got this Face Analyzer link off Ru Mei's blog and i thought it was pretty interesting.. here's what i got with 3 photos.



this was the original picture... apparently im more jap/korean than im chinese, haha.. and im actually considered a white collar

i thought that photo was a tad too dark, so i photoshop-ed it to make it brighter



results were pretty much the same, but this time round, im more socialable when im brighter, hah.. and i became a beta academic..

then i decided to use an old photo



i suddenly look more eastern european than anything else~ haha.. but i became less intelligent although more socialable.. looks like i've really grown wiser through time, hah.. still white collar though..

after looking at 3 results, i shall conclude that the first one would be the most accurate, although my celebrity match is Ho Chi Minh -_-"

headed out to fort canning with kelly and eugene for womad and i must say that, although it's not the best one that i've been to, it was still smashing~


set at WOMAD

we reached there around 1945hrs and it wasn't a long wait until one of the sets started and it was a band from Israel.. the kind of music they played was pretty good, sounded like the composer was obsessed with traditional instruments and singing while trying to keep up with the modern world music.. simply fantastic and the singers' voices were very "spiritual" in a way, almost mesmerizing..



second set that we saw was a world music band from Mali and apparently they won the recent BBC best world music award or something.. we really wondered which part of them won that prize, call me shallow, but i thought their showsmanship was really bad.. one of the band members even looked like he had a permenant hard on.. well, shall go on ahead...

we made our way to the top of fort canning where a latino band from cuba played, well, latino music and it was really great fun, everyone was like grooving to the beats and at one point of time the singer even got the whole crowd to dance together with the same dance steps, now that's what i call showsmanship.. haha.. it was pity they could only play so much during the time of their set..

so we went our way back down to the main stage and we were shocked when we saw that the whole grass patch infront of the main stage was packed with people and everyone was standing up! didn't take us long to realize that it was Apache India and the Reggae Revolution playing on the set and it was a crazy set..


Apache India and Reggae Revolution

everyone was so pumped up by the music and even came out for an encore which was fantastic.. definately a well spent night at womad as far as im concerned.. haha

sometimes you hear stories from people about their bad experience with bosses and your try to heed their advice and try to not to get implicated into situations that are not exactly ideal.

there're a lot of kinds of "boss problems" but from what i see is that the most obvious one is the kind that makes use of their subordinates to climb up the corporate ladder, at their subordinates' expense that is.

usually im very cautious about this kind of situations when i was working last time and i try as much as possible not to get sucked into this kind of problems. but when you're a trainee, it's pretty hard to avoid this because you're obligated to do whatever you are being told to do and frankly speaking, i didn't like a single moment of it.

for the past week, me and my coursemates have been involved in the preparations for an upcoming RSAF day and apparently my wing was the supposed organizing committee so everyone from instructors to trainees were all involved. trainees were assigned to be in-charge of logistics and trust me, it's the worst kind of job that you can get..

we'd wake up every morning for the past 1+ weeks at 0445hrs to prepare the stores that we would load up to the vehicle, take a 1hr ride to the place the parade was held, unload the huge amount of stores and move things all over the place..

at first it was still pretty ok cos we would leave shortly after all the people involved in the parade left at 1200 after we packed up all the stores. but we realized as the days went by, we were going back later and later..

last friday was the worst that me and the guys got.. as we all know, friday is our book out day, so one of the instructors actually told us that it was a friday so he didn't wanna keep us back and book out late, so we all gave our max effort (like we always do) so that everyone, including the instructors could go home early..

as we were packing up everything, one of the instructors received a phonecall from someone "up there" and all of a sudden, we were informed that we had to finish one last job and we didn't really like the sound of it, especially when we've already worked til like 1600hrs..

the job was to travel from where i am -- lim chu kang area, to a camp in yishun to collect some things and head back to the camp in lim chu kang to keep it and one doesn't need to know rocket science to calculate the amount of time needed for the whole operation.. it was already 3hrs on the road travelling to the different camps and back to our own camp and we all know that shit always happens when you're getting something from some other camp...

so we reached the camp in yishun and we actually had to wait for the people there to clear some paperwork and stuff before we could collect whatever we needed and it took around 1hr.. by then everyone was tired and famished, the fact that we couldn't have have our dinner didn't really help..

after we collected the stores and reached the camp in lim chu kang again, we bumped into some administration problems again and became dormant there again for like an hour (again)..

some of us went to talk to the instructor in-charge and actually found out that it's because of the person "up there" that we're here.. the worst thing was that it wasn't even for our own use, it was for another wing and the reason why we're staying til so late on a friday is because "he" simply said that he wanted it done by today.. we were fuming when we heard that, just because "he" wanted to impress and show how helpful "he" was to the other wing, he made us stay til so late and didn't even do anything about dinner to us... talk about benefiting on other people's expenses..

it was then that we realized the cold hard reality of any organization, how low people would go to achieve their goals/promotions/reccommendations and i never thought i would be experiencing this.. so annoyed was i that i swore i would have murdered anyone who tried to irritate me that night...

after everything was done and we went home, i looked at my watch and i realized.. it was 2330hrs already and so bloody tired that i couldn't even think straight...

for some funny reason, i think i am jinxed. jinxed with injuries every now and then, restricting me from my normal sports activties, which can get very irritating.. just found out today that i actually strained a ligament at the back of my knee when i went to this chinese sports massage..


i swear that im jinxed..

and im suppose to stop running altogether for the next week so that i can rest the area and let it recover.. next week's gonna be a long long week if i ain't running around...

another boring day in camp with pretty much nothing to do (again)... spent my time reading magazines and i actually found a few things that were very intriguing to me.. the first one would be...


IT'S A FREAKING PINT LOCK!! picture from store.benjerry.com

A BEN AND JERRY'S PINT LOCK!! how cool is that for an invention!! with this, our ben and jerry's will never be the same again, we'll always have a whole pint to ourselves without anybody finishing half of it for you when you're gone.. and as the magazine suggests, you could even put the lock on your friend's pint and your friend will not have a chance of opening it.. haha..

i got a little bored after the magazine, so i went to the library where i am blogging and started to do the normal routine of reading all the websites and plugging people's blog like i usually do then i suddenly decided to see what other odd inventions that people actually have.. and i found a few...

first off:


picture from shomer-tec.com

i know it looks like something that we know of, but it's not.. it's a mind molestor, a "creative electronic harassment" or at least that's what it says on the company website..

"The "Mind Molester" produces a one-second electronic chirp about once every 4 minutes. Due to the chirp's duration, frequency, and sound characteristics, it's a very, very difficult, time-consuming, frustrating and maddening task to locate the unit. And even if they find it, they'll have no idea what it is. The number of effective locations to plant the "Mind Molester" is limited only by your imagination. Of course, this device is for use on deserving subjects only."

pretty interesting eh? imagine hiding this in someone's bed room.. haha...

i thought the next one was the most interesting and i would love to get my hands on it...


picture from globalgadgetuk.com

it's called the photoblocker spray.. apparently, you just have to spray a few layers of it on your license plate until it becomes glossy and it's actually being tested and proven to be able to reflect light back at speed traps and red light cameras, which is just sick but it's a pity they don't sell this out of UK..

then again, i do know SOMEONE who's going over to UK soon... *looks at a certain person.. GRINZ*

i've officially done nothing up til now apart from going to the gym and attempting to do up the end of course video for my weapon system (Rapier). while trying to do the video, i suddenly realized that it's really been a while, like almost half a year, since i actually touched my multimedia programs (flash, director, premiere) and i felt so retarded trying to use them all over again..

another thing that i realized was that my brain is pretty deprived of ideas, probably because i stopped thinking ever since i entered the army, haha.. it's kinda like a creative block and it totally blows... all i could come up with was a lousy wallpaper for my course staring at the screen for about an hour looking at photos and videos that were taken during the course..



oh great, now im even lost about what to write.. haha

just came back from the slipknot concert at fort canning and it's sick to the core, totally crazy stuff! really really glad that i actually made it.. all the mosh pits, loud shouting and all those crazy shit..

during one of the songs, "spit it out", corey(lead singer) made everyone squat down while the song was still playing and told everyone to jump up when he sang "jump the fuck up!", fucking fantastic shit, nothing that i've ever felt before.. haha

took quite a lot of videos with my phone, will post them up in the site once i process it a little.. for now, some photos:

was taking a crap @ the toilet today @ junction 8 and while i was in the cubicle i saw this being written on one of the cubicle walls:


"no one understand me at all why???"

at first i was wondering if someone actually tried something stupid in the cubicle that i was in but i found that it was thought provoking as well..

is it really possible that at any one time that all the people around you don't understand you? is it really because of people around them or it's because they refuse to or find it difficult to open up to other people so they can get help?

used to ask myself that question when i was in secondary school - all hot-headed and all.. but i slowly realized that most of the time it's because i didn't talk to people about my problem.. you'll be surprised how concerned your friends can be even if they seem like they don't show it.. so well, i guess there's nothing as nobody being able to understand u?

people just needa open up to their friends about their problems.. right?

it's really been a while since i am trigger happy with my camera and these days i've been taking waaaay too many photos (for my own good) but i just always can't seem to find the time to post it up here.. but here we are, all the photos in one post...

now take one deep breath and proceed...

Friday Night @ Wala Wala

was feeling bored so i got the guys together for a session @ wala wala and EIC was on the set.. it was pretty crowded and i was very lucky to run into leeling and her friends, they actually gave me one of the tables that they were occupying...


me and miss "i've got 8 stitches" rachel, haha :x


leeling, luckily i ran into her.. haha


soon-to-be newly weds, but i have no idea y he looks like that, haha


group huddle!

4 Way Scrimmage @ Woodlands

day of scrimmages with 3 other local teams in the singapore ultimate community where my team saw our beloved rachel suffer a gash on her leg.. but apart from that, it was a great day of sun, sweat and ultimate!


"happy" people in action


kua dio gui!


me so angry


so scandalous


the puppy took a chunk..


oh man...

Dinner @ Dan Ryan's

had dinner @ dan ryan's (where dk's resident NUM, eugene, works @) on the eve of national day, eugene actually placed me and my friends' table under his service and it was really quite weird having a friend serving you, but it's good nontheless


Mr Jee Khen, always happy to see good food


sean looks very reluctant, i wonder y..


me with a "happy" looking bib.. haha..

was reading chin fee's blog and she had an entry Do I need a Man? and it got me thinking a little (NO IM NOT THINKING OF GETTING A MAN)along that line just that it's a woman im talking about..

seems like as the years go by, more and more people start to ask me "why don't i wanna get a girlfriend" rather than "how come you don't have a girlfriend" the latter would be easier and more less irritating to answer as i can entirely blame it on my looks, which had been a target of remarks, some so mean that even i can't really take it, but well, there's nothing really i can do to my face, so might as well take it.. haha

when it comes to "why don't i wanna get a girlfriend", it's just sensitive. it's not like i don't want to, it's more like i can't get one.. then again, i'd ask myself sometimes, do i really need a woman? been through 2 courtships in recent years, it didn't exactly turn out very well and i wasted a lot of time (longest was more than a year.. not the best experience to have).. maybe im still a little bitter from whatever happened, but i can say that im pretty happy with the way things are right now..

being in the current situation that i am in now, i can do anything i want without needing to think about my other half and pretty much go out with anyone that i want to without having the fear of being "caught" by friends (although rumours can be quite irritating)...

but i might just be in denial that i don't need a woman because i do feel like something's missing in life sometimes, but that might just be lust and lust dissipates faster than you can say "aye".. and by the time u realize it's lust, it's pretty much too late already.. haha...

heard this great song a week back during a drinking session with my friends at wala wala.. it's been ringing in my head since and i just can't get it out.. been humming a bit too much everyday until i think im irritating my buddy already.. but here's the lyrics anyway, haha...

Every time I think of you
I get a shot right through into a bolt of blue
It’s no problem of mine but it’s a problem I find
Living a life that I can’t leave behind
There’s no sense in telling me
The wisdom of a fool won’t set you free
But that’s the way that it goes
And it’s what nobody knows
And every day my confusion grows
Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I’m waiting for that final moment
You’ll say the words that I can’t say

I feel fine and I feel good
I feel like I never should
Whenever I get this way, I just don’t know what to say
Why can’t we be ourselves like we were yesterday
I’m not sure what this could mean
I don’t think you’re what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then we’d never see just what we’re meant to be
Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I’m waiting for that final moment
You’ll say the words that I can’t say

i've pretty much hit a writing block since i came back from field camp, the lerthagic feeling of writing is slowing lingering back after i managed to shake it off a while ago when i sorta migrated my site from the old one to this..

somehow i felt that the field camp did me some good, in a sense that being away from all the hustle of the concrete jungle and moments of solitude during the feel camp sorta got my head clearer for the first time in a few months, although it was pretty much tiring..

the feeling of being cut off from all means of communication can make one feeling quite uneasy at first, even to the extend of being insecure, but as i got used to it, it turned out to be quite a blessing.. i was able to gather some of my thoughts together and look at what was making me so frustrated these days..

although i've managed to gather my thoughts together, it's pretty much impossible to clear all of my frustrations in such a short span of 4 days.. but im really glad that i found a little bit of peace and at least im feeling a tad better than i was before..

and i kind of realized why i actually enjoyed solitude last time.. haha...

It's been a while since i last went a field camp and i kinda just came back from SUMMEX (summary exercise) today, which started from tuesday.. it's supposed to be the last outfield exercise before i wait to get commissioned, but noooooo, something had to happen yesterday, THE NIGHT BEFORE WE COME BACK TODAY... and because of that certain incident, i have to fucking go for another outfield exercise on the wednesday after national day because someone had to fuck it up...

should see the faces of everyone when the news was broken out to everyone.. this is a shit feeling.. and this is a long story, i'll probably take another post to say it all..

sandflies are evil, they make your hand swell when u wake up in the morning.. haha

time to chill with the peeps at wala.. later~