.... occurred in the evening....

It was a night of cookout, decadence, and fellowship. Unfortunately, it may well be the last cookout, for quite a while at least!

It was the same place with almost all of the same people, and with more special guests this time with Boss, Andrew, Mia Wee, and Jerome. No holds barred alfresco dining right at the porch with the usual hot plate and large amount of food.

It all began with the magic powder...



followed by the appetizers which consists of olives, quail eggs, and raw shrooms


the special dessert treat for the night


the first dish, black chicken stuffed with liver that is served with green apple creme sauce (i made the sauce!)


followed by scrambled eggs and toast topped with lump fish caviar and moet chandon champagne


baked meat muffins


served and plated with some salsa


stirfried sukiyaki beef sushi style with peanut butter nutty sauce (i made this sauce too!haha)


searing the toufus


spicy toufu with sugary sweet sauce


cubed muttons on the pan


which kinda broke up after awhile. immensely tough to chew though... good jaw exercise


last but not least, the dessert of the day. Choice of cereal and with 3 different kinds of milk to go with. I chose the fruit loops and soya milk. I mean, how cool is that!?! Thanks barret!

Anyway, it was a real great evening catching up with old friends and people that we've lost contact for quite some years. But the way i see it, it's like we never left at all... for the risk of sounding too sentimental and emotional, i'll just end off here by saying.. cooool...

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Read this morning that the Singapore soccer national team has for the first time progressed into like the third round of the world cup qualifiers. According to straits times, nowhere in our short history has the national team progressed that far. That means, they'll be playing with the big boys like japan, south korea, and australia in bid to be part of the finals come 2010 in south africa i think.

Anyway, being the typical skeptical singaporean that i am, had scoffed at the idea that my country would ever make it to the finals, not less in 2010. But after hearing of their big improvement, that small hope has in a way rekindled.

Not to get hopes up, but all of us do secretly hope that we can wear out national jerseys for once when we watch the world cup next time haha. Till then, cross our fingers and hope for the best!

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I just love the power rangers! and found this video while taking a break from my studies. so friggin funnyy!!!!!


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i wanna be a ranger too!

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yes yes yes!! finally finished my statistics project! weeee, cant resist but post this up that has been playing for the past 3 hours


another piece from final fantasy. graceful, light as autumn leaves, being swept away in a passionate torrent

just in case you guys got tons of time to kill, go to youtube and search for "mno"... what you'll find are videos as part of the management and organisation students project. they were tasked to create some kind of story and apply what they have learnt inside... the harry potter one has pretty good video editing i must say.. and nope, im not in the videos haha.. i'll only be doing the module next semester and i heard their not going to let us do the videos

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the age old question... Leadership: nature or nurture?

too many debates have spawned over this issue and im sure we're pretty much sick of it already. What i want to know is how much of it is nature and how much of it is nurture, or can be nurtured?

For the sake of this argument, let us assume for a moment that it is certain leadership is a natural commodity....

So.. if someone is not a 'natural' leader, can this deficiency be overcome by the nurturing aspect?

Reading books on leadership and management styles may provide a framework towards tackling problems and venturing into the unknown, thereby assisting someone who may not be a 'natural' leader..

but if a 'natural' leader also has the benefit of the same training as the previous guy, will he do a better job?

im wondering about these things because you'd think after 21 years on this planet, you would have pretty much figured yourself out, but that's so not true in my case! it may be that im paranoid, but i constantly evaluate what kind of person i am e.g. nice/not nice and i always cant seem to fit myself into either! Lately i've been trying to evaluate my leadership and management and the results mainly range from ok to crappy. if leadership is natural, then i must fall in the un-natural category and i wonder how much will it take (training) to be considered good and will i still be worse than those who just have it?

ok i think i should stop here, i took like 30 mins to type this and i've sufficiently confused myself again lol!!

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this is gonna be quite a long post, but ill try to make it interesting with pictures ok?

finally got off my lazy bum (well not literally!) and resized my photos i've been taking to post it online.

(cue winnie the pooh music) well it all started one bright thursday afternoon.....

attended my good friend peilin's solemnization at warren golf country club...time really catches up with you, i feel like an oldbie haha.. anyway, we had a great time catching up, been a long time since i saw the gang and daisy (not once a year) as well. here's some photos i took


had it in a function room... notice the huge heart?


exchanging of vows


now you can say...been there done that! lol


of course, nothing is complete without the group photo... contrary to what you might think, i didn't close my eyes!!!!!!

Met up with the gang again yesterday after my econs test because heard that yanty was going back to indo soon... dinner was great at this jap place called waraku in marina square and even had a pleasant surprise when they brought out the cake to celebrate gabriel's and my birthday in advance as well!


huge bowl.... but is it worth its weight? turns out its shallow waters...lol


the guys...one more new addition from now onwards :)


and of course, not forgetting the ladies.. jennnifurr..where art thou? lol


birthday boys... its so funny, gab wishes me happy birthday, 24 hours later its my turn to wish him


after i got my camera phone, i've been a real slave to the camera function! my aim is to take as many weird and cool pictures... thought this one was really funny, the pic in the pic... ahh such irony..

alrighty mates, time for me to stop procrastinating! gotta get back to work now.. i hope lewis hamilton wins the F1 world championship tonight, not that im a mclaren fan, but i think he deserves it. Cheers

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