Sunday, April 27, 2008

New Songs

Omg!!! i finally found the song i heard on the radio :) and many other super nice songs! will upload them into my blog next time!!!

JAN scribbles at 4:35 AM

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Singapore Airshow 2008

This post is about the Great Singapore Airshow...i missed! anyway, thanks to the photos Douglas sent me...i "saw" the Black Knights in action!!!

This post is also dedicated to SYFC Course 136 and everyone else who love flying!

"Singapore Airshow, Asia's largest aerospace and defence event, is a joint venture between the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the Defence Science & Technology Agency. It is one of the top three air shows in the world and serves as a global marketplace and networking platform for the military and civil aviation community. Singapore Airshow 2008 will be held from 19 to 24 February 2008."

This is one of the F-16C Fighting Falcons! and of course pilot by the Black Knights!

Weather is pretty unpredictable that day according to Douglas...pretty cloudy.

Tell me how cool is this!!!

Black Knights and their performance!

This is performance by the US Air Force!

Very beautiful too...

Love this picture!

Black Knights still rulez!

To find out more about the Black Knights, watch animated manoeuvres and learn more about the pilots, click here!

Thank you Douglas for all the beautiful pictures :)

Looking at the pictures reminded me of my days at SYFC!!!

The girls in course 136! Seletar Airbase...my second home!

Only we understand all the stress, scoldings and tough training we went through, and only we understand the kind of happiness we felt flying the lil' Piper Warrior II!

We love flying! It's like nothing on earth..."skylark 89..."

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JAN scribbles at 2:40 PM

Saturday, April 19, 2008

My Vday Gift Exchange

Here comes the very belated post about Vday 2008!

Decided to sew a bear as the first Vday present for Andy...the bear almost took my life away...seriously! if you are afraid of needles going into your fingers and palm and if your eyesight is not too good...really, don't even start sewing a bear.

I started off tracing out the shapes of the different parts needed to make the bear...that alone took me about like 45 mins or so...seriously is it me or is it plain difficult?

Ta dah ~~~~ how it looked

Then according to the super super brief instruction paper...i'm suppose to cut those shapes out! Think i spent like 3/8 of the whole time trying to figure out what i am suppose to do...while doing i kept telling myself "damn! izzit me or the instructions? stupid bear stupid bear"

And i never knew it was THAT hard to cut the soft furry cloth....it felt like my thumb was falling off....

Frustrated and exhausted....pieces cut off eventually!

There !!!! a few hours ok....don't play play!

And because i really thought it was so tough, a few weeks later i bought a wallet from TOUGH for Andy, cause i thought the bear will never make it la~~~and yes, after a few weeks from cutting out the parts of the bear...i did not continue, or attempt the rest of the steps hahaha!

But i guess i as much as it was difficult to sew the bear...i wanted to keep the promise of giving ah cai the "da zhi zuo" which was kept a secret for like damn long...ya, basically i didn't wanna go "i gave up on the da zhi zuo, so here's the other one (wallet)" yea~~

So this one fine day, i dug out the pile of furry cloth and my sewing kit and the damn instruction paper and started sewing again....

I was so gan chiong, i never took any pictures until here...where i have finish sewing the hands, legs, ears and head. (parts are not filled with cotton yet). The thing is i have to like sew everything inside out, so that after "flipping" it back with the furry side on the outside, nobody can see all the threads and all....

And cause i am suppose to leave like small openings in order to push the cotton in later, and guess what!!! the stupid instuction paper did not make it a point to state that where the opening is will be very important, and YA!!! i left the openings at all the wrong places !!! and see the picture above...i unpicked everything and re-sew!!!

Anywayz, i bought this from spotlight plus some orange thick thread!!! super cool...they are like sew on tags! i thought it will be pretty cool to "zheng" the bear! hahaha

And let the "zhenging" begins...oh that's the bear's stomach btw....

I used a sewing chalk to draw (inverted) what i wanted to sew "AJ" in the middle of the front of the bear's stomach haha!

Done!!! i took about 2.5 hours to finish this 2 letters man!!!! almost died...cause the cloth is just too thick and the thread (suppose to be already quite thick) can't be seen, so i did layers after layers after layers!!

And the back of the bear is done too...i re-did this step for 2 times...cause it's just not straight!! i have no idea why, cause when i pin it to the cloth i ensured that it is straight! strange...maybe it's just my fat hands...

All the parts done, but not filled with cotton yet...and ya, the bear's face...not done! Talking bout the bear's face...seriously, cause the bear comes with plastic eyes, and because i don't have this driller thing, i couldn't drill it through the thick head....and so, i had to SEW the eyes and the nose and the mouth!!!! LAYERS AFTER LAYERS AGAIN...it was hell...

I spent about half an hour decided on how the eye should look like..."o" or "x" and yea, as you can see from the picture, i decided on the "n" shape eyes!!! and it took so much time because after sewing both i realise one is bigger than the other, so i have to alter and sew more at the smaller eyes....

My little nano kept me company all along....

The "AJ Bear" all done and "Stitched with Love" hahaha drum rollsSSS please....

LOL! done....ok it looks pretty weird, but it's the thoughts that count, and it's the first bear i have ever sewn! so ya hahaha.....

It's gift exchange time!!! wahahahahaa....

This is my gift from ah cai!!!!

My bed of hand made origami roses...Andy emphasizes they are no ordinary but Japanese style roses ahahahahahaha!!!! They are beautiful! well, he made everything from the box to the roses! hahaha...moral of story...he got smarter hands!

Andy with his Tough wallet....

Hahahaa....i really like the wallet myself! was thinking if Andy don't like it i can just use it :) HAHAHAHA.....(love the crumpled leather)

Oh and i printed and laminated some of our pictures for both our wallets! wahahaha....when i was shopping for the wallet, i saw this other one that is not bad, but the slot for pictures....it's netted!!! and i don't want my face to be covered with netsss...so yea! i chose this other one that is really pretty too, with TWO slots for pictures :)

And other slots for other stuff too...memory cards...ya~~~

I love my Vday gift...Thanx Andy!

JAN scribbles at 2:15 PM

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Back From Chalet!

I'm back from MB's class chalet! quite long ago actually...Will blog about it once i've gathered all the pics!

For now i'll just blog about very random stuff, cause i found some pictures i haven't blog about...

Went to this place "Farmart Centre" for dinner that day (can't remember when) with my uncle, my aunt's family and my cousins. The place is really pretty interesting, there are different "sections" -- the western cuisine, BBQ place, cooked food place...etc etc

We ate at the "zi cha" place! the people there are super friendly and the food is damn good!!!

Look at our spread...well nothing much to look at, but yea we ate alot!! chilli crab with fried buns, vegetables with abalone muchrooms, hotplate tofu, cereal prawns, steam fish etc etc...

The view from my seat...it's really this hilltop place haha

This is the western restaurant if i'm not wrong...looks really classy inside!

They have an alfresco area for people who wanna bask in the moonlight haha!

If you walk further down, you'll see these tikam machines...and old fashioned stalls selling coke and soya bean drinks in glass bottles haha!

My auntie buying some of the glass bottled drinks home haha!

They also sell special chips from Penang? can't really remember...but it's all old fashion and nice :)

Another place to shop...selling noodles and rice!

Yup, my mum bought one of the old fashion chips home, really good!

Oh, there's this place to fish for prawns too...$13 for an hour hahaha...you eat what you catch!

People interested can visit the Farmart website here for more info.

And people on the 8TH MARCH 2008 I ATE MY FIRST FILLET O FISH!!! yea cause my leg was still healing and i can't eat chicken, and my er jie wanted to call for mc delivery...so i bravely ate my first fish burger!

And on this other day, my er jie decided to call for pizza delivery...Rites Pizza!!! in my opinion...way way way way way better than pizza hut :D When she decided to order the chicken mayo pizza, i was like "k la k la, then i will just take the chicken out" but really...i ate everything on that pizza top...

TA DAH~~~combo A, comes with choice of one regular pizza, 3 pcs of chicken wings, 1 set of garlic/cinnamon stick and 2 cans of soft drink! super yummy and definitely enough for 2 people...maybe even 3!

Tell me who can resist this and like take out the chicken!!!

Yummy!!...gosh, i have craving for it just looking at this picture!

Next up, i call him the chinese donut! cute right hahaha...

He is not on sale everyday...only sometimes like the mooncake, comes with lotus paste filling (more common) and red bean paste filling (rare and super nice)!

The outer skin taste just like the mid autumn festival "pig in basket" ... ya the pig!

Super nice red bean paste!!!! 10 thumbs up!

This other day...i ate bak kut teh with bee hoon! my mum's bak kut teh comes with lotus, bean curd skin and potatoes besides the usual meat only to cater to our different likings :D i like all of them though...

Can be eaten with rice too!

Went to eat billy bombers this other day, and really...so so only. That is the picture of the fish set...chi le HEN ni~~~

Chicken set....the chicken is sweet, so i personally think it's ok only...also chi le hen ni~~

This is coffee ice from JEC kopitiam! super nice :) oh talking about JEC kopitiam, everyone should go try the indian food stall! it's really really really nice!!! the guy knows andy and me haha he even know what he like to eat ahahaha!

Think that's all for now, will blog about the airshow, Vday gift and sandwich making thingy next time!!

JAN scribbles at 7:18 PM