Tuesday, March 10, 2009

I would like to extend my thanks to all that turned up that day! I do feel a little embarrassed that I actually staged such a big birthday bash for myself at this age. But frankly, this party wasn't exactly planned for. It was just supposed to be a mini BBQ by East Coast Park before it escalated to what it is when I decided that getting a chalet would be a better idea. Amazingly and by God's will, I managed to get one chalet at Costa Sands Sentosa just 1 day before the event!

For those that ate and didn't realize, I actually made use of the opportunity to experiment some new creations and some Japanese Kushiyaki during the BBQ. I hope you guys loved the food and didn't get a diarrhea! I guess it won't be long before I can finally open my dream small little cafe and sell these creations to you lol! My apologies to those that I didn't invite because it was kind of a last minute thing, I promise to make it up to you another time one way or another!

There were some that was of great help to me during the event and here are the special mentions!

1) Thanks to Puss for starting off the organization of the event and creating the event and invites on Facebook. Thank you also for helping out with the preparation of the BBQ and for the hard work in front of the BBQ pit. Oh and don't FBB all the time!

2) Special mentions also to Valencia for helping out with the preparation of the BBQ and accompanying me with the buying of the food. Although you did nagged a lot and made a lot of comments throughout the trip, you were of great help!

3) Special thanks to Sis, Kok Pin and family for lending me your kitchen and fridge, marinating my chicken fillets bringing the stuff over to the chalet for me!

4) Thanks to Weijian and Henry for concentrating on your soccer at St James Tiger Live, leaving the really tired and high me outside alone sleeping by the curb lol.

5) Thanks to my Marist brothers for forcing me to go for that night swim. At least you all were considerate enough to ensure I had nothing in my pockets before I went down. I would be so damn super pissed and sad if my new phone went in with me lol. Oh and Henry you owe me a button.

6) Thanks to Ah Kor for pointing out to me all the necessary items that I missed out in preparation for the BBQ and buying the prawns!

7) Thanks to Meiwen and Linus for getting me all those stuff at the very last minute! Really sorry for the trouble, making you guys run here and there. I should have troubled Sham instead! lol

8) Thanks also to Alvin, Sagah, William and Poh Fong for bring over the Mahjong set plus table and keeping me entertained on Friday night!

10) Oh and thanks Jack for starting the BBQ fire and being constantly in front of the BBQ pits cooking for everyone else to eat.

11) Last but not least, thank you to Nick Senior for making the effort to come down all the way even though he had a field day at work. Really appreciate that.

I realized that this note is getting a little too long for any comfort reading. Thank you all again for celebrating my birthday with me, all your presents and all that you've done! I'm turning 26!!!!

Love,
Nick
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

I have not been blogging ever since the start of this new year. Anyway, the start of this new year of 2009 has not gone too well for me so far though. I've been losing every session of mahjong, still having no luck with girls, and has started work in a more hectic and exhausting unit.

In the past, whatever new inspirations of a new write up usually ends up on my blog. But this time, I somehow felt that I'll have more readers putting it up on facebook instead, of which I did of course. But I've decided to transfer the whole write up here anyway, and it shall be my first post of the year. I hope that you like it!!!

Thought about this while walking down Orchard Road yesterday.

Ladies

1) You have very short hair

You're likely to be daring, rebellious...and probably fierce too.



2) You have straight shoulder length hair

You're likely to possess some ladylike elegance, and yet have a little hint of adventurous spirit in you. You can be rather high maintenance for a girlfriend. You like to eat, travel, dress and carry anything expensive. My kind of girl! I don't mind the high maintenance part because when there's no demand..there's no motivation!





3)You have long straight hair

You're likely to be very feminine. You don't mind the hassle of maintaining long hair because looking pretty is important to you. You require, enjoy and demand the occasional manicure, pedicure, facials and eyebrow plucking. You probably rebonded your hair before. You will look attractive tying your hair into a ponytail.



4) You have long curls

You're likely to have characteristics similar to those with long straight hair. But you should be more mature. You want to be pampered and aspire to be a tai-tai.



5) You're botak!

You're an actress. And you shaved your head to try for a breakout role in a movie or a drama. If you're not a celebrity, you could have been traumatized in life so badly recently that you decided to do something drastic to try and forget everything or make people sit up and notice/sympathize you.



Guys


1) You have a crew cut!

You're a new recruit in the army. Either that or you've just been released from the prison. If you're neither of those, you should be a bad boy..a very rebellious one.



2) You have short spiky hair

You like and want to look young. You care about how you dress but not to the extent of being metrosexual. You probably haven changed your hairstyle in years because its convenient and extremely easy to maintain. You look like a mop when your hair is not gelled. Which explains why there's probably always a tube of gel or wax in your bag.



3) You have Center / side parting!

Your fashion sense is still stuck in the 90s. You're probably wearing cross colors jeans with a Domanchi top. There is a JPG long wallet in your back pocket and you carry a small Outdoor haversack. You don't mind and might even enjoy flicking up your fringe every 3 seconds it drops and irritate your eyes.



4) You have long straight flowing hair

You're a rocker. You're a hippy. Neither? You could have injured your wrist and back permanently.





4) You're botak!!!

Its generally less of a hoohah when guys shave their heads. But people around you would still sit up and take notice if you came to work/school one day with a shaved head when you had a head full of hair only the day before. You could also be someone who realized that your hair is dropping and your hairline is receding. You shaved it all off so that no one would ever know.



5) You have unkempt messy hair

You can't be bothered about how you look anymore. Your long hair might also be used to cover parts of your face..because you're probably quite ugly.


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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Took part in 2 marathons over the week. The first was a movie marathon on Friday, Madagascar marathon to be exact. It was kind of a mistake because channel 5 showed Madagascar 1 just a week earlier! But it was nice watching both one after the other because both movies were closely connected. You might not get some parts of Madagascar 2 if you didn't watch Madagascar 1. It was a great movie, funny and cute..one of my all time favourite animation film.





After the movie marathon, I had yet another crazy night of clubbing. This time to celebrate my OC's birthday. I've no idea how much I drank that day but I was super high. I even puked in Phuture, something I've never done b4. It was embarrassing alright. In the end, Horsey, Chermaine and Heloise had to insist on sending me home...the first time someone had to send me home after a drinking session lol.

The second Marathon came in the form of the Swissotel vertical marathon! It was my second time taking part in it and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. I found it less tiring than 2006 this year, probably because I was already mentally prepared. It was more of a torture in 2006 because I was rather taken aback by the physical torture of climbing those steps, I ended up mumbling to myself half the time and complaining to every participants that overtook me lol.


The challenge


The queue to get up


Still managing a smile on the way up


Our faces at the top


We managed to recover quite quickly though haha


Posing with our medals


The winners this year. This guy clocked 6mins 52secs! My timing of 14mins 17secs is more than double of his lor!


We had lunch at Shokudo in Raffles City..it sucked totally






Our certs!

Found a new Japanese buffet restaurant in Riverview Hotel call Irodori Restaurant upon recommendation by Pek and went to try it last week with Mum, Sis and Annabel. I thought it was great, the sashimi was thick and fresh. Everything else was pretty decent too. I had a hell of a meal, too much in fact lol. Its around $33++ per head, definitely worth it if you're keen for some japanese food..sashimi in particular!


We had to settle for counter seats


Mum and I


Heavenly sashimi!


The grilled prawns were great


The Tonkatsu was great too


And so were the prawn tempuras


Their complimentary soup


Their beef wrapped golden mushroom


Agedashi Tofu


The yakiniku beef


Grilled Salmon steak


Salmon Mayo Roll



The address..if you can see it


Give it a try man
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Sunday, November 09, 2008

The past 2 weeks have been eventful to say the least.

Starting from 2 weeks ago, Puss organised a sushi making session over at his place on the eve of Deepavali. I finally got the chance to use my special "$2000" sashimi knife after buying it eons ago. The sushi turned out to be quite alright, and we managed get creative and have some fun as well lol.


Valencia, Henry and Puss at work in the kitchen


My trusty new $2000 sashimi knife and the cookbook sis got me for my birthday


Me and my nicely pressed hand pressed salmon sushi lol


The ingredients


The products


Posing with our creations

Went for my 2nd salsa class last last week, my first lesson was 2 years ago with Mabelline haha. This time I went with Horsey and Heloise. I proved to myself again how much I suck at it and precisely why I took 2 years before returning for my 2nd class. I might have little choice this time because my sister has requested that I dance with Yanqing on her wedding night. I don't exactly want to disappoint her and moreover Yanqing told me that all I need to do is stand there acting as a pole for her to wiggle around me...I might just do it!

Took Friday off and went to play tennis with Sis, Mazi, and Weijian. We didn't last long under the hot afternoon sun. After tennis, sis and I went for lunch in Seletar Country Club. It was a wonderful experience, and it helped a lot that it was cloudy and windy that day...adding to the nice feeling.


Check out my deadly serve!




The nice environment




The food was only average in my opinion though




Sis and her mee siam

It was Jon's wedding dinner on 1st Nov last Saturday. He held it at Harbourfront's Dragon Gate restaurant. It was a simple wedding dinner, with nothing crazy, no special speech, no games whatsoever. But it was nice nevertheless and I would like to congratulate them!


Khengsiang and I at the wedding dinner


Khengsiang, Jit Hwee and Chin Seng


The bunch of us again


Pek, myself and Zilun


Myself, Nelson, Xiaoqing, Benny and Alvin

After the wedding dinner, we conveniently arranged to go party at St James Power Station. It wasn't as crazy a night as Double O and thats because we didn't have much to drink. But it was still fun swaying your butt around on the dancefloor, and for that moment forgetting all the work, politics and crap left in camp.

Some pics of the crazy night







Caught Burn after Reading over the week as well. It didn't turn out as nice as I expect and hearsay it to be. In fact it was quite boring. The storyline is nonsensical but the acting is pretty decent.

Went to the zoo with Valencia and Puss last Sunday as well thanks to Valencia's complimentary free tickets. The zoo is still as boring as it was years ago. Nothing exciting nothing worth looking at!


Collecting out free tickets


Kungfu tortoise


At the animal show


Puss and I with the granny that stays in the zoo

This seems to be neverending but I want to blog it all! I recently found another activity to add to my list of activities and sports I suck at. After wakeboarding, cable skiing, drinking and dancing comes prawning! On Saturday, we met up for Henry's belated birthday get-together and Henry suggested that we went prawning. It seems to be the in-activity nowadays and so I wanted to try it too. We ended up in a farm in Pasir Ris and they charged us $24 each for 2.5 hours of prawning. Meiwen and Linus caught a decent number of prawns whereas the newbies Samantha, Henry and myself caught 1, 2, 0 prawns respectively!!!


Henry and the catch..


Our 1kg catch for $120 ($24 x 5) lol


We brought our catch to a coffeeshop in Tampines and it was promptly converted into this plate of nice looking cereal prawns


The rest of the dishes that night courtesy of our dear birthday boy Henry
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

The examination and the damn exercise is finally over! I can finally take a breather now. I managed to write quite a lot for my exam, 9 pages to be exact, but I'm not very sure how many pages of those that I wrote made sense lol. I just hope that the professor will recognize my "hardworkingness" and "effort made" and award me some good points lol.

I caught 2 movies over the 2 weeks! I first caught Painted Skin and what a horrible show it turned out to be. The storyline was kinda crappy and the acting was bad. Seeing Qi Yiwu there didn't make things better. Fortunately the tickets were complimentary of Weijian and I didn't have to pay a single cent for it.



Caught Tropic Thunder yesterday after dinner and watching soccer at Chijmes. Although it turned out to be another movie with a crappy storyline, there were scenes where I really laughed really really hard. A good movie to destress after many weeks of despondency!


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Sunday, October 12, 2008

School restarted not too long ago, but this time with a different batch of classmates. Guess what 2 of my new classmates asked me the first time they spoke to me? "Are you Singaporean?" I apparently don't look and sound Singaporean to them. I look and sound either Indonesian or Malaysian to them. In which freaking way?! Anyway its not the first time I actually got such comments. I answered the same question during my first few days in Temasek Polytechnic 7 years ago too lol.

I've been clubbing the past 2 weekends, something really rare coz I haven done that for a damn long time already. It was powerhouse at St James last weekend, a nice get together with my good friends in church namely Eunice, Reloo and Fabien. Jackie, Horsey and gang was there too and it turned out to be a crazy fun night. My drinking abilities let me down yet again though. I got dizzy and flushed after only awhile and ended up having to sit down most of the night instead of dancing.


Gang CTK


Gang CTK 2


Sis and I


Reloo and I


Reloo and Eunice


Reloo, Fab and I


The newly married Ryan and Eunice


Horsey, Jackie and I


Heloise and I


Chermaine and Horsey thought I wasn't, but I swear I was still sober

Round 2 happened on Friday night. This time to celebrate Sagah's 22th birthday at Double O. All of them went crazy that night, grabbing each other by the neck and forcing black label down each other's throats. Fortunately, I was smart enough to avoid the mayhem by hiding somewhere. So I managed to remain rather sober the whole night. But I did get flushed and dizzy yet again lah haha. Oh apparently, my friend saw Jeanette Aw there that night as well...I'm kinda sad I didn't bump into her lah hahaha.


Someone spilled liquor on my shirt!


One of the victims that night being mobbed


The birthday boy and his gf


He was spouting nonsense


So he got mobbed again

Celebrated Puss's birthday during the week as well. He has finally jumped onto the quarter of a century ship together with the rest of us. His celebration wasn't all exactly grand, just something kinda impromptu. We ended up having dinner at Balestier's Boon Tong Kee and some btk before heading down to Dempsey's Ben & Jerrys.


The gang of us gathered for his entry


With his mango birthday cake

Met up with Puss, Valencia and gang yesterday for dinner at this steamboat place call 2nd Mini Steamboat Delight in Novena. Its not a buffet style steamboat place, but we ended up having to pay $30 per person! We had like only beef, chicken, fish balls, crab sticks etc etc and we had to pay so much for it. Its one of the most bo hua meal that I've ever eaten. I've no idea how they still manage to draw the crowd after all these while. Its definitely gonna be my first and last time there!

After dinner, we went to the photo exhibition in Old School up Mount Sophia. Its a really nice place and there's a Timbre 3 there!

My other days have been boring. Much of it spent in camp of course, and also some studying here and there. I usually end off with a review of the movies that I've watched, but I didn't catch any the past 2 weeks. I wanna watch one!

I'm off to turtle mountain from today onwards in view of the coming examination and some damn exercise. I can look forward to the Deepavali long weekend though..I can't wait!
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Its F1 weekend this week! If you don't already know about it by now, which rock were you living under all these while? I wasn't very keen to go catch it initially because of the high price to tickets, but thank God Sis asked and bought me a $38 walk-about ticket!








We got tickets to the practice race on Friday. The excitement didn't come to me till very much later. On my way there on the train, I couldn't help but feel everyone around was going to catch F1 just like me. When I finally got to the circuit itself, the excitement level was to its maximum. The sound of the F1 cars might be noise pollution to some but it was music to my ears. I could feel the adrenaline rush everytime the F1 engine roared and zoomed past me. I didn't find the need to get ear plugs or cover my ears at first, but the super loud engine sound eventually got unbearable and I had to take out my music ear pieces to cover my ears lol.


On our way to the grand prix!


Singapore can look so beautiful sometimes


Agreed?


Terence on the spectator stands


Kok Bin and Sis


Mum


Myself


Kok Bin and Terence in front one of the Grand Stand


We walked from Raffles Place past Esplanade, past Marina onto the Padang. Mum and I posing for a picture halfway through the journey. Lol.


We then wandered onto the World War 2 Memorial and found a beautiful background for a photo


Sis and Terence's turn


A picture while resting and waiting for part 2 of the practice race to start


We then decided to have dessert at the roadside hawker and guess how much this Ice Kacang cost? $5!


This ice lychee cost $4! We were chopped like tourists.


At our final pitstop in front of the Supreme Court before heading home

I met up with Puss and Valencia for dinner on Saturday evening at Sunset Grill and Pub. Yep its my third time there only this time with a different group of people, but this time, they didn't like it lol.


We shared a bbq chicken and ribs set


Plus fish and chips

And half a dozen of chicken wings and half a dozen of level 1 buffalo wings that I didn't take a picture of lol

After dinner, we met up with Sham and Elizabeth down at Robertson Walk where they had some desserts while I watch a little bit of my Manchester United match (very little indeed). We were having tea and cakes at Laurent Chocolate Bar (the former Chocolate Factory) just beside Harry's when Henry messaged and told us that he has a room up on the 20th storey at Mandarin Oriental Hotel and that it has a great view of the F1 circuit. We decided to rush down but by the time we got there, the race was over. We did however spend some time having fun in the hotel room before heading home.


A picture of the beautiful view with my lousy camera phone


And another


The 5 of us in the room on the bed


There was a horde of Lamborghinis in front of the hotel


What did we do? Post for a picture with them of course!


Oh we found a smart car in the car park of Raffles City too


Look how small the car looks with Puss beside it

We're going back there tomorrow to catch the actual race! Not before enjoying the food and facilities of the hotel of course! Its gonna be an exciting Sunday, something to look forward to at last!
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Went out for dinner with Mum and Sis yesterday. This time, Sis chose a restaurant in Sembawang Park call Beaulieu House Restaurant. The park was ulu by any means but I was surprised to find lots of people around the area, many of them families and groups of friends, all gathered there for camping, picnic, bbq, lantern carrying etc. The restaurant served both Western and Oriental cuisine. But the place is apparently not renowned for the food, but rather the ambience and atmosphere.


The Sea view


We ordered a $68 set to share btw the 3 of us. The set included 2 glasses of red wine


Sis drank the other glass


Mum had coconut


Veg appetiser



Some really lousy bbq kebabs


And some seafood combo plate


The last of the set, 2 small bowls of ice-cream. Yup very very not value for money indeed


A very nice and different atmosphere though


The 3 of us

There was supposed to be a lower secondary school class gathering yesterday. We were told to turn up at Timbre sub-station at 7.30pm but when I got there at around 9pm (yeah I was late), there was no one there in sight. I was then told to go down to Little India, but it was packed and there was a jam all the way. Feeling a little bit saboed, pang sehed and impatient, I then decided to meet up with Weijian to return him his bicycle. After that, we went out. Still thinking of enjoying some live band, we decided to go back to Timbre sub-station, only to find that the queue has lengthen quite a bit. We then wanted to go to the other Timbre at Art House but couldn't find a road in because of all the road blocks in view of the impending F1 race.

Disappointed, we then decided to head down to Robertson Walk to watch some soccer. We ended up watching a boring 0-0 draw between Liverpool and Stoke City. After the match, we chilled out at the nearby TCC before deciding the Saturday should come to an end.

Met up with Puss today and went down to Sentosa. There wasn't much sun for the tan that we wanted to get. After that, we met up with Weijian and gf and Vivo City for a movie. We watched Mama Mia! It turned out to be really good, the movie was totally about enjoying songs from the old famous Swedish band Abba. It did help that the Max theater that we watched the movie in had a really huge screen and a really good sound system. I enjoyed the movie thoroughly and am currently a big fan of Abba music lol.


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Met up with Josh, Jackie, Horse and Puss last Sunday. It was a mini gathering out of the blue. Was initially out with Puss and Horse walking around in Orchard when Jack called saying Josh asked if we wanted to meet for dinner. And so we did meet up and had dinner at a small Japanese restaurant near Cuppage Centre. There are so many Japanese restaurants in the area that you will be spoilt for choice on which one to go to when you're there. In the end, we chose one Puss was familiar with.

The place was authentic looking and served pretty authentic Jap cuisines as well. But other than that, I don't think that its a place to create a hoohah about. We did however had a hell of a catch up, with much of the focus being on how we are going to celebrate Joshua's bachelors night before his impending wedding this December.


Some dried fish that we ordered


Some fish fins


My chirashi don


Some kinda fish horsey ordered haha


Horsey ordered lots of things
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Monday, September 15, 2008

I've been seeing funny pictures of my friends around on the Internet, on blogs, on MSN and on facebook. Which is why I decided to visit the site myself and play around with it. The results turned out to be pretty hilarious! Take a look!


Afro Nick! I know this looks damn gay but its the funniest of the lot! My personal favourite haha


What I'll look like if I had studied harder


What I'll look like if I were to join politics


When I become a Dad


My high school hunky days


Fresh out of graduate school


If I were to have too much to eat


With Tip Top curry puff on my head


And then Old Chang Kee


If I were to join the Beatles


The typical neighbourhood kid that plays with 5 stones and hopscotch all day


Nicholas Jackson

The site is www.yearbookyourself.com if you don't realise it by now. Check it out and laugh at yourself!
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Sunday, September 14, 2008

When I wanted to contact horsey yesterday, I picked up my handphone and navigated to "Mazi Hp" and dialed. To my surprise, it was a woman's voice on the other side. Thinking that it was Jocelyn, I went: "Mazi please!" She then retorted: "Wrong number!" and hung up the phone almost immediately, not even giving me enough time to react and say sorry. I then thought to myself: "What a rude woman!" Unknowingly, I had actually dialed horsey's old handphone number.

It was only later that I thought how that might have sounded to that unknown woman on the other side. As some of you might know, "Mazi" can actually means women. She might have thought that I was some sex maniac looking for some women, hence the "Mazi please!"

I'm sick, I have a voice sexier than Rod Steward now. I'm coughing out phlegm every few minutes now. I could down a whole bottle of Pei Pa Koa now if it would let me, everything is not going my way. I can't even open the bottle!
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

I would like to extend my thanks to all that turned up that day! I do feel a little embarrassed that I actually staged such a big birthday bash for myself at this age. But frankly, this party wasn't exactly planned for. It was just supposed to be a mini BBQ by East Coast Park before it escalated to what it is when I decided that getting a chalet would be a better idea. Amazingly and by God's will, I managed to get one chalet at Costa Sands Sentosa just 1 day before the event!

For those that ate and didn't realize, I actually made use of the opportunity to experiment some new creations and some Japanese Kushiyaki during the BBQ. I hope you guys loved the food and didn't get a diarrhea! I guess it won't be long before I can finally open my dream small little cafe and sell these creations to you lol! My apologies to those that I didn't invite because it was kind of a last minute thing, I promise to make it up to you another time one way or another!

There were some that was of great help to me during the event and here are the special mentions!

1) Thanks to Puss for starting off the organization of the event and creating the event and invites on Facebook. Thank you also for helping out with the preparation of the BBQ and for the hard work in front of the BBQ pit. Oh and don't FBB all the time!

2) Special mentions also to Valencia for helping out with the preparation of the BBQ and accompanying me with the buying of the food. Although you did nagged a lot and made a lot of comments throughout the trip, you were of great help!

3) Special thanks to Sis, Kok Pin and family for lending me your kitchen and fridge, marinating my chicken fillets bringing the stuff over to the chalet for me!

4) Thanks to Weijian and Henry for concentrating on your soccer at St James Tiger Live, leaving the really tired and high me outside alone sleeping by the curb lol.

5) Thanks to my Marist brothers for forcing me to go for that night swim. At least you all were considerate enough to ensure I had nothing in my pockets before I went down. I would be so damn super pissed and sad if my new phone went in with me lol. Oh and Henry you owe me a button.

6) Thanks to Ah Kor for pointing out to me all the necessary items that I missed out in preparation for the BBQ and buying the prawns!

7) Thanks to Meiwen and Linus for getting me all those stuff at the very last minute! Really sorry for the trouble, making you guys run here and there. I should have troubled Sham instead! lol

8) Thanks also to Alvin, Sagah, William and Poh Fong for bring over the Mahjong set plus table and keeping me entertained on Friday night!

10) Oh and thanks Jack for starting the BBQ fire and being constantly in front of the BBQ pits cooking for everyone else to eat.

11) Last but not least, thank you to Nick Senior for making the effort to come down all the way even though he had a field day at work. Really appreciate that.

I realized that this note is getting a little too long for any comfort reading. Thank you all again for celebrating my birthday with me, all your presents and all that you've done! I'm turning 26!!!!

Love,
Nick
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

I have not been blogging ever since the start of this new year. Anyway, the start of this new year of 2009 has not gone too well for me so far though. I've been losing every session of mahjong, still having no luck with girls, and has started work in a more hectic and exhausting unit.

In the past, whatever new inspirations of a new write up usually ends up on my blog. But this time, I somehow felt that I'll have more readers putting it up on facebook instead, of which I did of course. But I've decided to transfer the whole write up here anyway, and it shall be my first post of the year. I hope that you like it!!!

Thought about this while walking down Orchard Road yesterday.

Ladies

1) You have very short hair

You're likely to be daring, rebellious...and probably fierce too.



2) You have straight shoulder length hair

You're likely to possess some ladylike elegance, and yet have a little hint of adventurous spirit in you. You can be rather high maintenance for a girlfriend. You like to eat, travel, dress and carry anything expensive. My kind of girl! I don't mind the high maintenance part because when there's no demand..there's no motivation!





3)You have long straight hair

You're likely to be very feminine. You don't mind the hassle of maintaining long hair because looking pretty is important to you. You require, enjoy and demand the occasional manicure, pedicure, facials and eyebrow plucking. You probably rebonded your hair before. You will look attractive tying your hair into a ponytail.



4) You have long curls

You're likely to have characteristics similar to those with long straight hair. But you should be more mature. You want to be pampered and aspire to be a tai-tai.



5) You're botak!

You're an actress. And you shaved your head to try for a breakout role in a movie or a drama. If you're not a celebrity, you could have been traumatized in life so badly recently that you decided to do something drastic to try and forget everything or make people sit up and notice/sympathize you.



Guys


1) You have a crew cut!

You're a new recruit in the army. Either that or you've just been released from the prison. If you're neither of those, you should be a bad boy..a very rebellious one.



2) You have short spiky hair

You like and want to look young. You care about how you dress but not to the extent of being metrosexual. You probably haven changed your hairstyle in years because its convenient and extremely easy to maintain. You look like a mop when your hair is not gelled. Which explains why there's probably always a tube of gel or wax in your bag.



3) You have Center / side parting!

Your fashion sense is still stuck in the 90s. You're probably wearing cross colors jeans with a Domanchi top. There is a JPG long wallet in your back pocket and you carry a small Outdoor haversack. You don't mind and might even enjoy flicking up your fringe every 3 seconds it drops and irritate your eyes.



4) You have long straight flowing hair

You're a rocker. You're a hippy. Neither? You could have injured your wrist and back permanently.





4) You're botak!!!

Its generally less of a hoohah when guys shave their heads. But people around you would still sit up and take notice if you came to work/school one day with a shaved head when you had a head full of hair only the day before. You could also be someone who realized that your hair is dropping and your hairline is receding. You shaved it all off so that no one would ever know.



5) You have unkempt messy hair

You can't be bothered about how you look anymore. Your long hair might also be used to cover parts of your face..because you're probably quite ugly.


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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Took part in 2 marathons over the week. The first was a movie marathon on Friday, Madagascar marathon to be exact. It was kind of a mistake because channel 5 showed Madagascar 1 just a week earlier! But it was nice watching both one after the other because both movies were closely connected. You might not get some parts of Madagascar 2 if you didn't watch Madagascar 1. It was a great movie, funny and cute..one of my all time favourite animation film.





After the movie marathon, I had yet another crazy night of clubbing. This time to celebrate my OC's birthday. I've no idea how much I drank that day but I was super high. I even puked in Phuture, something I've never done b4. It was embarrassing alright. In the end, Horsey, Chermaine and Heloise had to insist on sending me home...the first time someone had to send me home after a drinking session lol.

The second Marathon came in the form of the Swissotel vertical marathon! It was my second time taking part in it and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. I found it less tiring than 2006 this year, probably because I was already mentally prepared. It was more of a torture in 2006 because I was rather taken aback by the physical torture of climbing those steps, I ended up mumbling to myself half the time and complaining to every participants that overtook me lol.


The challenge


The queue to get up


Still managing a smile on the way up


Our faces at the top


We managed to recover quite quickly though haha


Posing with our medals


The winners this year. This guy clocked 6mins 52secs! My timing of 14mins 17secs is more than double of his lor!


We had lunch at Shokudo in Raffles City..it sucked totally






Our certs!

Found a new Japanese buffet restaurant in Riverview Hotel call Irodori Restaurant upon recommendation by Pek and went to try it last week with Mum, Sis and Annabel. I thought it was great, the sashimi was thick and fresh. Everything else was pretty decent too. I had a hell of a meal, too much in fact lol. Its around $33++ per head, definitely worth it if you're keen for some japanese food..sashimi in particular!


We had to settle for counter seats


Mum and I


Heavenly sashimi!


The grilled prawns were great


The Tonkatsu was great too


And so were the prawn tempuras


Their complimentary soup


Their beef wrapped golden mushroom


Agedashi Tofu


The yakiniku beef


Grilled Salmon steak


Salmon Mayo Roll



The address..if you can see it


Give it a try man
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Sunday, November 09, 2008

The past 2 weeks have been eventful to say the least.

Starting from 2 weeks ago, Puss organised a sushi making session over at his place on the eve of Deepavali. I finally got the chance to use my special "$2000" sashimi knife after buying it eons ago. The sushi turned out to be quite alright, and we managed get creative and have some fun as well lol.


Valencia, Henry and Puss at work in the kitchen


My trusty new $2000 sashimi knife and the cookbook sis got me for my birthday


Me and my nicely pressed hand pressed salmon sushi lol


The ingredients


The products


Posing with our creations

Went for my 2nd salsa class last last week, my first lesson was 2 years ago with Mabelline haha. This time I went with Horsey and Heloise. I proved to myself again how much I suck at it and precisely why I took 2 years before returning for my 2nd class. I might have little choice this time because my sister has requested that I dance with Yanqing on her wedding night. I don't exactly want to disappoint her and moreover Yanqing told me that all I need to do is stand there acting as a pole for her to wiggle around me...I might just do it!

Took Friday off and went to play tennis with Sis, Mazi, and Weijian. We didn't last long under the hot afternoon sun. After tennis, sis and I went for lunch in Seletar Country Club. It was a wonderful experience, and it helped a lot that it was cloudy and windy that day...adding to the nice feeling.


Check out my deadly serve!




The nice environment




The food was only average in my opinion though




Sis and her mee siam

It was Jon's wedding dinner on 1st Nov last Saturday. He held it at Harbourfront's Dragon Gate restaurant. It was a simple wedding dinner, with nothing crazy, no special speech, no games whatsoever. But it was nice nevertheless and I would like to congratulate them!


Khengsiang and I at the wedding dinner


Khengsiang, Jit Hwee and Chin Seng


The bunch of us again


Pek, myself and Zilun


Myself, Nelson, Xiaoqing, Benny and Alvin

After the wedding dinner, we conveniently arranged to go party at St James Power Station. It wasn't as crazy a night as Double O and thats because we didn't have much to drink. But it was still fun swaying your butt around on the dancefloor, and for that moment forgetting all the work, politics and crap left in camp.

Some pics of the crazy night







Caught Burn after Reading over the week as well. It didn't turn out as nice as I expect and hearsay it to be. In fact it was quite boring. The storyline is nonsensical but the acting is pretty decent.

Went to the zoo with Valencia and Puss last Sunday as well thanks to Valencia's complimentary free tickets. The zoo is still as boring as it was years ago. Nothing exciting nothing worth looking at!


Collecting out free tickets


Kungfu tortoise


At the animal show


Puss and I with the granny that stays in the zoo

This seems to be neverending but I want to blog it all! I recently found another activity to add to my list of activities and sports I suck at. After wakeboarding, cable skiing, drinking and dancing comes prawning! On Saturday, we met up for Henry's belated birthday get-together and Henry suggested that we went prawning. It seems to be the in-activity nowadays and so I wanted to try it too. We ended up in a farm in Pasir Ris and they charged us $24 each for 2.5 hours of prawning. Meiwen and Linus caught a decent number of prawns whereas the newbies Samantha, Henry and myself caught 1, 2, 0 prawns respectively!!!


Henry and the catch..


Our 1kg catch for $120 ($24 x 5) lol


We brought our catch to a coffeeshop in Tampines and it was promptly converted into this plate of nice looking cereal prawns


The rest of the dishes that night courtesy of our dear birthday boy Henry
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

The examination and the damn exercise is finally over! I can finally take a breather now. I managed to write quite a lot for my exam, 9 pages to be exact, but I'm not very sure how many pages of those that I wrote made sense lol. I just hope that the professor will recognize my "hardworkingness" and "effort made" and award me some good points lol.

I caught 2 movies over the 2 weeks! I first caught Painted Skin and what a horrible show it turned out to be. The storyline was kinda crappy and the acting was bad. Seeing Qi Yiwu there didn't make things better. Fortunately the tickets were complimentary of Weijian and I didn't have to pay a single cent for it.



Caught Tropic Thunder yesterday after dinner and watching soccer at Chijmes. Although it turned out to be another movie with a crappy storyline, there were scenes where I really laughed really really hard. A good movie to destress after many weeks of despondency!


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Sunday, October 12, 2008

School restarted not too long ago, but this time with a different batch of classmates. Guess what 2 of my new classmates asked me the first time they spoke to me? "Are you Singaporean?" I apparently don't look and sound Singaporean to them. I look and sound either Indonesian or Malaysian to them. In which freaking way?! Anyway its not the first time I actually got such comments. I answered the same question during my first few days in Temasek Polytechnic 7 years ago too lol.

I've been clubbing the past 2 weekends, something really rare coz I haven done that for a damn long time already. It was powerhouse at St James last weekend, a nice get together with my good friends in church namely Eunice, Reloo and Fabien. Jackie, Horsey and gang was there too and it turned out to be a crazy fun night. My drinking abilities let me down yet again though. I got dizzy and flushed after only awhile and ended up having to sit down most of the night instead of dancing.


Gang CTK


Gang CTK 2


Sis and I


Reloo and I


Reloo and Eunice


Reloo, Fab and I


The newly married Ryan and Eunice


Horsey, Jackie and I


Heloise and I


Chermaine and Horsey thought I wasn't, but I swear I was still sober

Round 2 happened on Friday night. This time to celebrate Sagah's 22th birthday at Double O. All of them went crazy that night, grabbing each other by the neck and forcing black label down each other's throats. Fortunately, I was smart enough to avoid the mayhem by hiding somewhere. So I managed to remain rather sober the whole night. But I did get flushed and dizzy yet again lah haha. Oh apparently, my friend saw Jeanette Aw there that night as well...I'm kinda sad I didn't bump into her lah hahaha.


Someone spilled liquor on my shirt!


One of the victims that night being mobbed


The birthday boy and his gf


He was spouting nonsense


So he got mobbed again

Celebrated Puss's birthday during the week as well. He has finally jumped onto the quarter of a century ship together with the rest of us. His celebration wasn't all exactly grand, just something kinda impromptu. We ended up having dinner at Balestier's Boon Tong Kee and some btk before heading down to Dempsey's Ben & Jerrys.


The gang of us gathered for his entry


With his mango birthday cake

Met up with Puss, Valencia and gang yesterday for dinner at this steamboat place call 2nd Mini Steamboat Delight in Novena. Its not a buffet style steamboat place, but we ended up having to pay $30 per person! We had like only beef, chicken, fish balls, crab sticks etc etc and we had to pay so much for it. Its one of the most bo hua meal that I've ever eaten. I've no idea how they still manage to draw the crowd after all these while. Its definitely gonna be my first and last time there!

After dinner, we went to the photo exhibition in Old School up Mount Sophia. Its a really nice place and there's a Timbre 3 there!

My other days have been boring. Much of it spent in camp of course, and also some studying here and there. I usually end off with a review of the movies that I've watched, but I didn't catch any the past 2 weeks. I wanna watch one!

I'm off to turtle mountain from today onwards in view of the coming examination and some damn exercise. I can look forward to the Deepavali long weekend though..I can't wait!
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Its F1 weekend this week! If you don't already know about it by now, which rock were you living under all these while? I wasn't very keen to go catch it initially because of the high price to tickets, but thank God Sis asked and bought me a $38 walk-about ticket!








We got tickets to the practice race on Friday. The excitement didn't come to me till very much later. On my way there on the train, I couldn't help but feel everyone around was going to catch F1 just like me. When I finally got to the circuit itself, the excitement level was to its maximum. The sound of the F1 cars might be noise pollution to some but it was music to my ears. I could feel the adrenaline rush everytime the F1 engine roared and zoomed past me. I didn't find the need to get ear plugs or cover my ears at first, but the super loud engine sound eventually got unbearable and I had to take out my music ear pieces to cover my ears lol.


On our way to the grand prix!


Singapore can look so beautiful sometimes


Agreed?


Terence on the spectator stands


Kok Bin and Sis


Mum


Myself


Kok Bin and Terence in front one of the Grand Stand


We walked from Raffles Place past Esplanade, past Marina onto the Padang. Mum and I posing for a picture halfway through the journey. Lol.


We then wandered onto the World War 2 Memorial and found a beautiful background for a photo


Sis and Terence's turn


A picture while resting and waiting for part 2 of the practice race to start


We then decided to have dessert at the roadside hawker and guess how much this Ice Kacang cost? $5!


This ice lychee cost $4! We were chopped like tourists.


At our final pitstop in front of the Supreme Court before heading home

I met up with Puss and Valencia for dinner on Saturday evening at Sunset Grill and Pub. Yep its my third time there only this time with a different group of people, but this time, they didn't like it lol.


We shared a bbq chicken and ribs set


Plus fish and chips

And half a dozen of chicken wings and half a dozen of level 1 buffalo wings that I didn't take a picture of lol

After dinner, we met up with Sham and Elizabeth down at Robertson Walk where they had some desserts while I watch a little bit of my Manchester United match (very little indeed). We were having tea and cakes at Laurent Chocolate Bar (the former Chocolate Factory) just beside Harry's when Henry messaged and told us that he has a room up on the 20th storey at Mandarin Oriental Hotel and that it has a great view of the F1 circuit. We decided to rush down but by the time we got there, the race was over. We did however spend some time having fun in the hotel room before heading home.


A picture of the beautiful view with my lousy camera phone


And another


The 5 of us in the room on the bed


There was a horde of Lamborghinis in front of the hotel


What did we do? Post for a picture with them of course!


Oh we found a smart car in the car park of Raffles City too


Look how small the car looks with Puss beside it

We're going back there tomorrow to catch the actual race! Not before enjoying the food and facilities of the hotel of course! Its gonna be an exciting Sunday, something to look forward to at last!
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Went out for dinner with Mum and Sis yesterday. This time, Sis chose a restaurant in Sembawang Park call Beaulieu House Restaurant. The park was ulu by any means but I was surprised to find lots of people around the area, many of them families and groups of friends, all gathered there for camping, picnic, bbq, lantern carrying etc. The restaurant served both Western and Oriental cuisine. But the place is apparently not renowned for the food, but rather the ambience and atmosphere.


The Sea view


We ordered a $68 set to share btw the 3 of us. The set included 2 glasses of red wine


Sis drank the other glass


Mum had coconut


Veg appetiser



Some really lousy bbq kebabs


And some seafood combo plate


The last of the set, 2 small bowls of ice-cream. Yup very very not value for money indeed


A very nice and different atmosphere though


The 3 of us

There was supposed to be a lower secondary school class gathering yesterday. We were told to turn up at Timbre sub-station at 7.30pm but when I got there at around 9pm (yeah I was late), there was no one there in sight. I was then told to go down to Little India, but it was packed and there was a jam all the way. Feeling a little bit saboed, pang sehed and impatient, I then decided to meet up with Weijian to return him his bicycle. After that, we went out. Still thinking of enjoying some live band, we decided to go back to Timbre sub-station, only to find that the queue has lengthen quite a bit. We then wanted to go to the other Timbre at Art House but couldn't find a road in because of all the road blocks in view of the impending F1 race.

Disappointed, we then decided to head down to Robertson Walk to watch some soccer. We ended up watching a boring 0-0 draw between Liverpool and Stoke City. After the match, we chilled out at the nearby TCC before deciding the Saturday should come to an end.

Met up with Puss today and went down to Sentosa. There wasn't much sun for the tan that we wanted to get. After that, we met up with Weijian and gf and Vivo City for a movie. We watched Mama Mia! It turned out to be really good, the movie was totally about enjoying songs from the old famous Swedish band Abba. It did help that the Max theater that we watched the movie in had a really huge screen and a really good sound system. I enjoyed the movie thoroughly and am currently a big fan of Abba music lol.


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Met up with Josh, Jackie, Horse and Puss last Sunday. It was a mini gathering out of the blue. Was initially out with Puss and Horse walking around in Orchard when Jack called saying Josh asked if we wanted to meet for dinner. And so we did meet up and had dinner at a small Japanese restaurant near Cuppage Centre. There are so many Japanese restaurants in the area that you will be spoilt for choice on which one to go to when you're there. In the end, we chose one Puss was familiar with.

The place was authentic looking and served pretty authentic Jap cuisines as well. But other than that, I don't think that its a place to create a hoohah about. We did however had a hell of a catch up, with much of the focus being on how we are going to celebrate Joshua's bachelors night before his impending wedding this December.


Some dried fish that we ordered


Some fish fins


My chirashi don


Some kinda fish horsey ordered haha


Horsey ordered lots of things
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Monday, September 15, 2008

I've been seeing funny pictures of my friends around on the Internet, on blogs, on MSN and on facebook. Which is why I decided to visit the site myself and play around with it. The results turned out to be pretty hilarious! Take a look!


Afro Nick! I know this looks damn gay but its the funniest of the lot! My personal favourite haha


What I'll look like if I had studied harder


What I'll look like if I were to join politics


When I become a Dad


My high school hunky days


Fresh out of graduate school


If I were to have too much to eat


With Tip Top curry puff on my head


And then Old Chang Kee


If I were to join the Beatles


The typical neighbourhood kid that plays with 5 stones and hopscotch all day


Nicholas Jackson

The site is www.yearbookyourself.com if you don't realise it by now. Check it out and laugh at yourself!
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Sunday, September 14, 2008

When I wanted to contact horsey yesterday, I picked up my handphone and navigated to "Mazi Hp" and dialed. To my surprise, it was a woman's voice on the other side. Thinking that it was Jocelyn, I went: "Mazi please!" She then retorted: "Wrong number!" and hung up the phone almost immediately, not even giving me enough time to react and say sorry. I then thought to myself: "What a rude woman!" Unknowingly, I had actually dialed horsey's old handphone number.

It was only later that I thought how that might have sounded to that unknown woman on the other side. As some of you might know, "Mazi" can actually means women. She might have thought that I was some sex maniac looking for some women, hence the "Mazi please!"

I'm sick, I have a voice sexier than Rod Steward now. I'm coughing out phlegm every few minutes now. I could down a whole bottle of Pei Pa Koa now if it would let me, everything is not going my way. I can't even open the bottle!
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