Training up

I'm getting myself training up physically with sports like table tennis, badminton and soccer.
I have make it a point with my engineer at my work place to play table tennis every thursday after working hours.

Today I got my debut at badminton. I'm not good at it, but I'll be trying hard to learn it better.
As for my soccer, we had formed a team finally, can't wait to get our jersey this sunday and play as a better team.

Well, I also intend to be mentally strong!! hehe! With chess!!
Right now, it seems like I'm the sensei, teaching my engineers and colleagues the game of wei qi.
Well, they are certainly very keen, and even my supervisor had began learning and bought a board from taiwan haha.
(I'm becoming his supervisor instead =P )

I'm glad to come upon such 'on' people hehe!
Think my trip here is really not wasted and I will miss it when it ends.

Good times,
zhaoru.

Anger! Don't read!

Friend is not a name u give to people u know,
usually it is for someone who understand u ,
critics and complains don't promote friendship,
killing off communication kills out friendship too.

Otherwise, you don't deserve to be a friend
friends persuade, suggest and encourage,
friends don't do it the other way!

This is an unfriendly note,
zhaoru.

Im NOT Referring to YOU!

(some misunderstanding)

Good Friday

Yeah! I had quite enjoyed the good friday break today!
I got a few friends together and played table tennis near my place where I lived.
But the playing session turned out to be teaching session! ^___^

Certainly, I hoped I'm not a bad coach on table tennis. And I can see they were trying hard to learn the game well too.
It takes some time to be able to cope with the rhythm of the game, so need some patience and practice.

Oh yar! Our breakfast came late!!! Our dear sleepyhead chef overslept, who wanted to prepare breakfast for all of us hehe ^____^ eventually become a tea break snack like that.

So we had to fill our stomach with proper lunch at Long John Silver (YESSS, my favourite fast food) and then carry on with our next activity---- time for Movie!

Takes a while to decide on which show and where to watch it, but in order to keep it convenient for our "driver" we placed the location at either Bishan or AMK, yep! And we went AMK for the show Ms Congenality 2 Armed and Fabulous.
Let's leave the show for the audience and I'm not going to discuss it =P

After the show, we decided to spend the whole day together, so we went to arcade while the girls go shopping ^^.
I had all my tokens to the game Winning Eleven, a soccer game available at arcade mode now, used to be in PlayStation only. I found the button lay-out very poor, couldn't really get used to it. And yup, that will be the reason for my defeats at the game wahahhaa~~~

Then we make ourselves comfortable at a nearby taiwanese crusine restaurant for dinner.
Well, the food were quite nice, but the variety of choices weren't plenty. Price was quite alright too for 5 persons to eat there. So we tucked in rice into our stomach together with the dishes ordered, and had a chat there.

We told each others of our life at our Industrial Attachment, well did expect some whinings and funny stuffs heh. Anyway, just talked talked listened listened, then the next moment we were back to our car.

It's time to head back since it was rather late. Some of us still had to travel via public transport since they don't live near my area. We went our separate ways after dropping at the bus stop and train station.

This seems pretty like a diary. ^___^ just to note it down!
zhaoru.

Myself, my liking.

As I approach my last year of study and towards my working days, I hope to do more things which I like.

Seems like I got two sides of extreme hobbies: I go out for rugged games and at home I do sketches and drawings.

I love the excitement and team commitment for a victory!
On the other hand, I love to practice the way I draw for perfection!

Well, that is some kind of wishful thinking~~
=P

I'm neither a kiasu person or a perfectionist.
But when I'm involved in a game, I will do my best!
When I draw, I hope to get the sense of satisfaction by able to draw out the pose, action that I wish to express.

And by doing so, I hope people can appreciate my hard work, and I can also improve myself.

No one is perfect, No one will be perfect,
But we strive for perfection,
In order to prove ourselves,
To determine the purpose of our existence.
zhaoru.

lately lately...

For recent weeks, I have been indulging into the world of sports.
It had really been a long time since I last played one of my favourite game - table tennis.

So I went and bought everything, 2 bats, a good net, and 3stars table tennis balls!
Yep, and even the maintenance kit, also had bought them too.

Call me fanatic, but I don't care. I miss the days I were playing with my friends.
Well, I called up the "squad" and we had a game together, there were my best friend ah peng, ah chun and my brother.
We had a good time playing and challenging each other, full of crap while playing ^___^a
Most importantly, we talked about the days when we trained together etc.
And when we were little boys, we always hoped to get a 3star ball! So precious to us, so rare.
And now we realised our little "dream" it just feel kinda special!

Well, next game to conquer! ---- Badminton!!!!
See ya on the court! (I'm going to learn to play it better) ^^V
zhaoru.

Gatherings

Last saturday, I had a NTU friends gathering. We went out in a group for lunch and movie. And later part splited into a smaller group to visit the IT fair held at Suntec. And in a party of three, we watched another movie.

Movies watched: Hitch, Mr. Boogeyman
Ratings: 8, 7 out of 10 respectively

Future plans ahead: Visit the Zoo! or for another show!

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Just tuesday, I gathered with my secondary school friends to have dinner after my work. Listened to their men's talk and update on how they are getting about now.

Things we talked about: Diablo II, ah boy's adventure.

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Today, I met up with 2 seniors and 2 friends from my JC batch. We went to had a game of pool and participated in some arcade gaming. Had been enjoyable.

Future plans: Meet up for badminton games.

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Heh hopefully more and more people can join in to the gatherings.

"There's no such thing as you're busy and can't make it, it's only a matter of you want to be present or not."
Zhaoru.

Ms Smiley, Peizhen. 

Drawing

Have you tried drawing a smile on a face while you're not feeling happy?
I did.

And I always failed to even sketch out a smile, it is impossible at least to me, to draw it when I'm feeling low.

Therefore, for every picture I drawn that has a smile, it usually represents the moment while I was drawing it that I was wearing a smile too.
A sketch might took only 15minutes of my time, but it means 15minutes of time, 900seconds of time I was happy.

Maybe some day, I can take out my collection of drawings out and count the number of pictures with a smile. From there, I would know how much time I was feeling happy, at least.

A picture that paints more than a thousand words,
zhaoru.

sleepyhead 

in love 

sensation 

let my pics do the talking...

A picture of myself walking along a long path,
as I was walking towards home, I was accompanied by the wind... ...

wind, lead me the way 

my breeze 

bored 

A visit

Today, we went to visit my mum's sister (zi yi)<---teochew, 2nd aunt.
Heard she had just recovered from her illness and is now feeling better, so my mum, sis and I went to visit her.
Along the way, we bought an apple strudel to give to her!
When we arrived, we had a long conversation with her. She told us that she don't eat strudel, so we decided to eat it then. Yeah! My first time eating a strudel ^___^V

Well, the crust of the pie is crispy, there are small bite size apple and cream and some cai yan(something like pudding) in the pie. First piece tasted excellent, but the second piece I took, I felt it was too much. So, as a caution to others, don't take too many serving of strudel at one shot!! lol.

Then Ah Heng Gor Gor came back home, and had ta bao food for us along the way. As we eat, we catch up with each other of the old memories, the best hai nan chicken rice with the best chicken rice chilli we had always tasted at our old house there, the best cha gueh tiao at my Primary school canteen etc. Yummy! I still remember all those taste and smell of the great chefs! It's a pity that nowaday, even with TV nominated best chicken rice and cha gueh tiao, I still can't find SOMEone who can truely claim the no.1 spot.
It's even sadder that they had retired long time ago, and that not many people choose to believe what I said about the BEST hai nan chicken rice and cha gueh tiao I had tasted. T___T

It is also one reason why when someone tell me "hey! the chicken rice there good!" or "cha gueh tiao here is NICE!" I always doubt so.
They might be not bad tasting, but to me it is still not up to standard yet.
I guess it is very fortunate for me to taste so far the best hai nan chicken rice and cha gueh tiao especially during my childhood days.

Okay... back to the subject of this header, I can't control myself with all these good food experiences.
As we continued chatting, I realised that I had not seen my cousin (Ah Heng and his siblings) for 14YEARS since I moved to Hougang. Oh gosh! I still get to meet my 2nd aunt as on big occasions but not her sons and daughter ( all older than me)
WOW 14 years seems so long, yet it is like a short while had just passed and there, we met again.

I missed my old house,
zhaoru.

學業之道

記得中四會考後的那時, 我選擇了與朋友們不同的路.
結果, 要等上了將尽五年的時光, 我們才再度聚在一起.

如今, 到了大學工程系第四年的專業選課了, 我又做了自己的選擇.
一想到這, 不禁讓我再度亂想, 害怕這又是我與新的朋友們的分散點...

這些可能就是學業的交叉路口, 一旦踏出了第一步, 就無法隨意回頭的一條路.
唯一可慰的是, 希望能再有一天, 在人海茫茫中碰面.
渴望到時, 不只是打個招呼而已, 也能找個地方坐下, 閑聊閑聊...

昭如.