McD after Tan Chai Ang's Maths T tuition

this time, i decided to change a little, to mix with a slightly different company. although kok jie is still a constant. i wanted to give them a treat, but McD ain't cheap. so i only bought a burger for each of us and a french fries as well. the rest...i suggested they share it among themselves...ERGHHH...SO CONTRADICTORY! i just can't believe that i actually did it. i promise i will give them a 100% treat when i start working next time... it's a promise...

hooi ann (my form 1 classmate and the proud owner of a horrendous laughter)

wan li (the naive teenage girl. her smile is always so infectious.) and han cheng (the monitor of L6S1 yet doesn't seem to know how to organise his stuffs well)

huan chen (a kiasu fella who knows his maths and sciences very well and at the same time stays pride to be privileged with a wicked laughter)

kok jie (never cuter, not forgetting his fats molecules struggling to break through the thin fabric of his Debate Club tee)

i thought i smile, didn't i? how come i look so fierce here...

Jesus Christ

scrabbles

Since it’s a non-schooling day, and since I’m kinda free cos I have not officially started school yet, I decided to take part in a scrabbles competition. Underestimating scrabbles as an easy board game and totally taking it for granted…it was something that I have expected out of myself. (hey Chong, you better stop your bad habit of underestimating!!!) As the game progresses, I found myself wrong. I was defeated but still I have Lady Luck to thank for still giving me a third prize. The truth is, only 4 person were competing for the upper secondary level! It was supposed to be more than that, it’s just that the school announced that Saturday is a schooling day and the game was pushed forward, which end up clashing with the “Amazing Race-Keat Hwa version”
It was also a coincidence that Yeoh Thean Jern, the Xiangqi Master was taking part too. For those who have no idea who he is, he emerged 4th in the 14th Asian Xiangqi Championship. Since I never spoke to this personality before, it was a very good encounter and an experience proved to be invaluable. I always had this impression that he was something like a book worm as he looks rather nerdy, and belongs to the passive type. Meeting him today made me change my mind altogether. He didn’t look nerdy and was rather outspoken. The bottom line is he was really good with scrabbles, which contributed to my inferiority and my unusual quietness. His steps…I mean they were like so…planned and highly skilled. And finally, he emerged champion, Han Cheng second. From here, it’s obvious he had the ability to predict something even before it happens, so that actually save the fuss of cleaning the mess after something happens. Very profound…

loss - 张国兴

"ring...ring..., ring...ring..." the house phone rang.
"hello," my grandma picked the phone.
"ah ngi sim ah, ah sam suk mao lo!" replied the caller
"hah? ah sam suk ko sin? ki xi xi hi? zo kai hiao xi hi?" she asked loudly
"gi tet lok hang kui..."
for any of you guys who were wondering what the heck i was talking about, it was a relative conversing in hakka calling from simpang empat(my grandpa's birthplace) informing my grandma about the death of my grandpa's brother. my grandma started shouting into the phone to ask for more details. according to them, he died after falling into the drain. emotions running high, tensions rise. although i wasn't close to the deceased, but i visited his house every chinese new year. somehow it's someone i have encountered every single year for 18 years. whether or not i am close to him, somewhere in the heart, i still felt the loss of a relative. visiting him every year, i was always welcomed with smiles. he's rather quiet since he's partially deft due to old age. nevertheless, i always felt comfortable during visits to his house. it's a rather sad event. he had heart complications. he suffered the same fate as my grandpa. my grandpa died 20 years ago after suffering a sudden heart attack in the paddy field. he fell in the sawah padi. his brother...in the longkang outside his house. to think about it, life is so unpredictable. our lives are practically hanging on a precarious line. we never know when it's time's up for us...人的生命是如此的脆弱
at his death, he's 77+3

No words can express
The dearly missed
presence of a departed one
Memories live on,
In a photograph, a poem
A loving memory,
a joyful moment
And we treasure them
and hold them close
to our hearts.

final moments...

today is friday. since leonard and me are leaving for kl in july, and shy chi already in matrix, which mean our time together as secondary school mates won't be long. everybody's following their own dreams. while leonard, me and shy chi were more fortunate since we were awarded some kind of scholarships, the rest (cai ping, wan yan, xiang wei and chee sheng) more or less remain in the same geographic entity, it was going to be difficult for us to meet frequently after leonard and me leave. so after some brainstorming on where and when to meet, we have come down with a unanimous decision to meet today at 11a.m. at McDonald, City Plaza. (although shy chi and me was late...but she was later...haha) Below are some photo shoots. by the way, i really gotta say that i look not bad in that red shirt (self-praise is so typical of me), and leonard and chee sheng, very creative and looks good. to xiang wei, burn more calories! haha, just kidding. to the girls, i don't know how to comment on female clothes. sorry...