It’s almost 2 months since I last visited the swamps of Punggol for some wakeboarding. Last week, Lou asked if I’d be interested in a wakeboarding trip to Sebana in Malaysia. I agreed immediately.

The night before I had to part with Tammy as her owners are back in town. We had dinner at Botak Jones in Toa Payoh and had abit of chat after that at our place. Didn’t get too much sleep after that, anxiety or perhaps just missing Tammy. Next morning, we assembled at Punggol at 730am. After some quick admin procedures, we’re on Suter’s boat on our way to Sebana. On the boat was Suter, me, Lou, C and W.

The trip to Sebana is somewhat interesting. First, we’ll head towards the east side of the Straits of Johor, passing familiar places like Changi point, Changi beach and the Changi Exhibition Center, where we manage to catch a glimpse of the A380 (which was there for the Singapore Airshow). At the boundary of the country’s border, we waited for our turn to approach the mobile immigration boat. It’s interesting how we put all out passports into a waterproof bag and a guy on the boat will use a net to pick it up from us.

It was another 20-30mins more of boat ride before we reached Sebana. We alighted at a small Kelong where we met the owner Jimmy and his ever so hyperactive dog, Rocky. I was told that we’ll be having lunch over at the Kelong, while Jimmy told us, “wild boar today… fresh”. After a brief stay (read: toilet breaks), we headed into river channels of Sebana. The water is as they have described to me, silky and buttery smooth. I was the last of the 4 riders and it’s well worth the wait.

We only had one break, which was lunch and break is was… superb! Jimmy cooked up a storm, we had mussels, omelette (heard that’s a specialty, it didn’t disappoint), crabs, fish and wild boar. Now, that reminds me of diving at Dayang, only with better food:)

I think I did a total of 3 runs (or was it 4?) in total, can’t really remember, it just kept going and going. On board the boat, we brought some food, tidbits and even alcohol. I didn’t even remember that I only had an hour sleep the last night. By the middle of the last run, I decided to call it quits. My body wasn’t responding to what I wanted it to do. By last light, we left Sebana. While I drifted into dreamland, the images of those silky smooth water kept playing over and over again.

I’m looking forward to another trip there. For now, the local waters.

[tags]Sebana, Wakeboarding, Kelong[/tags]

Completely wasted. I’m so so so so tired now. The wakeboarding trip to Sebana really sucked up every ounce of energy I have. Now I’m like… floating… More on that tomorrow.

Yes, it’s the time of that year again. Good thing it’s in the Ghost month. I’ll be going away on reservist some time in August.

RSM = Repair Service Maintenance

That sums up my day today. Spent the day buying parts at Sim Lim Square to fix up my harddisks. Finally got them all up and running. New keyboard (black looks less gross after use:P) for my main PC and a cordless one for the living room (now the daybed will finally be put into good use!). Sent my helicopter for repair (the dogs will get some peace finally).

In evening, I joined Kelvin and Eng Hong for court soccer at East Coast’s “cage”. Not bad at all, although it comes a little pricey at S$90 per hour. Especially when we didn’t have enough players. At one point in time, we were just kicking the ball around aimlessly. The guys out there must be thinking, these guys must be very rich, pay S$90/hr to kick around. Only towards the last half hour did we get some real action going on after we “loaned” some players from another team. I’m so looking forward to the next game:D

Gabriel showed me this link which I thought was quite interesting. It claims to determine if you are a left or right brain user. When I saw the image, it always turns clockwise, which means I use more of my right brain. I wasn’t convinced, I thought it must be a hoax, so I got my housemate to see it. He saw anti clockwise, then clockwise, then anti clockwise… etc and it’s driving him mad. So it looks like a real test. And we found out later that, if you concentrate on the shadow of the legs, you can actually “toggle” the direction change:P

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test 

And if you only see the silhouette of a naked woman… you are not using your brain:P

[tags]Brain tests[/tags]

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[tags]Photography, Wedding[/tags]

Some weeks ago when I met Hsin Yeow at Bevlyn’s EP release at Esplanade, I mentioned about having them over my place for BBQ. Well, we finally had it today. It was a pretty cosy party, with guys from A Little Dream (Hsin Yeow, Bevlyn, Jonathan, Matthew, Hu Bing and Ein Ein), Gabriel, Ron, Kelvin and Ead popping by. The kids were well entertained by the dogs (it’s 3 on 3) while the adults were busy with some nice BBQ food from The Butcher (off Holland V).

Here are some photos taken by Gabriel,

I kinda like the idea of small BBQs. Will be planning more in the near future:)

After having extremely late dinner last night, I dozed off in front of the TV. Halfway through my sleep, Tammy came up and put her head on my chest. Such a darling:D Only if I can keep her. Those coming next Monday will get to see her

Going to take a nap now… getting sleepy…

Ok, since everyone’s talking about valentine’s day, I had mine too. And it was pretty… hmmm… scandalous:P I had Tammy to stay over my place for a couple days and yes, she’s spending Valentine’s Day with me and the boys:D We took some pictures… and had a rather explicit video clip taken as well. Here goes…

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My memories of Sze Min and Garreth,

- Pacific Coffee

- Red Dot Musuem

- I was late (can’t remember why)

- Garreth sent me room service menu 2 weeks before wedding

- First time I ordered anything other than sandwich (I took Nasi Lemak)

- They had reception boys, not girls!

- Intercontinental ballroom rocks!:D

- I love their wedding, although I was completely wasted by the end of it. Used my reserve energy to drive home.

Alritie, here’s the slideshow:D

 

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[tags]Photography, Wedding, Intercontinental Hotel[/tags]

My laptop decided to be a desktop, because the battery is no longer working. Good on ya, no more meetings at Coffee Beans:D Now… should I buy a new battery to revive a 2 year old laptop or buy a new laptop to replace this 2 year old “desktop” Let’s consult the “包吃多多计算机”.

While waiting for the tea ceremony, the couple managed to squeeze in a little time for themselves:D

I know it’s abit late to post, but I just woke up after napping in the living room. Had a shower and now feeling… sleepy again. Good night everyone

[tags]Photography, Wedding[/tags]

Since I didn’t go on any visits this year (again), I spent most of the time at my parent’s place and at home practising flying my latest toy. And I nearly choked on half a kilogram of bak kwa and white wine. Good thing I didn’t die. Not very funny to be found half naked with bak kwa and white wine beside me. Not very cool:P

On the 3rd day of CNY, I paid my grandma a visit. Everytime I see her, she gets older by a year, that’s how often I see my grandma. She’s 95 this year, although her senses and mind isnt as alert, her voice seem to get louder every year. When she saw me, she asked my uncle, “who’s this?”. My heart sank a little (that’s what happens when you visit old folks once a year). After “introducing” myself by screaming at her one foot away (not the most polite way, but it works), she finally remembered me and that memory seem to come together with the rest of my family members as she started asking about my brother, sister… etc. Questions are quite similar as last year (see last year’s post), except a little updated.

She told me, “I heard from you dad that you are… taking photographs for people?”, then she went on, “how much are you earning?”, “do you earn enough?”, “$100?”, “$200?”, “got $300?”. I was pretty amused, I said “yes”. Looks like grandma knows quite abit about the wedding photography market:D

When she asked if I’m going to stay over for dinner, I said no. I don’t have alot of memories of me having dinner (besides her birthday) with grandma. Perhaps, just one that stuck with me for a long time when I was really young. I remembered pouring huge amount of soy sauce onto my porridge and got a scolding from her. Well… not exactly the fondest memories.

The conversation revolved around the same questions over and over again. Then my uncle reminded me that it’s grandma’s birthday end of this month and if I have time, I should pop by. He added that she makes a big fuss if people forgets her birthday *noted*. Although I don’t see her very often, but everytime I see her, I feel much closer to her than the last time round. Maybe I’m growing old too. We are afterall, bonded by blood. This year, she said,

“顺顺兴兴”

I left with alot of thoughts running through me. Maybe I should really make it a point to visit them on Day 1 next year. Before that, grandma’s birthday end of this month.

[tags]Chinese New Year[/tags]