Reminiscene part 1

Tiew... My house keeper really 拿不起来!

Complain complain, sad the internet slow... Suspended the connection for 3 days. He ask me whether I got download movie or not, of course have lah. I said I d/l 2 movie. Actually I downloaded 1 season heroes, 3 season prison break. Wahahaha...

Throw his mother smelly shoes. （Cantonese Vulgarity)

Okok, so many days never update and since I so boring like nothing to update also, therefore I shall post some of my old photos. Yeah!!! I love my lifestyle in the past.. Anything before 2006... I love you man... After 2006, things happens a little bit strange for me...

Browsing my album and so many funny pictures..


Been working since 17. Job that I had in chronological order.

Isetan Sunglass promoter $6/hr (2000)
Raffle hotel banquet $7/hr
Tonkichi Japanese Restuarant $5/hr
E-station starhub $7/hr
Balaclava floor crew $7/hr
Cash Studio KTV $4.50/hr
Blazing telecommunication
Fedex data entry $6/hr

Wah, you see my resume. bah bah ar. 十项全能!!!
From sales to data entry to F&B... then to career building in Blazing....

Working in Blazing is the most enjoyable job so far. If not because I decided to study, I would be majoring in "telecommunication". Art of the sweet talk. Even now, I still freelancing "second hand phones marketing".

Oh ya, my 4 years army in ADF. Multi disciplinary in Combat Engineer, combat driver, lightstriker, mortar operator and "slacker". Yandao counting two from the right. Oh, I botah not because I recuit, its because I just release from detention barrack.

My "bua lon lon" gang

Then my buddy always there for me when I need them. I was drunk. Sibei drunk, hmmm can't remember I think outside lighthouse 65.

Okie... There are a lot of people who had a great impact on my life. Important people so I want to break them down and intro to you. You might not be interested but I will still do it anyway. Wahaha

Left to right: Yong Sheng, Qing He, Jia Yi, Beng Chee

Yong Sheng aka Ethan Lee
Known for 14 years, still counting. Completely different charactor but got endless topic. Brother

Qing He aka Ah Ho / 刀疤何
结拜兄弟 easy going, loyality, cool... Best buddy

Jia Yi aka 小黑
结拜兄弟 loyality, kuai lan kia and very dark.... best buddy

Lim Beng Chee aka Ah Beng / 曹操
Teach me valuable lesson, very bad person but respectable like cao cao. 愿他负天下人，不愿天下人负他。


Left to right: Lilian, Yin Yin, Lorjean, Eileen

Lilian
Best friend for girls, the only one without nickname, cause too fierce. Best best best de friend. Me, yin yin and Lilian secondary school bao the last 3 position. Loyality

Fun Yin Yin aka 饭硬硬
BEst Friend who inspired me smoking, married. THanks.

Lorjean aka 妹子
Treat her like sister. Too funny and too comfortable being together with her. Cao Ah Lian!

Eileen aka 爱人
di yi ge xiang ai de ren. So is ai ren

It's worth mentioning that Mei Zi last time was a cao ah lian.. see see... very ah lian hor..

I don't know lah. I really miss all my friends... Btw, do you think I changed a lot compared to the old picture

Thanks for reading!

Crazy roaming charge

I can't believe that my phone bill shoot up to $130 from average $40 per month. From the bill, it seems that I didn't make any local call at all. All charges came from international roaming.

You might think that I anyhow call right. Actually my total out going to Singapore was less than 15 minutes. 3 minutes cost me $11. Thanks you very much -_-''''
So those whom I had CALLED must worth a loh...

Tim Tam Slam : How to

I was taught the “Tim tam slam” by our Aussie friend here and was told that any Australian must have tried it once in their lifetime.

Tim Tam is chocolate biscuit made by Arnott’s Biscuit, Australia which had sold 35 million packs per year, averaging to 1.7 packs per Australian. I think it even beats Hello Panda by Japan, Meiji often known as “Xiao Xiong Bin”.

So now you know about Tim Tam as a biscuit, so what is “Tim Tam Slam”? It a process by how the food is consumed, just like Espresso isn’t a brand of coffee rather it is a way how coffee is prepared.

What you need:

Simply Tim Tam biscuit together with a cup of hot beverage of your choice. For me I prefer to go along with a cup of Espresso.

Step 1: Bite off 2 end of the Tim Tam biscuit, carefully not to give in to tempating of biting up the whole biscuit.

Step 2: Dip into the hot beverage, and suck the drink using Tim Tam as though you would do it with a straw.

Step 3: Feel one second of the hot drink and shovel the half soggy biscuit into your month before, it slip off into the coffee. All about timing and experience, my friend.

Tim Tam Slam is made possible base on the fact that the outer layer of Choco and biscuit are harder than the filling inside the biscuit, for best result serve chilled Tim Tam as it provides extended suction time. The filling disintegrate quickly upon contact with the heat and savor the combination of choc and espresso on your taste bugs are super ecstatic.

Young can cook, so can you

I couldn't agree more. Now look at the girl in the picture, she was giving that typical "laugh it off" attitude which kind of suggest to me that they don't have a wee bit of embarrassment over it. On the surface, they looked innocent that they cannot do a proper dish, but beneath their skins seemed to spell a message across, "see, I can't cook but guys just can't stand that I am pretty"


True enough, I suppose we guys were the culprits behind how these women had been morphed to. That's a wake up call okie, guys can't depend on the womean to cook already. If we want to eat, we had to learn to cook our own food. Able to cook wasn't my first priority there were somethings else more important.

I do know how to cook, further more I had to do my own cooking over here. Some how or rather, my cooking improved. Hmmm, still remember 5 years ago I tried to surprise someone when I cooked fried rice in the morning, I had to throw the whole pot of rice away. They were burnt, tasteless and sticky. Totally horrendous piece of shit. Cooking wasn't my forte ever since.

I shall show you my latest creation. All home made, self cooked by me. Experience comes with practice and cooking was all about timing and the correct temperature. Eh Bah, speaking like pro..

This is so far the best "bian dang" I made. Mongolian source chicken cube, cooked bacon, egg, tomatoes and dessert veggie with rice :)

My Best looking fried rices. Color, taste and fragrant collaborations.

Random Junks

Check out what I normally carry out with me!!! First time on screen, guy's bag somemore. If as like you interested.. Haha, anyway I was still going to show.

• S.E C901 in authentic Nokia "Amour Series" exclusive leather pouch
• Ipod 2nd Gen 16gb with screen protector and silicon casing (for anti slip)
• Couples of books ( for show nia )
• A lot of sweets (carbohydrate for cold weather)
• Horizon menthol cigarette (gargantuan pack 50 sticks)

Kicked out of house

Our house keeper wants us out of the house, on a reason just because we left the heater on too long and the electric bill is killing him.

"you are an adult, not a ten years old kid. I can't believe I gave you a discount. You don't care at all, because Coliban is paying the rental for you. $600 for my electric bill!!" - Graham

I initialed a discount on the first day, that pathetic $10 every week and he was crying like a baby. I mean literally he looked like he was breaking down as he spoke. You have to understand that if no ground rules were set at the beginning, you can't really blame us right now. You should had spoke nicely because now I think you made yourself looked like a wimp.

"I come into the room, it was like 30 degree. And you have your fan on because it was so hot, that's stupid" - Graham

I admit it was kinda stupid when you had to warm the room with a heater and then turn on the fan, but the problem is the heater do not have a adjustment setting. Its either on or its off. The fan was to ventilate the air in the room. And what was wrong about bringing the temperature to 30 when it was like 5 on the outside, its freaking cold okie. And thats the whole purpose of the heater.

Then he goes on and on about we didn't off the light while we were away and other kind of shit.

Now Friday he will be moving us to another bagpacker motel, claiming that the house was booked through the weekend. That other bad packer was poorly lit and ventilated. Foul smelling and humid. More like a refugee camp. No heater somemore. I guess he was really pissed.

He can't just do that, we had paid for the room here already. Now downgrade us wasn't fair. But anyhow, we treats as we offset for spending too much electric. You see, we are civilized people. We are not so petty.

Speaking of that, I will not have internet access there over the week end... Will be back on Sunday night.

Geocities is closing down

Recession recession, can you feel it?

Well, Yahoo certainly do. Cause they are removing their services. One by one, acting all discreet like no one will suspect they are also victim of economy downfall.

Firstly, they removed Yahoo! Auction. One very useful service, where I can find lots of good deal. Though their rules were a bit loose compared to Ebay. A lot of shadow seller or junk advertisement, but I know my way around to make the best out of the service. Always manage to find wide range of cheap product.


Early this year, if I remember correctly, they say that they were going to suspend this service because they want the money saved up to provide better service for other services. I really disappointed with the decision to shutting Yahoo Auction down.

I had to resort to using Ebay which provides very tight security. Ebay's strong point is also it's weakness. Due to onerous procedure and the fact that you had to provide credit card number to them on security reason, this alone scared a lot of customer away. Hence, you don't find range of product like Yahoo Auctions.

Speaking back to Yahoo, I just received their mail about suspension to another 2 services. Yahoo Geocities and 360 degree. Geocities is a free web hosting providing server support to people who wish to build their own website and 360 I reckon its a blog service. I didn't use 360 so it doesn't affect me. But I do use Geocities and althought their pop advisement on my webpage, I am greatful that they had hosted my ever first website in 2003. I got feeling for the website de okie.

http://geocities.com/garynbc

This is the first webpage that I builded off some webpage template where I upload and host my gallery. In 2003, you don't have serivce like photobucket to host you picture, now you are uploading like breeze, I used to html code each picture that I uploaded to make sure that they display properly and then link them from thumbnail to actual size, hell lots of work to be done. But I am also proud of what I had acheived then.

http://geocities.com/ngbengchiew

Then followed by first blog I created in 2003 on "Diaryland". This time, I coded the HTML and that's my first webpage that host my blog. Now we have blogger which makes updating blog a breeze. I used embed midi player to play background music, now you can have song streaming on blog just by adding widget. Last time was a tedious process. And then like now you got tagboard or comments box, last time I used to have "guestbook" where people can leave down some comments for you.

Soon this 2 webpage will be gone for good.

Beside yahoo, what are the service that I am septical about. That will be twitter. There are news saying that they had been suffering from a lost and they can prove no way in generating profit from. Soon, their fund will be exhausted then they will be forced to shut down. Even robust service like youtube.com which had been brought over by google had confirmed that they are still not making any profit from the service.

Any service that we are using were hosted by a server, someone is going to pay for the widthband that we are using. So it may fail, service down or even removed without a given reasons. Maybe one day blogger might suffer a same fate? Then what about all the blog post? To me any information you put on a server may or may not disappear. But that is still a possibility.

Meanwhile I need to find somewhere to transfer my old stuff away before they suspend and delete all my stuff online. Hai~

Melbourne CBD Tour

Melbourne is a great city, I realized yesterday. Requested to take an unofficial off on Friday, reason was because we will very obedient at work, complete task therefore we deserve an off day. That was what we told each of our immediate supervisors. They seems very open with our request, approved without much resistant.


Took a long 2 hour train ride to Melbourne from Bendigo, paying 30AUD plus for return tickets. Expensive.

The tall building is "Eureka Tower" tallest residential building in the region. 300m from ground

Melbourne is totally different from our "dead town" Bendigo. Even smelt differently. Like one big overcrowding city with well mix people from around the world. We travel by foot the whole day, trying to stay within radius of the CBD, hmm maybe 2km radius. We saw many ethnic races like Chinese, Hongkie, Malaysian, Japanese, Korean, African, Caucasian and of course Australian.

Shopping center were abundant in Melbourne, too much to we were lost on where we suppose to start. Much like Paragon shopping mall, very much on selling professional stuff or branded goods, so as usual I didn't buy anything cause I am on a budget. But all in all, I spent roughly 100AUD plus yesterday, all on food and drinks. They were really really pricey. Each meal had to spent like 20AUD.

Great Night Scenery

Some people though I went missing since I am not online and also not updating my blog. So tala, This is an update for the whole week :)

Working is boring here, at least at Sembcorp I can surf internet all days, go ebay buying and selling handphone, talk crap with the Engineers. Now Australian people have all their own inside joke, which I don't understand. And speaking to them is tedious for me, they had a hard time understanding my cheena english.

I quote the sentence they using almost 90% of the time when they see you:

Aust 1: Hi, good day mate (pronoun as mike). How your day?

Aust 2: Not too bad I guess

Aust 1: That's great

The problem is that like they were really concern with your day, and they will be asking you the same thing, therefore you wouldn't bother to tell him you have a bad day even you really having a bad day. 10 persons walking pass you and you see how much of a time is lost.

But beside the culture a bit different, my company's workers are all very helpful and friendly.. So is great working there, but I try not to talk too much, I have to speak really slowly and careful making sure I don't mix some Singlish into it. But sometime I felt that the way I structure my sentence is weird. I already started to read story books and newspaper, but still haven shown significant improvement. Hard to pick up language at my age.

Ipod touch still sucks

I am grate I brought an ipod touch :)

So grateful as now I am 100% sure I hated MAC product. I promise you (ipod), the first thing I reach home in Singapore I going to post your nice nice sleeky picture on Ebay. Find you a new owner, and fuck you right out of my life.

Not so long ago, when I see someone playing ipod game with the touchy touchy interfere I would wonder to myself, is it really so interesting to play game on ipod. The only way to find out is to own one and really play the game physically.

I used to contemn symbian games, ngage games or any mobile platformed games because I thought that the game controlling really puts some restriction and you never really going to fully enjoy these games on a mobile. Ipod touch prove me wrong, by coming up with more fucked up games that make you think you are paying for just a 16GB mediocre mp3 player.

Okie, I should be more professional. Now I am going to give my non biase comments on the pros and cons

Pros:

• Slim and sleek design
• Large screen to watch movie
• Some really really good application (bus guide, dictionary.com data base, Straitimes feeds)Hmmm.. sorry I really can't think of anymore
  

Cons:

• Can only sync with itune,
• Can't use as a hard drive
• Cannot read PDF, cannot read flash on website
• Cannot transfer file to other device
• Sync time fucking long
• Battery got limited cycle
• Sound quality average
• Total no control over file or photos
• And many many more to list...

Ipod touch SUCKSS!!! I am sorry but I am genuinely serious about it.

Xpress music 5800 wins anytime, anywhere, anyhow.Somemore, you got to download infinite song to Nokia phone for 1 year.

I die die going to get my N82 back,

the best it is, the best it was and THE BEST THAT EVER WILL BE.

- BRAT heart from WWF.

Transformer 2 in Aussie

Looks like the "last dinner"....

Our colleague

I know I had not been updating

This town is crazily quiet and bored to the max. Saturday shop closes at 5pm and Sunday basically, dead town.

We are grateful, Coliban Water offered to pay for our lodging. 170AUD per week can seriously do some damage to our wallet. While we were overwhelm by our extreme good luck, we found out that Coliban Water pays Louis 980AUD per week!! (another student from Germany) 3k plus per month holy crap. We start wondering, do Australian draw is kind of pay usually?

So Sunday, Yanru suggested to watch a movie. I just followed. None other than Transformer 2. I like a lot, especially Sam's girlfriend. She is one holy shit gracious sex symbol. Her breast is like full moon okie, so round and firm plus her super 'jacked' from behind. Can't understand? Look..

Megan Fox starring in Transformer, rise of the fallen.

In the show, she's been running a lot so you better check those bouncy "teng yuan tou fu" out. Oh GOAT!!!!!!!! -0-''''