hotel. Found out that they have not prepared most of our rooms yet. We left our bags at a room and headed to a nearby chicken rice shop for lunch. Started our shopping spree at Lot 10 Shopping Centre. There wasn't much to shop there and we proceeded to Sungei Wang. There were much more shops and we spent quite some time there. Proceeded to Berjaya Time Square for some more shopping and took some pictures there as well.

Had dinner at Jalan Alor with a whole stretch of outdoor food stalls. Decided to go chinatown after that and asked a passerby for directions and he told us to be careful when we are in chinatown. His warning made some of us rather worried for our safety but we headed there anyway. There were quite a lot of people there and the squeezy environment made me wary of pickpockets. Bought a pair of fake reebok shoes and quite a lot of my friends bought adidas and nike sneakers as well. Went back to the hotel close to midnight and had some late night gathering.

End of busy 1st day of KL trip!

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Muscle Aches, Work Pressure and Sleep Deprivation

Played badminton for the past 2 days. Today with my sec sch mates and yesterday with my jc mates. Went for work after playing badminton as i have to clear my cases preferably before my KL trip. I worked until 11 pm on monday and 10.40 pm today. No choice lor, want to relax must work first. Got a complaint today for visiting a household too late. They think i want to visit so late meh? I work until so late leh, want to go home eat supper one. Ha... Actually it's my fault lar, shouldn't blame them. It has been 2 hectic days, almost without time to rest.

Going KL tomorrow morning and will be back on sunday night. And i still haven't packed my bag yet. Will be waking up at 5.15 am tomorrow. :( Hope that KL will be FUN!

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Batman Begins!

Cool poster eh? Just watched Batman Begins with Liyuan at West Mall and this movie is simply awesome. The cast is superb, the sets are dark and mysterious, and the story is constantly engaging. It is not just an entertaining flick but a thought provoking one as well. Batman has never been so real and cool before. Christopher Nolan has once again proven his status as a great director.

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East Coast

Met up with my sec school mates at Parkway Parade as we were planning to cycle or kayak at East Coast. We waited a long time for David who was 2 hours late! Had lunch at Marine Parade Hawker Centre before heading over to East Coast.

Actually i wanted to kayak since i just cycled at Pulau Ubin on 2 days ago but some of them did not bring extra clothes to change so we decided on cycling. Each of us rented a bike at the rate of $6 per hour with the 2nd hour free. Cycled all the way until the end of the cycling track at Safra Resort and cycled all the way until the other end of the cycling track after Big Splash. Quite tiring but it's definitely less challenging compared to Ubin. My butt really hurts after 2 hours of continuous cycling. There are lots of people in east coast rollerblading, cycling, walking their dogs, strolling, etc, and i had some near collisions at some areas with many people.

After our 2 hour intensive cycling session, we took some photos on top of a breakwater.


Headed to town for dinner afterward and had a stroll along Orchard Road before heading back home.

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Swim

Went swimming with Chris this afternoon at Safra Mt Faber since he got an extra safra membership card from his brother. The weather was very good for tanning and we swam a total of 22 laps. There were quite a lot of people swimming as well since it is a weekend. Went to Tiong Bahru Market to have our lunch before heading to orchard.

Took a free shuttle bus from tiong bahru to PS and we went shopping since we did not have any other things in mind. A lot of timeslots for movies like Batman Begins have been sold out. Didn't do much except chatting and window shopping in the human-packed Orchard area. Went for our late dinner at a chinese restaurant at Lucky Plaza which has good food and a cheap price tag. Will definitely recommend it to my other friends in the future.

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Ubin Once Again

Edwin organised another trip to ubin as he missed the earlier one due to ops bacinet. We met up at pasir ris and ed drove us to changi jetty. The weather is really good and cooling as the rain had just stopped.

After getting our bikes, we planned to go Chek Jawa as we did not go there the previous time. We chanced upon a nice brick house which is fenced up with a sign saying "Structure is unstable". After confirmation with ks, the house is called English Cottage. Normally houses with paranormal activity are fenced up so as to safeguard people from trespassing and we thought that might be a haunted house.

Walked over to the mangrove beach overlooking Chek Jawa as it is high tide now and we cannot get over there.


Gs and zewen tested the depth of the water.

Took pictures of a mangrove tree and a crab as well.


Went back to English Cottage and 4 of us climbed over the gate to further inspect the building.

All of us did not go up to the dark room in level 2 which looks quite creepy. I wanted to go up but when Zewen mentioned about spirits following you back home, i decided not to.

Cycled back to the jetty as we did not know where to go next. We wanted to go to the quarry at the other side of the island but took the wrong turn and headed up to Noordin Beach near the NPCC campsite. Headed back to the jetty as Edwin's parking coupons are until 5.15 pm. Had dinner at Changi Village before heading back.

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Shopping Spree!

Met up with Weiming, Fuli and David at Sim Lim Square today as David is interested in buying a new pc and needs our advice. After browsing through the shops and looking for various offers, his choices have been narrowed down to a few worthy ones. I was asking for the price of 512 mb and 1 gb memory stick pro duo as they are the memory card type for Sony Ericsson K750i. Found out that the prices are quite expensive at $130 for 512 mb and $240 for 1 gb. Would be spending a bomb if i bought the 1 gb card plus the handphone.

Had lunch at Burlington Square and headed to a shop in The Bencoolen selling cheap handphones. The shop is selling K750i for $670 without contract whereas Singtel and M1 are selling it at $698 with 2 years contract. Too bad the shop does not offer handphones with contract.

Bugis Street was our next stop and there are many new shops selling hip, cheap and fashionable stuff. Weiming bought a pair of jeans for $20 while i got a black bag with a unique clip for $34. Bought a $8 tee as well. Spent some time there looking for clothes before going over to Bugis Junction. Browsed through a number of watch shops as Weiming is interested in buying a watch since his watch spoiled recently. Marc Ecko watches are quite unique and cool!

The Edge burnt another hole in my wallet as i bought a white sling bag which costs $30. Weiming bought another 2 pairs of jeans for $65 in one of the shops as well. Walked over to Suntec for dinner after our shopping spree and had some coffee at Starbucks before heading back.

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Troublesome

Was reading the ntu stuff sent to me and there were a lot to go through. Accepted my course online and ntu students have to matriculate online from 20 - 22 july. I think it is the first year they are implementing this online matriculation but it's good since it would save all prospective students a trip to NTU.

Applying for hostel is really quite expensive, there is a one time first payment of $300 if we are offered the hostel. I hope that the experience will be worth more than the $$$ paid. There are also many other things to take note of, eg. myNTU account, change of password within 7 days from activation of account, edusave form, online matriculation, tuition grant, etc.

Didn't know that going into university is so troublesome :(

Worked until 10.30 pm today and my new batch of households are at balestier and whampoa areas which is rather far from my house. Did not enumerate a lot of cases as well.

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