Politically Correct in a Crazy World

Staying overnight for my work on Saturday simply drains my energy away.I didn't know I had to stay overnight until 4.30am,going back home and sleep for less than 2 hours,go back to work again.Thank God my supervisor allows me to go back at 12 noon.

I was amazed by the people working here.Looks like I'm the weakest link in this company with limited endurance.I wonder how they can look so energetic after the overnight stuff?Must be the cigarette I guess.

I got my T-shirt last Friday.It was way early than what I expected.I thought it would take 2-3 weeks to ship here.I shall upload the picture of my shirt tomorrow.

2 more days to the coming of Spiderman 3 and labour day.I predict that the tickets will be selling like hotcakes on that day.I'll see how Raymond plans to watch this show.

Top 10 famous question asked during your 1st day of work:

10. When is your birthday?


9. What school are you from?


8. What is your highest qualification?


7. Do you have an English name?


6. How do you find this place?


5. Where did you work last time?


4. How many siblings do you have?


3. Where do you stay?


2. How old are you?


1. Do you have any boyfriend/girlfriend?

If they didn't ask you any of the 10 questions posed above,quit your job immediately.

to actually post depressing entry in your blog.It's like every 7 out of 10 entries you'll describe your struggles and issues in life,how sad you are,how you live your life with tears etc.

I got my struggles as well,but I tried my best not to post it in.If I were to do it,the whole blog serve as just my depression corner.

Whatever sadness we may suffer,learn to praise God.I believe God has always been good to me.I believe struggle in life is the test that God puts me into,so that I can become stronger.

I'm not feeling depressed today,it's just another self reflection.

Finally the t-shirt that I'd bought is there!Imagine how long I've waited just for the mail to come full of expectation.

This is my first time doing an online shopping.I admit it was quite a fun thing to do,especially when all those stuff is unavailable in Singapore(Please say yes,or else I'll feel my heart ache),and you don't know how your product may turn out to be.


The design and the color is the same as what I saw on the Internet,except that mine is darker due to the picture developed.The small size tee fitted so nice in my body that you can actually see my well-developed chest.

Satisfied with what I got,I decided to browse the website for more t-shirt design.

There are alot of nice t-shirt which I managed to find,but most of them doesn't ship to Singapore and some are way too expensive,I mean the shipment and handling fee.After a few hours of finding,I accidentally clicked the wrong button which caused me to buy that shirt which I find it expensively nice.

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Wei Liang,you win liao loh!

After I saw this cute game: "Smooth Moves".

Basically this game goes like this: You are to complete a mini-game with guidance on how you should hold the joystick(in every mini-game).The game will go faster after 4-5 games you played.Kind of interactive I should say.

Although the graphic in wii may not be as breath-taking as PS3,but it serves as a console that is much more interactive than PS3 and XBox 360.For PS3,I'll wait for someone to buy it,so that I can come to his house and play.Hohoho.

I just hope this console will not hit $600 and above.

1st week after Easter Sunday.

Yesterday I heard that Sylvy hurt her back and was sent to the hospital.Pray that she'll be alright.

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Suddenly I had nothing to say.

I must have delayed my birthday photo for 11 days.Same goes to my Good Friday photos,which is 6 days ago.

Before I start my photo posts,I wanna complain about the bus service I encountered yesterday.

I went off for my work in a usual 8am,waiting for bus 198 which will take me to my workplace.This is the only bus that can take me there in a single trip.

When I saw the first 198 came,it was so full of people,somemore it's a bloody single decker bus.Nevermind,I'll wait for another bus,since I believed that during this super peak period,the bus will come at least every 5 minutes.

My assumption was wrong.It took 10 minutes for the second bus to arrive.It was another bus filled with people!

Then this 198 bus driver do a V sign with his right hand.It might mean 3 things:

1. He was telling us that there's another bus 198 which is coming soon.

2. He was telling the passenger that there's 2 more stops left to his/her destination.

3. He was doing a victory sign,telling himself that,"Yeah!Finally I got to pwn all these people deep deep!Losers!"

Of course which driver in the sick mind will be having the mentality of meaning number 3.It was all but my crazy imagination.For me,I believed in meaning number 1,because I am going to be late for work,and believe in number 2 is necessary!

In another 10 minutes later the 3rd bus 198 came,with all the angry passengers boarding it.

Is this what we called the world class transport?Stop making my toes laugh.The bus satisfaction survey must have been done by the "happy" customers isn't it?Thanks to you,I'm 20 minutes late for my work.Happy?Increase bus fare yet give us this kind of shitty service.Pui!




Okay end of complain.Let's proceed to photos.

I celebrated my birthday with my polytechnic school friends as usual(for ex-TIPians,there won't be any celebration for now on,unless money dropped down from the sky in the form of envelope stating my name).For my dinner I wanted to try out some chinese restaurant,especially those that serve xiao long bao!Yummy!So I decided to go...





Ding Tai Fung!I always wanted to try their dishes for quite some time.

Been realistic,they actually try to drain my wallet as best as they can.True friends are such a sucker,but it's good,as least they're not faking.Elvin told me he had reserve his stomach so that he can eat alot for dinner.

Yeah riiiiiight.You thought I don't know how much food your stomach can tahan?





Both the fried rice is so nice that we decided to order 1 more plate each.









The whole bill came out to be $120+,which to me it's a break pain.At least the bill has been offset by my IPPT incentive.

I really want to compliment on their service.All of their food are nice(well almost all)and they never go stingy on their food,especially the friend rice with prawn.You know how many prawns we had easily found inside the rice?

The waiter/waitress are very on-their-ball.They know their stuff very well.When they saw us busy eating the fried rice instead of the dao sha bao that was served,they asked us whether if we're going to eat it soon.If not,he'll be putting them back to the steamer and serve us later,not forgetting explaining some fact of eating the bao before it turns cold blah blah blah...Thumbs up!

The only not-so-good thing would be the limited choice of food.Actually they're not much varieties to choose from.However,even if there's alot of varieties to choose from,we would be having a hard time choosing it.

If there's a next time,I want to try out the drunken chicken.It's a pity that they sold out when we tried to order it.

For my birthday present,I got myself a pair of Levi's jeans!Thank everyone.I saw the price and it was slightly more than what we've eaten.Next time I'll treat you all play DoTA okay?





For this,I'll be mixing the actual day with some rehearsal photos.

The Good Friday service was fantastic.We actually invited Orchard Presbyterian Church Choir to join forces with our Tab voice.With OPCC joining us,it means more work has to be done.

We had to do away with the drum and the guitars,the amplifiers had to move from place to place,setting up choir microphones.It was all pure hard work!




That was in the actual day itself.Do you know how rugged they had made on Richard?Scar here scar there.









The service start off with some speeches from Pastor David,then the choir.Everything is under control.So far so good.

The play was superb!The originality was there and the whole thing simply touches me.I almost teared when the roman soldiers hanged Jesus on the cross,the pain and agony of the nails,the mocking of the crowd.Everything just seems so real.

I didn't managed to take some photos the whole play,mainly because I need to mend one of the PA systems and my camera is not those that can take bright photos in dark area.I had to post the rehearsal photos instead.







The death of Jesus ended with the red spotlight shine on Richard.So bloody,so tragic.

During the whole service,I made 2 bloopers:

1. When we were told to take the communion,we went off strange to the front before the pastor even said so.I can see the shock from Pastor Bee Tin face,but they had to act accordingly.When we were about to go back to our PA room,then they announced that we can go for our communion.

Opps!What will Pastor David say?

2. Before the play started,there was the choir singing.Being kan cheong,I actually set the sound mode to stadium mode when the choir sing,this results in sudden loudness and then soft again(I immediately turn the mode back).I think Pastor David was looking at me screwing up the whole show.Good thing Khim Fatt didn't scolded me for making this major mistake.

Double Opps!

The lighting of candles before the service going to end.It was so romantic,but my camera is unable to capture it better.


Off they go,busy we are.We had to put all the wires/amplifiers/microphone/drums/guitars back in their original place.It's another hard work once again!Yah lah,all the people zao like mad happy happy go for dinner and we PA crews are the one clearing up the mess!Grrr......

Anyway,I enjoyed the service very much,MINUS the clearing part.In fact,the dinner treat from pastor Chee Khim made up for the effort we made.

Sidetrack:I won't be doing any post regarding my birthday celebration and Good Friday celebration today.sorry to disappoint all of you with no picture post.I'll try to post it tomorrow.


Yesterday my colleague passed me a Primary 6 challenging sums for us to solve.Having quite a strong mathematics foundation,I tried to solve some of the questions.I was shocked to see myself stuck at some of the questions.I fact,I took 1 hour plus to answer one of their questions.

It's not that I'm stupid or what(yeah,right...excuse right Mr Wei Liang?),it's how to derive an answer in a Primary school way.You can't use advance algebra,simultaneous equations or Venn diagram.All you can use is just simple block pictures,ratio or fraction that's it.

Anyway,after passing the questions to my brother to solve,my feeling is coming back.At last I can now do some questions in a non-Secondary way.

My brother is not really strong in his mathematics,but he's expert in solving Primary school mathematics,which happens to be my opposite.I remember it was he who taught me all the maths so that I can pass my PSLE mathematics with an A(He got an A*).

I remember during my Primary school days,my mathematics was terrible.It's so terrible that I always flunk my mental sums and CA test.It's not even a borderline fail,it's those kind of 30/100 kind of score.Same goes to my English,but I shall not elaborate further.

There's this time during the mid-semester test,I was unable to finish all my questions inside the paper,with 5 over questions untouched.I pleaded the teacher for some more time and I even cried in front of him.When I think of it,it was so embarrassing!In the end I don't get what I want,only his encouragement to do better.

When I got back my result one day,I was happy that I got 60 points for my paper.After this incident,I'd learned my lessons from my brother:Skip the questions you don't know,do some simple working,at least you'll score 1 point for that.With this,I managed to get 70(can't remember)and is the top mathematicians in the class(and you know how terok is our maths).

Actually,the fun of doing maths will be the kind of satisfaction when you got the answer.It's like trying to find the mystery behind every "story".I thought of doing maths in my degree,but in real society,maths don't provide you with alot of jobs.your chances will be higher only if you study economics with maths.

If only my interest in English is there,I won't have problem writing reports.In business,report writing is important.

17 March 2007: 8 people went for a trekking they'll never forget.

It was quite an excellent weather for Bukit Timah Hill trekking.Thank God for the cloud that was used to cover the sun from burning into our skin.

Oh,and thank God for Yan Yi's friend Lola who is able to join us for the trekking.She's from a faraway country called Germany.How I wish I can go there for a vacation,maybe in Munich or Frankfurt.

I was rather late for the outing.You Seng was like waiting for me before he go for his music practice.Just as I thought I'm the only guy among the group of roses,Charles was here to be the male guide for the trekking.So I'm never alone.

The journey up is a long and tiring one.Don't forget it's just the beginning.There's more to come.

In this place,all you can see is green,green and even more green.Compared to outside,the air is fresher here.


End of part 1.When we walked out of the vegetation,we saw alot morning joggers and trekkers walking past us.

For the remaining part of the journey,Chee Moon will not be with us.We'll let her go up the summit all by herself,in a easier route of course.









In this event,team work plays an important role.You don't simply go for your one man show trekking.








Along the way,we saw some strange looking plant,some were fascinating,while some were scary looking.

Take for example this leaf.It was infested with some kind of insects as if something horrible is going to pop out soon.If I were to poke the red thing,will there be alien ants coming out?






Even the trekker came here to wash their hands.As for drinking,it's advisable not to,unless you're sure that the water over here is edible.






Suddenly we're stuck in a Y-junction.There are 2 ways to go.

1. A shorter path with alot of upslope.

2. A longer path with ???????? slope.(That's where Charles is uncertain of this path)

Okay,let's have a group discussion!










The long journey took us almost 45 minutes,which is not what the trekker uncle told us to be.Uncle,you cheat our feeling!

Thank goodness that we encounter more downslope than upslope,however the whole journey makes us tired.We had to encourage one another by telling ourselves that we're going to reach soon.No,this not telling ourselves a lie.Who knows,we're actually reaching soon.












What is the best way to go downslope?First way as shown in the photo,you can walk backwards.When you do this,you're actually leaning forward,instead of leaning back which is much more difficult.

Second way is to move in zig-zag,as if you're drunk.I haven't tried this before.

When we returned to Visitor Center,the first thing I do is to fill up my bottle with cold water.Man I am sooooo thristy!

Okay let's go Bukit Timah hawker center for lunch!I need to replenishing my energy.


Some lesson learned during trekking:



2.Bukit Timah Hill is a place for rare species and beautiful plants.You got to be observant in order to find rare stuff.

3.Never wear jeans for trekking.Seriously,I made a huge mistake.It took me a whole day for the sweat in my jeans to dry out.I should have get myself a track pants.

4.Always know one another's limit.Belinda was half-dead when she reached the summit.



This is the first HGC outing I went so far.They next outing will be in West Coast Park for picnic,which I'm unable to make it because of my work on Saturday.I hope to go for the Bishan Home activity,which is either on the 1st or 31st May.