07 February 2008
Our Next Battleplan?
We need an alternative, if we want another gathering within New Year season. We got to get a place, simple food, drinks, poker cards and/or mahjong.
With my ferocious dog at home, I can't offer a venue. But, I suggest we make use of this long weekend and put our gathering on Saturday night or Sunday night (9th or 10th Feb). Drinks and food can just be whatever left over new year snacks, plus the good old Calbees, Jack & Jills and Twisties. Poker cards shouldn't be a problem and MJ tables should be a common thing in most of your houses I assume. And since I don't have a place to offer, I can't be the one to "invite", which means I can't set a date and time for the occassion.
Once we have anything firm, just blog it here and drop me a SMS. I will be glad to help out with the organising and "word spreading". See if we can get this up and going in the next few hours.
Last but not least, Happy New Year! Hope everyone can get to enjoy great wealth and marvellous wealth this year!! May this be a smooth flowing year for all!!! HUAT AR!!!
M.Jay
02 February 2008
1 more day...
Day: TOMORROW!
Time: 1pm till past evening [used to be 12noon]
Attendees:
- Chay
- Cherry
- Rong
- Derik
- Delon
- Shuxia
- Mui
- Zhichang
- Siewyu
- Jianwei
- Weilun
- Huijie
- AND OF COURSE ME!
No half professional photographer tomorrow also, so bring your own camera. Haha.
Menu:
- Steamboat soup base consists of corn, ikan billis, carrot, baby abalone zap and spare ribs
- Steam rice
- Kailan
- Cabbage
- Minced pork
- Sliced chicken
- Cheapo sausages
- Egg tofu
- Corn
- Golden mushroom
- Baby abalone
- Ah Ma ai xin fish ball
- AH Ma ai xin meat ball
- Cuttlefish
- Prawns
- FIsh (maybe)
I have drinks and longan and family for dessert but if you guys want booze, can go get also. :) I have a big bottle of heineken, which we can open. But I doubt we need since the drinkers are all not coming, which leaves me the only one. :(
Today NTUC machiam got war lor. I only managed to grab the necessities and run. Its too havoc for me to tahan.
Okay, hope all of you who are coming received my SMS about my address. I think there are a few first timers to my house, or people who come once a year or so might not remember the way. So call me if you need help. :)
See ya tmr!
30 January 2008
Aborting Mission
I can't attend the steamboat this weekend. Because the family reunion dinner has changed to a reunion lunch. I won't be free from morning till about 4pm, estimated.
I have to pull out of the gathering. You all enjoy.
(Sian)
M.Jay
27 January 2008
Chevs
A pity that the attendance couldn't be better, as abscene of lucky Chay and Cherry was sorely missed. Well, lucky because the two of them already have 2Cs out of 5. Work hard Chay, get the little more Cs out soon and I can't wait to see our kids play together. Haha! Okay, I know the 5Cs joke ain't funny - I just thought of it only. But, yeah, the point is we didn't have Chay's oldies that night. Candid Queen, Rong, was also missed for her trademark "rugged" laughters, which always comes with her trademark "palm-pressing-against-her-mouth-slightly-too-late action". See Rong? I've always been noticing you. HJ's usual list of Jay Chou's wasn't up the screen, Lun wasn't there to contribute to the jokes, and Den could only join us for supper thereafter. Delon was busy with national duties, and Mui is about to be charged AWOL since the "rugged" chalet. I assure you, that is a one time mis-hit. Jian won't book those chalets again.
It was a great night. I had fun. And I just can't forget how the girls were crazy over Chinese New Year songs, and how Right Here Waiting had meaningless mandarin lyrics.
I didn't manage to capture Yin's wilder moment during the singing, because I was shaking too hard laughing. This is 10 times milder than the climax of the night. Published with permission from Yin herself.
Week's starting. More work. But reward's a long weekend. Endure!
M.Jay
26 January 2008
Operation Pre-Huat
Time: 1200H onwards
Attire: Casual
Bring: Money for food and activities, tidbits, anything entertaining
Remember: No oranges yet.
Peggen will settle the food, right? So, we leave it up to you. Thanks.
I should be able to drive those teck whye guys. So, same as before, we can meet at Jian Wei's void deck. So, HJ, Lon and Xia, you can meet there too. I can make a trip to Yirong's house too, if you want. We fix the time to meet later. I can take 7 legally at the back, so I think that should be about just nice.
Thats it. One more week to D-Day.
M.Jay
22 January 2008
Attendance List for Operation Pre-Huat
- Mak (pending, please read chatbox for more information)
- Wanqi (pending)
- Peg
- Chan
- Shiyin
- Heyi (pending)
- Den
- Chay
- Cherry
- Rong
- Derik (pending)
- Lun
- Mui
- Zhichang
- Huijie
- Jian Wei, likely to be able to make it. (updated by Mak. He say he can go. He not AWOL yet.)
- Delon (pending as mentioned by Lun)
- Xia (pending as mentioned by Lun)
- Yu (updated by the kind M.Jay on 28.01.08)
How about DESMOND & GF..?
But Miss Dang gotta state first that she will need to go off around 5pm plus that day because she's having an advanced reunion dinner at her po po's side too! So if 2nd Feb is chosen instead, the most glad is Miss Dang~! ^_^
Alright alright, let the majority decide though. Till then~! =)
Love,
Miss Dang, and those in red updated by M.Jay on 25 Jan, 2320H.
Operation Pre-Huat
Fellow comarades, I am agreeable with abolishing Operation Pee Pee, since Comarade Rong has other missions at her hands. And Comarade Peg's pre-emptive reunion dinner sounds like a pretty good plan. For one, I am sure we do not want to find ourselves WMDs during the meal. (WMDs - Without Many Delicacies, which includes the marine biological prawns, the chemically simulating squids, and the nuclear-like taste of sambal kangkongs.)
However, we do have many problems for this mission. Firstly, we have yet to decide on the D-Day. Comarade Shiyin has voiced her concerns over 3rd Feb, and is proposing 2nd Feb. We will work on this two dates, and see the majority's choice. The others will just have to make it on the decided date, or risk being charged AWOL. Secondly, I presume there's going to be an Advance Party who will be preparing the food - buy, wash and cut etc. We need to decide on that, as well as the budget available. I have checked with the Ministry of Finance, (a.k.a Singapore Pools) and they have denied any grants for us this mission. Generals, we have to work something out of our pockets.
I, hereby, codename this mission, Operation Pre-Huat - a prelude to Operation Huat, which we can still have minus the steamboat. Operation Huat can be at Den's place, where he can den set up his little den, and den get some beer in cans, pizzas in pans, switch on the aircons and fans, and we will all laugh so much till we pant. But Den, please don't make us lose till we shit in our pants.
Here's the skinny:
Battleplans - Operation Pre-Huat
Date: 2nd or 3rd Feb (Tell me on the chatbox which is your preferred date)
Time: 1pm till Mak wins enough cash
Attire: Casual - can't bring oranges yet, because it ain't officially CNY yet. Bad omen to celebrate it earlier.
Budget: $15/head for food and drinks. Drinks would be the main bulk, on my estimate. Prawns are going to cost nearly $15/kg during that period.
Food buying: Guys (buy the food and bring it over to Peg's house)
Food Prep and House Prep: Girls (Make sure the house does not even have a speck of dust, and make sure the steamboat is working.)
Comarades, I need your reply soon. Or General Peg will have my head soon.
M.Jay
3rd Feb reunion lunch
Shall we have it on 3rd Feb (Sunday), the weekend before CNY instead. Like a pre reunion dinner kinda thing. But we will have a extended lunch instead. Means from like 1pm till probable evening?
Firstly, and most importantly, I realized that steamboat on the 3rd day of CNY is a major marketing issue. Not the consumer behavior, target audience kind of marketing but the “uncle I buy kangkong you give me free spring onion” kind of marketing. If we have it on chu 3 means all marketing has to be done before chu xi before everyone stops working and it is a big problem cos missy is working now so no time to mai cai on Monday and Tuesday. And if I buy on the weekends, all the hei and sotong wouldn’t be fresh by the following week. So if we have it on 3rd Feb, I have Saturday to do marketing and to clean up my house. And all the hei and hee will still be fresh.
Secondly, I have a hunch that operation pee pee is not realizing this weekend, judging from the response, so on 3rd Feb we can present Chay his royal scroll as well. Sounds like an idea?
Since it is a reunion dinner, I hope everyone can turn up. Delon please say you can come. And all partners are invited as well cos Shiyin can’t wait to meet Wanqi. So everyone whose faces are on the left, plus Wanqi, Cherry, Heyi, Derik, Andrew, Shuxia, Zhichang, Chan Howe, Den’s yet to intro new girlfriend, Chay’s er nai and Mak’s xiao lao po, All come all come.
If in full force we should have close to 20 people, so you guys have to jiang jiu yi dian with my humble 4 room flat. We definitely wouldn’t be able to all sit and eat together but we can go in rounds, the rest can gamble and chit chat watch TV etc. My living room should be able to fit a mahjong table, and my tea table can be used to play cards. Wah.. I am totally imagining already!
Need someone to help me collate attendance and get back to me cos like I said, missy working now and my location is not fixed (not sure if I have internet access in the day, depending on where I am) and kinda lazy to come online at night.
I shall let Mak do the honour since he is so free (I think). Thanks Jiayuan!! Your dateline is this coming Sunday to report to me so I can plan the rest. Chase, beg, hound, do whatever you need.
In a rush to go,
Peggen
19 January 2008
Operation Pee Pee
Battleplans: Operation Pee Pee
Operation Pee Pee will involve two fiercely intensive physical event that will take place in the same day - paddle and pedal.
We could have a weekend, likely to be a Saturday, and we can all ride it out to Sentosa, or anywhere else to canoe and ride or rollerblade. Next Sat could be an option if everyone is up to it. Transport could be of the same arrangement as Ubin. Venue is still an open option, anyone any suggestions? We could also have a picnic of potluck at the same time. Bring a volleyball or soccer ball and we have our games settled. A deck of good old trusty poker cards can also do the trick.
I will be awaiting the feedback from you, generals and commanders.
M.Jay
(Pardon the lingo, its the side effects from my latest PC entertainment "Medal of Honour: Pacific Assault - its a great game though.)
10 January 2008
Please Type A Message
Why does it keep telling me to "Please type a message" whenever I click 'Go' or press 'Enter'?
Anyway, I also know who Rong is talking about. His CCA is BB, but his initials are GB.
Lifes like that sometimes.
M.Jay
07 January 2008
Very De Bored.
Those working are, as usual, still working.
Those doing their interns are still interns.
Those slacking and looking for job, are still. Opps, sorry. Not "those", because there IS only me.
And yes, am still slacking and looking for a job.
Tell me when you people are free, I, shall volunteer to organise something. Maybe a sentosa volleyball as some of us talk about before. Maybe another Den on a free weekend. And Den here means both his name "Den", and also the "den" that means a little hidden shelter. Now we know why Den is so talented in his Den. His name has already won half the battle. Well then, we can get Den to get us a Den, then we can on some music and try to Dance, invite our songbird miss Dang, and then.. then.. then.. then..
Alright, I am bored.
Let me try to impress. Anybody remember Avogadro's Constant? This is Chemistry, my favourite subject. This is the number of atoms/molecules that is present in a mole. That means in 1 mole of element, like say Hydrogen, there is that constant number of hydrogen atoms. And that constant is 6.02 x (10 to the power of 23). Please look impressed.
At least thats easier than Maths. Please, let there not be maths in my course of study in NTU for the next 4 years. Don't care whether core, or elective, please don't ask me to intergrate, differentiate. Or else I will dis-intergrate the lecturer until he cannot even differentiate his toes from his nose. If anyone tries to make me do a dx/dy again, I will just go right to his face and rap him a rap, "De feet of de duck went over de fence before de tail." And I got more de- words in my head than just defeat, deduct, defence and detail.
Damn. I should have tried this on Susan Leong.
M.Jay
31 December 2007
Ubin AAR
Anyway rong dont worry, I went through all the 180plus photos of yesterday. Not that bad lah. Still can marry. Some quite natural one, can show your natural beauty. Hahaha. zi ran mei shi zui mei!
I thought yesterday was fun. Super tiring, hate the sweaty mixed with repellent niam niam feeling and quite dirty but still fun. But not once a week lah rong. We will die leh. I can just imagine how bruised my ass will be. Once every 3-6 months sounds more like it.
The weather was super cooperative too! Only started to drizzle a little on the way home. You know those gross water marks drizzles leave on your car, esp a black car. With 3 little birds who marched past and decided to do some big business on my car as well.
Eh Mak, I have a plan. Since you were worrying about mud in your van as well. Next time we should organise post-trip-activities like car washing. Take it as an act of gratitude for the transport and some form of bonding. Idea? Haha.
Haiya I am bored lah. SIANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. 40 mins to knock off. Woohooo.
Have a great start to 2008 guys!
Ubin Pics
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11801&id=513151181
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11846&id=513151181
M.Jay
30 December 2007
http://download.yousendit.com/5FCD67F36BC4233B
been having a super bad running nose since ytd, so sorry dint picked up so many of yr calls too!
till then, Happy 2008!!!! we're all gonna be a year older again. =))) have a good year!
love,
yu~
U-bin, I-bin, We-bin to Ubin!
Facebook, or my internet, seems to be having some problems at this moment, and for the past 30 minutes. My back is aching and I need to go take a break. I shall try to upload whatever little and 3.2 megapixels photos I have tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, rest well and drink plenty of water.
M.Jay
29 December 2007
Battle Plans - Updated
It totally slipped my mind that the boyfriend in on 24 hour shift tonight and will end shift at 9am.
So the plan now is I will leave my house at 9am with my jazzy baby, take a 15 min drive down to TAB to pick him up, and say hello to Delon if he is there. 15min just nice for him to pack up and walk out to TAB main gate.
Then it will take another 5 mins to drive back to his place, I will drop him to get his stuff, then go pick Yirong. Yirong please be on standby mode by 915 and once I activate you with a ring on your handphone you will make your way downstairs and meet me and my jazzy baby by the road.
After that we will go back and pick up the boyfriend, change drivers so I can sleep and chill, hopefully all this is done by 930.
Then head down for Siewyu. We will call you to let you know when you need to come down. Will pick you from where I dropped you the other time. Hopefully Siewyu will be comfortably in my car by 10am.
He says he think that we can reach the jetty by 10.30am. Roads will be clear. He knows the way well.
So in order not to hold up everyone else, the people in Mak's van can go have their breakfast, assuming you guys reach at 10 punctually. And the people in my car will eat at home. And to make a concession, I allow little bites in my car. Means things like bread, sandwiches, biscuit. Don't da bao beehoon or nasi lemak in lah k? And PLEASE try not to drop your bread crumps or anything or spill your milk or orange juice. Spotting a roach in my car might mean losing my life in an attempt to end the roach's life. You certainly wouldn't want that to happen, do you? *innocent act cute blink*
So, if everything goes according to plan, and you guys can wallop your breakfast by 1030, we will be heading towards the queue at the jetty and woohoo Pulau Ubin here the gang comessss!
We have 11 people. There's one more space in my car and one more space in the boat. So if Delon, Shiyin, Mui, Den decides to come, give me a ring by tonight. Or if Andrew or Derik decides to join the gang in some fun, the respective girlfriends let me know and due to time constraint, as long as I don't have to make another trip to elsewhere to pick him, I am totally cool.
Alrighty guys, the rest of you who are not mentioned ie Chay, Cherry, Weilun, Jianwei, Huijie, please be at Blk 115 at 9am SHARP! If anyone is disgustingly late (meaning happen to wake up only at 9am), I can go pick that person up in order not to hold up the rest. But there's only one space, so first come first serve. Second person can take the boot if he wish. If you miss the second round of transport too then I am afriad you have to meet us there. 20bucks might be enough for a cab ride. I say might. Someone can do the test and let me know. :)
I will give the people in my car a morning call slightly before 9 to ensure that they are up. I will be up by 815 or 830. So anyone else who needs a morning call, you can sms me to activate this one time service.
Thats about it. Remember to pack your repellent, water, money. Handphones and cameras in ziplock bag. Bring your cap or shades if you wish. I suggest bringing a small umbrella ella ella eh eh or poncho in your bag, just in case. Bring a set of clean clothes for change too. Go for backpack or pouches, avoid sling bag.
What else?
Not the first time we are going Ubin anyway. This is getting too naggy. Heee. I will be bringing camera lah, you guys can don't bring. My photos will be on facebook within 24hours most of the time. Speaking of which, siewyu where's our chalet photoss?????????
See you guys tomorrow row row row row.
Peggen
28 December 2007
Battle Plans: Transport
Okay, I presume Chay is not going to make me and my girl separate by putting her on Peg's car right? Haha! Well, neither will I separate you and your partner by making you two take different transport. And just to confirm, I didn't see Shiyin's name on the list, is she going?
Anyway, correct me if I am wrong, but here's the Trasnport Plan:
Group A: Mak, M's girl, Jianwei, Weilun, Chay, Chay's girl and Huijie.
Group B: Peggen, ChanHao, Siewyu, Yirong (and Shiyin?)
If the above is correct, then here's my plan for my side:
I will pick up Jianwei, Weilun, Chay, Cherry and Huijie...
At Jianwei's Void-deck... So that if he is late we can go and tear down his door. Haha!
At 9am. 9am because max legal speed is 70km/h. So be at Blk 115, nearest LRT is Keat Hong, just opposite the Esso petrol kiosk by the road.
Any objections or suggestion can call me or SMS me. If all's agreeable, put something up by the chatbox to let me know the plan is on. By the way, the part about tearing J.Lim's door down is purely a joke. Seriously, leopard can change spots. He is seldom late nowadays. *Pat on the back* Keep it up Jonathan! Haha.
Mak Jay
Nominal Roll
In alphabetical order.
1. Chay
2. Chay partner
3. Huijie
4. Jian wei
5. Mak
6. Mak partner
7. Peg
8. Peg partner
9. Siewyu
10.Weilun
11. Yirong
I got a plan for the transport. The guys will mount mak minibus and the girls will mount peg car. Just nice for the bum boat cause the will only leave when we pay for 12 people.
The conducting will be chay, supervising will be chay again and safety will be jian wei. Will be very safe. Ask your parents dun worry. If got any injury jian wei will be there to treat. Got snake bite he will suck. If we need any help, i got the number for the police station over there. THERE IS NO TIGER, MONSTER or GODZILLA in ubin. If your parents make noise say not safe, just tell them your are led by professional. ( yes i am )
Chay
27 December 2007
UBIN
Date: 30122007 Sunday
Venue: Changi Village
Time: 1000
Attire: Outdoor and light colour, dun spray perfume or watever deO
Things to bring
1. Extra clothes
2. Enough money ( $4 for boat rides and extras for food and drink)
3. Ziplock your electronics stuff
4. Your own medication and plaster
Activities for the day
1. Meet up with respective drivers ( million thanks to mak and peg)
2. Gather at changi village for breakfast ( 10am gather to eat)
3. Bum boat ride to Ubin
4. Ride bicycle until backside pain, simple picnic and tour of the place.
5. Back to mainland.
A very simple post here cause it is now 0430 early in the morning. If got any changes or any suggestions, pls feel free to tag or call me. I will post the nominal roll for the outing later in the day.
Chay
