Saturday, December 31, 2005
..the last day of 2005.. haizzz..sobss.... 2005 was my best year ever, totally had a blast this year and do not mind going through 2005 again (wish i had some kind of a device to turn back time)... there were totally ups and downs of 2005 and one very obvious down is 335 which i totally do not wish to elaborate further.. this post is juz a reflection of the year 2005......"an entrepreneur is someone who knows how to take risks, never succumb to pressure, never give up and someone who knows how to reflect on his mistakes...an explorer totally need to have the same qualities..." all of u may wonder why is state the last sentence, that was what the TLE programme was all about in Shanghai and Beijing 2005.... the significance of a entrpreneur and a explorer..........nvm about that and lets start...overall 2005 was a year about tourism and the travel industry..... i still remember 2004 was about the media industry where i went through two courses of media......what will 2006 be then i wonder... entrepreneurship year????? i still hope 2006 would still be another year of exploration and travel..........basically loads of things happened this year which would stay in my memories all my life....highlights of 2005: hahaz....Shanghai Trip 2005: A wonderful and memorable 9 day experience with TLE, it made me like the city of Shanghai even more and made me get to know more about being and entrepreneur and its ups and downs of it....OBS Singapore: I still remember my watch.. RALEIGH!!!!! and our wonderful and nice instructor Shu Yun... definitely made more frenz there and realised so much things about myself....Beijing Trip 2005: Another wonderful and memorable 6 day experience with the TLE in Beijing... as Beijing was one of the cities in Asia that I longed to visit and I was able to visit one of the wonders of the world THE GREAT WALL!!!! this trip was based on an explorer instead of an entrepreneur... however what i feel is that an explorer and an entrepreneur are both interelated and qualitites of each are the same.... honestly TLE definitely played a big part in my life in 2005......Taiwan Trip 2005: This is another trip that I treasure most more than my shanghai trip in 2004 or any other trip.... i made more frenz through this trip and definitely had a whale of a time..... looking at all the natural and historical stuff of taiwan and the aftermath of the 921 earthquake in 1999 really make this one of my best trips ever....not forgetting Betty and Eddy my tour guides!!!! they are the best tour guides i ever had....... hen you mo qi hahaz...Overall, these are some of the happenings in 2005, wanna know more FLIP THROUGH MY ARVHIVES LAH......Finally as the year comes to a close i feel glad and happy to know that among all the activities in 2005 i got to know more people and made more frenz through the processes no matter young or old and whatever jobs they are...Grace: She was my first instructor with the TLE trip in Shanghai, i feel that she is better than some of our teachers lor...Claudine: She was my instructor for the Beijing trip..... although i feel that Grace was better as she was more kai fang I see she was putting in the effort to help our group win the presentation and i really acknowledge that......Xiao Yan Jie: She was my Dao You in Shanghai... i learn alot about Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou from her and her experiences as a tour guide, cause i was so interested, those who know me well shld noe why hahaz....Betty,Eddy: I think I shld mention them both together as I feel that they hen you yuan he hen you mo qi... although one is taiwanese and the other is singaporean... both are also my Dao You... they are the best dao you i ever had manzzzz....still keeping in touch with them..... i dare say that the taiwan trip was made even more interesting because of them.. i never once had a dao you which is so kai fang and looking and watching them inspired me more to fulfill this path in the future... honestly.. i still can't decide from the 3....As i finish the last post of 2005.... I hope that 2006 would be equally as memorable and fun as 2005 ........
____________&{ memories within here.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
bAk fRom tAiwaN.....s0bbbssss... have been back from taiwan for like 4 days and an still missing the times then... it was like only last week on this day I am in Kilin Hotel in Taipei..... the feeling of being overseas is great, no stress, no need to put up a long face, letting myself loose and go crazy...... hahaz..... joking with the tour guides and frenz was our favourite pastime then..... alright lets start from the beginning ok...
first day....... the CX flight to taipei transit in Hong Kong was absolutely comfortable and service standards is cool, i so like to take airplanes as some of your'll noe..... the air stewardess uniform is also very very nice...cool.... on landing in taipei... thought would be very cold like shanghai but in the end... juz one loody big normal air-con room lor... not cold at all..... anyway first day juz nothing..... juz guang jie at Xi-mending......but on a sat. alot of people noe!
second day--->>> went to see Yehliu, the coastal park and the coastal landforms.... never once thought i could see all these in asia, the waves very very very big one u standing on top of a high rock it also can reach u noe..... n i thought such scenery can only be seen in caucsian countries... china definetly don't have one....... then riding on twists and turns around the mountain for 1-2 hours made me go gong... but the scenery was breathtaking light blue oceans and reaching Taroko gorge saw the deep V-shaped valleys which are actually marble.... cutted through by the river water flow...... surprised me again such breathtaking views on rivers exist in Taiwan!!!!!.... then watch the A-mi cultural show juz normal....no feelings......
third day--->>> turning around the mountain roads for about seven hours made me quite giddy but our tour guide open up one hell of a karaoke session in the bus and we partied for like the whole ride and time juz passed in a flash...... and we reached Kaoshiung... that was already in the night... then walk till about midnight then go back hotel.... eating smelly toufu at Liuho Ye Shi... actually it was not smelly...it juz have a smelly smell but honestly the whit meat had no taste only the skin tastes nice....... then went to the Ai He to sit some weird boat name Ai Zhi chuan..... when our tour guide introduced it to us we also laughed Ai Zhi...??????? Aids??????
4th day----->>>>> Was actually quite boring everywhere we went was like buddhism teachings......haizzz....spring and autumn pavilions only the views where nice...... Fokuangshan..... don't believe in such stuff...... then got on to Chia Yi.... dinner was way too cool....... Taiwan style Seoul Garden it was one of the best meals i've ever eaten in my life....... hahazzzz....
5th day>>>>> went up Alishan..... 2 hrs up and 2hrs down, the winding bends was killing me..... but again the scenery safed me...... some parts of the road were like practically cannot see anything one....... on the mountain road up the mountain the visibility in front can sometimes drop to like 1-2 metres or even 0....... true what... wonder how the driver still can drive safely but he still did it...... walking along the great wall three weeks ago was like a saviour to me up there experienceing coldness of the great wal helped me adapt quickly to the temperatures up there which was "rumoured" to be vry low.......but it is not true....... not cold one... but again scenery there very nice....lots of stories and happenings there...shall not say much...don't spoil the atmosphere if u r going there nxt time wat...... then we went to Sun Moon Lake one of the areas hardest hit by the 921 earthquake in 1999.... saw the aftermath of it and the tour guide told us what happened to her then very sad story...... saw lots of new bulidings (rebuilt)...... mountains that split up...... the lake firstly which dropped from higher ground to lower ground.....an island which sunk.... and a lake which had almost dried up....... all this because of quake.... that night we stayed at the only hotel in that area left standin after the quake..... and that area at night was totally dark outside nothing to see and do one except stay in your room and watch tv..... and here was where it was super super super bloody cold.....
6th day..... trip back to taipei about 3 hours in the bus was like joking all the way with eddy, fabian and the two girls..... hahazzz.... lame jokes and everything were juz thrown out while everyone else in the bus were juz like sleeping.... then reach there go to some place to see taiwan troops boring.... then national pzlace meuseum...boring...... then taipei 101...the building was nice from the outside but inside what u can buy is thier souveniers only... then go up the tower is like very normal ordinary view of the taipei city...then go to shilin ye shi... wah is a very nice night market... way cool.... but cannot bargain as much as what i did in China......... then went back to hotel pu down our stuff and went for more shopping at Xi mending.......
Last day in taiwan was like juz waking up and going to airport and bidding goodbye to Betty, our tour guide...... i can give a comment on her now..... she is one of the best tour guides i ever had...... bao yang de hen hao and kept everyone in the tour group happy......... touring taiwan was made even better because of her and like she was a little bit better than Xiao Yan jie as i look back now..... then bid a goodbye to her and of we went to Hong Kong on CX 461....... sitting a Boeing 747 is cool interior and exterior design is way too cool....
Let me juz summarise Hong Kong in one paragraph..... crazy and complicated hotel was cool.... but outside was one hell of a time.... one must really know the art of shoving people too survive there during the christmas season all i see is people and more people!!!!!!! hahazzzzzz.... Second day happenings..... Victoria Peak is under renovation and could not admire the magnificent scenery and we continued to squeeze through people at Causeway Bay and continued to squeeze with people at Tsim Sha Tsui..... then went back to the hotel juz after 11....... third day we juz woke up walked around for a while then went to airport and took the CX 711 flight bak to Singapore and everything was over..... sobssss..... again......
To sum it all up....... this was one of my best trips ever and would really like to gon on it again with the same people....... looking back through the entry i forgotten one person, Eddy, our tour leader from Singapore.... very entertaining and noe how to deal with a tour group well, we like to follow him and he like to follow us where we go....hahaz.....he is also one of the reasons why the trip is so fun... but i'm glad that the package that my family ask me to choose for them (they gave me three to choose from what!!!! hahaz see this travel advisor was successful again) was the correct one and it really ended my year off with a bang... after the ups and downs of holidays........ finally, i juz want to say thanks to the following people to make this trip fun and memorable... Betty(our tour guide), Eddy(our tour leader).......
____________&{ memories within here.
Friday, December 16, 2005
haizzz....what can i say about the holidays....loads of free time, boredom, tv, reality tv, star awards, overseas and dotz and more dotz..... besides thisit gives me loads of time to think and think....and some of the things that i think are.... (ok shall stop here, and don't think dirty...!!!!!)Firstly as usual, a dose on reality tv...... the next reality show that is must watch BATTLE OF THE NETWORK REALITY TV STARS.... this show however i think there are no eliminations..... however they would compete in challenges and the winning team would get some prize... so therefore the show is a must watch not because of watching to see who wins but to watch what would happen if u put reality stars together imagine what will happen their cockiness attitude and craziness and everything...... Here are some of the contestants: the nice and friendly Chip and Kim from TAR, Crazy Jonathan and Gentle Victoria of TAR, Wendy from Project Runway, Evan from Joe Millionaire, Sue Hawk from Survivor and not forgetting the man himself Richard Hatch......should be an interesting show......Besides that imagine what reality tv can come up with which one could never imagine, when i first saw these shows i was like huh?????? totally stunned.....shows such as Boy meets Boy (another version of Average Joe+ Joe Millionaire+ Bachelor Bachellorette), basically it involves one guy who is of course gay picking his most compaitible guy among guys who are both straight and not straight...... how funny and at the end of the game if pick correctly got prize, if wrong then no prize........ to think they support such shows.... stupid right?????? i was like WHAT when i saw it..... maybe got some more weirder ones i post it once i find one.... hahaz.... *wondering what will spring up next* Carrying on with my life...thinking... 2005 was the best year of my life..... shall blog on that another day....... but one weird thing that i discovered why does Roy want me to win the best NCO trophy???? you know what i was thinking...... he wants to steal it again so as to help make up for his loss......HAHAzzz........ but i still aiming to win it because i want to end of life in SJI-SJAB with a bang.......... 2005 is ending and 2006 is nearing so should be time to plan ahead to O's............thinking more..can't think anymore...as usual not feeling tired or sleepy and it's past 12 midnight in the morning...... thinking about it i'm just 33 hours away from boarding my plane to Hong Kong on transit to Taipei lieow...Yippeeeeee... finally can jie chu wo de men...... yeh...!!..!!!!...!!!! also thinkin some more..... wondering what would happen to Team Taurus next year...will we disband???? will more conflicts occur???? i think that everything will just go haywire with the two killer combos present.... worse still in the squad adding on more killers, hou guo zhen de shi bu kan she xiang..... haizzz..haiz........ predicting 2006 is going to be one heck of a year.....
____________&{ memories within here.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Holidays are juz as it is, just couldn't go to sleep and it's past 1 in the morning..... By the way just finished watching Survivor Finale thinking that how the jury jumps to the comclusion that Stef. was the villian and just not vote for her just pisses me off..... what I think of both of them is Danni did not actually play the game until the last few days and she was just skating throught the game juz as Judd said, but I definitely think that Stef. is the more deserving winner as firstly she played the game right from the beggining where she had to slog her guts out to avoid getting voted off and she put in alot more hard work than Danni did that's why I think she should have won, but anyway spoilers are spoilers as they turned out to be through, if spoilers are that believable, then the winner for The Amazing Race on Wednesday would be the Linz family, and for the first time in The Amazing Race, the second and third place teams, which would be the Weavers and Bransens compete in another mini race to win a car.......For me spoilers are juz spoilers as I do not necessary believe them, they are not always true, although I only encountered once that it is not through, this would bring back memories of Survivor 7: Pearl Islands..... talking about this Survivor 12 Panama - Exile Island..... looks like it is filmed in a diff. location, but actually it is bak at The Pearl Islands, they just changed the name to hide this, the only diff. thing is how the game is to be played---want to know more go check out spoilers yourself lah! and to round up reality tv----- luckily The Amazing Race 9 would be bak to the 2 people team racing around the world as it is totally boring seeing them being stuck in America.......ahhh....... this is it... feeling tired now.......... *yawns**yawns* and eyes going to shut... good nite and i'll continue tomolo....
____________&{ memories within here.
Friday, December 09, 2005
Source: Survivor FeverDanni and Stephanie Final Two??????Rafe wins the next immunity and Danni the final immunity????Lydia becomes the next Jury member after Cyndi???????Will Danni overcome all odds to win the million dollars????Or will Stephanie win it all????And Survivor Season 12 back at Pearl Islands for the third time, OMG i'm getting tired of Pearl Islands, but is rumoured to have the best cast yet?????Finally 39 days 18 people, 1 survivor.........P.S. : If it is really a Stephanie and Danni final two, it will definitely be one hell of an episode and one epidoe that cannot be missed and a one which is a must watch!!!!!!!!!!
____________&{ memories within here.
Year-end holidays 2005, very boring, not as interesting as last year's, on this day last year I would be at Mediacorp's December Dazzle course and this year i'm at home typing this post bored, and pushing forward the zone comp. also made it worse and i'm getting more bored, still need to wait 7 days before my trip to Taiwan and Hong Kong, so excited Taiwan never go before going there for 7 days and another 3 days FREE in Hong Kong with no extra charge, how cool is that.... but then need to endure more boredom....
____________&{ memories within here.
Sunday, December 04, 2005
My adventure with TLE (Part 2), Part 1 was of course the shanghai trip....BEIJING TRIP 2005
"bu shang chang cheng fei hao han"
Dao le Shanghai jiu yao kan ren tou, dao le hangzhou jiu qu kan zhi tou, na dao le suzhou jiu kan dao le ya tou, zhong yu dao da le Beijing ye kan dao le cheng tou......
TLE...The Little Entrepreneurs....twice in a row they provided me with a ultimately most unforgettable experience both in Shanghai and Beijing.....this time had to come up with an invention and not a business plan..... in the end our group came in second overall, not a bad result considering I gave my best, my group????? let me think I say only some gave their best but others juz slack and slack......
Forget about all this and lets go into the trip proper, overall I think Shanghai is a way much more better city than Beijing, I don't know why but I just feel it, maybe I see more skyscrapers there????? But I muz say that the first three days was totally a bore..... Day 1....... Tiananmen which was totally huge, The Hutongs and Drum Tower and the Song Ching Ling house.... OMG... history, history and more history which i hate, but I still managed to get some wonderful shots of the city and these places...
Day 2 was the school visit which provided us with boring lessons that I almost feel asleep......lessons on tang shi song ci and bai jia xing...then off to the Urban planning centre we go...not much diff. from the Shanghai one, but what I liked about it was that we saw the olympic venues, which shows us the diff. places the olympics would be held in 2008 and also the model of the city of Beijing...what i learnt there was that the city of Beijing is split up into 5 sections circularlly (a new word i invented???) with the centre being the onld city of beijing which is like super small....anywae it was quite interesting learning more about how the city of beijing is planned and built.....that night we had home stay....I could not believe my eyes when i saw Zhao Nan's house also, OMG, almost the same as Singapore's renovated HDB flat one leh... didn't noe their living standard was dmn high, but still it was super cold lar... close window, close door also still have an air-con room....
Model of the Beijing Olympics venue found in the Urban Planning Centre
Day 3, school visit again....lessons today was way much more interesting, a lesson on Peking opera and another on chinese art..... it was definitely not easy to fall asleep in these two lessons comparing it with the previous day..... and o..k... after today the boredom of school is finally over... and we went to the Forbidden City/Gu Gong/ Zi Jing Cheng, this is one of the cheng tou i mention earlier, the other one is the great wall/ wan li chang cheng mah!!! anywaes this place is not as big as I thought.... but still many things still amaze me..... they only have small vats of water which are made of iron and steel(i think) and coated with gold, which are all around the palace and guess what they are used for.... i don't think u would find out....they are used to put out fire if it really occurs in the palace.... OMG... imagine how big the fire would be if there was one and imagine how little water it is..... also the enclosiveness (yeah another invention of mine) of the place can also be felt...i don't think the emperor left or anyone entered....
Day 4, start of all the fun, went to a company to visit, the chairman of DIANJI KE JI talked to us.... Obviously when such a big boss come and talk I would be all ears and picked up one thing about entrepreneurship that i would never forget..... In the business arena, the real competition is not product vs product but employees vs employees, which means the product is juz the lowest level of competition, it is the employees that count, even if you have a very good product but lousy employees everything would still fail... after that went to Liu li chang the cultural street of Beijing where my shopping spree in Beijing began.... bought a seal as a birthday present for Marcus here and another for myself anothe still got alot more which i forget... in the afternoon was the scavenger hunt, honestly, it was not as fun as the Shanghai one but still I managed to go on a shopping spree then from Xi dan-Xiu Shiu Jie (the Xiangyang lu of Beijing)-Wang Fu Jing (the orchard road there)... forget about the bad things that happened.. but bought alot of cheap cheap stuff from Xiu Shiu Jie which J helped us bargained for...... juz watch him pissing off everyother shopkeeper, but anyway still got what I want and guess what Xiu Shiu Jie is a building dedicated to selling Fake Stuff OMG.....to think the government supports that.....
Entrance to the Forbidden City
Day 5 was the day THE GREAT WALL and the summer palace, let me talk about he summer palace first...stating the fact that it was definitely a beautiful place if we had time to roam about, but instead we were rushing to find our way out of darkness in the end through the "forests", regretted not being able to see Suzhou jie which was superb in photos that i saw..... but anyway the great wall was the highlight, we started off in the morning which was then bloody cold, but as time progresses the temperature was not that bad after all...... just imagine winds pushing you off the ground and making you fall down and you can imgaine what it is like on the great wall, some parts are indeed bloody steep and i was wondering won't the soldiers fighting on the wall be exhausted first while fighting as I think I was like having anothe Physical Training section with Jon Tam up there, my legs were hurting after 3 hours on the wall, even the part which was easier to climb was also super tiring...... but anyways it was quite fun going to one of the seven wonders of the world and one down six to go to achieving perfect target.... the next one may be the Taj Mahal which I really hope to go....
The Great Wall, look how long it is!!!!
It can be really steeper then what you are looking at!!!!!
Ok the last and final day Day 6..... nothing much happened juz that my group got second for our presentation and we went to hard rock cafe for lunch and from then i started to buy hard rock cafe stuff... and the it was a bye bye to Claudine, Kathleen and Karene, a second goodbye to them, the last time was Claudine, Kathleen and Grace, but still it was not a good feeling but I feel that the did their best and but in every effort to give us pleasant and unforgettable memories to bring back home...... Thanks!!!! :)))))
____________&{ memories within here.
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Today is the 3rd of December 2005 and the time is 2307.... Haizzz we had juz lost comp..... and i'm still feeling sad.... I think even sadder than Marcus... don't know what he is thinking also... but nvm lets not talk bout him...
I'm bloody pissed with both the 2nd and 3rd man attitude after comp. lah... EXCUSES AND MORE EXCUSES (already expected this would happen, luckily I did not shout shut up to them on the corridor really.....) on why we lost...have they ever thought and reflected why we lost also.... I don't really think so...... OK.. and also don't know why Zhi yang is getting weirder and weirder and bu hui zhi zuo zhu zhang also not serious at all lor...what's wrong i really don't know..... and i don't want to really get into each category of comp. and i think even if we went in with last year's standard we would still LOOSE.... and to think the 2nd and 3rd man is saying like yes to Feb comp in a casual way is like totally unbelievable and untrustable and I really don't know, I feel that they treat comp. like juz a game when they like it they come when they don't they won't come that's totally ridiculous.... for me i really want to go to Feb comp and get back all the glory we lost today... and I only know Marcus would be on my side and the other three would definitely remain unknown.....
Forget about the unhappy part today, which obviously I can't, and just switch focus to the Beijing trip, it was totally wonderful and trust me saying goodbye to claudine, kat, and kar. the second time was definitely not a good feeling, it has almost been a week since i'm back from the trip and i'm only posting on it now because of the competition which we lost.... ok... but i learnt alot during the trip on entrepreneurship, innovation and more about Beijing and even China on the trip the money was definitely well spent and I got to visit the Great Wall Yeah!!!!!!! One down and another six to go........ therefore I would be blogging about my trip in another post to give me more space to expand my writing....
____________&{ memories within here.
>
