Saturday, April 28, 2007
Climbed up Bukit Timah today. Not too fancy a walk today. Just 20 metres up the slope, there was this "boy" running down the slope shouting "Help me, Uncle!" "Help me!" "I cannot stop!" Then, the plump little ball fell and went straight into my legs. Sigh... Cry cry... Open wound on the elbow... Well, I thought she was a boy and said don't cry don't cry, big boy liao! Then, she suddenly became a girl! Crap man... But anyway... We sent her down to the ranger station and then climbed up again.
Anyway, we got up to the summit in about 20 mins, then took a long detour, down the mountain. Then off towards Machritchie we went. But since Lindy's dad needed the car back we had to turn back to Bukit Timah halfway. Covered only 20% of the route. We'll be back! With alot of insect repellent.
Posted by NuhC at 8:01 PM
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Ran into someone in a very very odd place. Brings back memories, those were the teenage days. Reminds me of Waich and the bunch...
Anyway, this was Waich and Tish's song.
Posted by NuhC at 11:16 PM
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
I'm going through a list of 301 useless facts. Friends who know me well knows that I remember all sort of ridiculous facts about the world. Here, I'm posting some that I find extremely interesting. the full list is at http://www.singlegrain.com/blog/301-useless-facts/
Enjoy...
1. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
3. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
4. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
5. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
6. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (I love this one)
7. Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and “lower” because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
8. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
9. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess. (Amazing huh?)
10. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. (LMAO!!!)
11. One in ten people live on an island
12. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head. (Uber cool..........)
15. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).
16. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. (I love the bo liao-ness of this piece of info)
17. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words “North” and “South). (Never thought of this...)
18. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
19. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year’s Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
20. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
21. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. (oh crap....)
22. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. (Huh?1)
23. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse’s legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
24. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”
25. Rats and horses can’t vomit.
26. There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
27. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump
28. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
29. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses (Must sing for how long siah)
30. A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second
31. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured. (Michael Scofield)
32. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
33. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. (Fuck.....)
34. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
35. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple
36. “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
37. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash. (seriously...)
38. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people. (Second left handed thingy...)
39. The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”.
Posted by NuhC at 6:07 PM
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
I've been missing from action for a number of days now. So, why have I disaapeared? Well, it's cos my damn lappy's RAM was burnt. Think I've been pushing this baby too hard. Anyway, I sent it to the HP Service Center, and I tell you, it's the nicest service center I've been to in all these years. I was surprised when they very honestly put, "The estimated waiting time is about 33-44mins." Reasonable. Well, the wait area was just amazing. There was the usual free coffee machine, that's not the amazing part, there were tea bags, sugar, and creamer nicely arranged next to the coffee machine. What's more, there were some plain crackers in jars and (here's the amazing ppart) bread rolls! With a wide variety of fillings! It's like a high tea buffet spread. The seats were nice leather sofas and there were some computers for the waiting crowd to surf the net and do whatever. Oh yah, loads of newspapers to go around. No wonder people tell me HP has very good customer service. I'm a believer...
Thursday night was pool with Kok and then was at a KTV pub called Labyrinth, nice place, quite spacious...
Friday was swimming
Saturday was mahjong when Kenneth had to bao a da san yuan for everyone.
And Sunday was Kok's gig at the House of Rock. The pub really sucked, super tiny and cramped, the system there sucked too. But Kok's band, LivEvil rocked... They rocked real hard, felt like head banging along, but the crowd like sian sian, so I did away with that.
And I went to collect my lappy today. Wooo hooo...
Posted by NuhC at 12:22 AM
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Fuck you Fucking Chong Chun Jie!
The fucking ang ku kueh is mine! FUCK! I bought them all the fucking way from fucking Alexander Village and you just ate them like that! Fuck you! you know how nice they are. I'm sure you didn't even fucking think they're good, you fucking swallower, you don't even know the fucking difference between good food and lousy food. You just want things to stuff your fucking stomach! Fuck you! Do you have a single fucking idea how long i've been craving for them? You bloody fuckeR!!!!!!!!!!!~!!!!!!!
Posted by NuhC at 1:14 AM
Monday, April 16, 2007
Awwww... This song is from the New Radicals. So true, so true...
Posted by NuhC at 3:08 AM
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Bo bian...
Rule of the game: each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own 10 weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks!
1. I can't multitask, been screwed a million times for bladdering nonsense when i doing something on my comp while on the phone.
2. I went to Victoria School. Many people find it weird when i tell them. Are you surprised?
3. I laugh when people chase after buses and misses them.
4. I'm very cynical.
5. I belief in the worst of people. Unless otherwise proven, everyone is out to kill, when they're not killing, they're actually planning the timing for the kill.
6. I love planting stuff. I used to grow onions with water in primary school. And now, I have a chili plant (flowering but not fruiting) and another green apple seedling (I can't wait to eat apples)
7. I haven't won in Mahjong since the beginning of the lunar year.
8. I can't read aloud a piece of text exactly for nuts. I'll somehow change words, or even entire sentence structures, here and there and they'll still sound like normal sentences.
9. I don't want my girlfriend to lose weight.
10. I actually like Mr Vijay
I'm tagging, Jeremy, Kok Keng, Huishan, Kenneth, Yvonne Tay, Fiona, Lindy, Qiaohui, Eileen...
Posted by NuhC at 11:08 PM
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Last day of school was on Friday. The day I've been working towards since the day i stepped into St Michael's School in 1990. In NYP, other then my professional training, I've learnt alot, and yeah, contributed to the community with Noxin. I still believe that it's a very feasible product.
Anyway...
This is Noxin, Kenneth and me. After the project presentation.
Baobei and me...
We were long happy and relieved with the end of exams, and we started jumping, the girls tried...
and tried...
Darling and I tried
Yiipppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
This is Jessie my dance partner
(my cry me a liver partner...)
We then we all documented our last step out of NYP, into the working society we go... erm... sort of... except for Cyn and Joyce...
(Somehow, Fiona prefered the Humpty Dumpty step...)
(and a very lady-like posture from a very unexpected person...)
And off we go... Bye bye NYP...
Posted by NuhC at 1:08 PM