On 24th, went to bandung on car ride, left home at 9.30am. went past puncak, a mountain top area. It’s quite cold there… reached the hotel in Bandung at 3pm. It was a 190km trip from Jakarta… haha.. went to outlet to get 2 jeans, one blue one brown.. my first brown jean.. haha.. then went to the “Valley” restaurant to eat dinner… It was drizzling all the way there.. The restaurant itself was about 3/4 up a hill..ordered Korean lamb chop set but it was not out even after my cousins, aunt, uncle, dad and mum had eaten finished.. but it finally came out.. well.. chao da.. the waiter brought it back into the kitchen, but went back with the same piece and said that it was due to the honey.. wad?? So using honey means chao da food meh? Well, I changed to just lamb chop set… hehe.. bought tiramisu and a choco cake, forgot the name, on the way out..
On the 25th, Christmas day of course.. haha.. went for morning breakfast then went to some more outlet, then went to a shopping centre.. there is some barbie fare going on there.. went to sports station to buy a shoes, but either they dun’t have 47.5 or the shoe’s back part is not high enuff… my orthopedist said that I need a shoe that has high back support, something like basketball shoe… saw one adidas white color basketball shoe… managed to fit.. but my toes can’t move…. So didn’t buy.. then went to nike, they got one shoe, the jordan’s basketball shoe, the color was not very striking compared to other basketball shoe. Bought that one + a watch.
26th, in the morning, my mum said that there is an earthquake in medan, but thought it was just a normal one… went back to my aunt’s house to eat lunch in the afternoon, then set off to Jakarta… reached back house at 5.30 pm.. Dickson smsed to me asking if I and my family was alright due to the tsunami and earthquake… haha.. then after that went out with my mum to be the late “santa claus”.. haha.. give out some souvenirs…
Felt sorry and mourns for the Tsunami Victim.
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Haha.. Good news… I’m going to Bandung tomorrow until Sunday….
Ok.. Tuesday, went to mangga dua square with my cousin… went to her magazine shop.. It was located opposite of carrefour… the mall, mangga dua square was still very new and many shops that were still closed. Went back home at 2… then went with my mum to pick up her friend nearby my house before going to my dad’s office to pick him up. Went to my mum’s school reunion dinner.. The sch was no longer here.. The school was called “Xing Hua”. There is line dancing too…
Wednesday went to my aunt house to fix her COM.. Maybe it’s not fixed, it’s plugging those plugs in… but too bad that her monitor was “dead”. She told me to look for a new laptop for her… She gave me a chocolate bar with wine inside.. Has not been opened till now.. hehe.. Then went to my mum’s friend’s house or my “god-mother” house.. went there to take egg white, cause she bakes cakes, so she has a lot of egg white..
She holds me back so cause she wanted to give me a cake with cream and cheese on top. At night, went with my dad and mum to my that godmother’s house again to pick her and her husband up. We went to Mulia Hotel for a wedding party. The bridegroom’s name is Candy and the bride’s name is Susi. Candy’s parents are the owner of Wong Coco.. famous for it’s nata de coco… there were so many ppl even though there is afternoon session and night session… even the pastor’s family was invited.. Nurses and doctors from japan who took care of Candy’s mum were also given air tickets to come.. The food was also very nice.. sushi, sashimi, salmon encroute, peking duck and many more..
And also, wednesday was also Xue Heng's birthday.. smsed to him but got no reply.. Anyway.. Happy birthday..
Today went to pasar senen and pasar baru. Then went to the shoe maker, his house was quite far and had to enter a narrow road to get to his house.. The glue was still not very dry yet when we came.. The finished product was a sale that has the middle section raised up very high hoping that the feet would have an arc..
I have not really been packing for tomorrow’s trip.. hehe.. lazy to pack… oh ya… these few days had been looking for a university that offers nanotech as a course. Find it in NUS, Cambridge, new south wales, uni of Tokyo and etc.. thinking of going to Japan but the living cost there are very high… maybe India… haha.. Who knows?
Monday, December 20, 2004
First of all… happy birthday to soap and aurick… hehe… sorry soap if u dun receive my sms.. tried to send the msg using mine, my bro’s and my mum’s hp to send urs all cannot… get a pending report then a not sent report…
ok.. there’s a lot of happening here… I really wanted to go online and chat but sometime it’s just pure lazy after seeing the 52k connected bubble on the taskbar… ok.. my brother’s new black Honda city came on the 11th Nov… helped him to take off the plastics, vacuum, wash using the car shampoo, spray the tire shine, wipe the water repellent on the front screen… for wad? Cause my future da sao is coming form sg tt evening… haha.. He even put doraemon anti slip mat on the dashboard, doraemon tissue holder and doraemon neck rest….. haha… it really contrast with the black exterior…. Haha…
On the 12th, it’s a very good day.. Many people chose to have wedding on that day… my parents got 4 invitation.. 1 in the afternoon and 3 in the night… the morning one my bro and his gf went… I went with my dad to the yayasan… met with a guy in his 20+.. tok a lot… hehe.. he’s a nice guy.. there is also a free distribution on the “312” vcd.. it’s about videos of massage and traditional medicine… have not watched yet.. hehe..
On the nite, I went with my bro and gf to the intercontinental hotel.. my dad and mum went there earlier cause they needs to go to Borobudur after shaking hands… There is always jam in Jakarta nowadays… 1. due to the high increase of people having cars 2. some busy roads are very small and 3. due to the construction of the special lane for bus, called the busway… quite stupid… when we all are having jam, u can c those red and yellow bus zooming along the special lane… (it ate 1 car lane)… ok.. back to the hotel… when u go in, it was like a photo gallery.. there is many photos.. the bridegroom’s family own a photo studio… the food was also very nice… rarely there is such kind of food in the normal wedding.. hehe.. after that my bro and his gf took a lot of photos in the lobby, sofa, near the sugar and biscuit “house” and I’m the photographer… on the way home, near my dad’s office, there is a traffic light.. suddenly a man ran to the car infront of us (Honda stream) and tried to pry open the side mirrors… the car horned and moved forward and use the car’s internal control to close the mirror… yeah.. the mirror was saved… it was quite scary though.. thinking that u could just be the victim… one of my car’s side mirror has been pryed open once too.. ate bbq banana with choco and cheese..
On Monday, went to mangga dua (two mangga) it’s a shopping center.. bought adobe cs all in one platinum collection dvd, Microsoft flight simulator 2005 gold edition dvd, Norton internet security 2005, pc premiere 2005, windows service pack and update center, windows xp corporate edition with sp 2, GCSE history and geography, swift 3d version 4… haha.. then bought 2.1 speakers for my mum’s com… it cost about $24.. not bad lar.. then move my mum’s com from my sis’s room to my room… hehe.. almost complete.. got a tv, dvd player, com, phone, hifi.. left a microwave…. Haha.. jkjk.. and my bro’s gf went back to medan for a week or so b4 coming back here…
On Tuesday stayed at home.. my aunt’s com was in my house after she asked her com teacher to install chine input software for $40.. so, my clever mum brought her newly installed com home and ask me to c if I know wad software is it… wah.. it’s actually the microsoft’s chine input support.. I installed in my mum’s com using the win xp cd and it’s done… the crazy teacher charged the lesson $10 for 4 times in a month and now he charged $40 for that installation?.. he just need a copy of windows’s xp cd which he can bought for $4… wad the…
My bro bought need for speed underground 2… installed it on my dad’s com.. and dunno why the graphic was terrible… cannot even c the car… and the problem is that the graphic card’s driver is not installed.. after installation.. it was better… but after playing for about 30 min, it hanged…. I restarted and installed the asus pc probe and found out that the processor was 60 0C when I check, so it maybe was around 65 when it hanged..
On wed went to my dad’s office.. went to the SPG (sales promotion girl) meeting in the meeting room… then interview with my bro 3 ppl applying to be SPG.. after lunch, went to mangga dua again to bought 3 fans, 2 for my dad’s com and 1 for my mum’s com.. after installing the fans, the temp was still quite high.. and still hanged after playing for a while… so my bro just get the big floor fan and on it… haha… that nite he kept switching between his game and the pc probe to c if the temp is too high… and he will wait a while till the temp drop…
On Thursday, it was a not much day… wanted to pump the tires of my bike but the air compressor broke down as when I took it out from the cupboard, the box gave way and it hit the floor… my mum told me that there is a new electric bike in the storeroom… my mum and I need to carry it out as the tires were flat and they were really heavy…. It was the bike which my grandma won during one of the draw in yayasan… so that afternoon went to carrefour to buy a foot pump... pumped all the four tires… it was much easier than expected….. haha… then charged the bike from evening till midnight…
today went to the shoes maker… he was not an orthopedist but he makes shoes for flat footed ppl… due to the jam, I arrived there at around 5+. But the doctor was still on his way, about 1 more hour before he can arrive there. So I go to block M mall with my mum. Bought a shirt. My mum received a call from there saying that he will be arriving in 10 mins. So we went there and got caught in a half an hour jam. The shoe maker took my shoe so that he can make the sole’s size just nice. I have to collect it in his home on next Thursday.
Sat… went to yayasan in the morning with my dad for Christmas celebration. It was not our celebration but the yayasan school’s students’ celebration. Got singing and performance and cause it’s a Christian sch, there is praying too. The students were from kindergarten till primary 6. some looks really very cute… hehe.. after that went to my dad’s office. Was caught in the jam for half an hour.. his security alarm got some problem.. cannot be activated from wed night. So one of the serviceman came. I ordered 2 fried rice from the next door restaurant. When my dad asked me wat I bought, he was surprised that I ordered 2 cause he said the portion was very big.. so changed to 1 plate of fried rice and 2 fried eggs.. and indeed the portion was very big and it was delicious.. guess how much a plate cost? $3!!!! Haha… the serviceman was very courteous too but he took a long time to repair… needs to reset all over… but by around 4.30. it was finished.
My bro was at his gf’s relative car audio shop… he was transferring the power amplifier from one of the cars that gone be sold soon to his new car… haha.. took a long time to fix them… went with my dad and mum to eat Japanese food… it was still quite ok.. not really very superb but also not very bad. My bro didn’t went to eat with us cause he needs to wait till it’s finished. When I went back home, he was at home already.. went to test the audio… well.. not bad.. the bass was very strong.. due to the big round subwoofer, the size of a 4 gallon water bottle. Those sitting at the back seat will be ready to have a heart attack anytime..
Today, went to yayasan in the morning again.. got the young’s meeting.. first meeting though.. introduce yourself, sch, hobby,…. My bro also went with me.. it’s supposed to start at 10, but only start at 11+… by 12, most ppl are bored.. they gave a slice of pizza… and after that I and my bro went home… haha.. my bro find it very very very boring…. But there is some points very interesting to me.. they said that we no need to care so much about the funds for organizing things… there’s a lot of sponsors… they said for example if we want to order 10 coms, go for a picnic, all is ok.. well.. maybe can be one of my way to have an unlimited money support to build the next supercomputer.. haha.. jkjk…
Then went to plaza senayan… same thing, JAM!!! Went to metro but didn’t find anything nice…. Went to starbucks, bought 2 drinks and 1 frappucino brownies. My dad got 2 shirts. He wanted to bought a blanket which was discounted from $160 to $100… but too bad the brown colour was not in stock… so went to another sogo and bought the blanket… then went to garuda to eat (a padang restaurant) erm…very nice chicken there...
Monday morning went to my aunt house to bring her cpu.. but she told me not to fixed them first as she may want to place it on another place. Went there to also took a new maid to my house cause my aunt has too many. Then went to my cousin’s house to see her 8 months old baby, named verily. Went with her to the doc to get a jab… planned to went to mangga dua square where her new magazine shop is… but no time cause my mum went to the tailor first…
Watched some movies on dvd (some were my cousins’s collection):
1. spiderman 2, very nice show!
2. minority report, nice but a bit hard to understand
3. the incredibles, nice, but action is too short
4. shrek, nice
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Herm….. have not blogged for a very very long time..well.. got a 3 day it club camp in com lab 1.. impressed by the all of the finished products.. haha.. we’re doing the school corporate video anyway. Well.. ms tan ordered mcd, pizza and last day chicken rice… many ppl fell sick on the second day so very little ppl came on the third day… me? I fell sick too when I woke up on the Sunday, 1 day after the whole thing is over… well, tt day got first lego league (fll) meeting.. dicky, kai2 and alloy is coming to finish the research and the bot… I was having fever.. 38.4 0C… so I slept for most of the time.. hehe… the Monday was the fll interview in science center… dicky’s mum came to my house to pick us there.. (they stayed overnight).. I was still cutting the pages of the big book on the car when I asked alloy to take over cause I’m not feeling well…. And yeah… my house is in a mess… dicky boiled egg for breakfast but the shells are everywhere in my kitchen.. and my livin room was full of lego parts… haha… reached science ctr at almost 9….. kia liang came with his mum and his beautiful model of the school… (impressed!)… went to the auditorium… waited for quite a while b4 going to the interview rm… well… it was not very smooth… maybe cause the interviewee b4 us was chij and u know.. they really took a long long time inside the room… so when the it was our turn, the judges’ expectation would be high… haix… went home after tt.. all went back home except kai who went to my house.. helped to clean my house.. haha.. thx by the way.. then slept for a while b4 continuing with the robot.. we were behind time… the robot semmed to go hay wire as to say… dicky and alloy came later in the afternoon… and continue with the bots… on Tuesday is the real competition in rulang primary sch.. somewhere near jurong, lakeside to be exact.. dicky and alloy fell sick too… alloy fever of 39.4 and dicky fever of unknown temp (we didn’t go and measure).. mdm tan was there.. she asked dicky to went home.. alloy got to stay cause he’s our robot builder…. We were “quarantined”, I mean all of the competitors, in 12 classroom… we were in classroom 2… yu kai and kl went for the first 2 hour free tryout… they tried to correct those small small errors in the programming… on the first try out, I went wif yu kai there.. well.. got 0 points… but total of 12 due to the bonus point… main mistake: alloy was supposed to go up as he knew how to fix those changeable mechanisms which he built, but he was sick… the second time was the real run… scored 50+ points I think… still no gd huh… 1 stupid mistake was tt cause kai use the wrong program with the wrong mechanism… so… if I’m not wrong, chij won.. followed by darren’s team if I’m not wrong… I was sleeping most of the time when I reached home… mum called after on wed… said she wanted to come tt evening.. but I said no need.. my fever had developed into fever + flu+ sore throat+ cough… quite bad.. went to doc on thurs.. and went back indo on the Friday.. 26th November.. changed the departure date tt morning.. original date was on the first of dec.. and I cant go to citex… the computer fare.. argh.. but heard tt the fare was not very gd.. Sleep, tv, eat, read and eat medicine for the first few days I spent in indo… checked my blood on sat… results of my sph was low 130 (minimum was about 140)… the doc said if goes lower may cause thifes (dunno wad’s in eng called). Drank lots of guava juice and pocari sweat drink… and when check again on the Tuesday I think.. it had risen to 195.. interesting… haha.. and I was not allowed to eat meat by the way for those few days… Well.. fever is gone… but till today still got cough.. the yayasan, (fu zou gong hui) place where ppl meet got a free sin seh visit from 2nd dec till 6th dec.. (my grandP and parents were members)… they were on chine exchange program and of coz they were from china… there were 5 docs.. went with my bro to the bone doc to check cause my dad got some bone prob… but the doc said my bones were fine.. ok.. the next day went to the internal doc for my nose allergy.. but he said nothing and prescribed med for my cough… my dad went to eat with the docs with some other ppl on every nite and they went to a supermarket on the last day… grabbed lots of things… local coffee… sweets especially (ginger, coffee, orange…..), maybe in china they dun have it… Ok.. internet here is 56k… so I sometimes dun feel like going online at all…
