What have I done from August 2009 to June 2010?

It has been quite some time that i have leave this blog inactive… haha… I was thinking maybe I should just continue to write something here just for fun… to keep the blog alive… haha…

So the following is what I have done ever since my previous post “Prawn Fishing at 海滨" on 10th August 2009 until now.

• Signup gym membership together with Industrial Attachment (IA) colleagues. It is a unbelievable that I would pay to do exercise… LoL… Well there is always some exceptions in life… so what i usually do is to do a try-catch-finally… so that I won’t get terminated here… haha…
  
• Completed my 6 months IA programme. All thanks to the supervisors and fellow colleagues there, I finally make it to jump over the line which i once thought impossible… Really thanks a lot. Hurray~! End of my life as a student…
  
• Went for One-Timed Spa Session and Yoga Course. Being part of the gym promotion membership package, I was entitled a one-timed spa session and yoga course.
  
• Went to Thailand with IA colleagues. (My 1st airplane experience.)

My 1st driving experience too~!	My 1st heavy drinking experience too~!  Lol~!

• Went to Taiwan with NTU friends. Went there to 跨年. So I can say that I have been to Taiwan from 2009 to 2010, wow… haha~!  I was there for around 10 days if I didn’t remember wrong… the weather then was pretty cold… natural air-con wherever you go… Something i realised there was that the night there is longer than in Singapore. Around 6pm there, the sky will looks like its 8pm in Singapore already. Seems like Taiwan have a longer night time than day time… maybe that is the reason why the girls there are more fair… haha… just my thoughts…
  
• Resumed my NSF Distruption for a period of 2 months. Boring life at SQN being an over-aged NSF there… lol I just simply spent 1 month doing guard-duties, and 1 month enjoying my guard-duty offs sleeping… haha alternate days guard duties are siong loh… haha…
  
• Found my 1st job as a Software Engineer. Start of my life as a working adult… I have just came to realise that what we have learnt in University is way too minimal to bring it to work… lol “Objective: To apply what I have learnt in school to work...” is a bit impossible if we are talking about the technologies learnt in school… hahaha~! But in fact, what I have benefit the most is the skill of self-researching… to find your way out yourself by means of Google… lol This skill is a must to pick up when doing projects in school… Another skill will the art of asking questions… asking the right person and asking wisely can make you quite resourceful sometimes… hahaha~! How? don’t ask me that, because i am also still trying to learn those skills… hahaha~!

Oh yah, I just bought an 16” LCD monitor from the recent PC Show. Although there are other bigger monitor available out there… but due to space constraints… I really can’t afford too big a monitor to place it on my desk. Furthermore, my eyes is too small to look at big screen… hahaha~! But it really feels good to run on 2 monitors, extended desktop… shiok sia… can multitask more… but limited by the processing power of my laptop… time to get a new Desktop PC i guess… lol~!

And yes… I have just got older by one year… sigh… hahaha~! Eh but not bad… at least my colleagues there do celebrate colleagues' birthday… wah… got birthday cake somemore leh… 感动到~~~! hahaha~!

Prawn Fishing at 海滨

Went to the 海滨 there on the 1st August for prawn fishing.

It is located at following address:

Hai Bin U Enterprise
Prawn Fishing in Bishan Singapore
603, Sin Ming Avenue
Singapore 575735

 

More information regarding the Hai Bin U Enterprise can be found here: http://haibinuenterprise.blogspot.com/

We fished for 1 hour there and caught quite a few prawns. Lucky me caught the biggest prawn among my friends.

After the 1 hour prawn fishing, we barbecued the prawns.

   
Get cooked is their destination…

It’s an interesting trip after all. My first time fishing for prawns. It is quite boring initially because the prawns simply ignored our hook. Then slowly we observed how others do it, learned a few tricks from our observations, and then prawns start to get hooked to us… lol… or maybe it’s just luck…

The prawns taste ordinary with a little bit of weird taste. But it is still edible, at least i didn’t have any diarrhea after eating them. Haha…

ION Orchard & Orchard Central

Just went to the 2 new shopping malls in Orchard Road. Both of them just opened in July 2009. The following are some random photos taken today.

ION Orchard:

  

 

Orchard Central:

 

This is taken in an open air platform in the Orchard Central

What is this spectacle for?

I have asked about this special plastic spectacle in my previous post here: My New Eyeglass 2009.

The answer to the question “What is this spectacle for?” is in the following screenshot:

The reply is from Gab Lim at here http://opt-label.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-fashion-eyewear-in-singapore.html#comments.

Singapore NDP 2009 Rehearsal Fireworks

 

Photos taken on 18-07-2009 8:30pm at somewhere at the Marina Square there.

NTU IA July 2009

This is a group photo taken on the first day (6th July 2009) of my IA (Industrial Attachment).

It has been 1 week already and so far so good. People there are nice and friendly.

There are a total of 6 NTU interns in this photo. The 2nd one from the right is not interns. But he is 3 or 4 days more senior than us. Someone in the company suggested that the 7 of us take a group photo and email it to everyone in the company to notify them that we are the new faces in the company.

*Photo has been edited and no names were mentioned in this post in order not to expose the identity of the company and the people involved in this photo.

My New Eyeglass 2009

Went to buy my new eyeglass yesterday (03-07-2009) at Opt LABEL in Illuma (someway in Bugis). Heard that the shop is still quite new in Singapore.

They sell eyeglasses (1.5 index lenses with “easy clean coating”) at a package price range of $50, $75 and $100. If you want higher index, then you have to pay a little bit more. The package includes frame, lens, eyes test and a eyeglass box.

Heard that they also provide eyes testing (without purchasing spectacle) for $10. Just in case i wrote anything wrong, you can visit their website at http://www.optlabel.asia/ for more information.

The designs are all displayed nicely in the shop according to their prices. If you have no idea what suit you best, you can ask the people there for advice on which one is more suitable for you. And that was what I did, the person there told me that rectangle shape eyeglasses are more suitable for me and recommended a few designs for me.

After choosing the design of the eyeglass, I went in for my eyes test. Then after the payment, I was told to come back to collect the eyeglass in 1 hour time. That is really fast in my opinion.

They also gave me a card that has my name and NRIC on it. The card has an expiry date. If I go back to them to buy another eyeglass within the expiry date, then I can have a $5 discount. But the expiry date is due in 1 year time and I don’t think i will be making another eyeglass in such short time. Sigh…

This is how my new eyeglass looks like. It has silver matt surface metallic frame.

They have this special spectacle as free gift. Not sure what it is, but it looks quite useless… lol

If you happen to know what it is for, do tell me in the comments.

Total Cost: $100