FYP...

chalet was fun...! even though there is only pathetic 7 of us out of the whole class. but still! had loads of fun and loads of alcohol... muahahaha... vodka, beer, wine all mixed up in my stomach. burp!

damn it, i don't know for what reason my IAP project got rejected. I think the company muz be blind or something. my whole class got rejected from their IAP project too, except 2 lucky guys. Ha! oh well... we were required to select again, and i select buggy tracking project. watch out guys! i am going around the campus with the buggy next time! Haha!! beep beep!

classes are back to normal, no common test for me. wheee.....

SWO outdoor performance --> pretty fun... we eat we perform we eat again! burp!

valentine's day is round the corner, and i think i made a mess with the event. sharks! things are kinda disorganised i felt. but what the heck... let me get over with this successfully!

People! roses are on sale... please get from me, i gurantee you cheap n fresh flowers! Lollipop and chocos also.. please kindly call neun zwei sieben acht eins null vier zwei (9*******) bahaha...! nah, jus tag me if you want to place order!

Danke schoen!

mundane crap

so what going on recently?

firstly, OH has just finished, and i would say that its was a successful and fun event to work in. iTechOne 2005 was a great success, despite the many last minute details that we worked on. Spend the whole day packing, distributing n ransacking the extra goodie bags for hello panda biscuits. Haha.. feel so kiddie. I feel so guilty of making this old man pushing a trolley load of goodie bags from convention centre to LT 26, geez.. could'nt the lecturer in-charge find another young guy? well... at least i help him a little on the way. iPods were given away as first prize for the robocode competition, argh! it really hurts to see iPods given to students of competition not to the organisers. ouch! haha.. jus kidding, they deserve it. Jus give the organisers iBooks! Lolz!

secondly, 2 assignments were completed, so there is 1 assignment on going now and i have yet to reach the 25% mark of completion. oPpps! 3 more assignment on waiting list, but they are coming real fast...! anyway, i have strong feeling that someone is calling me names regards to my attitude la! anyway, i just wish that he/she will stop calling me names and move on. if you read this and felt offensive, approach me and we will trash things out AGAIN!

I don't know if its me or everyone else, people are acting strangely towards me, as though i am a pain in the neck or something like that. or perhaps i am just being sensitive. people from band(s) to classmates and friend(s).. that's weird.

And recently i have learnt another painful lesson, after teaching for a few years, i think i have done a fair job in that. But i have heard from vivien that one of our junior have just stab me in the back making awful remarks about me. Thanks for telling me and letting me know that there is such an idiot on earth! Very sad and disappointed, if i knew it earlier, i shall not put in much effort on her, but again its the duty of a teacher/senior to bring the best out of everyone.

Moving on, my website is in desiging phase and so.. it should be online soon. That's all for now, Tata! and good nites!

New Year Concert

Great! SWO concert is over, comments? hmm.. i think we sounded pretty okay, somehow i felt certain substance of music is missing. other than that i think i enjoyed myself through out the concert. Especially the horn trio in found in the 2nd movement of clarinet concerto, the horns did great! thanks alot! i think the effort of spending hours of playing those 30 bars together didn't go to waste, especially when i have to wake up early one sunday morning just to rehearse that 30 over bars with desmond ng. Smiles were on everyone's face the moment we end the passage. all break a cold sweat but well... all i could say is, a thumbs up from desmond. Well done guys!

For the other 2 bands that joined us for the concert. Well done, they sounded pretty good, i think they are going to score in the upcoming SYF again. The shear size of the bands just freak me out! hahaha.. they are so so so big.. the whole stage is filled up especially dunman high! compared to SWO.. geez!

My parents attended the concert, hahaha.. heard from my brother that my mum fell asleep. perhaps they are not used to the repertoire of music we are playing. i think somehow they still prefer shuqun's repertoir. oh well... shall ask them to come for NP's concert next time round. perhaps thats the level of repertoire they are used to. =)

Again, its another fun concert i had!

Christmas, Rondeau & tsunami

Christmas, was pretty boring this year, just the usual Christmas dinner but this time round it at my uncle's house which is just across a big field near my house. Spent the whole afternoon hauling food over and back. And manage to get lots of sleep!!! I am losing sleep now..

NPCB concert finally its over! ah hahaha.... Another load off my shoulders. Pretty enjoyable concert, but my playing standards didn't reach my expectation for the first half, guess I was jus keeping the air inside me. Hey! Air is free! So I give it all during the second half. Second half of the concert was more fun. But I am very disappointed with a certain bunch of people who came and attend the concert and left during interval. I couldn't catch them in time to say Hi. But I would still want to thanks Vivien and Yaying for attending this concert. And some shuqun people whom watch the whole concert. Hope you all had fun listening to it.

Well... Now in preparation for SWO's new year concert. 4 tickets at hand and I have no idea who to sell to. Haiz... Always a problem. People... pls come, 8 Jan at VCH (again!) Hehe...

my condolences to all the victims of the recent tsunami. Learnt about it in geography but have not seen one in such magnitude! This is the most distructive tsunami ever. And I believe it could be an re-enactment of Noah's ark. anyway, if you someone appeal to you for any aid, do help out, small packs of panadol will help in a big way...

God Bless everyone!

Who moved my christmas?

school is coming to an end of its third week. pretty stress out from the modules i am taking, all thanks to the reduction in the number of study week. all thanks to some people. assignments coming in or should i say, assignments come smacking at my face. and with the band concerts and society's stuffs.

anyway, NP band concert is just round the corner, yesterday was its final rehearsal, i should say it sounded pretty good. so i am expecting a good concert this coming monday. will i play well? we shall see... And I think i am pretty much decided on which band to leave.

I don't think i am able to juggle such tremendous amount of stress. and i am on a different level of playing field as compared to some people. People are different and so is the amount of stress they can take. So don't come telling me how much workload you have, how much shit you are in and you still able to take it, there is nothing to wow about!

Christmas anot, i think its pretty much burn. Looking forward to my aunt's nagging over the video editing of korea trip. Hmm.. let me see where the blame should go? perhaps myself.

Guten Nacht! (Good night in German)

Merry Chirstmas guys!

Annyeong Haseyo 2

Took me a long time to update on my trip to korea. Busy with school stuffs during the first week, school was pretty fun but stressful for me now. ICT Christmas bash is just round the corner, so we are in the mist of preparing that event.

Day 3
Everland, korea's largest outdoor theme park is the place we went. All got up early and prep up for a day's of fun. My uncle arranged transport for us, a tour guide and a driver. Reach there early with all my young cousins excited about this trip. All were sing and laughing away. Everland is basically a korean version of disneyland that you will find in USA, so they have all the animals for young kids and rides for the older ones and other stuffs for the even older ones. So at everland, we took a safari ride which is one of the attractions in there, a bus will take you up close with the lions, tiger, liger( cross breed of tiger and lion) and bears. The bears are the cute ones, all sitting around waiting for the bus driver to feed them. They even had a street parade, based on christmas as the theme. Well, its a day more for the kids.

Day 4
Skiing!!!! This is the day i have long waited for. Itching to ski for 4 years and i finally get to do it again. Haha... 2 and a half hour ride to the ski resort, again arranged for the same tour guide and driver. i snooze on the way there, and looking at the video my uncle recorded, he actually took a video of me snoozing away. Lolz! Wee... took my ski equipment and headed for the snow. Lost touch, plus the snow was not in a favourable condition, they were kinda old so basically u were skiing on ice instead of snow. Fun! can't wait to do it again. Perhaps skiing lessons at snow city first... hmmm...

Day 5 - 9
Shopping time, went to 2 famous area for shopping. Namdaemum market and Dongdaemum. Namdaemum market is something like what you will find in chinatown during CNY. Lots of wholesale activities going on, mainly fashion. Dongdaemum is more of a shopping mall, it caters to local and tourist. Clothes at dongdaemum are fashionable and trendy. Basically, if you are looking for clothes for yourself or to set up a business, these two places are the best place to go. Anyway, we shop mostly at night, i mean mid night when the kids are asleep so we sneak out of the house. Hahaha.. its was fun. Dongdaemum actually doesn't sleep! Besides shopping, did a little sight seeing. But one of the days were disrupted by a DEMOSTRATION! so we decided to cut short it. didn't get to see it, but get to hear it, even though we were quite far from it.

During these few days also have to endure my cousins fighting and whinning and crying. Haha.. it will be my last trip with the elder cousin among that bunch.

My flight TG 629 from Seoul to Bangkok was very pleasent. Except for the rude customer service people at hong kong. There were not from Thai, its their airport staff. Surprising is the aircraft used was the same one that i took from SIN - BKK. Registration HS-TJE

TG421, BKK - SIN. Was much less enjoyable, mainly because the flight is filled up with singaporeans. aircraft used was pretty old too... Registration HS-TAF. The flight made me feel like i was flying budget. Hahaha... anyway, that about all i would want to say. It could be longer, but i decided to cut it short.

My reflections, very enjoyable trip, manage to learn some basic korean words good enough to communicate to get my way around. Had lots of fun and made my passion for travelling and flying stronger! Going solo the next time round!

Korea, i will be back soon!
Gamsahamnida! (Thank You)

Annyeong Haseyo!

So tired after a long flight back home. But its nice to be back, why? school is going to start otherwise i don't mind staying for anther week or 2!

Day 1
Check in at Changi Airport for Flight TG 402 to Bangkok continuing TG628 to Seoul via Hong Kong. Total Flight Time was about 10 hours. There was a long queue at the airport, and we were the last few people to check in for the flight, thanks to my small cousin who is reluctant to get up! haha.. anyway, the seats assigned were spread out. For me, i was flying alone for the SIN-BKK sector, with a japanese guy who sleeps all the way and only wake up for meal and a Indian guy seating on the other side la. both know how to sleep. Amazing!

Flight TG402, aircraft registration HS-TJE

Well, 2 hours later we landed at Bangkok International Airport. Because mine is a window seat, i look out as we touch down, i saw a golf course in the middle of the 2 runways! Argh! haha... I got out of the plane first, waited at the gate for 10 mins before the rest of the gang got out! Bet they were looking for me in the plane! We hurried through the airport, looking which gate the next flight were and go through security screening. When we check out the next flight, it indicated that it will transit in hong kong! Only then we realise it! hahaha.... anyway, we board the plane and head to hong kong then to seoul. Service on this flight was much better than SIN-BKK flight.

Flight TG628, aircraft registration HS-TJB

2 and a half hours later, we found ourself in hong kong. Been there before, but was many years back. Checked out the new airport they have, it was HUGE!!! its the world largest! again, went through screening again and waited at the transit lounge. Airport Customer Service was rather average in hong kong.

Down to the final leg, HK-SEL, same flight, same flight attendent and same plane. 3 and a half hours later, touch down at Incheon International, hop on a taxi, illegal one i think, and zoom of to my uncle's house. Terrible communication breakdown with the driver, but we still manage to find our way there. hahaha! One hour journey from Airport to downtown Seoul. That is one day of travelling. Meals are serve onboard.

Day 2
Got up rather late, my two cousins living in korea were off to school and the rest were just lazing around. Finally we get our ass moving and off to Itewon, a toursit attraction equivalent to Singapore's Orchard Road. Its just walking distance from my uncle's house. Well before we leave the house, my uncle called from work telling us that it snowed at his workplace which is the other side of seoul. anway, light snow started to fall at my uncle's house, my first sighting of snow fall. Light snow fall now and then, off to Itewon for lunch, and then heavy snow fall! Wow!!! Awesome sight indeed! i was coverd in snow. The first snow fall in Seoul! To add on, I heard a brass ensemble playing outside baskin robbins! haha.. some chirstmas music, and i am totally surprise that they are able to play at 0 degC! Didn't hang out much and headed back home, the kids are whining away so the older ones stayed at home. Got a awful pain behind my ears, due to the cold temperature. Dinner was at a local korean restaurant? Looks sort of like our coffeeshops where you just pop in for a quick meal. Tried their Cal Bi (Beef) and my favourite Kimchi!

Temperature is around 0 degC.

doom's day

The past three days was very terrible for me. Something happen unexpectedly and it just took me by surprise.This period of time have been very difficult and depressing for me, hopefully the upcoming trip overseas will somehow cheer me up again. It is sad that i will be able to explain to my friends what happen. And they can never understand the difficulties i gone through. I want to take this time to apologise to people that i have offended. I am also utterly disappointed that my friends can never understand the tough time that is now currently going on, especially someone i hold dear to my heart.

To my section members: I really feel gulity for not attend this camp and also being irresponsible for not informing you guys when u all call and msg me. I just kept mentioning in the phone call and sms that i will come. But I really have personal matters to attend to. I really hope i can let you all know what happened but its to personal to mention it out. I sincerely apologise to you all.

God, please brighten up my day.

Results are out

yea! finally the results are out. that marks the end of days pondering how i do for this semester's modules. i know i have not been performing well this semester but phew.. close shave for certain modules..... didn't expect any A's in the first place, but well i still end up with one. A B C D achieve it all!!! =)

don't know if its a coincidence, mentor called me about 15 mins after the resutls are out. Lolz.. anyway its jus regarding a camp at NUS i think. but i couldn't attend it, falls within the period i am away. anyway, suggested some of my classmates that i think should go. overall, i don't think anyone of them will go. disappointed....

nickszeto poofing out!
*poofed*

Eros and Agape

how long? very long..... yup its been a long time since my last entry. lazy i guess, all that sitting around the house is turning to a replica of GARFIELD!! love that fat cat.. meow!

What's have been going on so far? hmmm... guess this hols have be dedicated to music. Band, French horn and Piano. other than that, just looking forward to my trip. Yippee! well.... at least 2 more weeks to go before i leave.

Recently i found out how cute and loving my grandparents are. hearing my grandmother telling me how they tease each other sometimes when they go out. Lolz.. that's what 50 years of marriage comes down to, love and respect for each other. something which make me sit back and think...

Eros or Agape?

yawns....

wow.. its been a long time since my last entry haha.. slacking all the while except for last tuesday, where i had a very interesting experience in the operating theatre. after some injections and ................

haha.. i just came out with a very interesting music analysis of Movement II of The wind in the Willow title Ratty and the Mole. haha... Ratty should be played in the way that the main melody of the song sounds like the busy rats, i mean country rats not the urban rats. running in and out of the barrow in the search for food and stuffs.. if i would replace the melody with words, it should goes: "Hurry hurry, let's go... we have not much time!" As for Mole, i believe mole have a very close family bond between them if i recall properly from the animal documentary i watch before, so the main melody carried by the horns should present the warm and close family bonding they have. haha.. Overall, this movement should show the contrast of a very busy animal who is always on the hurry and a very slow and ease going animal with warm feeling. Just my 2 cent worth.

well... i am off to combine band prac with SMB and Alumni. They are going to rehearse for the upcoming sentosa performance where i will not be in because i will be going overseas!!! yeah!!! anyway, making lots of sacrifice, giving up sentosa performance, leadership camp and band exchange for this trip. hopefully it worthwhile and i believe it will be otherwise i fly back!!! haha...

bored stiff

what am i doing? oh yah, locking myself up in the room now. why? coz my bro's friends are here, they are also locking up in my bro's room. Don't know what the hell they doing. But better keep their volume down! muahahahaha!!!

Just had a meeting yesterday, regarding ICT society, there will be a leadership training camp coming up, begining of Dec i hope. trying to push back to begining of Dec. ICT will be having a christmas bash coming up also, 17 dec at convention center. A ICT first and big event, let's see how this committee works! hahaa.. look to the right for more events!

one more paper to go.. this saturday. looking forward to it.. then i will go back to alumni and play to my heart's content before i go for my op. sickening, i have stop playing for about 2 weeks? so NP, Alumni band ppl, see u guys around mid Nov! or perhaps slightly earlier. shall see my condition. unless i beg real hard to my dentist. Please........

I think i understand what i fear about this operation, its not the jab or the extraction part, used to it already but just the slight cut the surgeon have to make on my gum. imagine a scapel in my mouth. okay i know, back in sec school days i used to play around with it during biology lesson, but i am just cutting up tomatoes, please don't cut me up! i am not a tomato!!! hump! see whether the surgeon is skillful enough to extract it without making any cuts anot! hahahaaa....

in my opinion, DENTIST ARE STILL EVIL!!!

God Bless!

halfway there...

halfway there now... 2 more papers and that the end of this semester. how did i do till now...? rather discouraging. well i think i am all prep up to conquer the next paper amist all the loud banging and music from the block next to mine. its something i won't want to mention.

yes! finally i got my dream camera, after so long, took it for a test run but can't wait to test run it again, itching to finish up the current roll of film. haha... thanks alot to the seller, sweet lady. there is a great opportunity last friday, when i tag along with my family to kusu island. huh? what am i doing there? just go there for fun of it when i could use the time to prepare for the next paper on saturday. hahaa... could not resist the temptation. as i said, i could have brought my camera there to snap some nice landscape shots but, haha, just didn't bring the camera.

the trip there... oh gosh, the ferry we took was crawling its way there. just missed the faster vessal that usually ply along the SIN-Batam route. but manage to catch that vessal on the return trip. Its kind of funny, on the return trip, i just sat there in the comfy seat and look out at the skyline of SIN and somehow, i felt so relax.

oh well, my two buddies, haha, celebrated my birthday 6 days late. hahaha! something that i really didn't expect to happen. jus a normal chilling out afternoon, went to SWO to take parts for the upcoming concert then dinner. Totally surprise for what they have done. that's what buddies are for!

Thanks bros...

pain & fun

i just can't stop thinking about the wisdom tooth operation that i will be going for, it ain't any fun letting a dentist pulling your teeth even though i have done it before, but i still have the fear for it. can i not pull? tough decision, it has it advantage but is it long term or short, wonders...
there is so much fun activities lining up for the next three months or so, can't wait for these activities to come but the operation still come in line first. haiz.. spoil all the fun thoughts that i have. really hate to have such misery feeling but i still have to go thru it, i am willing to be suffering for exams as i know i can bring myself joy at the end when results are release, but my tooth... sighs... dentist are evil, either they scale and polish your teeth till you cry in pain or sent you for tooth extraction like nobody's business.

3 events coming up after the tooth op, band exchange where i will be conducting music workshop, possible leadership camp by ICT in malaysia i think and posible korea trip. all falling at the same period of time, LoLz.. don't know how things will work out, nearer to that week then work it out again. hopefully the korea trip will happen and be back before the exchange so that i can fly back in time to conduct the workshop.

Dentist are still evil!

Birthday Bash

Well well.... my birthday is here again, getting old already.. LoLz.. nothing much to elaborate about, just a simple dinner with all my uncles and aunt and of course not forgetting the small kids.. oh yah, its my uncle's birthday too, we celebrate our birthday together every year. haha... cool aite? as always, the kids are the one's who blow out the candles and cut the cake. its become a "tradition" for all birthdays. oh well... they are kids, cute ones..

I Have A Dream

I Have a Dream,

A Song to Sing,

To Help me cope,

With Anything.

what dreams do I have? A dream to enjoy life as happy as possible and share the joy with everybody and the person that will be dearest to me. LoLz... yup that's my dream, simple aite? well that's me! currently enjoying the MAMA MIA! album that i bought this afternoon, realising that ABBA songs are quite meaning full in some ways. like it alot...

alright, this is reality, just finish my MAD Assignment, worked thru the night till 4 am, where the birds are chipping to the daybreak as i hit the sack, funny rite.. why rush last minute, thanks to my partner, long story.. my tutor will justify the work. 2 weeks work cramp into a night, something that i will never forget. but still proud of myself, as i could complete such a major assignment, well 90% by myself. *Taps on my back* LoLz...

oh yea, just another sunday, out of the house and hang around town, suppose to attend a youth rally, but, hahaha... Laziness rulez.. so walk around town, and watch the change of guards at the Istana, and saw something that totally disgust me. if i could, i would have told her off in the middle of orchard road, not that its something i am incapable of doing, but i think she does not deserve my dressing down. well... let it be.

Over all, still a fun and enjoyable day.... and i still have a dream. The dream of have sweet dreams every night, going to accomplish that now. Ciaoz!

MAMA MIA!

went to church today, but i overslept so was late, well its okay la... haha!! after church, Joel and i were trying to get a ticket to mama mia for me, rush down to esplanade to book. initially, expect the tix to be hundred over, the last 2 seat available, but to our surprise as a student i got it at half the price and the seat that i got is wonderful, what more can i request for. Wow! anyway, went for lunch and watch the show.

the show was full of energy, the songs, the dance and the act. Wow! Hilarious and simply amazing, catch it while its around. Especially the lead female actress, beautiful voice, very clear and pure. The cast sing and dance with energy, and love the story line even tho its a typical romance cum family storyline with lots of twist. Hahaaa... grand finale, saw the audience were on their feet dancing away to the music of ABBA. LoLz.. will i watch again if i have a chance? definitely.. YES!!!

Great seats, great show. A musical that i never forget!
Thank you for the music!

alumni band

finally! its starting... alumni band i mean. LoLz.. first practice today, turn out not very good, but size today was good enough to make some music. sight read songs today, letting the very senior players i mean really senior get their playing rite.. haha..they have not been playing for years. but still the band has a decent tone, well, that's the result of years of training under our teacher, Miss Tan. lots of things are lined up for the alumni band. going to be interesting...!! release more detail about it when things are nearer..

near perfect

weekend has passed, and it was a interesting one. well... it all started out on friday afternoon. Dreads, sitting in EP for 2 hours listening to 9 groups of presentation where 8 of them covered on the same photographer. ouch! my ear hurts.. by the end of the lesson, the history of the photographer is drilled into my head. Lolz... Basically after that went down to queensway shopping centre with joel, both of us shopping for a backpack, and i am also looking for a camping bag, saw a few but still undecided yet. passing by clarke quay on the way to town, we remember that there is a music shop there, selling instruments, so decided to get off and visit the shop, but its close, went back later in the evening, wow... i am stunned by the large amount of instruments, new and old. Negotiating for my french horn, Holten of course, think i will get it soon. anyway, joel and i play around with the instruments, and the shop owner doesn't seem to care.. hahaa.. think he trust us in handling the instruments, we are musicians. fun fun.. going back there some time soon.

Saturday, OOP walkthrough, also OOP dateline, well i didn't manage to complete the assignment, there is still some errors in the coding but can't solve the error, programming is really not my forte. oh well, think i should be able to pass. God Bless. Band was rather "interesting", i am suffering from headache due to lack of sleep and the trumpets were screaming into my ears throughout the practice, ouch! Became the tuner of the section, LoLz, Mr Tan was using me to tune the other horns. following that, went to music essential to hunt for scores, manage to find the beethoven sonata which was played by one of the masterclass student. happenly, it was one of my grade8 horn piece, so i bought it. oh yah, i decided to take grade 8 for french horn next year. Eager to try out. LoLz. Wish me luck.

Sunday, stayed at home, didn't want to go to church, and also decided not to go clarke quay to test out the horn. jus want to stay at home. evening went to my grandparents's place to collect my medicine, had dinner there and went home. I should say, ever since my uncle, Ben Tan and family left to korea, weekends at pasir ris is rather cold. my uncles n family seldom go there now. when i was there, uncle patrick when to pick up food for his family and gave me a ride home. i didn't stay there for more than an hour. Miss those days where everyone was there, makes the weekends a lively place to be with all the small kids around. things are not going to be the same...

Today, piano lesson, was late again, 2nd time in a row. Well, did jazz again and the third piece for my piano grade 8 exams. fun fun fun. except got irritated by this primary school kid on the way there, rudeness rule his mind, it seems kids of the same race are like that, i am not being racist. more like its a cultural thing. had supper with joel and happen to saw jefferson at Bt Panjang plaza. chat while eating and now sitting here blogging away. oh! and i didn't go to school today.

masterclass

attended horn masterclass yesterday. basically, nothing to much to comment about the masterclass. Barry Tuckwell focus more on the perfomance aspect of playing the horn. Certainly he went into details of the concerto's and sonata's played by the 3 hornist. Its something like what goes on every piano lesson now where my piano teacher will sit beside me and go into detail bar by bar of my exam pieces. other than that, learned nothing much, mostly were taught by Miss Tan during secondary school days, more or less a refresher course for me. Was hoping that tuckwell will go into technical aspect of playing but didn't. He mention is a One to One thing, what works well on one player might not work well on the others. which is one point i could agree on. but at least a little something general on horn playing pls... haha! lesson over.

one thing about this masterclass, i was paying much attention to the pianist other than the horn. LoLz.. the pianist is good.. very good. haha! gotta prac on my piano more, technic is getting no where now, lack of time to practice. But i like one thing, is the 2 jazz piece i have to work on now. like jazz alot, but still J.S Bach and Beethoven are my favourites. why work on jazz? well, my piano teacher mention of jazz gaining popularity in sight reading, so she is preparing me for it which i don't think i have much of a problem handling it. haha!