Day 1 - Fukuoka

I shall write this post, Polytechnic style:

* There was no window seat
* Those that were at the window seat near my given seat were SLEEPING!
* It was a 6 hour ride from Singapore to Fukuoka
* Felt like nothing since I have sat for about 21 hours (US trip)
* Although the 6 hours is a far cry from the 21 hours I have experienced before, I had a migraine and the air-conditioning on the plane was FREAKING COLD!
* When we arrived, left the International airport via shuttle bus (FREE =D) to the Domestic Airport. Apparently, it cost cheaper to provide free bus service to and fro than to make train rails to the International Airport. =X *joking*
* Took the train to a station nearby the Hotel.
* Walked a distance before arriving at this Shopping Centre where it is linked to the Hotel.

The rest is just ... well ... REST! And slight walking around; trying to orientate ourselves. Won't write about the other days. Insufficient sleep and I probably forgot about it. =X

Pictures are on my Facebook. Knock yourselves out! =)

Departure Hall, Terminal 3

Fast internet rocks my stinky socks. Gone are the days where anyone uses dial-up internet.

This is so not me. I do not feel excited for the first time; no butterflies in stomach. Why is that?!

Anyway, I do hope I enjoy this trip. Period.







Stay tune for live updates. And this is what the "Banana King" has to say about my past 3 months:

Hey upper east siders, I have got the juciest scoop for you:

We all know that W recently got listed into NS, and suprise suprise, he's been taking it like a man. Finally, after working oh-so-hard, he's taking that hard tan body up north to Japan on a get away with his parents. What kind of trouble will he get up to there? I'm dying to know, so get your phones out and twitter to me with the latest details!

You know you love me.
XOXO, Gossip Girl

Being 20.

October 7th. I became 20. Period.

The faster time passes, I realized that birthdays have no meaning; it's just another day.

Today, 28th of November. I am sitting at my laptop typing rapidly, trying to remember. Trying to feel the sweet nostalgia of what it was like to be 18.

My service for this country started about two and a half months ago. Now that I am reaching my POP (Passing Out Parade) date, I begin pondering about what I would become.

Am I still who I am? Probably not. Factors around me have influence my thinking. Right now, I am just stuck with - What done is done, regretting won't get you anywhere.






Amends were made, memories forgotten. Time heals all wounds and perhaps one day help me understand why I got them in the first place.

Cake?!

This is kinda late, considering my blog was sorta 'closed'. Got the pictures from an email. Can you believe they are cakes?! Enjoy =).

Brownie Cups

Won't bother with any introduction. Lovely moist, melting, choco bites in a CUP! yay!

Makes: 18 cups

Ingredients:

Butter 225g
Chocolate chips 2 cups
Flour 1 cup
Sugar 1 1/2 cups; 1 cup brown, 1/2 cup white
Eggs 4 whole, small
Vanilla extract splash

Method:

Step 1: Always, always, always preheat oven; 325°F/160°C

Step 2: Melt butter with 1 cup chips

Step 3: Combine flour and sugar. Mix well.

Step 4: Add eggs one at a time and stir.

Step 5: Pour melted chocolate mixture to batter. Add vanilla.

Step 6: When batter is slightly cooler, add chocolate chips.

Step 7: Spoon into paper cups and bake for 30-35 mins.

*NOTE: baking time fluctuates depending on brand of oven. you can add in one Hershey kisses in each cup before baking.

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Peanut butter Icing

Ingredients:

Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting entire tub (1 .lb)
Peanut butter 1/3 cup (the more the better, but don't be too greedy =X)
Milk 2-3 tbsp

*NOTE: the more peanut butter you add, increase the amount of milk too. you can choose to use CRUNCHY or SMOOTH peanut butter.

Method:

Step 1: Mix all ingredients till smooth.

Step 2: When brownie cups are cooler (at least wait for 3-4 hours; best is overnight), spread frosting and quickly place in air-tight container. Store in fridge.


Step 3: ENJOY =)!

*NOTE: After refrigeration, the brownie might be quite hard. Microwave for 30 seconds or so. Accompany with good vanilla ice-cream. Mix melted frosting with ice-cream and....SCREAM in joy! =)

Random email stuff!

Ever need a good 'dirty' picture? Here's one:


"If the lights stay on for more than 4 hours, call your ERECTRICIAN" *laughs*

Pre-Vesak Day!

On 9th of May, it is Vesak day. The day where Buddha was born. Blah blah blah. One day before 9th May, Kim, HY and I decided that we should have a religious gathering. Thus, made our way down to Bugis 觀音堂 (Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple). We prayed, cast our lots and left. I didn't get a good lot but still, life seems neutral.

Since today's outing was a 'budget' one, we thought of going to the National Museum!

NOTE: NUS students gets FREE entry! =)

Let the pictures do the talking! I am tired of doing things that are so leh cheh!

see! that HY ahrm chio. LOL!

Christian Lacroix

My sampat kims! HAHA jkjk dear!

WAH! chio! HAHAHA.

Fighting scene: Sun Wu Kong and Bai Ku Jing! LOL!

Enough of rubbish! HAHA. We went to have this ANNYEONG HASEYO dok bokki (spicy rice cake). Really good! Only 25 dollars and is large enough to fill 3 hungry people. YAY!

Why English is so difficult to learn

This is gonna be a lengthy post. Read it if you are interested =)

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*The bandage was wound around the wound
*The farm was used to produce produce
*The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse
*The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert
*Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present
*When shot at, the dove into the bushes
*I did no object to the object
*The insurance was invalid for the invalid
*There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row
*They were too close to the door to close it
*A seamstress and a sewer fell into a sewer
*The wind was too strong to wind the sail
* After a number of injections my jaw got number
*Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear
*I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
*How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; and neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught? And if Dad is Pop, how come Mom isn't Mop?

The plural of box is boxes, but the plural of ox is oxen and not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?

We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren. If the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, why aren't the feminine she, shis and shim?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you can comb through annals of history but not a single annal?

Sometimes, I think all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. What the other reason could there be for saying that people recite at a play and play at a recital? Or ship cargo by truck and send cargo by ship? Or have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Or met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are indeed spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race ( which of cause, isn't a race at all).

That is why, when the start are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

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OUCH!

As many would know, I recently graduated from TP. Now that I am without any studying obligations, what exactly does Winston do in his free time?

Well, apparently, attending Medical Appointments are one of them =). I have been frequenting CGH to do all sorts of test.



This one was a little bit more painful then I can imagine. But the results were kinda cool. LOL. Check this out: Skin Prick Test - to test for allergens







It was so swollen I thought I was infected with some strange disease. LOL! The above picture is my hand currently. =)))