i realised my whole family is really very entrepreneurial.

dad and uncles - family business doing pottery in malaysia. got one uncle also opened a provision store in johor.
auntie - opened an IT shop at funan mall (called inforcom) and dabbled in clothing and cosmetics and real estate.
sis and bro-in-law - opened a diving centre called Sunny Cove (as you would see in the link bar) and my sis has her own webstore at Fashion Hub Online.

so what about me? i wanna surpass every single one of them!

went to support sherlyn at the bistro bar at singapore flyer. the chocolate frappe was really good. her singing was really good. melvin the pianist and harmonist was really really good. HAHA i wonder how we are going to match their standards!!

oh yeah before that attended alan's birthday party at bukit panjang. second time i tried the LRT.

watched men of honour just now. it is a true story about how an afro-american navy diver, Carl Brashear fought through all odds just because he believed he could, and of cuz with constant reminders from memories of his unfortunate past. sometimes we let the past affect us. in reality life will really kick us around if we let that happen. stop dwelling in the past; make a change to yourself and get a life. it was a really really great movie. i used to not like such shows but i realised in every book and movie there is really a message/a few messages that they want to drive across. and these precious messages sometimes continue to be hidden within the text/scenes if we do not seek to discover, absorb and retain them. :)

VC - my goal by the end of this year is to make EVERYONE feel comfortable singing alongside each other in VC. let's start SHARING! :D

just came back from upp thomson road. had dinner with 4-4 guys at prata house and ice cream at iceskimo :)

went to ob in the afternoon to practise and had the performance briefing by sherlyn.

ok i am almost done with rich dad poor dad. left with the epilogue! :D

oh yes! naruto shippuden is getting exciting again. can't wait for episode 112! haha

finally, after 22 years on earth i was actually watching football with passion! go man U! make a comeback greater than any team in the world! :D went to chester's place to watch soccer and taught david, teja, kah cheng and sam how to play german bridge. HHAHA okay i am going to get my own condo too! just you wait!!!

the spell is wearing off. HAHA i feel a little bit impatient today towards my mom. no this cannot happen. i think i am just blaming myself for not being of much help. JIAYOU! work hard! help myself and help others.

was talking to chan on msn about ba zhang, and i realised how much i missed my grandma's ba zhang! hahaha yeah dumplings are so expensive especially during duan wu jie. i didn't realise this in the past cuz dumplings were always home-made... ok i better make sure i don't regret anymore things in the future!

guys! cherish everything you have now! :D

vc should be managed like a family, but marketed like a corporation?

fried my first sunny-side-up today at my sis's place! woohoo!

took the first small step today. AHAH

just came back from fish and co dinner with 4-4 peeps and boyang and joel toh. hahaha it was damn fun la! had a great time catching up with brandon who just returned to singapore a few days ago! hahahaha yeah lotsa good food and talking. :D
shall wait for yy's pics to go up on facebook. :D



anyway here's a pic from dawn sin for FF concert.


and some pics of FF from facebook:

finally ended FF concert with a bang. HAHA i cracked at the last 'sephiroth'. AHAHAHA oh well. it was really quite an experience working with vocal consort and wow empire. must really thank nelson for the exposure. i wish someday vc will be as big as the combined chorus for ff, around 50-60 peeps bah. HAHAHA! :P

it's the first time i had a full-house standing ovation at esplanade concert hall. hahah we know the applause wasn't for us entirely but we still felt great i think. HAHAH i think that's my dream for VC. to have a full house standing ovation at the end of our concert. :)

oh i totally forgot that results are out already. HAHHA yeah and so i went to check. i am very happy leh. HAHA!

AB103 Statistics - C
AA102 Accounting II - C+
AA1484 Choir III - A+
AB105 OB - A
AB112 Marketing - A+

after all the naruto and how i met your mother, i believed this is not bad leh! hahahhahah yeah i played cheat by taking choir module. HAHAHH! maybe i am going back on my word... next sem i may be going to take again. HAHAHA yay but MARKETING A+ leh! hahahah how zai! :P

shall got catch naruto episode 110 now! :D

it's actually quite good to talk to my parents. HAHAH i am beginning to treat them more like friends now. actually they are better la. at least they listen attentively to what i have to say. HAHA yeah so actually i just gave my dad and my mom a lecture....lecture on being a better person.

ok i know some of you may think that i am abit too young to do that, especially to my parents. but i dunno why i just sorta felt confident enough to do that and i doubt there's anything wrong with it. I MAY have hurt a little pride here and there since it's not very ordinary for a child to be lecturing his/her parents, but i really hope what i said moved them.

mom didn't appear very good in the morning when she left the house la. she didn't even want to utter a word. but luckily she talked quite alot just now and both my mom and my dad spoke their mind just now during our thrashing session. i think we should have this thrashing session every week. :) it will help in family bonding. :)

ok erm. so what did i do in the day then? went for breakfast with sam in the morning...started my mini-art-project for the weekend...went for FF rehearsal. saw arnie roff with his mickey-mouse sweat patterns...yeah and i pangsayed choir for family. HAHAH! paiseh la! will join you guys again once i settled everything back home :)

and yeah! need to practise on my composition for exam on 7 june.... BLAH. :P

i dunno why but today felt like kinda a down day for me. HAHA! maybe becuz i have been rather high during the past few days...so i am kinda tired! hahaha yeah need to recharge my batteries. i just feel that i cannot please everyone la right? no matter how hard i try some ppl will just not like me and pick on my mistakes...ahahah but nvm that's really your loss. :P

have been dilligently helping sis with her housework the past few days - helped to change bedsheet, vacuumed the bed, cut vegetables, brought leroy downstairs for a stroll. yeah i am really MUCH MUCH more patient with my family members now, trying to treat them like they are my friends. alot of my friends were surprised that i actually didn't treat my family very well in the past; i was really impatient and didn't talk alot with them. HAHA so unlike me right???

then went over to ob in the afternoon to practise piano. helped geraldine with her piano. passed raquel her mmo, and listened to collin and gabriel do harmoney of "gai bian zi ji". yeah feel very happy helping them. also let wen hao and ger listened to my new song. AHAHAH! shall let everyone hear when i have the time :D

just returned from esplanade. yeah was supposed to have supper with vc peeps but i realised my mom was waiting for me at home la...ahhaha yeah so i better go home and accompany her. :P ff was quite a mess actually. i think nelson is not very happy with me. OH WELL. i tried my best though i am not very good with directions and details. managed to sort out the food part though.

alright will have another round of FF rehearsal tml. :P shall sleep early.

haha today's really packed!

12pm - went to my sis's house to help her with leroy and dish-washing. i think i am in love with dish-washing.
2pm - left the house for mica. Parked the vehicle at Funan so that my sis can go and find my mom. i went to find bee lan at NAC and she passed me nearly a hundred bags of stuff. i wasn't kidding. hahah so i was lugging everything back from mica towards funan but i realised it was impossible. so i called my mom for help. hhahaha
3.50pm - went to parkmall to collect my sis's vouchers
4.30pm - left for home to place the 100 bags at home and to meet everlyn and xuwei
5pm - xuwei and everlyn helped me to carry the bags up and they went to my house to collect my keyboard.
5.15pm - drove my sis and leroy back to amk to pick up alicia from child-care
5.30pm - bought dinner
6.30pm - left amk for aljunied to meet sam. was kinda lost on the way there so was really depending on the street directory for help. yay no summons! haha
9pm - left for home!
10.45pm - adyll came over to collect the 100 bags from me.

okay will need to leave the house for amk to help my sis tml morning before going to ob to prac my piano at 2pm! hahahah after that going to esplanade for ff rehearsal at 6pm. HAHA! busy week ahead!!!

felt very accomplished helping my sis to rearrange her house and tidying things and throwing useless stuff away...better than rotting away at home. HAHA yyeah. wensi and eugene came over to cook dinner today. everlyn and her friend cheryl were also here to practise everlyn's song with my keyboard. suhui and daniel came over later. okay dinner menu included macaroni carbonara, butter prawns and bread pudding with ice cream. i thought all 3 rocked! hahaha :D

OKAY good thing about today. OR tonight rather. i think i really helped my mom quite abit. i really hope i did so.

i was helping her massage her legs and we just started talking. okay actually to be frank with everyone my mom is actually suffering from depression. yeah lotsa things happened in the family and she is kinda taking things to hard on herself and stuff like that la. yeah i have been talking to her (on an irregular basis) but i doubt anything that i have said actually managed to change her thinking about life. she was actually getting out of depression already the past few months but somehow the past week was just kinda trying. yeah she even cried yesterday complaining to my sis, dad and aunt just how bad life is...and what's the meaning of living...

and so today i think i was lucky enough because she had actually managed to free her mind better, if not no matter how gifted my influential skills are she won't be moved. yeah so it's a lucky day for both of us. i told mom about my dream - it is set around a very large swimming pool at our future bungalow's backyard. we are having a party with families and friends and my parents are sitting on the deck chairs playing with their grandchildren, then people will be going to them telling them how great their son is, and i will be very happy looking at their proud faces...

hahaha yeah i then gave my mom a mission to complete this month: to find out what's her life goal. and be specific about it (hahah sounds familiar right, SALLY?) like down to the very small details of the things that she wanted. i wanted mom to have a goal in life again. not to live for the moment, but to have a sustainable goal that will keep her living (physically and spiritually). hahah she must be really happy how much her son has changed for the better. i am certain she was moved by what i said just now, and i am certain that i myself was proud that i have taken this really huge leap forward to know my mother better, even to the extent of influencing her. i was telling her how it felt as if she was my daughter. HAHA!

another thing to know about me. i do not know my dad well enough. i seldom talk to him. i even disliked him a little for not taking really great care of the family in the past. my goal this month is to understand him better. at least know what his favourite food and number is. HAHAH

oh well. LOOOOOOOOONG post from me. but i really learnt alot these 2 weeks.

just came back from amk hub where we had 4-4 gathering. first time seeing melvin in 8 months! woohoo! damn happy la! yeah erm ordered damn alot of food at the hawker centre - fried hokkien mee, fried oysters, fried carrot cake, porridge, chicken rice, duck rice, japanese salmon rice, sugar cane with/without lemon. WOOOOO! hahaha

argh i really wanna help my mom. JIAYOU! :)

anyway I found my dream car: the Mercedes SLR Roadster!!! my heart leapt when i saw it just now.

jianhao is not proud of himself for whatever that he did after 2am. tsk tsk tsk.

okay sleep first.

Great party nic! hahaha you should have played chop chilli chop with us! hahaha

yup SOV09. my juniors are damn power. HAHAH

glad that vc could pull through this year's SOV. hahah we really didn't have a lot of practices but luckily we still made it. yenling was the ultimate. she touched down at the airport at 1810 hours and managed to rush to esplanade in time to do her solo line. HAHA

argh. i am so sad. nobody talks to me. HAHAHA did i do something wrong or ppl just don't like to talk to me? hahaha i tried to change la but sometimes i fail still. nvm i will keep on trying until everyone accepts me :) i am a determined boy :)