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Saturday, December 27, 2008

WOAH!!..

You know what i just realised!! I didn't carry out my Christmas routine this year of sending out cards, as i've always though snail mail's a whole lot better than email/sms/msn. I've been so caught up with stuffs lately, been busy with work work work before Macau, and off to Macau and back from Macau is work work work work again.

Crazy Xmas work day for me and the peeps at Scoopz yesterday, I wonder why some customers are EXTREMELY friendly and courteous only on Xmas day, does it make sense that you be uber friendly, smile, say thank you and mean it and saying MERRY XMAS to someone in the service line just on this day and the rest of the yea just pretend we are some low life working our arse off??..Really weird at times when i think of it, being nice doesn't have to happen only on Xmas day, just like giving presents or flowers to a loved one on Valentine's Day, when you are in love, everyday should be like Valentine's Day..rite??

So for all those that i used to send cards but didn't send it this year..my sincerest apologies, been so caught up with everything else that i simply can't find the energy and time to write them to post them out. And for those that wished my Merry Xmas and Belated Bday altogether on MSN/SMS/FB..THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! my sincerest heartfelt thanks though this year is really kept to the lowest of lowest profile, i actually had to decline a few bday celebrations for me..

Boxing day for me today was a really memorable/happy day..ALL SMILES!!..makes me feel that all the effort and time spent on you was worth it. YOU'RE DA BOMB!! I LOVE FENG TIANWEI!!!!

I'm so gonna be busy next week i hope i have time to AT LEAST send out a new year greeting to Mdm Pang, i'm beginning to idolise Tianwei so much that i'm starting to neglect my teacher dearest Mdm Pang, i still can't believe that i couldn't take out the time to send her a Xmas card or send her xmas sms!!...ARGH!!!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Birthday lunch with the family & Pre-Xmas lunch with the good ol' people from Scoopz

Just decided that this year i will have a really toned-down/private/quiet day on my own for my birthday after a very hyped up rah-rah 21st bday last year. Since Huimin says that all my blog posts has been about Feng Tianwei, this blog will have NOTHING on her..other than this mini-mention..haha

Was still thinking where to go for a meal on Sunday as i was supposed to work from 10-4..but since Ah Gui has recovered from chickenpox, we all decided i shouldn't be that hard on myself and work on my birthday. Initially when there was really no choice but to have me cover half a day, it was nice to hear boss telling Shiau Yun that my birthday is bigger than her, so she has to work..haha, but i guess it all worked out in the end.

Thought of either Dim Sum buffet at Marina Mandarin, Jack's Place..and Sis suggested Tony Roma's @ Suntec City since they serve really good ribs, since it was my birthday it was her treat..although it came with unwilling mumbles that me and my dad won money at 4D..haha

Afterwhich we went shopping for a bit at OG, my dad finally bought himself some new shirts he can wear for CNY haha, sounds pathetic right, but it's only cos he dun wanna spend money on stuff like that..but he is willing to spend on 4D on TOTO..lolz, went for dessert at Liang Seah Street, some place called Ji De Chi (Remember to Eat), the desserts ain't fantastic, service not worth mentioning, they told us that it'll take about a 20 minutes wait for the durian pastry thing but in the end it took more than half an hr which i had to push back my meeting with Sharon after that, and when the dumb pastry finally came, it tasted kinda yucky!!..ARGH!!.no more patronage from me to this place man..NO MORE NO MORE!!!!!

Reached home at bout 6.50pm, had a quick shower and off to meet Sharon @ Tampines Mall, was still a bit full from the heavy lunch so we settled for something less fanciful at Pastamania which was dear Sharon's treat..hee, and then she bought me a nalgene bottle since i lost mine back in Brisbane, yesh..the green bottle that mysteriously disappeared when i brought it down from the house to the car to leave on our roadtrip..after that we went shopping around the atrium area as they had lots of stuff that were pretty cheap, so thought i'd get a little something for the folks back in Brisbane, wad was supposed to be a little something turned out to be quite alot, THAT'S IT!! i can't go shopping with Sharon..lolz

Went down to Parkway on Monday to send the package over to Australia, turned out the package became a PARCEL..haha, sent it on express too..hopefully it'll reach them in time for Xmas. Headed down to TP in the evening for training, they had alot of people there so i could only sit at the sides to wait for someone to be free to have a hit with me, thankfully i had with my my phone..MY ENTERTAINMENT!!..lolz..shall not mention wad i watched..although i think most of u will know..HAHA!!

TODAY!!!
Met Gui, Rui Caiwen & Leng Sie @ Raffles City for lunch, had Shokudo, really funny cos Sharon was just telling me about this place on Sunday and there i was today, really fun experience dining there since i've not been to Marche. But this dining experience is costly, my card swiped 30 over bucks!!!..Was supposed to bring my dad's Tag Huer to Raffles City office tower to fix the chain but i forgot the bring it out with me, so yea, he was pretty pissed with me for that. I need more exercise, gotta get my lazy butt to go swim!!! Rui said i put on weight today..AH!!!!..CNY's coming!! And the bet thingy that i have going on with Steven Gor Gor..ARGH!!!

Some gadget charger thing i encountered at the Budget terminal, which i find was quite cool..cos it's free!!haha

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Macau oh Macau, what a wonderful time i've had there. I'm pretty sure after this Tianwei's gonna remember me!!! GREAT EXPERIENCE!!! I'm gonna make it a point to watch Tianwei in action at least once a year, hopefully the pro tour stops next year are ideal, or if i have a surprise windfall then anywhere is fine!!!

I could go to Changsha, Hunan next Jan for the Tournament of the Champions where Tianwei will be participating in again, but then again, China's kinda intimidating for me, haha, i'm afraid i'll get too much of a culture shock there to even enjoy my time. And besides, there might be something going on for me that will keep me busy till February..

Nuff said, shall let the pictures do the talking..

the view from my hotel room

the playing arena was just next to the hotel

st paul's cathedral (or wad's left of it anyways)

Sun Bei Bei, Jing Junhong & Team Manager Eddy Tay

Korean team sitting at the sides...Park Mi Young's really pretty in person..i should go learn how to speak Korean from my cousins..

Chance encounter with Jing Junhong at a dinner place..

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Day 2 was a long day for us, as well as the team today, LJW/SBB played in the doubles which they won. LJW seems to be in a good mood today, smiled and acknowledged our support together with SBB. Stayed throughout the evening to support the singles matches starting with WYG's. Before that we had dinner at a diner and met Jing Junhong & her husband there and took a pic with her (SUPER DUPER FRIENDLY).It was a fruitful day, WYG waved back to us when after her win. Shouted JIAWEI, TIANWEI & BEIBEI JIAYOU before they started their individual matches. JW gave an embarassed smile when we shouted and so did BB. Tianwei was her usual serious self but she did acknowledged us after her win against LJ. SBB was the nicest as her game was the tightest and we shouted jiayou TWICE!! so after her win, 1st she smiled to us, then she waved the bat at us (very cute gesture) after which we met them outside the stadium and took a grp pic with them, they left for supper then..

Day 3 for us and we finally had a small chat with Tianwei!!! She was visibly tired today after her game against Liu Jia, although she won, we could see that she was kinda disappointed in her game. Today we got dao-ed by all our players after their games regardless of whether they won or lost.I told her that it took us 3 long days to finally have a little chat with her and she nodded in agreement..which was really nice..

But the main point was that we went out to the entrance to wait for Tianwei to come out after her game, she was mobbed by a group of ppl wanting to take pictures but she turned and noticed me and the rest at the side and gave us a nod signalling that she will come to us after she's done with the photo taking. She approached us after she was done and extended her hand for a handshake with all of us and thanked us for the support!!!

Chatted with her for a bit and asked if she was tired, her face was flushed and she looked really nice and cute. We had stuffs for her to sign as well as some stuffs to give her and mini requests, but we could seethat she wanted to go back to the hotel to rest.But she suggested that she will come look for us tomorrow after the competition is over so we said that we will give her the stuffs tomorrow instead. So we told her to have a good night's rest and we'll see her tomorrow. And BTW, she was using an iPhone..HAHA..We forgot to pass her the TIANWEI JIAYOU card made by Netta, so we passed it to Beibei after her game ended, she too was mobbed by ppl wanting to take pictures, and we wanted her autograph on the picture we took last night, we gave her 1 of the photos as well and she said thanks.

Asked her when she's heading back to Singapore and we will be on the same FLIGHT!! She said to us that the other pictures she will sign for us again cos too many ppl are mobbing her. We understood and said bye to her. No wonder she kept asking us to pass her Tianwei's stuff first cos she's trying to make an escape!! Not from us of cos, cos she said to us, “其它的我回去再跟你们签吧”

OMG!!! my DREAM is coming true!! i think Tianwei will be coming to our room tomorrow night!!!!! so EGG-CITED!!!..

Watch this space for more updates from me in Macau!!!..really good day today!!

P.S, the hotel's bandwidth prolly doesn't support that high a transfer rate so i won't be uploading photos taken here, will do so when i get back to singapore..

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

So much happening lately, Dad's having the same pain symptoms as Mum once had before doing physio. Just got back his X-Ray films today, diagnosed as having the same whatever my Mum's having, Osteoarthritis, something like a piece of your bone out of place and pressing onto the nerves thus causing pain, because of the precarious position it's in (spinal/neck area) surgery might be required for it to heal fully BUT not recommended at all as it's a very dangerous position. Anything goes wrong and we'll have a Christoper Reeve situation on our hands. For those of you who don't know who Christopher Reeve is, he was the Superman that was paralysed neck down from a horse-riding accident.

Doctor says to get Dad to take 2 more rounds of medication, still no progress and he will be recommended to the hospital for physio treatment. Mum's physio is by a private doc, more expensive but easier to book. Dad's prolly going to take the hospital route so that it will be covered by Medisave. Asked him to get an MC from the doc since he's in pain, he said doc's instructions from the boss was to NOT give MCs haphazardly (he went to the company doctor).

I so want to give my parents a better life. So when a certain someone/some people asked me if had given my parents a thought when deciding on what to do with my life after graduation, i just felt that it shouldn't even have been asked because it is very obvious. Doubting me shows that you don't understand me at all.

Well, i'm just gonna take this entire period of time as a break. Gonna enjoy my time in Macau next week, parents told me to have a good time, really glad that they understand and give me the freedom/trust/support to do what i want to do. I guess after spending time alone overseas they have seen that i've grown and matured a lot.

After Macau, i'm really gonna set my heart to get a job, and in these times, i can be glad that at least i'm not shaking legs at home doing nothing, at least i still have a part time job. November was a busy month, income's not too bad, considering that it's just a part time, i've calculated my pay to be more than 1K this month!!! but i'll prolly be getting half cos of some stuffs boss is doing for me.

OKAY!! dinnertime!!..after that!! it's gonna be Tianwei-Time!!! 7.30pm live telecast of her game back in the China Super League!!