Super Imports Nights 10 Nov 2007 Singapore Expo

Orange

Black

Green

Yellow

Yellow dashboard n yellow interior in yellow car

Cool Blue

What were they taking pictures of ?

View from the photographers

And so I learn ...


Red

Black

Orange

Blue

Newly Opened Army Museum of Singapore (ARMS)

Just attended In-Camp Training. Included a whole day at the Newly Opened Army Museum of Singapore and Singapore Discovery Centre.

Children's Art welcomes you to the Army Museum of Singapore


Children's Playground? he he... its a scaled-down version of the Army's Standard Obstacle Course (SOC). Never too early to prepare your kids for National Service, eh?



A peek into history.


I like this one. It is a bunk in the past. The window is actually a television screen that displays old videos of soldiers in action in the past.


Good lighting scheme, like modern museums.


Can't call out from this old phone, but you can listen to recorded conversations of the past.

7th Month Finally Over

Phew... 5 deaths in 1 week.

Whole year nothing happen. Then the 1st week of the 7th month...

a. my friend's father passed away, after the wake, I returned home to find...

b. another wake at the void deck of my block.

c. 2 days later, my Yahoo! Auction buyer called to cancel appointment as he has to attend wake.

d. My Internet friend's friend also had someone passed on in the family.

e. Before the 1st week ended... one of my ex-schoolmate had to miss a gathering due to a relative passing away.



5 deaths in 1 week. And the rest of the year... nothing.

Did the death gates really opened?

Photos: Before & After Lasik

Now I can wear sunglasses, cap and earphones comfortably.



I am still adjusting to my own looks.
And not searching for spectacles on waking up and after bathing.

Lasik Surgery on 28 Jun 2007

White lights, clinical touch, I donned on my 'surgery suit', the dull cray-green plastic type.
Everybody in the surgery room were in face-masks, clear goggles and rubber cream-white gloves.
I could imagine them smiling behind those face-masks, but couldn't be sure if they were smiling for me or at my cash.

I laid down, my pair of eyes at their mercy.

Metal forks held my eye open as an attendant squeezed numbing eye-drops to my right eye and explained to me the purpose of the eye drops.
The doctor made a final check on my right eye and asked if I am ready. Ready, I said.

More metal to come, a metal ring. I don't mind metal, as my horoscope says metal is one of my basic element. A black plastic holder comes along. I see everything as I am conscious and everything is happening, of course, right in front of my eyes. Your vision is going to get blurred and dim for a while, said the doctor. I know what is going to happen next, since I had a watch a complete computer-simulated lasik surgery before my own surgery.

Suckkkk... and held in pressure, the black plastic sucker was doing its job. The doctor swiftly slide in another piece of metal, a tray for the next step. The attendant firmly shouted, Stable! Char! In less than a micro-second, the keto-something knife came and went away in a flash. I was beginning to feel nauscous due to the reverse inclined chair and the sucking... My body was beginning to tremble a little, but after spending more than two thousand dollars on this, I am not going to let it mess this thing up.

The worst is over but the action is still hot.

With only the forks left, it was a delicate procedure to lift the cornea flap that was cut by the keto-something knife. The laser equipment was moved into position over my right eye and I see a red light. I had to hold my eye steady at the red light for 15 seconds while the laser burnt away layers of my cornea. So, we begin now, said the doctor as his hand started to move away.

Pluck..pluck.pluck.pluckpluckpluckpluckpluck, etc. the laser started from the outside and spiraled inwards. I can see the red light better at each spiral pluck. Joy and satisfaction begun as I begun to see the red light as a LED light which I could identify. All the bad feelings were ignored at this point as I was getting elated with each pluck. Well... this must end in time too, as the laser finished its job.

The doctor's hands returned with a guiding pick and eye wipes, closing the flap and ensuring that no air bubbles are trapped within. It is done, he said, as we shifted to the left eye and began the same procedure again, this time, I was not so nauscous.

... The operation is a success! What nice words to listen to and to listen to again.

Shopping: Great Singapore Sale

Shopping in the last 3 days because:
1. Great Singapore Sale
2. 7% Goods & Services Tax from 1 July
3. My Lasik Surgery later today, 28 June 2007

Amount Spent: SGD 382.50
Number of items received: 9
Planned Purchase: 6
Impulse Buy: 2
Free gifts: 1 plus SGD 10 voucher plus 5% discount on 2 newly launched items.
# high priced goods: 2
# mid priced goods: 2
# low priced goods: 4
# from retail shops: 5
# from discount shops: 3
# from friend: 1
Most researched: Planned Purchases, i.e. internet, shop-hop
Most fun: Impulse Buys.

Adidas Cap
Adidas Holster Bag
B.U.M. Jacket
Panasonic Ear Phones RP-HJE50
Uvex Sportsonic
Toiletries Bag
Birkenstock Slippers
Nokia 7270

My 1st Auction : Sold !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just completed my first Yahoo! Auctions Sale yesterday evening.
Very happy because got some money coming in, even though it was just 35 SGD.
Registered at Yahoo! Auctions,
Took photographs,
Put it up for Sale,
and wait...
and wait...
and wait...
Suddenly there was questions, and I answered them.
More questions, then more answers.
Then auction closed and I had to contact the winner and deliver the goods.

Done deal.

Photo: My 2-year-old niece: Reading Answers to Life's Toughest Questions