Haha~~ I can easily see a lot of spider webs all around my dear dear HaVeN. Neither me nor visitors have been here lately i think. Anyway, here goes the update.

Still left a couple of days before my polytechnic reopens, this should be the last chance for me to slack around lo, hehe~~ New modules and new lecturers are waiting for me in the new semester. I'm quite looking foward to it but it's mixed with a little bit of nervous and worries. I believe that this would be a challenging semester for me as there are modules like sports and wellness (which i don't like and weak in~~) and maths and statistics (which sounds challenging~~). It so happened that our class was allocated a lecturer whom we are familiar with and had been with us throughout the previous semester for the Microbiology Practical session. She is Mrs Tang, our previous Cell Biology lecturer. Just hope that we will have fun and interesting Microbiology Practical sessions for the coming semester with Mrs Tang. Haha~~

I did not go back to Malaysia this weekend and so i've been hanging around in Singapore alone these few days. I have been visiting esplanade for yesterday and today as there were free band shows, haha~~ Went to Kinokuniya a few days ago and bought the chinese version of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Enjoy reading it recently and i even went to Singapore National Library today just to feel the atmosphere reading it in a library .......silly huh? Haha~~
Actually had been quite boring and lonely recently. I'm going out alone and i just can't figure out who to call along or maybe some people already got there dates or appointment. Xin Ting urged me to get a GF so that i won't be that lonely ....but, is it that easy? Maybe my time has not reach la. However still hope to get someone to accompany me next week as there'll be holidays coming.
After watching a few shows from the bands (should be local bands)at the esplanade these few days, i learnt something and realise that i still got a lot more to learn. Got to know a lot of rock styles played using acoustic guitars, effect boards (not sure of the professional name for it)for acoustic guitars and so much more. I think i have to start learning strumming guitar with a pick. I used to strum using fingers as this is kind of like influence from my teacher who taught me guitar lesson that was half pop and half classical. Using pick to play acoustic guitar really creates a better tone especially when we strum. And, i feel like learning electric guitar after watching those electric guitarists playing. however, i'm sure it will not be easy and i'm wondering where to get this kinda courses also. Furthermore, the fees for learning music is Singapore is 'life'taking (not breathtaking oo, haha~~). I think i should think of my studies first la.

Next Thursday, my younger brother who has not been to Singapore for more than 5 years will come here as two of us are going to watch the very first Ocean Ou De Yang Mini Concert. Ocean as many of us know, he is a mysterious artist who has not been showing his face until now although he already had 2 albums released. So, on the next thursday, he'll show his face and reveal his true indentity to the public or to the world as well. I'm sure many people are eager to know how he looks as his voice is truly mesmerizing. Hope that he will not let his fans down oo. Looking foward to the concert.

Oh my, recently i'm down to financial crisis again ........i need a work and fast. But i was thinking even go for work audition i still need to pay admin fees. Oh my, i still left lotsa important things to buy and to do. God bless me to get over the crisis, hiak hiak~~
That should roughly be my update after so long. Enjoy ya..... Tata~~

这个假期在家里呆了那么久我终于有机会出去走走啦，呵呵~~ 明天我就要去吉隆坡咯。这次上去的目的之一是要去找一些很久不见的同学朋友，然后再趁此机会去大肆采购一番。因为我的假期就快结束了，要是现在不买好新年衣，慢点就没有机会了。
尽管如此，我现在到吉隆坡去时就不禁会有一些恐惧感，因为我在之前一次，也就是在今年新年前夕到吉隆坡旅行时，我被人勒索了！当时我的手机被拿走了，真伤心啊。不过庆幸的是那些“恶徒”后来把SIM卡还了给我，保住了我的号码和资料。而且，我的皮夹也保住了。呵呵~~ 希望这一次不要再那么衰了咯。
希望这次过去能够有机会和MIFC的才子，伟杰切磋切磋一下。之前一直说要过去但是都腾不出时间，现在终于“落实”了，非常的期待。
今晚又是有值班的一天咯，希望今晚不要遇到“卑鄙小人”。呵呵~~ 准备了一些新歌，希望有机会能够唱到咯。

My apology to my dear haven as I neglected it for such a long time, sorry yeah. However I'm here again right, haha~~

For a few days ago, it was really a bad time for me as I was so sue (hokkien) to have all the untoward incidents happened on me at the same time. On Saturday, I experienced headache and pain on some other parts of body once I woke up. Later on, I discovered secrets of my friend that hurt me a lot. I'm damn sad and I hope this liar without conscience will not appear in front of me again. He'll pay for the lies he told, I told myself. At night, I went working at Halo Café and that day, I was partnering with two of my so call 'seniors' from Halo Café, KL. I always have bad impression towards the KL Halo crews as for their arrogance and pretence. The duty that day worsened my impression. They acted pro on the stage and ignored the topics I suggest, this has made me looked like an idiot talking to myself. I'm transparent! Some more, I was in bad mood after the previous untoward incident. The guy who's a guitarist and also a singer kept on pushing the responsibility of singing to me whenever his turn arrives. This is unfair, you lazy bump!! As for the girl, she herself as only a singer is required to read out the song request slips from the customers because she is the freest person on the stage. However, she pushed all the slips to me without sprouting a word. You were boycotting me right, you despicable 'seniors'. Was it just because I commented on the KL attitude on the meeting and so I got these? I was damn disappointed towards Halo Café; I've devoted so much to it. Haiz…

Nothing special happened the next day except for the visit to Grandma's house at Muar and the accident where I cut my finger when I was trying to clean the razor after I used it. Luckily, the razor just peeled off a thin layer on my left index finger. If it's serious, I will not be able to work in short time as I can't play a guitar with cut fingers. Haha~~

It's now time for yesterday. My brother and I went to shop at Wira Court and searched for birthday present suitable for my dad as he'll be celebrating his birthday tomorrow. In the end, we chose to buy a polo T. At the stationery section, we were trying to find a birthday card specially made for fathers but the fact was, there were cards for brothers, daughters, mothers and even nephews but none for fathers. How sad it was. Therefore, we just picked a rather suitable one. Just hope that dad will like it. Wahaha~~

I'm on duty at Halo Café again at night. Today, I'll be partnering with a keyboardist from Muar and a local beauty. They were really friendly, unlike some others. However, yesterday's show was rather 'cold' as we crapped a lot of lame jokes on the stage. I hope the customers did not got frozen. Haha~~ The keyboardist, Xing Long is an expert in Jazz and blues chords, really impressive. How I wish I can learn something from him like how to substitute normal chords with jazz ones. Anyway, it was enjoyable and fun. That seems brought my heart back to Halo. Oh my, the KL admin office of Halo misspelled my name as 'Tan Yu PinG' again in the salary cheque, I'm going to kill them for that. Haha~~ just kidding.

That's all for this post. Read my blog ok, people? I hope you all enjoyed the song while reading too. Tata~~

词：彪民 曲：智川

说过了从今以后 我们还会是好朋友
只是那牵过的手 再握不住彼此的温柔
回避不了的碰头 眼神还期待些什么
就连基本的问候 也会拥有让人迟疑的藉口

眉头出现了一丝皱 遇见你唇角会微微颤抖
我伪装的自我 总在你面前变得失措

你快乐了吗？ 你终于看到我的挣扎
就算是不小心不经意一切都留了个疤
你快乐了吗？ 你从来不懂我的挣扎
就算是真心话你也从来不愿意面对吧？！
就算我失败吧...

快乐已经过去了...... 是时候换一换新的歌曲了。接下来介绍给大家的也是一首蛮新的歌曲。
《你快乐了吗？》是由大马本地一位创作型女歌手兼歌唱导师，何芸妮所演绎的。由于即将到国外去深造，他便与一群在音乐上志同道合的朋友一起推出了一张EP--《Who 谁？》。其中这首是当中的主打歌。尽管如此，相信认识芸妮的朋友并不是很多，就算是马来西亚的朋友。呵呵~~
之前一直在选，我究竟要放哪一首歌呢？最近挑了这一首，因为觉得跟自己之前的心情与想对某人表达的东西是挺相似的。这歌在新加坡是肯定没有机会听到的，所以现在也好跟新加坡的朋友分享一下。这是一首好歌，介绍给大家也希望大家会喜欢。呵呵~~

我又回来马来西亚咯，相信我这次会在这里呆蛮久的。呵呵~~ 当然，为了打发日子，我又去买了两部DVD电影，最终幻想7降临之子（Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children）还有红鞋（The Red Shoes）。

降临之子的故事是延续电玩版最终幻想7的故事，那些最终幻想迷应该会对这个很有兴趣吧。我想我大概也可以算是其中一个迷儿。电影里面的动作啊，人物啊，真让人无法想象完全是由电脑动画制成的，真的是太逼真了。人物也好唯美啊，也许只有在人们的幻想中才会有那么漂亮，那么完美的人吧。情节是挺精彩的，不过完全不了解最终幻想7的朋友大概就会看的一头雾水咯。值得一看啦。这里放几张特写上来分享分享，呵呵~~







接下来的红鞋就是一部恐怖片啦。呃….我真的都只喜欢看恐怖片哦，难道我真的像卖DVD的人所说的，是“变态”吗？哈哈~~ 大家要小心我咯。红鞋是一部韩国电影，我也是靠看字幕才看得懂故事的啦。好复杂的一部电影啊，情节一直在古代和现代跳来跳去的，差点看得我头晕了。故事大略是说，有一双受到死去的主人诅咒的红高跟鞋，被一个有轻微精神分裂的白领主妇捡到。由于那高跟鞋很美，主妇身边见到它的朋友都想把它抢走，但结果那些人都一个个离奇死亡了。最后才知道原来那些人都是被那位主妇杀死了。呃……人还真恐怖。这么可怕的电影，还是不用放特写了吧？感觉我好像在写影评耶，大家不要看到无聊了哦。

最近啊，发觉自己的体能越来越差，越来越不行了。以前一次可以做五十下掌上压，现在要做十五次都似乎有点问题。我到底是怎么了哦？事什么原因造成的啊？真糟糕，我下个学期还有一个体育的科目要上啊，我可不想因此不及格啊！而且我到现在还没有想到要选择哪一项活动哦。不过说回来，我至今唯一不及格的考试便是我中学时候的体育考试耶，笑….. 我想这大概跟我一天两餐的饮食习惯有关吧，看来不能再“翘餐”咯。呵呵~~

今天就到这里啦，感觉有点懒了的说。哎呀…..感觉上，我的文笔好像越来越烂了耶，写了看起来好像小学作文，真是不得了了。这都是不努力阅读的缘故啦，哈哈~~

Today is Friday and some how it's a nice day to me as i'm going to Esplanade again lo! Today Esplanade will have Rock Band performance by some Band Competition winners at the Waterfront Outdoor Theatre. The attractive part of it is that the show is totally FOC (Free Of Charge)!
Woke up quite late in the morning (10.30a.m.)as i slept at 4 a.m. yesterday. This is all my laptop's fault, i was defragmenting it's drives yesterday and dozed off half way through. When i suddenly woke up, i just realised that the defragmentation failed and it's already 4 a.m. Damn! Wondering why my com took so long to defragment, fed up! Haha~~ Anyway, woke up and chatted with some friends until afternoon without any breakfast or lunch or brunch.... as if i'm on diet. Haha~~ Set off on my journey at about 5 like that. For the first stop i went to Bras Basah Complex. Boarded the bus without knowing my ez link credit dried up, the reader beeped....so embarassing, used cash in the end. Actually i went to Bras Basah to get a reed (a piece of vibrating 'wood' that creates sound for woodwind instruments) for myself. The reeds at the club are too fragile and easy to break so i wan to get one for myself. Bought it at Swee Lee (famous for it's music stuffs) and browsed for some instruments there. I'm drooling for the saxophone and the keyboards but they are all $1000+ SD, too expensive for me to afford. Probably get one after i got my job, haha~~ I'm quite angry with the staffs there as they have no efficiency. I paid them but just for me to get back my change, i waited for more than 10 minutes. They were busy with other stuffs such as some one who bought a 1000+ electric guitar so just ignored some one who just bought a piece of reed........unfair...... After that i went to the Mc Donald's next to Bras Basah Complex to have my brunch / linner or whatever. Carried on with my journey to Raffles City after that.
In fact, my destination is Marina Square and just passed by Raffles City. Oh my...Marina Square is so 'complex'....i almost lost my way in there. That's probably because they are upgrading and a lot of paths are blocked. It took me some time to find the Music Dreamer Live! Cafe （爱琴海民歌餐厅). It's another music cafe in Singapore other than the Ark Cafe at the Apollo Centre. Checked out the details on hiring singers and instrumentalists and i found out that the nearest audition is on the coming monday (10th Oct 2005) which i will not be able to make it as i will be in Malaysia at the time and i did not have my dear guitar with me. Anyway, i'll just wait for another session when school reopens, hoping that i can get myself a job as soon as possible. Oh.....i'm so money-minded, hiak hiak~~
Crossed over the road to Esplanade after the 'spying' session and went straight away to the Outdoor Theatre. However the show was still in preparation. Therefore i went 'lepakz' at the Library @ Esplanade. It's nice and comfortable inside (good for nap......bleargh). I simply browsed through some books on Jazz (however i'm not really familiar with it) then went down to the theatre again. The show finally started with a band called 'Bismuth'. I didn't actually enjoyed their performance as it is too......i don't know how to put it....just too noisy and doesn't suit my taste. I almost slept although the music was so loud. A bit disappointed but expecting something better from 'Audio Insanity' later. Repeated my the same thing at the library just to get rid of the interval. Then at last, it's 'Audio Insanity'!! They are really great and they have a quite complete band (drummer, keyboardist, bassist and guitarist) with a strong and poweful voice--the singer. If i have not mistaken, 'Audio Insanity' arose from the Song Composing Club of Ngee Ann Polytechnic and one of it's members is the Project Superstar Finalist, Derrick Hoh Wei Jian (Fans! Don't scold me if i spelled his name wrongly, haha~~). They are insanely great and quite professional i think. The female singer even sang Hero from Mariah Carrey which is an extremely difficult song to sing. Her skill is undeniable, great. People even encored for another song after that.
Hoho.... i'm so long winded huh. Paiseh la....i really enjoyed today. I'm going home to Malaysia tomorrow lo. Bye~~

哇哈哈~~今天总算有些开心的事情值得一提啦！其实也没有那么糟啦，只是最近假期真的是无聊的透顶了，没有什么有趣的事情分享。现在我是想今天的日志应该不要写太长的好，不过正所谓“现在不知耽会儿事”，等下如果写的太长就要多多包涵啦！呵呵~~
现在就先和大家分享一下昨天的经历吧。这几天，无聊的我每天都跑去新加坡的滨海艺术中心闲晃 (星期一到星期三)。不过这样的闲晃倒是没有白费啦，在那当儿，我也随手拿了一些册子。我这才发现那里的节目真的很多很丰富噢。尽管如此，这几天一直到处的跑，害得我的易通卡就快“触”爆了。我最厉害就是在两天以内花20新元的交通费。现在开市后悔这个月没有申请学生优惠卡了。呵呵~~昨天去滨海艺术中心 (亦成为榴莲壳)看了一场由新加坡国立大学音乐系 (NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory)管乐组学生们的表演。真不愧是国大音乐系的，他们真的是好赞啦，也很专业的说。唯一可惜的是，我想要看的萨克斯管 (也就是我正在学的萨斯克风)并没有在他们队伍里。昨天的表演队伍里有双簧管 (Oboe)，单簧管 (Clarinet)，长笛 (Flute)，巴松管 (Bassoon)，倍巴松管 (Contrabassoon)，小号 (Trumpet)还有法国号 (French Horn)。哇~~为了这些乐器的中文名字，我可是在网上奔波了好久啊。在这些乐器当中，巴松管是我从没见过的，也是我们乐团里面没有的。它们总共呈现了十首曲子，都很好，可以说6新元是值回票价了。我好希望还能来看这样的演出啊。现在我虎视耽耽便是本月16号在滨海艺术中心演奏厅演出的Cincinnati流行交响乐团的演出。不过他们的票价可不便宜 (目前剩下40新元的)，因此，目前在努力赚钱，希望能有机会去看看。呵呵~~
至于今天发生的就是更快乐的事啦。我们学校上学期的成绩公布啦，而且我算非常满意这个成绩。成绩如下：
~Cell Biology---------------------- > AD
~Organic & Biological Chemistry---> AD
~IT for Life Science--------------- > AD
~Trends In Life Science----------- > A+
~Communication Toolkit---------- > AD
~Individual & the Community----- > C+ (:'<)
成绩大致我都满意但是为什么会有一科老鼠屎在里面呢？纳闷...... 那个Individual & the community我应该没有做错了什么吧，这差距也未免........ 我恨死IAC的Mr Tham了，每天上课都没有教课，有通告也不通知学生，不负责任到极点。这个科目真的是IAC--I 会死(福建话--eh si)。不过，这个科目没什么用处而且学期已经结束，也意味说我不必再见到他啦，呵呵~~ 之后我也把消息告诉了妈妈，他应该是蛮开心的吧，我想。虽然是如此，这只是第一个学期，我还有5个学期要过呢，现在就自满就等于自寻死路啦。我接下来的学期一定要更努力，希望不会有老鼠屎事件再次发生。接下来的学期我想应该更严苛了，希望我还撑得住。哈哈~~
好夜咯，我要睡了啦~~晚安~~

I have neglected my dear dear Haven for some time again, how bad I am..... However, that is actually because there is nothing special happen around me for these few days, thus I have nothing to crap about. Instead, I suffered from a few occasional headaches recently. How horrible.... dengue fever is raging in both Malaysia and Singapore and i happened to have an ex-classmate who contracted the disease. I hope my headache is not a sign of that scary thing.
Maybe, probably, possibly i thought too much la as i drank a little wine on the 29th and that may contribute to my headache. I was so shocked that dad asked us to enjoy the wine, hehe~~ It's a bottle of white wine (not sure of the type) and i enjoyed it with some of my dad's friends. The wine is quite nice and sweet though. I was a little bit drunk although i took only a little. Then, i got a miserable day yesterday because of the wine (so lousy one....haha). Sleepiness spooked me throughout the day.
As for today, my parents went on a business trip to Kota Bahru which is far away in the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia. They caught a flight early in the morning and will be back at night. Therefore, i've been assigned to become the driver of the day. Haha~~ Sending my siblings to shop, to tuition centres and so on. Got a little flu when i woke up in the morning and luckily it's okie now, otherwise i won't be able to work tonight lo. There'll be duties for me tonight at Stay Cafe. Bless me lo...... I hope i can do well for this first time at this new cafe, however, sleepiness haunting me again... hahaha~~
How boring the holiday is......any nice program to spice up my holiday? Haiz.... i'm going back to Singapore tomorrow for a week. Need to attend band practice lo as i've already missed that for a week. Till here then.......i hope i have more interesting things to share with you all in my next update. Tata~~