The Ghost Festival a.k.a. the Hungry Ghost Festival

A year past since my post here..

It is the Hungry Ghost Festival month, again..
We do offerings, praying..

Sat, the family did prayers to Grandpa, and also to mark the 15th day of the 7th Lunar Month..
There was tons of food, and my favourite: Curry!! =D


I also had wax on my hand, while trying to light the candles..

Come to think of it, the town councils did not put enough metal bins for us to burn the incense paper, for the "good brothers"..
Being environment friendly is one thing, we should still respect the "good brothers".. and if we burn them on the ground, we will be fined.
=(
We need more metal bins.. (at least for this month?)

There was so much food, im still eating the curry moon hoon, during lunch just now.



Dear friends, dont stay too late outside, be safe!

忐忑-龚琳娜 (Tan Te - Gong LinNa)

Hi all! How's everyone doing?
Finally its weekends, what are you doing this weekend?

Anyway, i got into a new job (again..), so its back to basic of learning new things. Therefore will be MIA(missing in actions, a little) =)

By the way, have you heard of this song before?
It is called 忐忑 - which means Perturbed, or making (someone) anxious or unsettled.



Basically i dont really get the lyrics.. but then, its rather addictive.
I guess it became so popular, people started making their own version of it. =D


See my friend here..



My favourite version, still from this girl.

HAHA!

Just for laughs!

My Taiwan trip - 22 to 29 July 2011

My very first time to Taiwan! After watching so many of Taiwan variety shows, of traveling, food.. i am finally on the way to visit this nice country..!

It was great fun, even though we were there 8 days, there were still so much to be seen and eaten.. should be going again, soon. (after saving up some more $$, haha!)

With much excitement, we boarded the plane..!
After about 5hours, we reach Tao Yuan airport.. and as we make our way to the hotel, we took lunch on their Taiwan High Speed Rail.. traveling at about 320km per hour (wow!)
It was about an hour journey to the destination.



After checking in, we walked around the area and took the Hello Kitty & friends flyer. Each capsule was of different cartoon theme.. cuteness!


We visited the nearby night market, they have so much night markets to visit at each area of the country!


It was about 10+pm already, but the place was still crowded. (in Singapore, the shopping centres are already closed at this time.Zzz..)


The day 2, we visited 垦丁, 鹅鸞鼻, there is a very nice lighthouse, and nice scenery.



Day 3 was 台中, and we visited 逢甲夜市 for shopping and more food..


And came across a "成龙鸡排" ... LOL



We visited 阿嘉的家，one of the place which was used to make the movie: 海角七號.




Day 4, we went to 清境, 青青草原..

We saw sheep, and beautiful horses..

Able to guess what these are? =P

Next few days we travelled to 台北 and was there till the day 8!


Of course we visited the Taipei 101 building..


=)


The 渔人码头 or the The Fisherman´s Wharf. Watching the sun setting, and couples sitting around with the lady's head resting on the guy's shoulder. A great place for dating! =)


We went to 野柳地質公園, to see interesting rocks..



十分 to write our wishes and seeing our 天燈 flies up into the sky.


The always crowded 西門町..


In the end, i did not bump into Jacky Wu, only a poster. LOL

As i wrote in the beginning, there were still so much to be seen and eaten.. this post is just a simple sammary of the places, i have been to. If you have the chance, do visit Taiwan, and share your experience too! =)



(",)

We F***ing did it..!

Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) Ms Trinetta Chong, 23, gave a speech to inspire and congratulate her schoolmates during the school's convocation ceremony held on campus.

A speech that came out of the newspaper...



She used the word F*** !

As from Dictionary.com, it really means a not so good wording to use.


But anyway, some words got many meanings too..
For example the word: Gay 


It can actually mean carefree and merry too. 


The western country was quite open to using this word actually.. almost every sentence, the F word can be present.. 

Same goes to songs too..!




* I am posting the "Clean" version of the song. If you interested and of legal age, go ahead and find the dirty versions, ok? =)


She could be too happy that she forgotten it was quite a serious ceremony going on.. forgive her? Or just let time be the judge.. Forget..? =)

The Tweet Meet 2011

Hi all, im back from Taiwan, after a week holiday there!

There's just so much to see and eat, so little time. 

Shall write about the trip (Soon..) Hehe.. =)

Anyway, the day after i touched down, i was involved in the Tweet Meet event by Infocomm Accessibility Centre (IAC), whereby volunteers are being tasked to deliver 40 netbooks to the homes of people with disabilities and connect them to the Tweet Meet online community.

The netbook.. 

I was being partnered by the cute and cheerful Ryna (http://www.rynaque.com/), who guided me along of what to do, as i was overseas during the week. 

Bacially, we need to deliver the netbooks to over the their homes, and then help them to set up some social media platforms, like Twitter, Facebook and Skype.

Ryna, was interacting and making friends with them.. while i help to do the setting up.. 

After which, we introduced them to Twitter, and Facebook. The fun part was the Skype programme, whereby we called in to an IAC member, as it was also the first time i use skype to do a video call! HAHA! We learn together..! =)

A screen shot of us! 

Although the tiredness and lack of sleep, i am still very happy to see the big smile from the two of them..

It was a fulfilling experience, and hope they are happy with the new netbook, and can make more friends through the social media platforms we introduced. =)

The mum and the brothers were very nice and made us souvenirs!

How sweet? =)

Support the Nothing Less project at http://www.iacentre.org.sg/ too!

Thank you!

Taiwan, here i come!

Sorry i have not been very active lately..

Anyway, by the time this post is being posted i might be on the plane,
singing :
我爱台妹 台妹爱我 
对我来说林志玲算什么



My friend bumped into Andy Lau, 劉德華 at airport when she was there.. (Jealous much..)


I hope to bump into Jacky Wu, 吴宗宪  though. LOL!!



Will be back on the 30th July!
See ya!! 
=D

Football: Singapore to return to Malaysia Cup!

Goal Goal Goal.. Ole Ole Ole~

Was reading the news article from Channel News Asia:  Football: Singapore to return to Malaysia Cup from 2012!

Will we have a chance to hold the Malaysia Cup like what Fandi Ahmad did, many years ago? ?



Suddenly all the familiar names of :
Abbas Saad, Fandi Ahmad, Lim Tong Hai (the super tall defender!!), David Lee(Our goalie..!), Mohd Rafi Ali, Nazri Nasir, Malek Awab, Steven Tan (small in size, but fast!) flashes across my mind!

Introducing, The Singapore Dream Team Song.. dated all the way in 1993.


The many great goals we scored..


Can we have this kind of passion/enthusiasm to our Singapore Soccer, back?

Ole Ole Ole Ole~

The Fun Pack Song of NDP..

I saw people posting the song on Facebook..
Still have not seen it until now.

And then i suddenly realized, it will be out of the show!! (As according to the Channel News Asia article..)
Anyway, for people who still have not seen it, here's an animated version.



And this guy, also made it funny too.


"It's the fun pack pack
Let's have the fun pack...

It's the fun pack pack
Let's have the fun pack...

You can wave it, if you feel like it
Let's wave the flag
Wave wave wave
Let's wave the flag

Take out your light stick, it's two of a kind
It's interactive, means you can join
Just pretend
Oh oh oh...

I want new water and a wonderful drink
You and me let's share a bit
I want a biscuit and I want a sweet
You and me, Let's share this treat
Kopi O o o o o o o
Time for the fun pack song
Kopi O o o o o o o
We like the fun pack song

Let's start with the bag
That's right, vacuum pack
It's the fun pack pack
Let's have the fun pack

I want new water and a wonderful drink
You and me let's share a bit
I want a biscuit and I want a sweet
You and me, Let's share this treat
Kopi O o o o o o o
Time for the fun pack song
Kopi O o o o o o o
We like the fun pack song

Let's start with the bag
That's right, vacuum pack
It's the fun pack pack
Let's have the fun pack"

* * * * * * * *
Kopi O o o o o o o..
=)

米桶空了。 Rice Barrel is empty.

Today my mum told me: 米桶空了。
In English, it means: the Rice Barrel is empty.

In modern times (like now), the first thing we think of is: Just go supermarket and buy, lah.... right?
To me, it meant otherwise.

However, did you actually know how rice come about?



Anyway, when the rice barrel is empty, to me it's like the family having no money.
Scary much...

Just like the rice barrel must be full during the Chinese New Year period, it should be full always.

Don't you agree?

Play game, and train.

Was reading blogs of friends, and one post (from Yellow Splat) caught my attention..
The tittle was really interesting..

The title was: Angry Birds on Google Chrome

Although it was on Google Chrome, it was fine with playing on Firefox too!
=)



Go to : http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ to play!

And i think this game can be used to train the future soldiers of Singapore, as now recruits doing Basic Military Training (BMT) will be issued with an ipad !

Wow!!

So much better life than me, from last time.

Anyway, the Singapore guys sure will love this video from Mr Brown!
LOL!!



4G soldier of the SAF, Huat ah!!!

A busy week..

It was a busy week.

A new director came into the work place, and it was meeting, after meeting.
Last night it ended 9pm.
My bird brain was overloaded with information. (LOL)

Anyway, have you registered for the Standard Chartered Marathon Run 2011?
I signed up the 10km one this year. Still not that confident to do a 21km, yet. HAHA!

Marathon fans, the website to register is: HERE

I have one in September and this standchart run in December.

Keep fit, Hong Wei.



May this picture keep you motivated.
HAHA! =P