daddy

ever wonder what ur dad does for a living?

well all these while i noe my dad's job title:

senior horticulturist

like, wth does that mean?

curious, i asked him what does he do specifically in his job. got to know tt he looks aft trees ard pasir ris. take care of the flora and fauna, the visual aesthetic.

anw yesterday..he was featured in the chinese news! my gosh, our whole family had such a gd laugh coz daddy looked kinda nervous and he was commenting in chinese (omg..) why they had no choice but to cut down some of the trees as it was imposing certain risk to the residents. felt his chinese super CMI can..but not as if mine is v gd. hehe

smtg like when the strong wind blows the trees risk falling on some unsuspeting resident who walked under the tree. and den the residents were unhappy abt the move coz they loved how the trees were aesthetic value to their neighbourhood.

we were all laughing out really loud during the news segment, and at the end of it, daddy exclaimed, 'so lame!'

tts my daddy for u..haha

anw tts not the end of it. the story continues..

i received an sms frm zw, asking me wad my dad's chinese name was. apparently she also watched the news. i told her it was indeed my dad.

she quite smart leh, coz she taut it was my dad when they mentioned smtg abt trees, pasir ris, and his name?

郑国庆

lolx..yes my dad's chinese name is national day! ;]

the playground

conversation btn zw, hb n i as we walked past by the free weights gym today:

zw: dun u all miss this place?

hb n i: hmm..no..not really. *shudders at the thought of eddy's revolting gym*

zw: why not? this is like the fish tank, or shd i say, our playground! Cindy do u rmb the incident where manda n i made all of us do 80 push ups?

me: i vaguely rmb the incident but i hardly recall how many push ups we did lah

zw: R u sure u dun rmb? i rmb v clearly u n rang's face super black, den sommore i had to b same grp as u during the gym session, so scary can!?

filled with plenty of curiosity, 1st thing i d did when i reached home was to flip thru my diary to recall back the incident. Here's wad i wrote(my gosh..):

Tuesday 17/10/06
damn 不爽 during trg today lah. During warm up, even b4 we started, xx made us do 40 push ups for 'playing' in the new gym. it's like..wtf! i mean, the 'playing' was coz she felt we were not being serious by using the balancer thing. She directed to us- the snrs- for playing at the gym and not setting gd example. My mood during trg juz changed lah. I juz felt v 不服气 tt they didnt give us warning. I mean, yes we aren't supposed to play in the gym, but we were juz trying out the balancer. besides, everything also gotta give warning first, then aft tt it gives the green light to punish subsequently if we make the same mistake. rang n i were equally pissed! All our faces super black during trg.

anw did free weights @ the new gym. we did shoulder press, bicep curl, bench press, squats, cling and jerk, front delts, bendover roll, medicine ball. partnered sharon, zw and joyce. adeline spoke during debrief n said we shdnt be punished, as in shd give warning first. I wanted to say smtg along tt line but held back coz i didnt wanna undermine their authority. wad i felt was commendable was tt eventually we snrs still stood behind them, in tt though we had e opportunity to voice out our grievances, we chose not to.

Zee..its 40..not 80 leh. anw zee said actually their initial plan was to make us do 80, but in the end it was reduced to 40.

I cant imagine wad my reaction wld be if at tt time, they made us do 80. probably the same, but aft trg mayb got confrontation. hahahahah ;p

时光一失永不回，往事只能回味。。

fin

i think zee amazes me..

if wad i say has the -_-^ effect, den hers is -_-^^

was teling her, "hey u noe, luckily phin's 1st name is not dol.."

almost immediately, she did the *paddle shake* 冷掉 look -_-^

and den she said, " yah heng her 1st name is also not shark's.."

zw u best!

-_-^^

run den swim, or swim den run

its one of those lame, no brainer blog entries (well well, tts wad happens when i'm bored)

personal conclusion: i perform better, ie breathe better, feel better, clock better time, etc when i swim den run.

was somewhat competing with tiz guy whilst running. he was running lane 1 while i ran lane 2. normally i dun quite bother bout others when running. but i gotta say, he started it! i ran, den he'd overtake me at the bends. and it carried on for 4 rds..

heh by the 5th lap i increased speed (damn it juz felt so freaking gd to run aft swimming)and soon enuf, he was no longer in sight. *pats back*

timing as follows:

1st rd:2.28
2nd rd:2.24
3rd rd:2.17
4th rd:2.16
5th rd:2.15
6th rd:2.05

total time: 13.47

conclusion: faster yes, but greater inconsistency during the rds. Muz be all tt endorphins aft swimming released at weird intervals

今天情人节

actually it was ytd tt was valentine's day. damn shiok coz got 2 consecutive off days! woohoo if there's 1 perk abt tiz job, it's tt i get off days on weekdays.

虽然今天是情人节，但似乎变成 ahmad.

-_-^ i'm serious..my extremely spoilt brother needed me to fetch him to sch in the morning. Just coz i got the car for today, it came along with terms and condition.

task 1: drive out to have breakfast with mum
task 2: fetch bro to sch
task 3: ok it wasn't exactly a task since i wanted to go gym to workout. hence i drove myself to JWSC to have my fair share of work out which left me aching like crazy. i merely juz did endurance gym, 3 sets of 20 with 2.5kg dumbbells. my inner thighs ached frm all tt farmers walk. wad to do, tts the price to pay in order to have firm (or shd i say, prevent more flabbiness) body. although i still feel v unfit.

wanted to have lunch with weili, aka my financial advisor, hahah but she was almost ready to head off to work. she asked if i cld drive her to boon lay mrt stn. but it wasnt in my principle to do things halfway. halfway, no way. No way, all the way. made her scream coz of my reckless driving. opps.

hence we had our excursion drive to ocbc chulia st, where she works on the 40th floor. tts task no. 4

and seriously..i felt upset when my dear friend stuffed me $10. i'm not a taxi driver..rah! i didnt do it for the money la.

aft i drove home and finished parking the car, i received a phonecall frm mum, asking if i cld do a favour n drive my grandma and her relatives home (ie queenstown stn). of course i had to agree rite? tt's task no. 5

we had a singles gathering cum mini celebration at night, where bc wy wt raine angela stml n i went. kinda old school feeling as we ate at the zi char pl and juz really talked alot of trash. like the latest gossip on edison chen (who's not talking abt it man..) and of course, what's dinner or any meal, without wenya's talkshow. lol ;p

tiz time rd, the topic was not on food, but on kids and maternal instincts, early childhood and salary for those pre sch teachers. thank you ms wenya for sharing with us hehe

oh i almost forgot abt task no. 6! well initially i received a call and i asked if those 4 at campus needed a ride. they said no nd, so being me (i take it as they say and didnt do otherwise), i didnt make a trip to campus. however i ltr received a call at 740+ informing me tt the 4 (raine, angela stml and wt) were still stranded at the YIH bus stop, hence i decided to go pick them up with wy. but also had to activate bc to help pick them up coz our family car (Kia Rio 1.4litre) cant probably load up a total of 6 pple.

when wy n i reached, natually the 'batch instinct' struck (i dunno y but raine and wt immediately hopped on), leaving stml and angela to sit bc's car who arrived ltr. poor thing sia

so evil..those in e toyota vios car laughed at me coz apparently they reached ltr but parked faster. (eh walau some pple got how many yrs experience.. while i got how many mths?)

apparently the competitive streak doesnt juz end in the boat u c. it still lingers on and we engage in competition such as 'see who park the car first' hahahahah bleh.

we sang frm 9pm till 1am. well nobody can explain why majority of songs juz have a sad streak to it. concluded the few songs tt r happy, or neutral, or juz lame.. are like:

a) She Bangs (William Hung) hahahah juz for the heck of it
b) 恋爱-ing by MayDay
c)明明很爱你 by 梁静如
d)野蛮游戏 （老虎老鼠傻傻分不清楚。。）by Jolin Tsai
e)三七二十一by 曹格
f)明天你要嫁给我 by DT and Jolin

tts 6 out of the 8562105 songs we sang. lol ;p

oh ya how cld i forget tt silly song by 陈雷--欢喜就好, but anw tt makes 7.

btw rang if u r reading tiz..u r greatly missed. miss ur presence in ktv..n the hogging of mike. wads yanzi songs w/o u man. tc while sailing to pursue ur dreams n jiayou k.

task no. 7 (thankfully the last set for today)was actually supposed to b sending a few hostelites back to campus n den send angela back but to cut the story short..some things juz dun change with time. (think along the line of the teasing..) n so everyone else hopped onto the toyota vios, leaving the 2 of us behind.

-_-^

i have to reiterate tt i'm a terrible taxi driver. i dun have the GPS system installed in my head n to be honest, i only know the driving directions of places i need to get to. tts equivalent to home (definitely), wala wala, holy cross church, st mary of the angels church, boon lay mkt, nus, pandan reservoir, grandma's pl, pioneer pri sch( have to fetch my bro, tts y) eh..tts abt all.

and so of course i didnt know how to get to woodlands dr 16. all i knew is vaguely, take PIE..to upper bukit timah den it somehow will connect to woodlands somehow.

stopped at some bus stop to let the navigator figure the map directions. aft confirming which way to go and exit, zoom.

took abt 15 min to reach. den it was my turn to figure how to get home. took sle-bke-pie. realised only the next day frm our very experienced soon-to-be taxi driver ms chua, tt i shd have taken sle-kje-pie. tt'll shave quite abit of time.

当了一整天的 ahmad..其实也挺开心的。 心中有一种说不出得满足感。its like customer service..giving the 'wow, hey thanx' kinda appreciation frm customers. though tiz time rd, its much more relaxing n its service from the heart.

the thing abt capsizing..

had a pretty exciting ride on mon. where i drove wt frm campus to orchard rd, mt E. our dear friend was hospitalised but thankfully it turned didnt turn out serious.

aft tt it was a road trip frm mt E to pandan reservoir for sculling. it was such an embarassing day.

for 1..i capsized at the pontoon. well as u noe, i've got a short upper body. short reach that is. while reaching to lock the screw gate, i capsized. at the pontoon.

rite like seriously huh? was 'rescued' by wt. who pulled me up. whilst in the water, the 1st few moments, i felt so helpless. its like momentarily, i forgot how to swim. subsequently, i somehow recalled how to swim.

we rowed out quite far, past the 500m race course. it was pretty windy and the water condition were not the usual. as we were abt to turn abt and head back, wt capsized. just like tt, in the open water. not the least nearest to any land. she was capsized in the middle of nowhere. aft like 5 min trying to get back up, she realised it was a futile attempt. we were taught what to do for capsize drill, but tt was near the pontoon and we merely towed our boat and climbed back up to safety.

decided to row back to get help frm razemin. knew the one way to help wld b for him to come with the safety boat. with all the adrenlanin, somehow i juz up all the way back. yah n the scary thing abt capsizing, is tt u start to wonder. 'what if..'

and so i rowed faster. with the thought tt remained affirmed in my head. 'i cannot capsize!'

so everything was back to normal, she rowed back aft being rescued by razemin. aft tt we carried the boats back and headed for home.

reunion dinner

hmm tiz is pretty much a delayed entry. last sun, i had to overcome loads of inertia to bring myself to go for the db reunion dinner. didnt wanna go coz its like, so far! kembangan.

thanx to lj who sms-ed me in the morning to affirm if i was gg. ans also zw..her miracle 1 word when we were chatting on msn. she sid, 'huh..go lah.'

tradition

n becoz of tt 1 word..i went down. willingly.

well i gotta say its no wasted trip. our batch is super lok kok..we juz dun bother dressing up when we go out. considering the fact tt we working adults dress up the entire wk when we go work, its no doubt we choose to dress down on non work days.

at least i choose to dress down. hahah btw i think we seriously dun look like the oldest batch present. bet everyone will have a unanimous answer to which batch looked n felt the oldest. hahah

WE ARE YOUNG　人生就像座山
夢想HIGH HIGH HIGH直到　遇見了未來

hahaha wad a terrible song. but its stuck in my head. rah.

food served included cereal prawns, lemon chicken, tom yam soup, veg, fried rice, and..chilli crab. it did feel kinda surreal when it got to the photo taking part and coming to realise we ewere the oldest batch present. tts coz the previous batches b4 us didt come. oh it was pretty much an invaluable once-a-yr-get-together to talk crap, hang out..tease one another. was crapping with zw, sharon n wenya, and we cracked lame jokes ard our table.

neh mind ;]

guess tts wad i call life.