all the best to you Melvin :)

and that is the end of the farewell dinner for melvin, abit nostalgic to know that he is going to leave Synergy for good. he is the one who set up this team Synergy and i am lucky enough to join this team since the year he graduated frm NIE, which is like in year 2008? still rmb at that year the gals team started off with the guys team, because the gals were insufficient to form a team on our own, so that year only Synergy guys team. following that, around december period, the very first synergy gals team formed, mainly by friends of some of the guys, or friends of friends and they were ALL working adults already. we only participated in an invitational cup organized by aljunied hougang CSC that very year. i rmb was jessie, andre and jimmy in charge but dun reali rmb the club which they are in. still rmb that time i din know any of the gals inside the team well, and after the one day competition, all the ladies players like dissolve in thin air, all cannot commit to long term trainings for competition like the Opens, so the gals team had to start forming from scratch again. i started looking for players, with some of the players in the first synergy gals team staying on to play. and that is when i start to have younger players (around my age ones) joining the team. and slowly, synergy gals team was much more solid and we get better and stronger players in as well. but again, people come and go, in this span of very few years, there are quite a few players coming and leaving and returning back to synergy gals and guys team. and through all these thick and thin, melvin is always there to hold on to the stem of the team. is just like no matter how leaves wither from a plant, how flowers bloom and wither eventually and new buds grow, there is this stem that stands strong to hold everything in place to allow the growth of new leaves and flowers. and now that melvin is leaving the team, i somehow felt that the team may just loses its unity somehow and be segregated further after this year's Opens. especially now that our trainings will no longer be together, i wonder how the days to come will be and how long more will synergy team be able to survive until. whether is it work commitments or personal commitments, there are bound to be people leaving the team one day, and again new members will be joining. but somehow, as adults, i am hoping that once a decision has been made to stay committed to a team, i do want to see commitments, and somehow, people always fail in giving that. and issues will arise during the competitions. nontheless, melvin had tried his best to resolve any arising issues along the way and i am always thankful that he is there. for tonight's dinner, i cant help but feel that the attendance is rather disappointing. i dunno is it reali that necessary to spell out that is a farewell for melvin that's y we have this dinner, but im sure there's alot of excuses one can have to push away a gathering that someone actuali spent the time and effort to organize one for such a big group of people. be it work wise, other meet-ups with friends, maybe they dun see this gathering as important as one which i thought it was. or perhaps just like what melvin once told me before, not everyone in the team will feel for the team. and perhaps not everyone appreciate melvin as much as i do maybe? tonight's dinner you see people who seldom come down for training due to work commitment, but still make an effort to come for the dinner. is just a very simple effort to put in to make yourself available to attend but seems so difficult for some. not blaming anyone here, but just feeling a bit nostalgic la, just a bit. haha..must be age catching up, so becoming alot more sentimental liao. but whatever it is, tonight's dinner is the nicest dinner synergy ever had before because we had laughter and jokes around the table and i managed to get a card with the two team photos inside as a gift for melvin on behalf of the whole team. and all of us wish melvin all the best in his future endeavours and have as many children as possible to form a volleyball team!! :D a nice group photo to end it all :) will miss seeing you around during trainings, melvin...take care! :)

I'm Back!!! :D

yoooohoooo~~~~ im back from my Bintan trip liao! :D time pass reali fast when you are enjoying yourself! so fast 3 days were up and rongrong and i had to pack bag to go home liao. but overall is a wonderful time spent! :) though there's not much shopping to be done, cuz ALL the stuff are seriously overpriced, we spent some good time relaxing and walking around the resort itself! plus i thought the resort is reali fantastic leh! haha...cuz our room is spacious and there's this little corner which i love it very much! haha...but too bad there's no cushions on that corner, if not i will camp there more than i camp on bed! :P and the room has this super big window (with curtains of cuz) that you can see through outside and see the people at the pool playing! haha...rongrong and i had a great laugh at some of the children and adults playing the big balloon where they stay inside and roll around the pool (Oops!) hahaha...but i had fun taking photos is the room once we reached lor! haha...and we were lucky enough that the rain din reach Bintan with us on our first day, until at night when it rained reali heavily. so of cuz, we quickly head down to play at the beach!! haha...must say the beach there is very nice leh, though the waves look abit frightening and alot more stronger than the ones you see in Spore in Sentosa or East Coast!!! haha...but reali very nice scenery with the tides sweeping across the sand. and i love one of the photos we took there using timer mode! haha...think by the time we reach there already high tide liao, so not many ppl around oso, so had to depend on the camera timer! hee..first time see rongrong play at the beach like little boy like that! haha...play until the shorts oso wet:P heehee...but i had my fun too of cuz! took many pictures there and rongrong and i did jump shots too! :P very nice photos will all be up on fb! :D the tv in the room has many channels to watch too! and watched soccer with rongrong together at 3plus bintan time that night too :)))

for the second day, we woke up to a morning with dark clouds looming the sky! :((((( boooo! and i still thought we can have some suntanning seesion at the beach lor. in the end we din go to the beach on the 2nd day, just walk around the resort after our complimentary breakfast, then rest in our room before we book a taxi and head towards Pasar Oleh Oleh! eh, but the taxi fares abit pricey, $22 a cab for a trip that lasted for less than half an hour? haha..but ok lar, at least the driver who drives us there got intro a good restaurant where we can eat our dinner at. Pasar Oleh Oleh is abit like a small village with some small shops around, but mostly selling the same things. beach wears, handicrafts, bags, and polo shirts there seems to be the most common thing you can see ppl selling. i think cuz of the brand, it doesnt seem reali discounted to me even though it is 50% off! haha...those that were reali cheap were the older designs and those newer ones were not that cheap after all. but if u are after brands and dun mind spending 30plus bucks for a polo t-shirt, then buying those shd be a good bargain ba:) and after that we walked to a restaurant that is about a few hundreds metres away, to have a seafood dinner! dinner there was very nice! :) at least we had the whole restaurant to ourselves for at least half an hour cuz like not many ppl patronize the restaurant there. maybe not many tourists know abt that restaurant, and we wouldnt know if the uncle din intro to us. we get to see them pick out the seafood like fish, crab, prawns are all live, and you can choose which one you want and they will pick it out for you and proceed to cook it behind in the kitchen. we were seated at the restaurant in the 2nd level, and there were nobody when we reached! haha...think they just renovated the place, and the 2nd level looks much more nicer and renovated than the 1st level where you pick the seafood. plus the 2nd level is air-conditioned too! haha...and the food when cooked is transported upwards by a lift that carries food! haha...abit too noisy when the lift is in operations:P and the lady who served us food walks around very quietly! like 幽灵 like that :P wahahahaha..but the food there is nice! reali quite nice! we ate steamed fish, butter fried crab, hotplate beancurd with seafood and kangkong with belacan! hahaha...thinking of them makes me salivate sia, but the only not so good thing is the kangkong is abit too spicy liao. then my poor rongrong still coughing oso cannot eat much. so in the end i eat and my stomach feels reali hot! in the end back in resort i LS-ed twice. hahaha...but ok lar, other than that the food there is worth the 60 over bucks spent! :) then we had to get them to get a cab for us back to our resort again. the road back was quite scary cuz by then it was dark already and there were no roadlights along the streets! very scary!! haha..but at least the cab was big and spacious, is a fortuner that can sit up to 7 passengers! haha...abit useless when we only have two of us, but is quite good for big families travelling around :) back in the resort i showed the scrapbook i did for rongrong for our one year anniversary! heehee...the plan din turn out as planned cuz there's no wifi so i cannot play the slides that i prepared. in the end rongrong only read the hardcopy version while i play the song on my itouch (the song i used for my slides:P) after that we played with sparklers!! heehee..i brought from spore! :D but we din go down to the beach to play cuz it was drizzling at night, and shd be quite dark along the beach and abit dangerous oso even though is inside the resort. so we played at the balcony! hahaha...in the end had alot of smoke coming out and enter our room too! @__@ hahaha...but it was fun though, keep laughing at rongrong then in the end the smoke went into my throat! yucks! nearly died! hahaha...and after that was bathing time and we settled ourselves in bed before we retire for the night. and i concussed shortly after and failed to wake up to watch soccer with rongrong! :P

the last day in bintan!! time reali flies. and we woke up today slightly later, 10am spore time but actuali only 9am in bintan! :P a difference of an hour. it was quite sunny in the morning so we head to the beach for a breeze after breakfast before we head back to our room and pack our stuff to check out liao. and not long after we checked out and waiting for the shuttle bus at the lounge area, dark clouds just loom over and started raining! dun like the monsoon season, cuz it can reali destroy all the fun you plan outdoors when the rain suddenly hit. and the ferry trip back spore was horrendous! hahaha...cuz the ferry was shaking so badly like we sitting some roller-coaster ride can! @_@ i dun like the feeling of your heart sinking!! so i was so scared i literally dig my head beside rongrong and pull his shirt and pants very tightly! T__T so scary lor, but still, it was a nice trip after all though the ending din end reali well!:P haha...but if is possible i dun mind goin back to the same resort again to stay, hopefully next time when back we can spend a longer time playing at the beach with no rain at all! :D

i love this Bintan trip! had quality time spent with my rongrong although come to think of it we din reali explore alot of places there. but somehow the time spent just seems to be very fulfilling and memorable :)




looking forward to more overseas trips with rongrong! :)))))))))))))))))))))))

Merry Christmas!!! :)

Merry christmas to all!!!!! hope you had a wonderful one because i had mine! :D time out with rongrong is always the sweetest, but seemingly shorter! :( hahaha...on Xmas eve rongrong brought me out to meet up with his group of buddies to have dinner and chill out at novena velocity! :) it was fun listening to all of them talk though some of the topic i dun reali know what is it about but is a nice gathering after all :) And Xmas today rongrong brought me to a restaurant that i have never been there before!! haha...exploring new places with rongrong is always the best! when you see him look around for road signs, checking his phone every now and then...haha...but i quite like the place cuz it is not too crowded!! public holidays usually will result in shopping malls reali crowded and packed with lots of ppl, so a quiet dinner somewhere is always the best!:D photos speak a thousand words, so here it goes! :D

the full look :P hahaha...

enjoyed myself to the fullest this weekend!! :D looking forward to Bintan trip on Monday! :D :D

looking forward to many more Xmas with you :))))))))))))

and is the end of my exams in nie....hopefully :)

yeah!!! the long and torturous few weeks of december is never as long as this time round cuz of the yog, the semester and the exams stretched all the way to december! haha...but one good thing is i got quite alot of time to prepare for 1 and only 1 paper. and think is reali too long actualiy T_T maybe is oso the module or the tutor, i dun "feel" for this module at all. not that i dun like the topic, cuz the concepts are reali easy, but the thing that is difficult about the module is the variablity in answering the types of proving questions. but like wat rongrong say, maybe is the concepts not very clear, but i reali surrender cuz i totally have no idea how to work on it. and dunno y, maybe is the year 4 syndrome, nv thought of one to one consultation with my tutor liao. last few yrs i still do, but not this few semesters :P but seriously, even if i did consult, i dun think is goin to help alot, cuz i always know how to do those questions only after the tutor explained and my understanding ends there and when new questions come, is the same type of problem again :P so eric!!!!! who say graph theory is easy one!!! haha...but well, is over liao. and that marks the end of my study of math in NIE. today over lunch with lia and chris after the exam paper, lia was saying those qns that we learn in secondary sch n jc till now if we try to solve it, given time probably we can still solve it. but if we were asked qns on modules that we learnt over these 4 yrs, i can be quite sure most of the qns we cannot answer!! haha...my explanation for her was cuz we learn those concepts only for a semester, finish exam liao then throw everything away, unless the next sem is a module that follow up or continue, if not those concepts will just fade away rather quickly! haha...so actually, after 4 yrs, ask me what i have learnt for math, erm.........hahahahha :))))

so is time to enjoy the short but valuable holidays!!!!! if only the holiday can be reali long, cuz i reali wan a well-deserved break before i go for my practicum II. is goin to be reali tedious and tiring and i reali dun look forward at all :( but that aside, holidays this december is goin to be fun!! :) just went to have lunch with lia and chris this afternoon at IMM fish&co before we shop around, slack around and then head home! :) after that meet my rongrong for a movie (which i dunno we are watching) "Tron Legacy"!!!!!!! SEEEEEEEEE...i remember the movie title!!:P cuz this rongrong very evil, always will TEST me what the movie is about, what are the names of the characters etc T_T i very poor thing rite!! haha...cannot just ENJOY~~~~ and forget everything after that! hahahahahahahaha :P :P heehee...den after that rongrong brought me to eat at pioneer wharf to eat crab!!! yum yum!! :) but think the alaskan crab at kushinbo is still the best! :P

Next up in December:
1) Bintan trip with rongrong 27th-29th! :)))))))))))))))))))))))))) reali look forward to the trip leh!!! our second trip out together after the pulau ubin trip! :D haven reali decide what to do over there, but im sure im goin to enjoy myself to the max! :D

2) Synergy gathering on 30th! is having mixed feelings to attend the gathering, cuz is goin to be a dinner together with melvin officially announcing himself stepping down from the post of synergy manager. and im quite disappointed that the response is still not reali good even after changing dates. not blaming anyone here though, all have their commitments and other holiday plans, but i thought at least those who are still in town can make it for the dinner somehow. is reali gonna be the very last few times we can reali see melvin cuz after that if he is no longer in charge, he will have his other commitments and wun be coming down for training anymore. maybe to the rest they dun feel as much, but i thought melvin reali did alot for the team, not to mention other stuff, the fact that these few yrs of games, all the fees for the gals team are paid by him, im reali grateful enough. those who are not staying in the team anymore i seriously care less if they are going for the gathering or not, but the rest, if possible, just try to make it. but again, if not possible, then is alright though. :)

3) gatherings and hangouts with my girlfriends! haha...lazy to list out one by one, but im reali looking forward to meeting and catching up with my girlfriends too! :D

4) a very special occasion is coming!!!! hahaha...not having any plans yet, but im reali looking forward to it :))))))))))))))))))))))))))

jiayou to all who are still having exams and happy enjoying your holidays to all who are having holidays liao! :D