55 golden years of her life

mum turned 55 this year! ~ and she still looks very young. haha i got to thank her for my good genes - and thats prolly the only good thing i got out of her. =_=" i'm grateful to her whenever the hair salon lady offer me student price heh heh.

mum went to the spa and hair salon in the day. i knocked off at 430 and the plan for the night was to go for dinner at Vivo, then Sentosa then desserts at Keppel Bay!mum and dad really enjoyed the food that night and that made me really happy. dad polished off the entire claypot "assam" fishhead.after dinner we went to Sentosa for the new musical fountain show - "Songs of the Sea". i must say for a $8 entrance ticket it was totally worth it. you enjoy the laser show, musical fountain, and even fireworks! i thought was really good, although i miss the old school musical fountain i visited when i was still young.we also took the tiger beer 360 degree viewing gallery ride for a bird's eye view of Singapore's night scenary.chocolate truffle at Keppel Bay gave the night a very, very sweet ending.

Happy Birthday Mummy! Love you (but also abit hate you.. :P)

backside itchy

ok, i did the darnest thing over the weekend - i went to sign up for TKD Nationals. and if anyone can remember my blog entries in Aug 2006 - i made a very touching goodbye speech saying that i will retire. ahaha bull shit!

well, many people are giving me different views

1) you should not fight this time, because its a lose-lose situation. if you win the championship everyone will just say.."it's just another of PQ's gold medals" but if you lose, you will lose all your reputation

2) if you miss competitions, then just do it. the record is there for you to keep, so what if you lose this time? the fact that you won it 7 times consecutively wont be gone

3) dont fight lah, give young people a chance

4) fight lah, you are still very young

sigh. thankss arr...this time really is.. backside itchy.

older by another year and not by choice part 2

**LEISURE DIVE TRIP IN TIOMAN**
was treated to this leisure dive trip by my buddy Mel. i am amazed at how the group trusted me so much to drive up to Mersing at night despite the fact that they know i dont have my astig glasses with me, it was night time - i cannot see, and i have absolutely no sense of direction. they can even tell me to speed faster because they want to get there in time to eat at the very nice Chinese restaurant which closes at 10... before going to sleep at the back of the car. my friends rock! -- eh but my driving skills is buay pai one ok. :Pwe stayed at this resort for 3 days 2 nights, of which 2 days 1 night had NO ELECTRICITY. thankss arr, go shower also much bring handphone in to double up as torch light. no heater for hot water also. #$%^&it was such a conincidence that another leisure diver in this trip share the same birthday as me, exactly 20th July.. i didnt know her before this trip though.the 4 of us dived as a group.some of the DARK SEAL Diving Team members were also in this trip!hope to go for another Live On Board trip with my friends at work. just found out that many of them dive as well, i think it will be pretty interesting.

older by another year and not by choice part 1

**BIRTHDAY DINNER**
and yes seems like i have grown older by yet another year...not by choice. i originally intended to hold a big ass birthday bash this year because i have never actually had a birthday party since my 1 year old birthday. and those who came to my party then were obviously not my friends. heh. yeah i didnt even celebrate my 21st. i was busy training for the SEA Games somewhere else in this part of the world.

anyhows, so many exciting things have happened to me throughout the previous week. couple of close friends from work brought me to dinner at this place in United Square. the food was awesome (the pork knuckle is OMG *slurp*) and it had over 100 kinds of different beers to choose from. from strawberry to honey.. *think jolly shandy and you get the idea.halfway throughout dinner the live band started playing the Happy Birthday song and i was like "walau dont be so kuazhang can?!" ... then here comes the cake. the embarrassment was unbelieveble, and those who knows me, will know i will be super shy about this kindof situation. paisehz to the maximimum. but oh well, the cake was very delicious so i quickly forgot about it. :)was a very nice dinner instead, gave me a really warm feeling which is probably better than a big ass birthday bash eh?

you know you have been nice when...

you get a surprise message on Facebook that says:

"hihi sis, i would like to ask u whether u r interested to join me for a diving trip on the 18-20 july...?

i would like to celebrate ur birthday with u at pulau tioman this year bcos i was out from singapore last year & not able to celebrate for u...

ur birthday present is ~ u don't have to pay for this trip, i will pay for u as a leisure diver as ur birhday present this year!"

Mel Aug,

**and what does this mean? -- I AM SO GOING TO DIVING THIS WEEKEND!
haha it's amazing how impromptu things can get with me, inform on Tuesday, Friday depart. ALWAYS READY TO GET OUT OF SINGAPORE-- i think i should be in Army leh, mobilization sure very fast.

CHEER me up

i spent the entire hot and humid sunday sweating like a pig in Yishun Sports Hall. thanks to HS who reminded me that there's a TKD competition there today. had to cancel my poly mate's lunch gathering at the very last minute because i just cannot bear to miss watching my old friends fight. felt really guilty to bail on my poly mates cos they planned to celebrate my birthday today :(

that's how much i miss it. i only like to watch good matches - which is pretty rare. honestly Singapore TKD standard has dropped so much, the good matches were from people of my batch or earlier! which is worrying because i can be considered one of the youngest in my batch already! -- come on, we need more young talents! and if only we can put politics aside i'm sure we can excel! sigh!

i went to the competition with shorts, tee shirts and a pair of flip flops. already tried to be as low profile as possible but still was spotted! they made me go in to referee the matches and even managed to find me an extra referee's uniform, a pair of track pants (it was even Adidas! they knew if it was some other brand i will REFUSE to wear, hah) and a pair of shoes!!! what the hell, really is win liao lor.

even though it was totally disgusting to be in various people's gear from top to toe... people started cheering for me when i stepped into the competition area to referee my first match. hah was weird cos you would expect people to cheer for the competitors and not the referee?? it was amusing and i enjoyed it. and yes i was so out of touch with refereeing - forgot all the hand signals and rules of the game! heh heh...

i miss those cheerings, i miss competition. i miss winning. cheer for me please.

OMG and I WON!

*AHEM* hello, welcome the Champion Chen please. yesss lim pei won in the BB bowling competition today. mai siao siao...chao chao got 159 high score. this is my team and we call ourselves the United Nations aka Monster Haters. United Nations because (in picture from L to R)DL is an Australian (or so she claims), TP's from Sri Lanka, limpei is Singkaporean and Jer is ex Taiwanese ah lian(hahaha), whilst NV's a Thai.it was reallly good fun playing with a bunch of crazy people from the company. some 130 Bloomies were there and occupied the entire bowling alley, everyone was screaming and yelling and cheering.
when our powers combine, we are Captain Planet! haha -- yes she is the "Captain" i was talking about in my previous entry :)Jer got like 126 pinfalls for one of her game!! very well done :) and her sneaky face when we "cheated" was damn funny lah!prize giving ceremony with the APAC sales manager.called up the mum and the dad right after the competition to tell them that i won!! just like the good old days after my TKD competitions hee hee *blush* yes, i really like to win. :P