taken before leaving asia hotel
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drank red wine with jiang nan on our flight departing from cambodia to spore...Cheers !
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Monday, April 28, 2008
sunny
saw her ytd...yea its her...i was working at og albert and was going for my lunch break when i saw her walking with her friends....wearing a blue shirt....didn call her...becos she walked too fast...moreover i had to recover my sense a few sec later....in the end i decided not to walk to her and say hi...perharps we are meant to remain as passer-by...
such a conicidence...cal was in the same lab as lalita...thnks to his sms...let me know abt it...
nd to submit my video by this friday....everything's going quite smoothly at the moment...well so far so good....
last sat had lunch with yi xuan and she shared with me abt her relationship with her bf...she said she used to admire couples but now when she had a bf she felt stressed...shes not happy that her bf brought his friend without telling her and she dun like his friend as she admited shes a self-centered person...well i told her every couple need to accomodate each other ( learnt it from tv ) later on she asked me what type of ger i like and wanted to intro me gers...i was dumbfounded for a moment and she told me im blushing....i lied to her saying the chilli was spicy...well i told her i dun mind looks....i hope my future gf was not those childish type....its hard to explain when love comes knocking ur door....no other particular types...i do admit looks do have a certain advantage...especially firat impression...perharps why im sitll single ) :
actually though i only know her for a few mths i can see that yi xuan was a sensible ger....even jason said that too....very few gers nowdays are willing to chiong work and earn $$$...moreover her job was quite tough too...tougher than mine....and she kept working full-shift...she really impressed me....
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this photo was taken at the Genocide Museum...this place is the prison cell used to keep prisoners...even a small built guy like me had difficulties lying down in the cells...
This child is an orphan in the orphanage. Heard from mr andy quek someone abandonded him when he was only a baby. if my memory served me correctly he was five now...
mooo lol
snatched this golden opportunity to take photo with this ger...same as me 20 yr old...she speaks chinese...shes the shirt stall vendor...honestly speaking shes chio ( :
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this is the process of digging trench so the wires can be installed underground. I personally enjoyed that moment , although its tough....having blisters all over my palm....but this is the moment where friendship was built up...
this was the first day of our digging process....the guy behind me was desmond...
enjoying the beauty of natural...these are the padi field...where our rice was grown....
Taken with Lalita in the toto , a local transport which a motorbike was connected together with a carriage ( the place where we sitting )....moments later....the unfortunately and dishearting incident happened....when the child came to me begging for money....
this is where i bath at the orphanage
this is our guys dorm
my bed...the best bed as its juz directly under the air-con and fan ( :
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all the gers from TP OCP 2008
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all the guys from TP OCP 2008
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
fine
today is the third day of the new semester...currently doing my final year project ( FYP) with my team member and also my friend jun jie...we are doing a project which produce scafford...which is use to replace damaged joints or knee cap...we will be design it using a software named pro engineer....after that we will produce the scafford using hands on method which i still not very sure....during this few days jun jie and i were using the pro engineer software to do some practice inside our assigned lab - blk 18 lvl 6....this venue was somehow special to me....because during my ocp preparation we are using a classroom there....we used for practicing our dance....having our briefing....this place was full of memories....everday since sch starts whenever i passed by the ocp classroom i will glanced it for a while....seeing those students inside the classroom reminds me myself and 17 fellow teamates....those happy moments....
didn managed to write when i reached spore coz im really too tired....during the cambodia trip i mus say i learn alot and experience alot at the same time....i had seen the poverty side of the world....which i might not see it in spore....yet above this poverty is the beauty of simplicity....compared to singapore's stressful society....theres once where we nd to dig the ground so we can put wires underground.....i kept digging...well i dunno wad motivates me for doing that....maybe i was trying to impress someone ? lol ...me together with jiang nan desmond jiahu and ah gui we kept digging though mr chia our ocp teacher in charge asked us not to as he scared we dun have anything to do the next day....but we refused and kept digging....seeing my fellow teamates never say die attitude...i told myself how could i give up ? so i kept digging....finally we made it....the sense of satisfaction was undescriable....
the last night we danced the dance we practice in spore for the kids...i made many errors as i didn practice much in spore because im busy editing my video....i felt embarassed but well the kids were laughing...after all its worth it....to hear their laughter and see them smile...we took alot of pictures with the kids....theres one of my ocp teamate cried that night probably he missed the kids....we leave ard 8 am plus the next morning....some kids were crying but we mus return to the place we truly belong....i really hope i can have the chance to return there again....really....
we checked in at asia hotel when we reach the capital....i thought the capital will be much better in terms of facilities and the people but to my astonishing theres beggers lothering ard begging for food and money.....that night when we returned to our hotel after our dinner travelling by a local cehicle called toto a young child came to me and grab my arms....he spoke karma but i understand hes begging for money....that moment was disheartening....i couldnt believe wad i saw in my own eyes....i looked at my friends they were like me stunned too....i reached my pocket wanted to give him all the money i had but i remembered mr andy quek told us not to give those beggers money as the consequencence will be very ugly...the kid might get beaten up by older begger by trying to snatch the money or my friends might get hurt if other older begger came to us asking for money....some might armed...thinking of my friends' safety i shook my head unwillingly...stating i wun give the little begger money...it was a hard decision but i had to make as my friends' safety were more important...
i hardly managed to get some slp because of that incident....and also heard some ghost stories in the past abt old hotels....i didn slp much that night....jiang nan told me to knock the door two times and put our slippers one upside down which means yin yang aura that help to drive "them" away....
the next morning jiang nan and i got up very early as we were going for shopping at the local market....i bought some t-shirts for my family...one adidas and nike sports wear lol they looks geniune....only cost usd 4.50...heard from my the other ocp teamate actually those adidas and nike sports wear were geniune its juz they were rejected due to handmade error....those ending at market....i also bought 2 shorts.....beach wear like....quite cool....abt 5 usd together....and also i bought a watch..lol the brand is armani....which geniune goods cost 4 figures sum....lol i only spent 30 usd....
before reaching the capital we visited the museum which was used as a concentrating camp during the karma rouge region during the 1970s....it was a school previously...however the barbaric pot pot who was the leader of the communist party used it to torture prisoners and thousand was killed over there.....i felt sorry for the innocent lives who was killed...may their soul rest in peace....theres a chill feeling when i saw the photos of the dead and the tools used for torturing.....
this trip will remain an unforgetable chapter in my life....those memories i had with u guys will always be treasured in a place of my heart....really missed the smile and laughter of her......anyway a guy in my ocp wanted to woo her....so perharps im too late....met her today for lunch with the other ocp teamates.....her smile was sweet....well well well im still single isnt haha
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
fine
finally after weeks of editing my ocp pre-cambodia video were rdy to show my ocp teamates but not fully completed as some part of the video didn manage to add songs....atthough im not the videography in charge i did almost all the editing...on last sunday i asked him to cancel out most of the audio and add songs but he didn....in the end some of my ocp teamates asked me why isnt there any songs on some part of the video....as the 1st IC didn show enough initiative....its quite frustrating working with him....his attitude didn convince me that hes keen to do this job....when i pointed out some error he will give me a very bo chap attitude and reply ....." aiya a bit only dun care la...." which seriously pissed me off....furthermore he often skipped our ocp meeting because of private matter such as - going chalet....he even quarreled with the technician whos in charge of our solar lamp for our ocp project becoa he said the technician is being unreasonable and demand a lot....i have to admit the technician is a demanding person....and his tone might be sacarstic sometimes....but i find him quite ok after abt 2 weeks of communication....as i mentioned earlier in my previous entry i learnt quite a number of things from him....in terms of work effiency and also the correct way of soldering....this shows that chap did not have a positive working attitude and it really questions me his motive of joining this ocp.....heard from our team leader its because his mum want him to change so she forced him to participate....my GPA is lower than him yet im confident in terms of work effiencies im better than him....wad i nd is not a smartass to be my partner....all i nd is a someone who will put in effort and commitment and the initiative to work....unfortunately hes not....i do not fancy whether if who deserve the videography in charge all i nd to do is to fulfil my responsibility as a videographer....take pictures and record videos during every events....and also edit the video i recorded every night...
will be flying this thursday 6:30 am....T2....fortunately i live quite near from the airport....bus 24 straight bus there....will be going for 10 days.....heard mr andy that we still nd to change flight and also take bus and then ferry in order to reach the villiage....by the time we reach guess it will already be evening.....hope everything goes smoothly during the trip....hope liverpool will defeat arsenal on tml morning champions leauge 2nd ties....in liverpool we believe
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