Shaun’s

Exams are out! Now i can look forward to my trip to Macau and HK in peace. And i got a place as a returning senior in Raffles Hall. Yay!! had to volunteer for Dinner and Dance MM though. Daunting no doubt but thankfully, friends have come forward with their support and hands to help me in this task. Thanks guys and girls!

Its been a month. And i <3 you more still each day. Absence makes the heart grow fonder they say, and i believe it will..:D

Tired..dunno wat else to write. except thanks to all my frds who made this sem memorable. U know who u are. Whacky and crazy we are, but i wouldn have it any other way!! See you guys in force at Seniors Camp. It will be a Blast! need to run run run run..Ippt soon..must train!!

Its late and i’m beat. Till next time.

Cheers.
Shaun

Its 7 in the morning and i am still up! sheesh…LSM2202 is killing me! staying up the whole nite to do the report and not studying is criminal! Am so thankful SHE is here with me. mwah*… 3 exams and i haven’t even started mugging for my core modules..*gasp* not good. y is that? cos stupid NUS do not know the meaning of readng week. They shouldn’t be able to touch us this week! reading week is just for studying and not for submission of projects/reports! DUMBASSES…

tired. bored of studying. kill me now. hope i can survive past the exam period!! I know i probably will..but allow me to rant anyway!

till next time..:D

This Week is an absolute stormer! I Kept my promise to watch We Will Rock You-The Musical!!YAY!!(thanks Siew Wei for having extra tix!) and thank you XL for the company…!!
Here are a some pics i took of the esplanade. heezz..

I kept my promise to watch every single musical to hit Singapore so far; Phantom(twice), The King and I and We Will Rock You.. Bring on more!!

A sneak picture i took of the stage..

OMG!! DAMN nice rite???

OK, after We will Rock You, the real magic started.

I thank you for being honest with me and sticking with me despite my weird antics and thank u for looking past my little moments(ok…many large) of craziness. Its moving very nicely now, unlike the shit i went thru the other time..urgh…Thank you..hope this works out well
S<3XL

Its a saturday night(well, its alr sun) and i’m stuck in my hall’s upper lounge trying to do some studying.

Things have changed the past sem. No longer feel the same way i do. For the better i guess. Mugging is a central part of my daily routine. youtubing is an even bigger part. lol.

I love my upper lounge mugging club! xl, cv,raff, mel,wb, clemie..thanks for making mugging fun! i look forward to the evenings cos of you guys!

Exams in less than a month. pray for survival!

the countdown begins…

Ok, forgive the uber inactive blog of mine. Too lazy to update and with CNY and stuff, u get the drift. Now latest news, hmmm….

1.moved back to Raffles Hall.

2.started school

3.starting to hate school(again)

4.trying to get involved in teamseagrass(A monitoring group that checks the health of coastal shores ard singapore).

5.Ah Meng the Orang Utan passed away.

6.Wanna watch We Will Rock You The Musical .

7.CNY was good.

8.Valentine’s Day is a bitch(isn’t it every single damn year??).

Something my friends and I were discussing the other day. Women and femininity. Its been getting more and more common to see girls looking like guys. Inter-Hall Games Handball(female) finals, my hall were up against GUYS. I mean, BLOODY HELL, the girls of the other hall looked like tree trunks!..YES..THAT STRAIGHT, and yes, that BIG, i’m talking "Giants of the redwoods" BIG! ok..an exaggeration, but you get the point. I shudder to think how badly i’d be battered if they decided to tackle me.

I dun get it really, what’s so wrong about girls looking like girls? must they grow a dick?? And some guys i know, are going the other way~!! COME ON!! sheesh…

Ok i complain too much. Can’t help it.

On a side note, I do love being back in hall. frds are all there. no mother nagging abt wasting electricity lol.

Hope this sem works out as well as last sem. I can only hope.

till next time. cheers!

Well, I kept my word. To myself. I went to Pulau Ubin, not once, but twice. On the spur of the moment, was lucky to get a best bud crazy enough to follow me. Thanks Edward.

The second time was with a larger grp. Edward(thanks again buddy!), Kelvin, Raffli and me. Eating in Ubin was an adventure and a comedy. Raffli and the Dogs. I thought the food in ubin was pretty decent. The UBIN Durians!! my my..were to DIE for. Bittersweet, just the way i like it.

Ok..Pics i took along the way

This malay stall, according to sources, sells excellent lontong and teh terik.

Ubin Village. Lots of provision and bicycle rental shops. Pretty decent food too.

One of the seafood restaurants in Ubin Villlage.

Us 4 at the top of a ridge, overlooking one of the quarries, now filled with water.

On top of a tree tower. Overlooking part of the famous Chek Jawa. Dun ask me what we were doing; Acting cute i guess. Good gosh, NEVER again.

Giant Mudskipper! Its huge. Edward was telling me he didn’t know this was considered big until he saw the other smaller ones on our 2nd trip. Now u know y i wanted to take pics of this one!

ATAP CHEE!! ice kachang ingredient anyone?

Have no idea what crab this is. Anyone knows?

Barnacles. They actually are crustaceans belonging to the same subphylum as crabs. Fun fact: Barnacles have the LONGEST penis in relation to their body size. up to 7 times the length of their body!!OMG!!!

The old cottage at the edge of Chek Jawa, now the Chek Jawa Visitor Centre.

I think this is a Grey Heron. Might be wrong. The neck is actually long, but it sorta sucked it into its body.

Ok u cant really see this. But perched on the rock is a Southern Pied Hornbill!

Ok in the middle, a fiddler crab. Recognisable from its distinctive claw, One much bigger than the other.

I had a Real good pic of a Golden Web Spider but damn frdster won’t let me upload it. Till next time then.Ubin: Part II!

I really wanna thank my 3 frds who came with me. And Dr. Chua Ee Kiam, Uncle Ee Kiam to me. The author of Pulau Ubin Ours to treasure, Chek Jawa Discovering Singapore’s Biodiversity, Ours To Protect, Singapore’s Splendour and Sabah Borneo’s Tropical Eden. He got me interested in nature. Buy his books. amazing stuff! till Next time, Cheers!

Woke up on wed and i suddenly felt like going to Sungei buloh wetland reserve. Spur of the moment really. So armed with a camera, binoculars and NO insect repellent, i headed down to Kranji. while walking to sungei buloh i saw this view of johor.

then the mangroves in sungei buloh. i sorta missed that. Been so long since i stepped into a mangrove to look at the amazing biodiversity there.

Plovers and sandpipers(i think??)in the mangroves.

Then i saw some asian water monitors. these fellows are huge! 1.3-1.5m thereandabouts. Got some cool pics!

I think i finally know how a male establishes its territory. It sees a rival and bobs its head from side to side. If that fails, both of them jump out of the water and try to bite each other into submission.

Isn’t the head a beauty??

think they didn bother much abt me. I was like 2 feet away frm it and it still didn budge.

The rain was starting to get heavy and the mosquitoes were a bitch! 15 bites on both arms…shits…Couldnt go to the freshwater ponds and the shallows to see the herons and apparently a family of otters said to be residing there.

Till next time then…

I was at the launch of Jet Airways A330 today. dunno how many launches they had already but apparently, Thursday’s slots are full so i had to make do with today.

Anyway, a run down of what happened today. went to changi airport, got a pass at T1, went into the departure hall and sat on the plane and got served by the air crew. In business class no doubt, also managed to catch a movie(well, half of it anyway) amidst the dining. Here’s how the business class looks to those who have never seen it( my dear frds, neither have i, its an eye opener for me to see how well the rich get pampered while commoners like me dwell in the economy class)

quite nice, a little cosy cubicle by urself.

Then the food came. Its an Indian airline so the food i suppose was catered more for the returning indian nationals. First, Giant Prawn on a stick with some green-spiced chicken on the side. Quite nice. Served with champagne of cos.

Next, Soup. i think its some cream of sweet potato or something. nice but i didn like the stick bread.

The next was the main course, which was green curry chicken rice. The sauces on the top was dhal, yoghurt and pickles.

The last was well, the dessert. Had a choice of ice cream, fruits or passion fruit cake, which i had.

Ohh, things to do. Go cycling in Ubin, when the weather permits. Go night cycling next week, when the weather permits. Go Sungei Buloh, when the weather permits. i notice a trend forming here. Damn it. don’t rain pls. i cant do shit with this unpredictable weather. Only thing predictable is the unpredictable weather.

I wanna CYCLE.

The ASEAN meeting/summit was held earlier this week and i’m sure it got out that some people were restricted and stopped by our police and some were even told to turn away, the police didn give a good reason. How horrible! how can this happen in our country..such methods of policing!!

These people who are complaining…KISS MY ASS!

We all know the people who were stopped were stopped for a reason. A certain Ms Chee too was stopped and taken away. She claims that she was there for lunch. hahahaha…seriously, how many believe she was ACTUALLY there for lunch?? at shangri-la. at that time?? on the same day of the summit and low and behold, out flashed a videocam to tape down the event. how convenient!

Perhaps we should ask, what gave the police reason enough to stop these people for checks while the rest were allowed to walk almost freely? Unless u tell me that everyone was told to turn back, i’d say the police were wrong, but its just these few that are making a din. I can think of one analogy, If a class wall was vandalised and there is a known vandal in that class, 1st suspect would be….?? its a natural human reaction. in the same vein, u would want to "remove" from the premises certain people who are potential trouble makers. Can u blame them really??

And of cos, the fact that these people only appear during such occasions is suspect. If their intention was really to have lunch, too bad so sad. Shangri-la isnt the ONLY place in orchard to eat. If their intention was really to bring attention to the myanmar situation, i applauded their intention but not the method. Giving our law enforcers a headache, shame on you! 

But, the million dollar qn is….Was she there for a political motive? only she can answer that. If she says no and that she was only there for lunch, and she can sleep peacefully at night after saying that. I certainly am sorry for that inconvenience..

Notice that in the video on youtube, i dun see the police being aggressive in their actions, they didn baton the woman to death, they hardly touched her. Just firm. In other countries, what civil rights? the police would just beat the crap out of you. Heck, it even happens in the US, the supposed land of human rights. Just go on the web and search for police brutality in US. Get ur answers there.

Sure, state the law, maybe the police were over euthusiatic abt enforcing it. But i rather that and avoid a possible confrontation that would put a blemish on our international reputation for safety and security. I thot the police handled it decently. But i would have allowed her to go in, and if she did sth she explicitly say she wasnt suppose to do, i’d bring her ass in so fast, she wun even be able to yell, "Chhheee…Byyy**…."

OK ranting over. Back to studying.

I’m back after mid-terms and thank god some projs are done and over with. Now, have hall concert. I noe i’m not staying in hall anymore..so y help out? hmm…i struggle to find the answer myself. I think its more of trying to ease my frds workload, seeing them all tired and stressed out dampens ur mood too.

anyway, been checking out profiles every now and then(frds and others) I am quite curious as to y ppl like to write in their profiles under favourite books-"i dun read, erm textbooks? dun like books, magazines, instruction manuals??" erm….if u dun have anything to write in that column, leave it empty for goodness sake! y tell everyone that u have next to no concern if harry potter petrifies aragon and the hobbits work for voldermort, who is really sauron and wants to take over the whole of fantasia with 5 ppl u meet in heaven(the 3 musketeers + the little prince + robert langdon).

And Is it the IN thing now to flaunt ignorance or the complete lack of desire to gain intellectual knowledge?

Maybe i’m too touchy on this cause well, i’m a huge fan of books. Wat to do? didn have THAT many computer games to play when i was young. NO PSPs, play stations, sega saturns etc. books for company. books are still good company when ur on long flights, bored to bits with homework, or just a bed-time read b4 u sleep…

well..just another rant…dun mind me:P