i’ve got the power

oh em gee.

how did that happen man?!

godlike.

bored at home?

my brother just showed me a website.

it’s a website where people who are too bored at home might want to visit.
but this is provided, u like to solve simple math equations.

http://worldmathday.com/

quoted from the website: “Unite with students and schools from around the world to set a new world record! The Challenge – to correctly answer more than 182,445,169 questions in 48 hours.”

u can be part of a world record man.

ok but seriously, they are giving out an ipod touch each day. however, note that it’s “an” and it’s given to the person with the highest score.

the game goes like this. u click play and u start playing against 3 other randomly picked opponents from around the world.
there’s a time limit, solve as many arithmetic qns as u can in a stipulated time limit. if u get 3 incorrect answers, u are out.

world maths day 09 will commence on the 4th march.

so ready to break a world record?
ready to kill ur boredom?
click the link.

follow the beat of love

finally this day is here.
prior to 14feb09, we have several BIG BIG plans but due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to make do with a simple celebration.

it was a simple but sweet affair

i met baby after her tuition on sat at amk hub.
we had planned to watch the 2pm show for benjamin button but sadly, tix were selling fast and so we decided to watch the 5pm show since there were better seats for that timeslot.

oh, and since i was on crutches, we were cabbing here and there.
so we cabbed back home and ordered pizza hut.
to kill time, we took some photos.

then my mum was very nice! she fetched us to amk hub again.
and wow, the place was crowded.
i wondered why so many couples would choose to come to amk hub to celebrate vday when they are abled-bodied to go travel to town or some beach or something.

the cinema was almost packed.
the movie was rather long, almost clocking 3 hours run time.
the concept of the story was rather unique.
other than that, it’s a so-so movie.

anyway, after the movie,
baby is totally mesmerized by brad pitt as she went ga-ga over his good looks.
(someone save me please)

by the time we were out of the cinema, the sky had turned dark.

and so we quickly headed to jumbo seafood restaurant for dinner!!

the taxi uncle was very nice as he warned us against going to ecp because he said there’s a very bad jam there so we just headed to the nearer jumbo which is at serangoon country club.
we weren’t very hungry so we only ordered one chilli crab and a few man tous.
the man tou plus the chilli really damn imba.

after the dinner, we went to walk around the lobby of the country club.

by the time we cabbed to her house, it was already going to be 15th feb

nevertheless, we headed to the place where it had all begun.
and we exchanged our gifts there.

baby gave me a vest, and it was personalized and that’s what made it special

thank you baby!
i simply adore the vest!

then when it was my turn, she kept pestering me for her gift because i only gave her a card, accompanied with 14 little hearts.
despite all the prompting and whining, i had only one word for her: patience.
and well…
on monday, her patience paid off with 

it was indeed an unforgettable vday.
1 simple day,
2 happy people,
and 3 effortless words words:

i love you.

happy vday baby!

zbcomma feature

beeeee’s feature in friday’s zbcomma.
hahaha.

Freaking Hilarious

a quiet affair

I am a strong boy!
I will overcome all kinds of pain.
I live my days with joy,
cos my girlfriend is not vain!

Written by: Fiona Ong
Recited by: Poh Zi Xuan

happy 9th month baby!
kudos to the wonderful invention of the telephone.
haha.

Laughter is the Best Medicine

hey it’s youtube time again.
If you are not interested in youtube videos (there are 5 of them), pls do not click the link. Thank you.
That can save about 10 minutes of your life which can be spent on doing something else more worthwhile.

this CNY

This cny was rather quiet.
And it was actually quite sian too cos i broke my leg(again).
Can’t travel here and there to bai nian, and some more, i haven’t finished my new year shopping.
Damn sian.

初夕
We had our reunion dinner at home.
Just the 4 of us.
My mum wasn’t feeling well so she hit the bed rather early. My dad followed suit soon after.
I was watching channel-8 while zy was busying dotaing.
happy new year people!

初一
After 拜年 to my parents, we headed to our 外婆’s house.
My ah ma damn nice sia.
She open one can of abalone for each of us. Each can contained 2 small abalones.

That small bowl of soup was our breakfast.

Then we headed to our 二伯’s house to meet up with my paternal side’s relatives and my 奶奶.
I created quite a commotion because of my wrapped-up leg.
Nobody expected me to break my leg again especially since my vocation’s a clerk.
We just sat around eating and watching tv.
I’ve never been very close to my cousins so I just sat around the tv chatting with the adults.

Then we took a family portrait.
Man, have the kids growed up.

Baby said that my 奶奶 and 大伯 are total 100% clones of each other.
lol.

Then we went to our 大伯’s house and 二舅’s house.
The latter is also known as uncle joshua.
Chatted with jane, my vj cousin, and caught up a little bit with each other.
Then she drove me to eastpoint to get some bubble-tea.
At night, we headed back to our 二伯’s house for dinner.

eat, talk, watch tv.
Went home, then off to the bed.

The most exciting part of the day? I was driving all day

初二
Slacked at home till lunchtime.
Sean and Yonghong came over to my place. bloody long time nvr see them.
and both of them became much fitter man.
But sean seems to have shrunk abit. He became thinner.
The meet-up was cut short cos my family were rushing over to my grandma’s place for lunch.
It’ll be a long long time later when the 3 of us will meet up again as sean is already in perth for his pilot-training

After lunch, we went home.
Some guests came over.
Then we went to 大姑’s house for dinner and lou hei.
As I was handicapped, i couldn’t go around taking pictures of everybody like what i used to do.
Surprisingly, this cny i have not seen a single deck of cards or mahjong tiles at all.
It seems that recession has hit the gamblers in my family pretty hard. haha.
Since everyone didn’t change much, to satisfy visual-hungry people, here’s photos from last year’s cny (i think i’ve never posted them here before):

young|old

小婶，小叔, dad, mum, 小姑，姑丈

each family took a photo like this

the cousins

the victorians in the family

the poly cous

the poh family

and fyi, the week after cny i book in to tekong for my field camp and when i came back the next weekend, my left leg was in a backslab plaster already.

初三

In the morning, i dragged baby out of bed to accompany me to CGH to check on my bloodshot eyes (which have been going on for weeks) and also to change my backslab cos it’s coming loose.

My parents dropped us at CGH and from there, baby took over the wheel. yes literally.
She drove me around in my wheelchair and she seemed to have lots of fun doing so. haha.
We waited for quite a while before we got our queue number from the nurse.
The waiting time was supposed to be approximately 2 hours so we’ve decided to go and walk about first. It beats staying in the A&E waiting area cos everyone was coughing and sneezing.

Just when she parked the wheelchair swee swee outside while we decide where to go next, we suddenly saw a familiar number flashing on the display screen.
Then we realized its ours. lol. and that took only 10 minutes?
haha. I guess mine’s a much serious and urgent case than sneezing and coughing.

The doc sounded like a noob cos he did not answer my qns directly. For example, i asked him what happen to my eyes cos they are red as tomatoes. Then he just told me “just continue putting eye drops and it will be alright.”
lol. But the eyedrops he has prescribed me are really rather useful.

Then in the afternoon, we slacked at my place.
Time flies when we are slacking and bumming around.
Soon, it was time to go to beeeee’s house for dinner. Her mum has invited me to dinner
haha.

Dinner started rather late cos her mum doing one-woman show in the kitchen.
Nobody could possibly help her cos i think we will become more of a hindrance than a help.
haha. But the dinner was worth the wait
Her mum’s culinary skills quite good sia.
But I have no pictures to prove it

haha. if only beeeee can do half as good as her. HAHA.
jkjk baby.
You don’t have to cook to capture my heart. You already did

to those who don’t understand. Some people say “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” or sth like that.

First 3 days of cny concluded.

Would you do this?

I was watching the 7pm channel-8 drama, 心花朵朵开, just now and this particular scene got me thinking.

To those who know nothing about the show, let me fill u in with a short story:

(I didn’t really follow the drama every episode so the short story may be inaccurate w.r.t the actual drama)
There was once this married couple, Jack and Ivy.
Ivy was a gambling addict who owed lots of debts.
One day, she left home, cos she didn’t want to drag Jack and their daughter into deep shit.
Jack still loved her despite her gambling ways.

Ivy met Chew who was a boss.
He helped Ivy.
He found a job for her.
He made her kick the gambling habit(cos he was an addict himself in the past until his mum died and blah blah).
Gradually, he fell in love with her.

All this while, Jack still loved Ivy (though i suspected that he was the one who chased her out or dunno what happen cos Ivy very scared to go back).

Then, Chew got some terminal illness that made his whole body system degenerate and hence Ivy has to take care of him.
She felt that she owed him alot for changing her life and her as a person.

When Ivy finally goes back to her family, she still takes care of Chew everyday, thus spending very less time with her husband and their daughter.

Then, fast forward alot.. we come to the stage where Chew has to seek treatment overseas(“thought the illness is terminal?” yea, beats me too) and Ivy promised him that she will go to Europe with him.
When Jack knew about this, he was damn against it, for damn obvious reasons. U have a wife and she never spent time with you and the daughter that both of you share.
Ivy even told Jack that he can go ahead and divorce her if he wants to.

It means she die die must go to Europe and abandon her family indefinitely
.

This is the part of the drama that intrigues me.

I was thinking if i were Jack, how would i feel?

OF COURSE I WOULD FEEL THE SAME: wtf/wth? (choose your own explicit/non-explicit form of expression) the woman i love is leaving just like that?

Even if the other guy has done so much for my girl to help her and stuff, so what?
Yes, she has to repay but to the extent that she gives up her everything?

And the girl, if she chooses to leave just like that, of course i would think: she develops some feelings for him alr right? (so no matter what she say, she’s just repaying him, she’s too paiseh to reject, it doesn’t help improve the matters)

So i was thinking if i’m the only one who got such negative thoughts. Yes, the girl may come back but it just seems wrong don’t you think?

People will be talking also. That your girl leaves with some other guy for a damn long time, and besides she has been taking care of him for so long to the extent that she does everything for her (have u ever wonder how a guy who is paralysed bathe alone? confirm need someone’s help right?)
Then u will be wearing a bright big green beach hat man.

Well.. enough of the rumbling of words.

Would you do this?
Would you do so much for someone who you have received help from? (e.g. he/she lent you lots of money to tide over tough times, he/she saved you from the jaws of a crocodile, he/she gave u free tuition to help u obtain As in your exams.. whatever)
Would you neglect your loved ones for that person?

Would you?