A friend posted this video on facebook. Look like lion dance but not lion dance. Look like hip hop but not entirely hip hop. Quite an interesting fusion I’d say. What’s your take?
And the winners of the tickets are..
Here’s the list of winners!
- Alyssa Chua
- Rebecca Tan
- Eevon Ng
- James Soh
- Benjamin Loh
Congratulations! I’ll be dropping you guys an email on the collection of the tickets.
Thanks for everything
A last hug, with a simple “thanks for everything”, closed a (small) chapter of my life.
Can’t help but recall those days, when I had a crush on you throughout the years in school, but had no courage to confess. Those days where I’ll always sneak a peek at you, out of the corner of my eye. Those days where I’m contented with just being able to see you everyday. Those days where I’m always looking forward to your calls almost everyday.
Thank you for making my school life interesting. Thank you for letting me understand that loving someone doesn’t mean keeping him/her by your side, but letting him/her doing things he/she like and being happy.
Truly feeling happy that you’ve found your other half, and have made a step forward to a new life with her. Wishing both of you a blissful marriage.
Thank you once again. =)
Asian Civilisations Museum – Treasury of the World
Received an invitation from 20twentypr to attend a sneak peek of the upcoming exhibition at Asian Civilisations Museum – Treasury of the World.
What exactly is this exhibition all about?
Image courtesy of © The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait (LNS 959 J)Treasury of the World is a stunning collection of more than 400 exquisite, jewelled works of art – from household items to ornate necklaces and ceremonial swords – from the glorious era of Mughal-ruled India.
For over 300 years (1526-1858), the Mughals dominated the Indian subcontinent and were renowned for their lavish lifestyle, love of beauty and vast collection of precious objects. Indeed, so astounded was the 17th-century British ambassador Thomas Roe at Emperor Jahangir dressed in all his finery, that he once described the latter as “the treasury of the world”.
There’s more to the introduction, but I’m not going to bore you with that much information. 😀
I’ve not seen those treasure myself, the ACM staff must still be busy unpacking at this time. But from the photos that we were shown, I’m interested to see them with my eyes!
The image you see above, is a Small bottle set with rubies, emeralds and diamond crystals. The entire surface of this bottle is lavishly set with rubies, emeralds and diamonds in gold. Bottles of these size were used for cosmetics? From what we were told, the bottle is really small.. But the artwork should be fantastic! Given the size of the bottle (approx 4.6 x 4 x 1.7cm) but the amount of decoration it had. Tsk tsk! Super rich leh!!
Image courtesy of © The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait (LNS 2219 J)
Another photo (treasure I mean) that caught my eye was this! It’s like a 2-headed tiger that meet and kissed each other. The exterior is gem-set with rubies and diamonds, whilst the interior is adorned with champlevé enamelled floral scrolls.
So nice hor? If only I have one to call my own 😀
I’m definitely heading down to take a closer look at these items! Heard that part of the display are actually lost-and-found ones! Those that were lost during the Iraq war in 1995 (I think I got the year right!). So cool!
If you want to find out more, head over to ACM website! :p
Oh yes, the exhibition will be from 12 Feb to 27 June 2010!
Giveaway time!
Alright! Who want to accompany me to the exhibition? I have 5 pairs of tickets to give away! Yes yes FIRST TIME IN HISTORY! A big thankyou to Asian Civilisations Museum & 20twentypr for making this possible!
All you have to do, is to leave a comment with your real name, telling me how this exhibition is interesting to you. I will randomly select 5 winners. Of course, if I think your reason is interesting enough, you get a higher chance of getting chosen (at my own discretion of course)!
Contest ends 6 Feb 2359hrs
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I had fun at the event, though we could only see photos of the items. I love the henna on my hand!
Nan Hua Secondary School
Got a call from Junyang yesterday. It ended up with me trying to contact our classmates.
And that fateful night (that’s last night), I dreamt that we were all back as students of Nan Hua Secondary School.
The same old (demolished) building. The same old classroom that we studied in, as sec 4 students. The same old uniform that we wore. The same old classroom layout. The same old faces.
On the chalkboard, are updates of each and everyone of us. Latest contact number and where we all are working.
Oh man I miss you guys. Shall we have a get-together soon?
Everything Else Is Anti-Social
You must be wondering what it is.
Singtel has recently launched a new Motorola Android phone – Motorola DEXT™. Was invited to the launch party at Helipad!
Had a chance to play with it – for 5mins. Thought it’s very iPhone-wannabe. Very similar UI, it being a touchscreen phone.
And it’s very N97-wannabe too (with the sliding keypad)!
Then what’s so special about it? Since it doesn’t have a unique identity of its own.
Motorola has introduced their new MOTOBLUR™ platform with Motorola DEXT™. One platform that connects you to many social applications – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc.
One platform? Yes ONE platform! You only need to login ONCE and you’ll be connected to the many social apps 24/7! Cool eh?
It can also be used to login to corporate emails or personal emails (like many other business phones).
The interesting thing is, you get notified IMMEDIATELY when there are new updates from the social platforms / emails! (As explained by the product manager)
With the MOTOBLUR™ platform, if you change your phone to another that also supports MOTOBLUR™, simply login to your MOTOBLUR™ account and the new phone will be customised to your previously-set preference (on the previous phone)! Doesn’t need to be the same phone, as long as the phone supports MOTOBLUR™!
Another cool thing is, if you lose your phone (TOUCH WOOD), simply login to the MOTOBLUR™ platform. You can choose to wipe off your current data, shut down the phone, track the location of the phone etc. Now this is COOL! *parties*
This phone is exclusively available only to Singtel. It costs from as low as S$0 – S$248 (on any 3G iFlexi Plans) or S$0 – S$348 (Singtel’s free-incoming plans).
Oh! With the launch of the Motorola DEXT™, Singtel is introducing this value-added service called mSocial. It comes with unlimited local mobile data using the MOTOBLUR™ platform – includes photo uploads, updates received, status updates on social networking sites. Also comes with 100MB of local data for internet surfing and email access. And it’s not expensive! Priced at only S$5.35/mth (for those on the free-incoming plans. Comes free with iFlexi plans)! Excess data is capped at S$30/mth too!
Hop on down to Iluma today (Sat) for the official public launch of the phone! You stand to win a Motorola DEXT™ phone!
Enough information on the phone! 😀
Gotta say that the party was great! Food was nice, (alcoholic) drinks were nice, ambience was nice too!
I’ve also got to say, it’s nice to receive a thumbdrive with the necessary information – word documents & product images. Saves time to type everything out 😀
Thank you Ivy from Singtel for the invite!
The Hangout
At the recommendation of Huishan, the group of us (Victor, QQ, DK & me) headed down to The Hangout (Note: it’s a full flash site) last Thursday evening.
So what exactly is the place? Similar to The Minds Cafe / Settlers, it’s a place with games. On top of board / card games, there’s console games & wii as well!
Sounds fun eh?
Group of 5, but the rooms were booked, so we were allocated a small area along this stretch instead.
Since most of us have never played Guitar Heroes before, that was the first wii game we played!
(Huishan on mic, DK on guitar)
(DK on guitar, QQ on guitar)
(Victor on drums)
After almost an hour, we got bored and went on to play Raving Rabbids II (my constant favourite Wii game!). Too engrossed with playing that I didn’t take photos. 😀
2 days later, I met up with my Japanese class (7 years ago’s class) classmates for lunch at Liang Court. Been a long while since we last met up, Rebecca turned up with her family of 4!
(Becs’s son Kyle. Isn’t he a cutie? — his movement was too quick for the iphone)
Because we were in a group of 5 adults & 2 kids, we were given a room!
And the room was interestingly decorated, with Mario stickers!
Because we didn’t make it in time for the Happy Hour Package (2-6pm), we took the Console-Gaming Package instead. I think it cost $14.50 each for 2hrs, comes with free flow drinks, free flow Caramel Popcorn & 1 alacarte dish (which we took Cheese Fries). And I tell you.. Both the popcorn and cheese fries were NICE!
Played Raving Rabbids TV, but switched to Mario coz was too hard to play. LoL. And.. Mario was really fun! 5 of us took turns with the 4 wii controllers, Kate & Kyle seemed to have enjoyed themselves thoroughly throughout too!
(Kate seems to be enjoying herself)
(Gundam, LeeWei & me)
(Managed to steal some photos from Becs’s FB)
Here’s a view of the room!
It was an evening full of laughter. First in our history, and hopefully not the last! So much laughter that I got stitches :p
And that’s the end of my stories at The Hangout. If you’re keen on checking them out, they’re on facebook too!
And here’s sharing my favourite wall sticker!
Fortune Cookie
Colleague bought this fortune cookie from Guardian. Out of curiosity, I took one to try!
Took a bite and saw a piece of paper in it.
And it says..
“Believing in rumours will only add pressure to yourself”
hmmz…
Rich Son, Poor Son
Was clearing my emails, when I saw this video sent to my mailbox a month ago. First impression I had of this title, it must have got something to do with Rich Dad Poor Dad – a finance book written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter. – Thus me not wanting to viewing the video.
I must say, this is a very nice video. Nicely done, to tell us the importance of filiality, the not-so-importance of good education.
Yes, having a good education means (90% of the time) good life. But if you are not filial, you have failed in life – IMHO. As a parent, you want the best for your kids. Give them the best education, so that they can have a better life when they grow up. It’s a risk you take, that in return, they will take care of you when you grow old.
This video serves as a reminder to myself. I’m not a lawyer, nor a doctor-specialist, nor my own boss. I’m going to be a not-well-to-do employee and yet filial to my parents at the same time. Having a close knitted family is a bliss. =)
Reflections
Had a rare chance to have dinner outside, alone.
Sitting at IMM’s Mos Burger (the exact same routine I had when I came here for haircut 5mths ago), watching the different groups of ppl in the restaurant, enjoying the company of their friends.
Watching families bringing their small kids out for shopping, probably out for walks.
Watching how the kids are enjoying themselves, running about, fighting over the Sesame Street ride. The innocent looks on their faces.
Suddenly had a flashback. I was here with my family exactly 1 year ago, when I was recoverig from a depression-like mentality (I went into depression mode unknowingly after witnessing a traffic accident on the PIE, although I appeared normal to many). At that time, looking at those kids, I was wondering to myself, where did they come from? What will they be doing when they grow up? Where will they go to after they die?
Felt like I was alone at that time.
Have long since gotten out of it. But I still can’t help but think that life is really short. In the blink of an eye, friends of the same age are getting married, having kids of their own. Very soon the kids will grow up and have their own families. Time will fly.
What’s important now is to enjoy life while I can. Sad things, unhappy things. Think of how u can benefit from them. I always hang on to the thought, all things happen for a reason. There’s bound to be something to be learnt from everything, unhappiness inclusive. With the correct mindset, treating setbacks as challenges, staying optimistic and happy, you will find life is actually wonderful in its own way.
That’s how we grow up =)