恭贺新禧

Happy Chinese New Year to all

eve of CNY eve

went out to chinatown to immerse in the CNY festive season sprite with my friend kevin...wasn't that crowded as i expected...maybe because its still friday and ppl still working??? dun feel much different for ther years except for the more elaborate decor this year... after that met up with ben for dinner...3 of us ended up eating at this nice alfresco dining place at SAM...venezia restaurant.cafe.gelatria...yeapz the one that sells italian gelato...not too bad...somemore got live music...nice place to hang out...=p

CNY decor at chinatown

the busy street market

kevin @ pig ---------

me @ monkey

mediacorp setting up the stage for the cny eve countdown

venezia alfresco dining at SAM

happy birthday to seiyang

yoz...happy birthday shifty...not sure do u know of my blog...
keep ur youth always =)

tower bridge in motion

tower bridge...finale

ah...finally today ws the final presentation of the tower bridge project for the technology workshop...it was a tiring workshop...we managed to finshed the model last nite ard 11pm...quite drained from the woprkshop...however the process was quite "fun" and the product works and looks great...our gp is the only gp with movable structures...haha...quite fun...alot of ppl want to play with this huge..."destructive"-looking toy...keke...well the tutor, joseph and the workshop leader, prof tony hunt were quite impressed by it...=)...but then too abd it will not be graded...but still form part of our portfolio...=)

tower bridge in tower form


















tower bridge in the midst of transfromation


















tower bridge in bridge form


















our auspicous merlion at the tip of the tower bridge

















the 5 men team behind the tower bridge

happy birthday to teng kwee

Happy Birthday to Teng Kwee!!!
haven't talk to u for a long time...hope u have a great birthday too!

happy birthday to nelson

Nelson,

HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY!!!

tower bridge (cont'd)

did more on the tower bridge model with some mechanism (totally the mechanismes should work in x, y, z axis; but not well resolved yet)...heres some fotos of it

happy birthday to junhan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to JUNHAN @ snorty!!!

junhan sat birthday party

the sneakies attend junhan's birthday party at fullerton hotel. he booked a suite and the room number 777 (nice number for 4d? haha)...had the usual...birthday cake...alcohol and stuff...and can't imagine he invited almost all his frens in his life...from primary school friends all the way to his collegues...and ..was amazed by the number of frens he has and still keep in touch with...thats good..and also the suite was huge...esp the bathroom area...and it has a nice view to marina bay...we hang around until quite late til abt 0230hrs...helped him with some clearing since the birthday boy was quite drunk...haha..=) enjoy the fotos

junhan just cut his cake

sneakies n birthday boy (ben mia)

the view of marina bay from the balcony of the hotel suite

the drinks at the "bar counter"

junhan and his collegues from URA (in the bathtub shot)

sneakies in the shower cubicle (moving ben)

the bamboo screen mirror at the wardrobe area

lonely chair in the bedroom

Enneagram personality type

free enneagram test Basic Fear: Of being worthlessBasic Desire: To feel valuable and worthwhileEnneagram Three with a Two-Wing: "The Charmer"Enneagram Three with a Four-Wing: "The Professional"

Profile Summary for Enneagram Type Three
Healthy: Self-assured, energetic, and competent with high self-esteem: they believe in themselves and their own value. Adaptable, desirable, charming, and gracious. / Ambitious to improve themselves, to be "the best they can be" — often become outstanding, a human ideal, embodying widely admired cultural qualities. Highly effective: others are motivated to be like them in some positive way. At Their Best: Self-accepting, inner-directed, and authentic, everything they seem to be. Modest and charitable, self-deprecatory humor and a fullness of heart emerge. Gentle and benevolent.

Average: Highly concerned with their performance, doing their job well, constantly driving self to achieve goals as if self-worth depends on it. Terrified of failure. Compare self with others in search for status and success. Become careerists, social climbers, invested in exclusivity and being the "best." / Become image-conscious, highly concerned with how they are perceived. Begin to package themselves according to the expectations of others and what they need to do to be successful. Pragmatic and efficient, but also premeditated, losing touch with their own feelings beneath a smooth facade. Problems with intimacy, credibility, and "phoniness" emerge. / Want to impress others with their superiority: constantly promoting themselves, making themselves sound better than they really are. Narcissistic, with grandiose, inflated notions about themselves and their talents. Exhibitionistic and seductive, as if saying "Look at me!" Arrogance and contempt for others is a defense against feeling jealous of others and their success.

Unhealthy: Fearing failure and humiliation, they can be exploitative and opportunistic, covetous of the success of others, and willing to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the illusion of their superiority. / Devious and deceptive so that their mistakes and wrongdoings will not be exposed. Untrustworthy, maliciously betraying or sabotaging people to triumph over them. Delusionally jealous of others / Become vindictive, attempting to ruin others' happiness. Relentless, obsessive about destroying whatever reminds them of their own shortcomings and failures. Psychopathic, murder. Generally corresponds to the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Key Motivations: Want to be affirmed, to distinguish themselves from others, to have attention, to be admired, and to impress others.

Examples: Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Pauley, Michael Landon, Tony Robbins, Tom Cruise, Barbra Streisand, Sharon Stone, Madonna, Shirley MacLaine, Sting, Paul McCartney, Dick Clark, Whitney Houston, Ted Danson, Micheal Jordan, Shania Twain, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarznegger, Billy Dee Williams, Kathy Lee Gifford, Truman Capote, and O.J. Simpson.

january sneakies dinner

had a quite fun nite today...manged to gathered 6 sneakies together to celbrate the jan babies...wykeith, junhan and seiyang...had our dinner at "my secret garden"...at middle road...located behind the gallery space of the sculpture square...the food was quite good...nice cosy ambience...talk alot and walked for awhile just to find a coffe place to sit down drink n chat...landed up at paraidz TCC...the 4th one that we past...which wasn't crowded or closed...haha..fun fun...looking forward to tmrw junhan's birthday party...hehe

1st row left to rite

wykeith @ squeeky , seiyang @ shifty , junhan @ snorty

2nd row left to rite

eemeng @ slinky , ben @ smoky , me @ shitty

tower bridge (cont'd)

did a new version of the tower bridge...more like half way? 1/3?
hmmm...wat ever...it looks more sturdy this time...haha...hope it works...and "construction" will continue on monday

happy birthday to wykeith

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to WYKEITH!!!

notifications

received 2 notifications today...

one is interim crit...and it is going to be on 1 feb which is like 初四...damm sianz...which means i can't really enjoy my CNY...have to rush out my work during CNY??? haiz...wat to do...my tutor...bz man...he will "vanish" off from s'pore for almost the whole feb...well well...

second one is e-saf100...quite crappy...call me back for half a day and guess wat? its for unit photo shoot and innoculation...stupid...bo liaoz...but then can get paid for doing such bo liaoz thingy...still alrite lar...and only take photo...then again have to go back to the ulu sungei gedong camp...haiz...20 mar...

霍元甲 - 周杰伦 mtv

the title song for jet li's movie 霍元甲 by jay

刘耕宏 - 彩虹天堂

the mtv that continues from JAY's 枫 mtv

周杰伦 11月的萧邦 枫 MTV

a very nice song from his 11月的萧邦 album

"pea" brain

recently i was eating some nuts...and realised it quite resemble the brain...esp the symmetry dividing the nut to left n right, the "wrinkled" surface looks like the cerebrum, the "bottom" part is like the end of the brain stem...haha...gross??? opps...
just that find it a close resemblence to the anatomy of the brain

technology workshop

at the beginning of this semester, we have a technology workshop to enhance our uderstanding and application of how technology influence architecture ... (blah blah blah ... as usual ... cos external examiners always complain that our architecture lacks tech.)

for our group we have to look into habitable bridge ... and how technology @ structure, etc ... affects the architecture ... for my gp ... we were inspired by a french fairy tale ...

more like one of our tutor's son's favourite fairy tale of how a man in the midst of building a tower, the tower collapse and became a bridge ... hence we put forth a challenge to design a structure that allows for it to be a tower and also a bridge and can be habitable.

the following are some photos shoots of our sketch model

tower form

bridge form

last weekend

was a fulling weekend this week...spend almost the whole sat with some close frens, ben and yiming...and others, thomas, etc...
squeezed in quite a number of activites...haha...ktv during lunch time...shopped ard...for some presssies...played the card game "yugioh"...and then watched the movie "in her shoes" (nice movie...entertaining...quite touching in a few scenes)...

x-men 3 trailer

anyone who cares to watch x-men 3 trailer can click on the link n download. (only valid for 7 days)

Here is a link for your reference:
http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ONQ57YCK1S3L18Z6L7TVNLBMY

playlist on my HP

although my new HP can act as an mp3 player, it's memory is quite low and the extra memory card it provided is only 32 MB with abt half dedicated for the hp applications. hence i have only managed to squeeze in 7 tracks/songs...with the mimunm bitrate of 96kps to the phone

they are as follow:

1. Claudine - Maksim
2. Solo piano (Rachmaninoff- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini) - Somewhere in Time (soundtrack) - John Barry
3. 日日夜夜 - 张栋梁
4. 枫 - 周杰伦
5. 藏爱 - 范逸臣
6. 爱我还是他 - 陶喆
7. 旅行的意义 - 陈绮贞

dragonboat???

few days ago, my very good friend BEN ask me whether i wanna join in his dragpnboat team as they r now recruiting people...
as i'm a non-swimmer...din have the confident to try it out...but ben says dun have to be a swimmer and anyway he's there to save me if anything happens...
it would be great to engage in a new sport with the company of a very good friend...but then it requires certain amount of committement (dun wanna to disappoint him if i drop out halfway...haha) and also might take up some of my time esp. during competition periods...and now is my final sem n hope to be able to spend more time on my thesis...
hmmm...should i take it up or...should i wait till my thesis is over @ i graduate...
i still got to think it over...

雨悠悠

雨一直下
何时才会停
悠悠的下雨天
让人不竟忧郁了

basic theory test

yeah!!! passed my Basic Theory Test today!!!

bintan trip

was at bintan on the 4th n 5th with my sis (she got a free 1 nite stay voucher)...encountered a rainy 1st day...wanted to do some water sports...haha but not able to cos of the heavy rain in the was mostly stuck in the hotel...used the mini gym (indoors)...managed to soak in the pool during the evening but for a shrt while cos was quite cold after the rain...then spend the nite waching tv...channel u...haha

2nd day was better...although wanted to watch sunrise...but din in the end cos at the 1st place not sure can see or not...haha...the weatehr was beter in the morning...although not that sunny, cloudy but no rain...and then did some kayaking ($15 for a double kayak an hour)...then after that stayed at the beach until ard 12...to enjoy the sun then finally came out and sea...the sand...haha...well well after that got to pack up n check out (spend more time take fotos ard the hotel cos had to wait for bus to ferry terminal)...was a short but nice trip...well then enjoy the fotos...

dark...gloomy sea...

the beach

windy...storm brewing

cloudy weather at nirwanan(1st day)

dining "hut" at nite (nirwana gardens)

sand pattern by nature (hermit crab)

me in the midst of a wavy sea...(actually quite shallow)

wave coming

after the wave

shadow, sand, sea water, sunlight

coconut trees & clear blue sky (2nd day)

roof of the main lobby

nirwana gardens logo

view of the swimming pool towards the south china sea

a watching frog and 3 water-sprouting lizards

a rocky outcrop

row of empty deck chairs & empty b.v. court

beach (nice colour differentiation)

nirwana resort hotel resort (stair well)