postscripting the life of an average singaporean guy
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Pai Gow
*playing Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John
The title is the name of this above pic game that my friends and I were taught during Chinese New Year when we visit our secondary school teacher. It's almost as fun as mahjong as it requires lots of thinking and technique. Oh and you can learn chinese when playing this game cos you need to memorise the tiles in order as above from left to right, the ranking of the tiles goes from left(lowest) to right(highest) I feel like getting myself a set of this and try to influence people to play this. According to my secondary school teacher's hubby, this game if play by $0.10 can in one round make you lose $1024. I think we can do away with a certain rule in order to not sell house sell wife sell car when we play this game. Lol.
avec le prochain jh out!~
p.s : I love you. I so want to watch this movie but nobody watch with me. Heard its quite good. Saw the trailer too and I think its worth watching just by seeing the trailer. Do jio me though if you all are planning to catch this show.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The Leap Day
*playing Nine In The Afternoon by Panic At The Disco
There is a tradition this month on a leap year whereby a woman can propose to a man... either on the medieval leap day on Feb 24th or the non-medieval leap day on Feb 29th. The man rightfully must accept... source
Awesomeness right. Haha. Although I highly doubt I need to stay home that day but I guess we shall see how ah.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Citi Asia Pacific Summit
*playing The Pretender by Foo Fighters
Long awaited pictures from my gig event job at the Ritz Carlton Millenia. My role was as the presentation track assistant which was essentially to ensure notes are giving out during the presentation on time. Hinting to the speakers that their time are running out as the next speaker is waiting as well as holding the mikes and spotting questions from the participants during the Q&A sessions.
At first I thought I could sit through and try to understand the terminologies the investors were using and maybe learn something from it. But the terminologies proved too difficult and the early morning Zzz monster kept casting the Zzz... spell on me. On the third day, I succumb to the Zzz monster and fell asleep on the chair i was sitting and almost fell off the chair... Imagine how embarassing it is if I really had fall...
Yes I'm in charge of holding one of these mikes...
In the ballroom
Our view seated of course.
The people packing in...
Listening intensely from the head of investments from Citi Group
Our very Minister Lim Hng Kiang who is the guest of honor for this year's Citi Asia Pacific Summit
Minister Lim says he thinks accountants are the smartest people in the world after the previous speaker Robert Morse CEO, Asia Pacific, Citi Markets and Banking mentioned that his wife an engineer are the smartest. Needless to say minister lim's wife is an accountant...
Who wants to be a millionaire? Audience please vote...
Ready for the next onslaught of fixed income investors.
The ballroom empty.
Voila!~
The breakfast that was served to all
Yes I get to eat this mini Quiche pronouced "keesh" too!
6 Star hotel delicacies wor...
I think my pictures make them look good.
Although it is kinda tiring having to eat this breakfast almost everyday of the 3 day summit.
We have no choice....
The gala dinner helmed by guest speaker Professor Fan Gang from China.
The audience having have to listen to Professor Fan Gang's presentation before being serve proper food.
Meanwhile back stage, we were served our dinner before helping out at the gala dinner.
It's essentially the same food being serve at the gala dinner except theirs was a 8 course meal while ours was just 2 course
Obviously this is the 2nd course I was talking about.
It's damn nice lah I tell you the chocolate.
Some pictures of the other "courses" served to the participants
With wine accompanying...
And belly dancing ladies.
That pretty much sums up my event job aka Good times good money part 2!
avec le prochain jh out!~
p.s : I hope I can work the next good times good money in November 08!~
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Monday, February 11, 2008
鼠年行大运
*playing Stop & Stare by OneRepublic
My First proper post since coming back from China. I can only say that I have been busy with Chinese New Year, Event jobs as well as interviews. So the long weekend of chinese new year is gone. And almost everybody is going to be working tomorrow except me (#read: I'm still holding on for a good offer)
Anyway, here's some pictures of a french restaurant FRE(N)SH I visited hidden in a corner at vivocity. Obviously they serve authentic french food which is not so bad.
The Smoke Salmon Tartine.
Tiramisu
The Creme Brulee
The restaurant is very small which probably sit less than 20 people indoors and about 10 more outdoors. Besides Tartine and the usual desserts, they also serve Quiche pronouced Keesh which is a round pie like thingy. I highly recommend you to come for a quick french fix or desserts. http://www.stomp.com.sg/stfoodiesclub/taste/117/index.html
avec le prochain jh out!~
p.s: Ah Long Pte Ltd gets 1 .5 out of 5 Parangs for not cutting away the temasek holdings dialogue as well as not funny. p.p.s : CJ7 gets 3.1 out of 5 Chang Jiang for a very funny time yet very extremely weak ending.
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Gong Hei Fatt Choy
*playing All We Are by OneRepublic
Wish all year year got fish!
avec le prochain jh out!~
p.s : Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is not bad worth worth as he gets 3.2 out of 5 Mrs Lovett's meat pies. p.p.s : Ah Long Ltd gets 2.5 out of 5 Parangs for a deja vu plot and not very funny jokes.
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Not boring not exciting, not lazy not hardworking, not handsome not ugly, not short not thin, not a bad guy not quite mommy's boy either. Regular Singaporean guy who like most guys probably get several different colours of the same shirt, t-shirt, berms, jeans once they fall in love with a particular design. Been through the era of cassette tapes of walkmans to discmans(remember the anti-shock technology) as well as MiniDisc(coming out at a bad time) which obviously lost to the emergence of mp3s and the CD to LD which saw LD losing out to VCDs. Next came the DVDs which 0wned the vcds and try to act smart by having 2 groups, HD DVD and Blu Ray. 2 words BLU.RAY. Loves to reminisce the old days when A&W rootbear float was still around and KFC was still a restaurant complete with waiters serving you Kentucky Fried Chicken. The days where bus fares were 10 cents for students and pizza hut's lunch buffets. Moves/dances to the jumpy music of Ipod Ads and likes to laugh at the Hello I'm a Mac, Hello I'm a PC advertisements!
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