My Leaning tower of Pisa

My leaniong tower of Pisa is almost complete, beginning from the top the XS708B, the new case for the XS, then the SOHA and lastly the CK2III
 

A closer look at my SOHA, very cool and convenient for me with an additional input socket infront. And its ALL BLACK
 

Mummy I love you

Mummy I love you, for the life and care you have given me.

Mummy I love you, for the protection you gave against the violent arm

Mummy I love you, for the childhood you gave with the fear you instill in us.

Mummy I love you, for the education you gave me and the times where I constantly disappoint you.

Mummy I still love you even though u tried to end it all.

Mummy I love you, for you understand your friends better then your child.

Mummy I love you, for you rather spend more time with your friends then us.

Mummy I love you, for your priorities were set for others rather then your children

Mummy I love you, for the things you have done that hurt me so much.

Mummy I still love you, for the pain that you gave me, physically and psychologically.

Mummy I love you.

Some moment of closeness after 2 hectic weeks

Its been a really fulfiling holiday that I am having this time round:

A week of babysiting,
A week of NDP Preview (Crazy for sure, but some nice memories to keep)
Well I just completed casing up one amplifier, very satisfied and I am moving on to another

Finally i get to spend some time with my dear dear. She is lying on the bed singing along to the radio, while i browse the web looking at some of the mods that I am going to engage in the coming weeks.
Well at least we have some close moments tonight, here my dear dear delicately putting on some medication for the warts on my toes.
 

I am so lucky..!!!
 

While i play with the frog and the camera ..LoL
 

The frog from Naruto anime.
 

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My Regulator

My work on a regulator. Not sure if i am correct, any experts do comment.

 

Something to play ard

This was the birthday present from my sister, Mayvis last year. I sort of mess ard with changing its tubes, capacitors and resistors. It no longer look as good although i feel that the music did signicantly improve.

I hope I would be able to recase it beautify the whole thing so that it looks good again.

 


Silly rain, left me so helpless now, pondering between going to do some dispatch and buy my stuff.

The Artictic Shot

I think I will be killed for posting such "artistic" of Dear Dear.

 

 

Ashley Tan

 

 

Megan Tan

 

 

 

 

Sherwyn Tan

 

 

The weekends

The term 3B exam is finally over. Whoop and I have complete like what I should be covering in a term during this holiday, thinking back I really should have taken summer earlier. But then again, summer is a really tough to support, stretched between having money for myself, and books and the course fee, I am so glad that its over.

Nothing will go wrong, can be be wrong or get wrong, I AM GOING TO GRADUATE AT THE END OF THE YEAR. The anticipation for the past 8 years is going to happen at the end of the year.

It has been a really busy weekend this week, even though the exam is over. Sherwyn, Sheryl’s youngest cousin was admitted to the hospital for some urinary infection. Poor boy, you can imagine the amount of pain he have to go through with those medicine and injections. Throughout the whole episode, the people who are the most affected can be no one else but the parents. The father have to run about ferrying Ashley and Megan to tuition and home, he also have to find someone to look after them while he is at the hospital. The mother did not leave the hospital at all. Poor fellows!

Although I did mentioned that I will be starting my diy stuff again right after the exam, it gonna be put off till next week or even later. The weekends have began really crazy. Right after the exam, I went for a dispatch trip up to Ang Mo Kio industrial area and back to Chinatown during the evening jam, it was then followed by a visit to K K hospital to look at Sherwyn. I stay up really late giving all the forums that I have participated in some attention. Arofanatics, diyaudio, head-fi, sgheadphones, Singapore bikes, and various online auctions and store, its crazy. The amount of time spend on these places is realy crazy, sometimes its like a job. It was only until 4am that I decided to go to bed.

The next morning begin rather hastily with a trip in the rain to look after Ashley and Megan at their place. Playing with the kids can be rather tiring though but it takes your mind of some worries at the very least. We had sushi at Sakae at Causeway point and the kids really enjoyed themselves, gorging themselves silly on sushi, Megan was so cute. Ashley is cute too although sometime a little irritating :P, when she wants something. Nonetheless she is a very caring sister who would play and talk to her younger sister. ( I mean at her age, she is quite a sensible sister, well at times)

Through all these time, I am really impressed with my dear Sheryl. Man, she have got patience with the kids. If we were to ever be together and have children, I would certainly want the child to be more like her in that aspect. Perhaps it was the upbringing, my idea of teaching a kid can be rather strict. Afterall my parents were rather short with me and things can get a little brutal at times. Sheryl has really widened my perspective many times, and I have been trying to adapt and change. Perhaps next week should spend some time with grandma, and maybe that little devil, Nicholas. Sort of miss him after seeing Megan and Ashley.

The weekend finally ended with a Mcdonald breakfast, and a trip back in the rain. Gosh..!!

The Kids

Sherwyn sucking his fingers
 

Another shot sucking on 2 fingers
 

Megan and Sherwyn, they look so cute and alike
 

Holiday Holiday

These few days have certainly been tough, most of days are spend alone locked up the in GSR, studying surfing,playing CS(ocassionally, when I need that rush), and the nights have been terrible with all the funny aches coming on all over my body. Calf cramps, stomach ache, headache, my body is aging faster then i have imagined.

Can't wait for tomorrow to be over so that I can play ard with the solder iron again. Been borwsing a bit of the forums and I might just wanna try a few more modification on this player.
 
This is sort of disgusting though. My work is really not so fantastic, must really concentrate on working it out nicely.

Another day towards the end of the tunnel

 

Its another day closer to my graduation which is definitely going to take place at the end of the year. Fear is really creeping up on me as I wait impatient for studies to end and the working phase of my life to begin. I have been planning from 16 how my life would be and how going to the university is a must. Now that I am here, almost the end of the tunnel, I am feeling fearful about what is coming. Could the light be from a train? I guess it’s only natural for me to feel this way and the only person who understands why is Sheryl.

The route hasn’t been smooth and along the way I have met some good and bad people, some silly mistakes and most of unforgettable experiences. So tired sometimes.

This summer term for me was certainly very interesting as I try out yet another job, a dispatch rider. Hahahaa..and you could really see the different sort of treatment people give u when u are a dispatch personnel. Some of the office reception are genuine polite and really pleasant to almost everyone, but some got their nose stuck up so high that I could see the shit inside. Why make things difficult, or was it because they feel helpless in the office where they have to throw some weights on people who are perceived to be of lower status. Like what my professor mentioned in my intercultural class, power distance is really prominent and this is definitely not the first time I see such display of attitude. I could still remember how upset I was at a Christmas gathering in my mom’s workplace, so upset that I cried quietly in a room in front of my sister. Does it matter if my grandmother or mother is a cleaner? Are we invited to clean and eat after you superior beings? I swore on that very day that I will never go to another party at that place and I never did.

It is a narcissistic society we live in, how many times have you judge someone by their outlook? How many times did u make a comment without even actually knowing enough of that person? It’s a joke how shallow people can be. How dressing smartly in shirt and pants can get you acknowledgement from people whom you don’t even know! and how people look at you t-shirt, slipper and shorts.

People are so funny as I recall this incident:
Snobbish office lady (sarcastically) :
“Whoa so guai hor, no longer studying come and help your mother clean office?”
Me:
.. yah ..
Mummy:
No lar, he came to have lunch with me. He is still studying, in Uni now.
Snobbish office lady (smugly):
Very guai hor, private uni ah?
Mummy:
SMU
Snobbish office lady(slightly change in attitude):
Whoa, didn’t expect hor.

And she went on asking me about the school and admission and how her daughters, or whoever wanted to enroll into the school. Whole load of bullshit, and she assumed that I have forgotten about the assumptions that she have bestowed on me moments ago. F**kers.

Anyway on a happier note, my term 3b is coming to an end, yeah. Probably might spend the holiday dismantling my cd player again, but then again, I really hope to get the Citibank internship and start early even before the term starts. Nothing beat the joy of not having to worry about finances.

Nicholas

The most innocent person in the family, sometimes i really hope that I can be a baby, no stress, problems or worries..
and perhaps a better sleep too.

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My Dear Dear

Not sure if she really enjoy it, but I will always seek her opinions on the music or whatever modification i have done to the amplifier, cd player or headphones. She has got really sensiitive ears, but i guess most women are more sentsitive to audible differences.

I think she is enjoying it... :p

 

My Dear Dear

 

Dear Dear Favourite nothing to do shot

When she got nothing to do and I am on the com or doing my stuff. Poor Girl!

 

Mummy

“ah boy, come take the bag to clear the rubbish bin”, mummy calls out. I could still remember her face then. How I was so afraid of her temper and would coward back in fear whenever she screamed at me or Mayvis.

It was like any other day where I come to mummy’s workplace to help her with clearing up an office or two before we head for the coffeeshop for some coffee and toast. I am usually helping her out with the washing while she goes ahead with clearing the bins.

However, today was a little different. She is slightly late and asked me to clear the rubbish for her together so that we can go for breakfast earlier. I noted her unwillingness and qualms when she said that. That sort of unwillingness made me some what disturbed and I know what she is thinking and I asked her about it when we are done with that particular office.

“Why is it that you seem sort of fearful when you asked me to clear the bins with you?” I spoke softly. “You a graduate mah” she replied, slightly sheepish. I was not really taken back as I was expecting that. I never know that my mum actually holds such views, and considering the close relationship that we holds. I am unable to put this feeling down in words, its just slightly weird, slightly upset.

I went on to tell her that we have no differences, and that education did not make me any different from her. I am still sprouting hokkien expletives during quarrel (although I haven’t been doing so, thanks to Sheryl) and that education also doesn’t mean that I cannot use any of those foul words. I am a human after all.

Why do we bother how people may look at us? They don't know us at all, and probably wouldn't see me at all. It would be better if they sees me, wouldn't it? Never judge a book by its cover, thats all I can say.

We went on for breakfast at Ah Lan’s (not a foul word, it’s the owner’s name) for our usual coffee, and continue our conversation earlier on. She showed me some photos of her and Hilda, one of her close friends, taken on Sunday. They went Pasir Ris to cycle, and I believe she is enjoying herself. Her face glows with excitement describing the things they have done during the weekends.

I really hope that she will maintain this sort of lifestyle, rather then staying out late at pubs, dancing and coming back drown in a concoction of smoke and alcohol.

I just hope that you can take care of yourself, be happy and not be bother by what’s going on at home about daddy. He is rather hopeless and it’s a unchangeable fact no matter how upset or depress you can get.

NEWater Visit 23062007

It was a really warm afternoon and after having spent the night at granny’s place playing with the kids, I am sort of sluggish and was lingering with the thought of not going for the excursion to NEWater Plant with the Class. It’s a science class, you see.

Joelyn went there before and mentioned that it was rather boring there, so it sort of reinforces the idea of not going. However, having missed the class last Friday I do not want to miss another lesson, just in case I missed too much stuff. Though I like science very much when I was a kid, I am not really that good now.

Anyway I went for the trip, and have no qualms about going again. I guess its just in-born, I like trips like that. I could still remember how the trip to Science Centre during those primary school excursion was boring for my neighbor when its eye opening for me.

This place, the NEWater plant is really unique, a little ulu though, but do u know that you can actually go there for free and that they even provide a guide for you; explaining the whole NEWater process, locations, and the water treatment methods etc. Even on a Saturday as well.

I really think every Singaporean, young or old, should make a trip there at least once, it’s a Singapore Success and I am so proud of it.

Go on make a booking or find out more at http://www.pub.gov.sg/NEWater_files/index.html

 

 

 

NEWater Visti 23062007