nice graduation song....

sayounara is not a sad word!

student version

7 days of Hong Kong -> Shengzhen -> Macau -> Zhuhai -> Macau -> Hong Kong

Day 1 - Hong Kong

HK international airport... this area is new! it wasn't here when I was here 3years ago! This is my 2nd trip to HK.... my first was just before I enlisted in sept 2006...

Hello Tsim Sha Tsui~!!! one look... u can tell its HK! HK has this unique look... those neon billboards hanging around the buildings...

The night life of HK is amazing... its like no one is gonna work tomorrow!!! it's sooo packed everywhere!

The trip was before halloween so alot places have alot of halloween related stuff... even kinder bueno too! haha... and... throughout the whole trip... my cousins keep eating this non stop!!

Can you stop my aunt? haha... if you go HK... you die die must try "xu liu shan"... it is a very famous chain of dessert shops.... it is sooooo gooood that u will want more n MORE!

They are very famous for their mango dessert! The mango is not sour kind but the sweet version... really really nice~!!!

This is the first time i tried their carrot cake in the shop... previously i just had the fruitty desserts that's all... this is not any ordinary carrot cake... there's salty squid!!! ITS DAMM NICE.... the salty squid taste really good tgt with the crispy carrot cake and best of all... it goes well with the mango dessert... so one mouth of salty stuff and one mouth of sweet stuff... and you keep alternate it.... WOW! totally crazy~!!! *warning... very addictive... not suitable for those undergoing strict diet program*

Our day 1 just ended like that with just dinner, desserts and some shopping...

Day 2 - Hong Kong -> Shengzhen

This whole trip I was with my family through out... 9 of us. It was rather hazy and cant see the view of the building cleary across the sea...

CHECK OUT MY GRANDMA~!!! she so funky dunky!! haha... we asked her to pose like a super star and that's her signature pose throughout the trip!!! She is only 70 this year! SO CUTE! hahahaa...

This is my mama! haha... irritating but adorable mother... most of my genes are from her... we both are lame, crazy, naggy, irritating, funny and hyper! haha... more exciting photos coming up later!!! *keep scrolling*

Granny and I posing with BRUCE LEE....

seriously... how can the chair support both my mother and my mother's mother weight! LOL...

IT'S AL!!! ALVIN LEE NOT ANDY LAU! *LOL* one of my favourite HK actor!

If you always watch HK movies and dramas, you will realised this is a very typical scene of gang fight... I always wanted to check out all these places and take some photo...

OH NO~! can u see that guy is carrying a parang and walking towards me!?

HAHA... my mother and my aunt trying to scare that "gangster" off... ok... actually I have no idea who are they...

After the morning tour, we head towards Tung Chung where we will take a cable car up and visit the super huge buddha statue.

The cable car journey was really really long... at least 20mins!

Can you see the buddha at the back?

It is a long way up! So this whole area is call Ngong Ping.. Nothing much except the cable car and the huge Buddha statue.

After walking around... we took train and head towards shengzhen...

Can you spot something wrong in the photo? no prize for that!!! well... WELCOME TO CHINA - Shengzhen... we went for late night shopping after we check into our hotel...

Day 3 - Shengzhen

More shopping at shengzhen the next day... and check out what's wrong with this... sportful garden!? how cool huh!

wow... i wish i can show you my body and slim down just like that! this is really the best!

We went to the arcade for awhile... My grandma went to play this machine which she had no idea how to play! End up she got so many tickets!!

Went back to Dongmen and continue to shop other areas. The place is really big... then I saw this shop...... for those who do not understand chinese... this shop sells DUCK NECK! I know there is DUCK TONGUE... but i didn't know there is DUCK NECK!! GROSS~!!!

This bruce lee lookalike is actually China very own chinese fast food... the words mean real gong fu! Their layout of the place and the logo colour is very similar to KFC...

This is a standard set meal of rice with vegetable, pork and soup. NO DRINKS!

Chinese food in Singapore is very different from China's chinese food. China's chinese is sooooooo much more oily and salty! Look at this soup! SO MUCH OIL~!! so scary...

So I was very bored while waiting for the rest to finish eating... I began to scoop the top layer of oil and put it on another plate... can you see a big puddle of oil with alot other small bubble of oil???

You know how to combine all the small bubble and make it one big puddle of oil???

Let Mr Bored teach you... first.. use a chopstick and keep tapping on the small puddle of oil... it will slowly merge with other small puddle and form medium size... slowly they will form with the big and TADA!!! you got one BIG PUDDLE OF OIL~!!! can you see the difference in the two photos?? This is what happen when you get really really bored... TRY IT NEXT TIME... ITS FUN!

Jay Chou is everywhere in CHINA~!!! endorsed so many clothing brand and even instant bubble tea~!! I bought this instant bubble tea to try it out.... will let you know once i try it out!

Day 4 - Shengzhen - Macau

We took a ferry from shengzhen to macau... and... we are staying at 6 stars hotel! VENETIAN HOTEL~!!! THIS HOTEL IS SOOOOOO BIG~!! I think it is as big as Ngee Ann Poly + SIM campus! yes! that big.... there is Casino (duh!), expo indoor (which lady gaga was having a concert inside recently) and mega shopping centre inside!!

My grandma again... she so funny.

Bathroom! so nice!

Living room!

After check-in, we left the hotel and head to the town area...

Macau's building is so influence by portuguese and i felt like i am in europe!

Do you eat this? It smells really good but I dun like to eat it...

My aunt brought us to this famous noodle restaurant in Macau...

The whole history of the shop is written on it... enjoy reading!

They have this wanton which is SUPER BIG~!!! BIGGER THAN MY FIST!!! so interesting! Its nice and not too oily.. dip with the vinegar... NICE!

Too bad I was very full from my delicious noodle and BIG wanton... this look sooooo nice~!!! ahhhh....

Cant remember what is the name of this church... it's located in the main town area...

the interior is soooooooooo NICE! though it's kinda old...

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if you go macau.... you die die must try their portuguese egg tart! IT's SOOOO NICE~!!!!

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Until much later on then I get a little more hungrier... went to this ireland's potato! It's actually potate with different kind of sauce and seasoning... not bad!!

Finally reached the place... this church was ruined n just left this! quite nice huh... i have no idea why my mum suddenly just hug me like this~!!?!?? hahaa

more pose? haha

nothing much in the town area in macau... quite boring actually.. except the food... so we head back to the hotel...

This is part of the shopping area in venetician hotel... artificial sky... so nice huh... I AM IN EUROPE!

VENICE~!! You can pay to sit on the boat and someone will sing opera to you!!

This is the main entrance to the casino...

on the ceiling is this... so nice right! really felt like i am in europe!

wow... look at the gamblers! Casino really makes alot of money! I wish i own casino...

I went to the casino with my mother. It was actually my first time! My mum gave me SGD$100 to gamble... but i just keep it in my wallet for shopping... haha.. better right!? If gamble, sure lose... So i walked around.... then i saw there is this game call CRAPS!! hahaa... I am serious! it's call CRAPS! too bad I cant take any photo of it. If not I will show you!

Day 5 - Macau -> Zhuhai -> Macau

Zhuhai is just directly north of Macau. It's like JB which is north of SG. We head over for a day trip of shopping and sightseeing..

Zhuhai is quite similar to shengzhen. Looks more dangerous and messy. If I am not traveling with my family, I think i won't want to go over alone...

I don't dare to eat anything from all these food stalls!

plus all these road side stalls... the traffic is very bad over there. the drivers just turn when and where they want.... in the end, we found the huge underground shopping area and bought some stuff before heading back to macau.

Day 6 - Macau -> HK

Venetician Hotel is soooo rich that it has its own ferry port and ferry!!! So we head back to HK and head towards disneyland!

Special Mickey mouse train!

My mum.. haha.. I found this angle to take photo.. quite interesting huh...

Everything is MICKEY! even the bus driver's license is printed on the mickey mouse paper!!

HK DISNEYLAND!!! i didn't go in... because i actually been to tokyo disneyland already and i don't really like disneyland... the rides are too kiddy and each ride you have to wait more than 1hr plus. Totally crazy! So My aunt and I went to shop while the rest of the family members went in...

CHECK THIS OUT!! The sweeper at disneyland can draw mickey with his BROOM~!! damm cool!!!

We went to stay 1 night at Disney Hollywood Hotel..... almost everything in the room is mickey...

body soap n shampoo bottle also mickey!!

I am not so much a mickey or disney person...

Day 7 - HK... still

Ocean park!! finally i am here after hearing so much about this place!

My grandma is really for Halloween~!!

My mum pose everywhere she goes... she dun mind people staring at her!

The view is soooo sooo nice and the weather was super good...

My mum, me and my two cousins went to take the roller coaster... the view is super good on this ride!!!! (one of my cousin chicken out!)

Alot of tourists keep snapping photo... must visit ocean park if you go hk!

The water show at ocean park was kind of disappointing.. probably i saw better one before which is at Australia's Sea World.

SUNSET!! nice huh? I discovered how to use my sunset setting in my camera properly!!

After a long day at ocean park, we went to hotel to rest and wash up a little before going for our last dinner at HK! My aunt brought us to this seafood place... I have no idea where but it's kinda near our hotel. She said it is very famous and alot of tourists and locals come here to eat.

hmmm... staring hard at the menu....

My aunt ordered this~!!!! do you have any idea what is this!?!?!? its called mantis shrimp! Its like half crayfish half prawn!

It's damm creepy! its like eating some alienated crustaceans!!! but i had fun trying to peel it with just using chopsticks!! The meat is like prawn but tasted a little....yucky? dun like it at all... so i just keep peeling n peeling for my mum to use... haha

My uncle is the best... he just keep peeling all!! hahaa... champion!

End of our HK adventure!! Next friday.... my JAPAN trip with family... again... with my mum, younger brother, grandma and aunt isabel!! so I will be MIA for 2 weeks!! mean while I will blog a few more times before I fly off!!!!! To those still having exams, JUST HANG ON A LITTLE MORE!! IT's gonna before soon!!!

This guy rocks!

this is like cat fight!

Poly gathering!

This is soooo overdue! haha.. its before my exam.. the 4 of us meeting up for dinner... all 4 of us from biotech/biomed @ NP.... now all SIM... hahhaa... none of us doing wat we did in NP... lol..

yao and princess! hhaha

me n elaine! we both stay yishun!! hahaha...

this is wat elaine ordered!! so nice right...

yao's! the fish is nice! yum yum!!!

waiting for the rest of our food...

MINE~!!! so nice right! i love the meat patties! hoho...

salad nice~!!! 4 of us sharing this... too much food... cant finish!!!

princess ordered this!! nice nice~!!!

i add this fishy to my rice! nice~!!!

i love the side dish... eggplant! yum!

CLOSER LOOK AT MY MEAT PATTIES~!!! BOOMZ totally!

i just came back from hk... everything is in a messed... history repeated...

anyway... just wanna share this song with u all.... Hirai Ken - Boku wa kimi ni koi wo suru (I want to fall in love with you)

i like the chorus n it goes...

さようなら、ありがとう、すきだよ、すきだよ

さようなら、　笑ったよ、泣くなよ

何度も、何度でも、君に恋をする

sayounara, arigatou, suki da yo, suki da yo

sayounara, waratta yo, nakunayo

nandomo, nandodemo, kimi ni koi wo suru

goodbye, thank you, i like you, i like you

goodbye, laughed, cried

many times, regardless how many times, i wanna fall in love with you....

for you

SOE - SSA - SIM

Remember few weeks ago i posted an entry on Spirit of Enterprise (SOE)? What Spirit of Enterprise (SOE) is all about~!? the picture says it all...

You may be wondering how I know about SOE? I really have no idea what is SOE all about a year ago... I actually know SOE through our very own SIM Student Portal~!! yes! the one that you use it to check all the news and notices... many SIM students didn't know how many good stuff there!!!

One fine day, I just click and check out my student portal and found out about SOE. By the way, I would like to start up my own business one day and so I thought this program by SOE is really amazing. I have the chance to find my own entrepreneurs to interview and learn from them.

This year 2009, I interviewed 2 entrepreneurs during my school holidays in May.

The first one is actually my poly senior's family business.... their business in mannequin! yes... one of the rare trade in Singapore... so check out the link to learn more~!!

Ms Susan Ong Sock Tin

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http://www.soe.org.sg/files/interview2009.php?i=415&a=&c=&year=2009

The second one is a favourite hang out cafe which my SIM classmate introduced to me. I love it so much that I decided to interviewed the owner! She is a Japanese and there were communication barriers, luckily I knew some conversational Japanese and managed to complete the whole interview.

Mrs Hideo Sekine And Setsuko Sekine

KAEDE INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD

http://www.soe.org.sg/files/interview2009.php?i=344&a=&c=&year=2009

I hope my nominees will win the award this year~!! ALL THE BEST!

This year is the first time we have an interaction session with all other student interviewers... in the past, all students did and submitted their work without knowing each other... thus, this year we decided to do things differently.

Our first meet up session was at 18 chefs... they have a few outlets island wide... they just opened one near my house at northpoint!! Benny, the boss was one of the past nominees for SOE. Benny was an ex-convict. Yes... and he turned over a new leaf and set up his business and hire only ex convict. It is already difficult for a typical Singaporean to set up a business, so can you imagine how difficult is it for an ex convict to set up one? I believed everyone deserved a second chance in life... during the sharing session, benny shared a lot of important messages with us....

All of the students, we started off introducing ourselves and of course, a short summary on our interviewing process with our entrepreneurs!

A group photos of all the students who came (many couldn't make it) and Kelly, the executive director of SOE, also our mentor! It was such an amazing experience which led me to attend the next SOE event!!!

I am sure some of you have been to Villa Bali... yes.. we had our next sharing session at Villa Bali... and of course.. venue and food were sponsored by Mr Robin, the owner of Villa Bali. Previously, we only invited student interviewers of 2009 but this time round we invited student interviewers from the previous batches!

That is Mr Robin, owner of Villa Bali. Beside him is Mr Thomas, who owned a pest control company!

Do you know that it is because of the Bali bombing which resulted Mr Robin to move his previous business from Bali to Singapore? Yes.. that is how Villa Bali is born...

So during the whole session, we heard how the entrepreneurs started out their business...

In addition, the official launch of Spirit of Enterprise Student Alumni (SSA). I was invited to be part of the committee of SSA. Unfortunately, I have to turn them down due to my commitment in SIM Canoe Polo but I told them I will be a free lance helper for them~!!! :)

Sorry for the flat hairdo! I rushed from my training to attend the session! Together with me is Vui Sin and Wei Jie, the 3 of us have the same dream of setting up business in the F&B industry...

What's with this photo?? THAT VUI SIN! yeah... remember last week there were some demonstrations at the atrium? yeah... that's vui sin... just like me... we both set up our own club in SIM...

I felt that setting up a club in SIM is an "entrepreneuring" experience because we have to start from nothing... start to think how can we get people to join us... get the school to support us.. in fact the school is very supportive of us! So our clubs are just like babies... we see them slowly grow up...

at the infant stage when it needed the most care and attention... nurture it the right way and it will start to walk on its own and eventually be independent... so i use this opportunity in SIM to learn and experience the "entrepreneuring" process...

You know where this is... but do you know where I view it from?

You may guess it right... It is from National Library at Level 16 The Pod, a venue not open to public... This is the place SOE & SSA had the very first Celepreneur event!

With great venue... we were lucky to have one of the past nominees to sponsor our event as well....

Formula for Successful event = Great Food + Great Venue + Great Speaker + Great organising committee

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the audience waited patiently for our celepreneur Vernetta Lopez!

oh by the way... I gave out my 20 complimentary tickets within half a day after posting! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT~!!!

CAMERA, LIGHT, ACTION!

Being a celepreneur (an entrepreneur who is an celebrity) is not easy... Vernetta told us that because she is a celebrity, a lot of attention is on her and if her business fail, she will fall harder than normal entrepreneur. Thus, the stress is really heavy and her tight schedule didnt make it any better. Time management is the key to solve it. I will load up the youtube link once I receive it from SSA. Hope everyone can learn and get some tips from Vernetta :)

Photos with Mr Charles, Owner of Purple Sage, Kelly, Vernetta, Mr Robin and the rest of the student committee of SSA!

Another shot together with the moderator!

Cassandra (NUS), Me (SIM), Raymond (NTU), Jian He (SIM), Christina (NTU) and Vui Sin (SIM)

So out of the 6 of us, half is from SIM~!

It's been great fun working with Vui Sin and Cassandra :)

For those who would like to join or help out the events, do stay tune to my blog or your can email me! :)

Last but not least.... HOW CAN I NOT TAKE INDIVIDUAL PHOTO WITH MY IDOL!!! VERNETTA LOPEZ~!!!!! I GOT HER NAME CARD!!! muahauhauha are u all jealous~?!

Lesson of the Blog:

Entrepreneurs are successful not only because they DARE to DREAM but they WORK towards their DREAM....

If talk is cheap, then dreams are free...

The only converters for dreams to reality is Hard work...

So what are your dreams?

or have you been dreaming?

Stop living in a nightmare...

Start chasing after your dreams... :)

Erubin

Overdue post~!! F1 Puma party with Grace and Cheryl

enjoying our champagne~! yums~!! hahaa...

xue er with her new hairstyle~!!!! i am not used to it~!!! hahaha

hahha i trying to move back n make grace face look bigger~!!! hahaha

the 3 of us... hiak hiak...

cheers~!!! hehe

later on went to rebel to meet eric n jed... hahahaa quite a fun nite... and i feel so overage at rebel~!!!

I AM BACK BLOGGING~!!! Wei Zhen 22nd birthday~!!

Happy birthday wei zhen~!! so sorry couldnt join u all as i having my photoshoot~!!!!! so i just had dinner with ade n jess~!!!

ade.. hahaha wore the same checkered shirt hahahaha

jessss~!!! hahaha

taking pic for us~!!

aiyo... not on purpose can~! couple wear ah~!! :P

jess treating wei zhen to drink the green tea~!!

The Blue Mansion - Coming Soon 22 Oct

I just caught the media screening for blue mansion... and I LOVE IT! its a mystery/comedy show... the acting by all my fav actors n actresses.... especially neo swee lin... its really twisting n local films are good ok~!! This belong to the good local film category....

GOOD NEWS~!! I have 20 complimentary tickets for Celebpreneur events! email me at canoepolo7@gmail.com :)