Our 21st Century

So true in the 21st Century ...

Our communication - Wireless
Our dress - Topless
Our telephone - Cordless
Our cooking - Fireless
Our youth - Jobless
Our food - Fatless
Our labour - Effortless
Our conduct - Worthless
Our relationship - Loveless
Our attitude - Careless
Our feelings - Heartless
Our politics - Shameless
Our education - Valueless
Our follies - Countless
Our arguments - Baseless
Our boss - Brainless
Our Job - Thankless
Our Salary - Much Less

Got this from a webbie...

Backlogs...

Ok... think i betta make a list of things that happened lately before i totally forgot. If i have the time in future i will come back to them and provide more details.

• Live the Dream Walk-in shoot @ Music Clinic (8 Jun)
• Be A Star Auditions @ Partyworld International Plaza (11 Jun)
• Live the Dream Auditions @ Media Corp (17 Jun)
• Teacher Prep Training @ NIE (21 & 22 Jun)
• Helping Shan in 飞乐时空 Semi-Finals @ Junction 8 (23 Jun)
• Starting Enhanced School Experience @ Chong Boon (Since 25 jun)
• Live the Dreams Auditions with Judges (27 Jun)
• Transformers - Movie Review (31 Jul) *Transformers RAWKS!!!*
• Recording for 飞乐时空 Finalists' Compilation CD (1 Jul)
• Be a Star Preliminary Round @ Partyworld International Plaza (2 Jul)

So many things to blog abt... so little time. Most prob i wont have time to talk abt all well at least i have a timeline now to remember the sequence of events... haha... playing cheat...

Tribute to Flex...

It has been awhile... There has been lotsa stuff going on in the last 2 weeks. (I can't believe that it has only been 2 WEEKS! Felt like mths...) Well, i will try to touch on the events updates soon... i hope...

I happened to be looking thru pics on Misanthrope and found some backlogs of pics of places in Flex and also of my colleagues. SO! i decided to have a little tribute here for my favourite flex places and some of the pple i work with (Sadly, i forgot to take pictures with my ex-colleagues, only managed to catch some late birds still in the office after 6 pm). hehe...

Fav Spot: the Ladies' Bigger Cubicle

I know this is like... Weird... to pple.

But i fell in love with this spot every since my first day in Flex. (Kinda explain my extended toilet trips... hehe... *Guilt as charged!*) Bare with me here as i tell u more abt the Toilet du Flex. It is an ordinary and clean toilet, but wat is extraordinary abt it was its view. (Refer to pic above). Though only standing 6 storeys above ground, its view is unobstructed thanks to it location in the Woodlands Industrial Park.

Sitting on the porcelain bowl, with a tilted vision of 20 degrees above the horizon, one can enjoy doing they daily biz while looking up to the blue skies above. If expecting a long "delivery" one can also engage in a relaxing game of "Guess-What-Animal-is-de-Cloud"

Fav Room: The Pantry

Please do not be alarm... All the pics above are taken from 1 single room... The Pantry.

Before flex took over the building, this room was the main office of its previous owner. Extremely spacious, with ceiling to floor windows, he even had his own bed and fully equiped bathroom with bathtub. Wat used to be the bathroom is now the storeroom for the janitor, Aunty Mony. (its Mo-Nee, i'm not sure if it's spelt this way) Of coz, flex took away the bed and replaced it with a Ping Pong Table.

Besides Ping Pong, there is also a Dart Board and Fussball Table, courtesy of some ex-colleagues no longer with flex.

Wat pantry is complete without a coffee machine, a fridge stocked with drinks and an assortment of biscuits.

It was a place for relaxation, informal chit chats between colleagues, birthday celebrations, Yoga classes, steamboats, food sharing, breakfast, lunch breaks, 2 pm teabreaks, 3pm teabreaks, 4pm teabreaks, 5pm teabreaks, after work dart games, Anytime Pingpong matches, etc... The good times...

My Knick Knacks

I like to personalize my work space, thus explain my little roadside freakshow of voodoo dolls, flying pig, poseable idiot figure, yoga duck, headless sexy girls, etc...

My Ex-Colleagues

Newbies

Left to Right: Me lah..., Eric, Lake, Stacy, Bryan and Joshua

Veterans

Left to Right: How Young (how young? dunno?), Me lah..., Desmond

Same Batch: Kin Song joined flex in the same yr as me, but a few mths later.

Lots of beautiful memories, though i hoped i have taken more pics with the pple, guess there will be other times. :)

Self-Portrait

I was complaining to Shan about how i just could not get my own picture on my phone rite. I always look... i dunno.. weird... unnatural.

So Shan, the guru in "自拍", started to give me some pointers.

1. Always take picture from top down. Make you eyes bigger, the chin smaller. More Kawaii desio!!
2. Position your camera, then ask a friend to help you check from the viewing display. Why can't you just ask your friend to take the freaking picture for you? Coz it is more rewarding to accomplish it on your own. Also, depend on who you want behind teh cam, you may have difficulties smiling. I know sometimes i have.
3. Understand ur Camera. How long does it take for the cam to snap a picture? The response time varies from Camera to camera. If it takes a long time dun start smiling too early, or u will look unnatural
4. Smile just before the camera snaps. Count 1-2-3 den smile. DUN HOLD. If you missed your smile just take another one. (thanks to advancement in technology we can delete!)

So Tadah!!! My Self-Portrait, one that i actually like haha.. U can see from the reflection in the mirror me behind i took it myself on my phone cam. And Shan is beside me coaching me (while picking her nose...? hahha...)

Cupcake Momma!!

At the Art Market, besides the fun of performing in the great outdoors, I also stumble upon some amazing CUPCAKES!! haha... They are absolutely pretty and yummy too!

At first glance, they look like some kids play-doh project, their vibrant colours and cute design may be too much to swallow. I bot them becoz i tot they were pretty, din really xpected them to taste half as good as they look. But fortunately enough, i was proven wrong.

They were made of butter rich spongy cakes topped with sweet and sinful butter frosting. [Warning: Very Fattening! Do not attempt if you are unable to live with the guilt]

The cupcakes come in delectable designs to choose from. I bought 2 cupcakes back form the Art Market on Sat, ate them at home and realized how nice they were. So on Sunday, i went all the way back to Fort Canning Park to buy another 8!

About the "disfigured" cupcakes above, i apologize for KH, who have accidentally knocked the boxes of cupcake off the table during dinner... This box suffered less damage. The other box... i would rather not tok abt it.. sigh...

About the Cake:

• Buttery Vanilla Sponge. Reminded me of the 60 cents butter cream cakes we used to be able to get on our local confectionery. So full of flavour and buttery richness, with a tint of saltiness make it very appetizing.
• In also came in Chocolate Sponge, a dark brown moist cake. Not too sweet, but very chocolatey. nice... kinda reminded me of the birthday cake u get at McDonalds if you throw a party there.
• Blueberry Cake, a new flavour according to the owner. Not to my liking, because of the somewhat artifical blueberry flavouring. (like they added too much blueberry essence or something.. strong smelly) Also the cake was too sweet when eaten with the sweet frosting.

About the Frosting:

• All Butter and Sugar! Best kind of frosting in my opinion. It is wat that makes the cupcake my "Happy" Cake... like Space Cake...
• The butter is smooth but the sugar is a little coarse. A good butter frosting will have its sugar melted and combined with the butter. But in this frosting you can still bite the sugar crytals. I suspect its the kind of butter they used. Strangely, i left the cake over night without refrigeration and the frosting din melt at all by next morning. (Mind you: Singapore room temp is between 27 ~30 degrees celsius) If it's butter, i would expect it to melt or at least see some oil separation from the frosting...
• Then again... it is hard to find butter frosting these days... this is good... in controlled amount tt is... too many of them at a go will make you feel oozy...

So if you are interested they are from Cupcake Momma. You can check them out online, coz they dun have a shop haha...

Performance @ Art Market by Music Clinic

Last Sat, my vocal singing class VS42 and our "师姐s" from VS1 went over to the Art Market @ Fort Canning Park to perform. (Singing of course...) We all did a repertoire of 10 songs, solo, duet & group.

Everything went about smoothly. Kinda fun to perform outdoors. (My first) Well... can't say much abt the crowd though... kinda quiet... but hey they were clapping along when we asked them to.


Group Photo!! (From left: Shan, Me(top), Weili (bottom), Juliana, Jacqueline, Clara and Zen)

Shan singing "遗憾"

Me & Zen singing "制造浪漫"

Weili singing "不要骗我"

We had tonnes of fun. I was damn tired the next day, from the excitement I guess.

I've got a few other acts coming up. Suddenly so many lobangs... haha.. Stay tuned!

Shrek 4: The Music Clinic (Pte Ltd)

Following the success of Sherk 1, 2 & 3 in Singapore, DreamWorks decided to shoot their next sequel of our popular smelly green Ogre right here! Reliable sources revealed that Part 4 will talk about Shrek travelling to the Great East to escape parenting horrors and his now-ever-more-out-of-shape wife, Fiona. And during his adventure, he falls for the asian Ogre (above). Also, Donkey falls for our very own Merlion! *Gasps!"

Cheesecake Cafe

It was my mum's birthday yesterday. Like every other year, i went around to search of good cheesecake for my dear mama... A different place every yr, target to try all the good cheesecakes we can find...

This yr, based on some recommendations from forums and online critics, i decided to try out The Cheesecake Cafe. Usually i would go down and taste the cake b4 i order them, but i was too bz lah... So based on popular vote, i bought the "Peach Jelly Cheesecake"

It has 2 layers of light cream cheesecake filled with bits of peaches, separated by a later of peach flavored jelly.

What to Like about this cake:

• Very light and fruity, the kind of cheesecake u can enjoy even after a hearty meal.
• Most of us find the jelly being the best part of the cake.. (hmm.. should this b a compliment?)

What NOT to like about this cake: (now i'm warming up...)

• Too light, with the citrus taste of the peaches, it tasted more like peach yogurt than cheese. Dun get me wrong, i LIKE cheesecake with fruits, (raspberry, blueberry, i would even eat NY cheesecake with jam sometime) but the peach stole all the limelight from the poor fromage...
• Did i mentioned i din taste cheese? I'm a American-Cheesecake supporter. When u eat Cheesecake.. there better be CHEESE in it. so i kinda felt cheated... sob...
• The cracker base is quite a disappointment too. (It usually is my Favourite part) It is a no-bake cheesecake, so the cracker was not baked with the cheesecake, thus explain the lack of flavour in the cracker. It is hard and dry, but the top surface of the cracker was amply drench in the peachy cheesecake moisture. The blend cracker did not fit in with the fruity taste of the cheesecake. Most of us would just leave de cracker base uneaten. Sigh...
• It's a little too pricey, 72 bucks for a 9" cheesecake... i could get a better one from a hotel. In my opinion, not worth it

Okay... Maybe i'm a little harsh on the cake. Please understand it is my MAMA's Bday... I promise her nice cheesecake every yr, and this yr... it's the worst. Sorry mama.. i letcha down...

Well, my conclusion is... IF you are not a die-hard cheesecake fan, and u usually find it hard to finish an entire slice on ur own ([cough]*~Lo~Ser*) den this is the cake for you. IF you like yogurt, you have to try this then.

Alrite, i'm not here to bring down Cheesecake Cafe... besides the peachy cake i bought for my mum, i also bot a slice of their "Rum & Raisins Cheesecake". Just to try...

This is a baked cheesecake (kinda like NY style), filled with "rummed-up" raisins.

What's to like:

• TGIC (Thank God Its Cheese), a cheesecake with more soul
• It is drench with Rum, if you like rum tt is... think if u stuff the whole cake into your system in 10 sec... u might get drunk
• The Raisins are nice.. *hic
• The cracker base is tastier too

What's Not to:

• PGMC (Please God, More Cheese)... i think i'm a mouse...
• It is 6 bucks a slice... kinda ex loh... i can get a decent one under 5...

I would think that the Rum & Raisin is a nicer cake than the peachy thing... But the truth is, i dun think i will eat their cake anymore. But for those who haven tried themselves, well... you can still give it a try coz 1 anal cheesecake lover's poison can be another's ... i can't think of a positive word... Well just do what u like... dun take my word for it... Geesh.. like who am i rite.. u probably just stumble my blog by chance... (All the best...)

Wasted Rainbow Bears

Rainbow Bear (Rt): "Hic* I'm wasted... i think i see a tunnel of light ahead... Hic*"

Rainbow Bear (Lt): "Take me oh almighty one! My friend is stupid take me! Take me..."

On the other side of the glass panel: "Aiyoh.. dese bears so cute... take picture!" *Flash*

Was waiting to catch Hula Girls at The Cathay and saw these wasted bears on display outside... damn cute when then clump together in bunch haha... Kinda gay (in all sense of the word)

KH had to brace the danger of being caught by the vigilant Security Guard who can be hiding anywhere, waiting to pounce on him and say "Hey Sir, you cannot take picture of anything in the building." So be glad you get to see this here.

The New MUSIC CLINIC is UP and RUNNING!! (Sort of...)

Exchanged a couple days of leave... for an ultra long weekend... Since last Thursday thru Tuesday.. Woohoo... Din really do much... still felt so tired... WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME...?

Anyway, over the weekend, The Music Clinic finally started lessons in the new location @ No. 27 Teo Hong Rd. It is BIGGER & BETTER! The school is bigger than the old place. EVERYTHING IS NEW! New equipments, fresh painted walls, New Signboard!

Shan had me pulled over on Sat to be the 1st to step into the school. But ended up She and Momo were the 1st 2... i got it later after i have prata with KH.. haha.. But it sure is great to see the school up and running again! Yeah... got nice place to sing for free! hahaha...

The place is not exactly fully renovated yet. So i will post more pictures later hehe.

Coming week is going to be pretty exciting for me. Going to be having sort of an audition for "Live the Dream" in the new school on Friday...And will be performing in Fort Canning on Sat... .. den on the following Monday, it is my auditions for "Be a Star" by Party World... I've got like 5 songs to prepare... AH... going crazy... but its fun lah hahaha... just hope i dun end up screwing up everything.. :p *crossing all fingers and toes*

*Trip~*

"Aiyah!"

*Fall flat on face...*

"Doh!"

(oh... Simpsons are coming to the big screen will definately go watch hehe...)