Reservist duty completed!!!

Seems like miracles do happen aeter all... just when all hope is lost... I CLEARED THE PARALLEL PARKING TEST AND THE CLASS 4S DRIVING TEST AT ONE SHOT!!!! SIBEI SONG!!!!!! HELL-YEAHHHHH!!!!!!! :-D


The Class 4S prime mover plus lowbed trailer looks something like this... with a seemingly intimidating forklift attached to the trailer.

This was how the day went...

0530-0700 hrs: woke up very early as usual, took the first bus to Yishun, then changed bus to Mandai Camp 2... reaching there very early.

0745-0845 hrs: the 3 of us passed the parallel parking tests, then the Indian DI drove us to Sembawang Camp via pickup.

0900-0940 hrs: THE CLASS 4S TEST at Sembawang region. I was f'ing nervous from start to finish, I was sweating non-stop, and many time i thought I was going to get marked. When all was said and done, the tester told me to be careful at the next reservist duty, and that's when I knew that I passed!!! :-D

0945-1025 hrs: One of the DIs drove 4 of us (me, Chong, Firdaus and Abdullah) back to Mandai Camp.

1025-1200 hrs: seeing that we still had plenty of time before noon, Chong offered to drive the 3 of us in his cousin's blue car to Bukit Panjang Plaza. The 4 of us had lunch at Long John Silver's located at Basement 1. Then we drove back to Mandai Camp, to be joined by Hamzah and Ibrahim who also passed Class 4S driving test.

1200-1315 hrs: very long wait, we were so ored that we went into Heavy Platoon Mess Room to take a short nap. Finally got our plastic SAF Driving Licenses from the Chief DI, then from there fallout.
1330-1500 hrs: very long wait for Bus 171 to arrive. Switched to Ang Mo Kio amd continued to ogle at leggy babes at AMK Hub, before boarding Bus 25 back home.

1530-1700 hrs: underwent a 'psychological cleansing session' by taking a short nap.

1700 hrs onwards: watched a bit of Tv, had dinner with Mother, and Internet time at night.

Pictures of me proudly showing the all-new SAF driving license. Not only can I drive Class 3 or 4 vehicles, I am also authorized to drive Class 4S Prime Movers!! :-)

Summary of reservist duty, plus brief thoughts on SI 3 Top 12

Sigh, the reservist duty that I am in the midst of is slowly ruining my motivation to blog, yet I still feel I had to blog a bit about it, even if I don't feel like it. Going around in No 4 uniform plus grey shirt feels like prisoner attire to me, and practicing on parking under the hot sun is close to making me suffer from bipolar disorder (sorry, Ris Low).

Tomorrow is the last day of the 6-day ICT period at Mandai Camp 2, and already it feels like "the longest week" to me. The driving sessions are the most difficult times for me, esp since it's the first time i'm handling a longer vehicle (not to forget that I hadn't been driving for abt 5 years). Anyway, his was what I did from Monday to Friday...

Monday- introduction to prime mover, introducton to parallel parking plus angular parking, driving prime mover without trailer

Tuesday- driving prime mover with flatbed trailer and metal box, parking practice, and coupling practice.

Wednesday- driving prime move with lowtrailer and forklift, more parking practice, more coupling practice, night driving from 6.30 to 7.45 pm.

Thursday- More nerve-racking driving and parking practice plus enduring ear-piercing yelling from some DIs. Managed to pass coupling test at 9 min 20 sec, a vast improvement from the timings for the practice sessions. :-)

Friday- managed to pass angular parking test, but not parallel parking. In fact, I could have passed at the first try, but one miscalculation got me marked with a major fault (grazed the pole, dohhh!!). Remainder of us dismissed at 4.45 pm after more intense practice.

Wish me all the best of luck for tomorrow... hope I can pass my 3rd attempt in the Parallel Parking Test and then go ahead with the dreadful Class 4S Driving Test.

Ok, now to talk about Singapore Idol 3. This time round I am gonna keep my thoughts rather brief, since I don't follow the series as closely as the first 2 seasons. On Wed, I managed to reach home at around 9 pm, in time to catch the last half of the Top 12 Spectaculars. The performances seemed rather lacklustre, and Ken Lim talked a little longer than the norm, some of his criticism sounding kinda dull or unconstructive. The 2nd finalist to be sent home is the doctor-in-waiting, Justin Jap. Ok, maybe I changed my mind on disliking the nerdy-looking fella, he didn't seem too bad with Rick Astley's "Together Forever" (though it did seem quite awkward). But I will still continue to frown upon the song choices of a certain teen from Central known as Mr DH... why on earth is he always picking songs by female singers?? To be truthful, Mr DH's live performances are quite a pain to watch even now, I still continue to switch channels after viewing the first 30 seconds of each performance... I got this feeling that Malaque might be next to go, given the fact that she is in the Bottom 2 group yet again.

My thoughts on Class 4S course and other stuff...

Happy Birthday to...
29th Sept- Roiswandi, Suzhen and Kar Yan
30th Sept- Darren Lim, Jia Hui, Ace Sim and ML Chong

I just survived 2 days of my first ever reservist duty... well, it can't really be considered reservist, it's more like a drivers' course for a new type of vehicle known as Class 4S Articulated vehicle. In short, it's more of a 7-Tonner... a Prime Mover attached to either a flatbed trailer with metal box on top, or a longer lowbed trailer with forklift attached to it!! Means to say that I have to make longer turns at certain road junctions, and avoid hitting the kerb or risk ramming into any nearby vehicle. Test for Coupling and Uncoupling of Trailer is this coming Thursday, followed by Tests for Parallel Parking AND Angular Parking as well as TEST FOR DRIVING PRIME MOVER WITH TRAILER on Friday!!

Although this course runs for only one week, and we can all go back home at abt 5 pm for most days, to me it is already starting to feel like "the longest 2 days". Deep down inside I'm already cursing the SAF for assigning me (and a few others) to this stressful type of course, one that could cause me to suffer from biploar disorder or go into a beserker rage. Already I am feeling the stress from angular and parallel parking under the hot sun as well as Coupling Practice and driving the Class 4S vehicle on the main road. Made worse by the fact that there's night training on Wed (aka tomorrow)...

I don't even understand what's so "damn fing important" abt reservist, it's just a waste of time seriously. Lack of freedom from 7.30 am to 5 pm, plus you get this feeling that you're being imprisoned on some remote island and being treated like a slave. This is precisely why I prefer civilian life so much more to that of life in SAF. I would prefer to be doing my own thing like going to work or spending time with family or friends on Sundays. I will forever continue to remain cynical towards the topic of reservist duty... how I wish I could get downgraded at best...

Ok, time to focus on other stuff, which I would keep rather brief. Today is the wedding for Christopher lee and Fann Wong. Already I am getting a little sick over the overexposure of this occasion... published in magazines and newspapers, broadcast on TV, and so on. I find it kinda ironic that Chris and Fann used to be very hush-hush over their relationship between 2001 to 2005, and then went public about it with holding of hands and smooching, even appearing in "The Wedding Game" early this year. Even Michelle Chia's and Shaun Chen's wedding wasn't that highly publicised!! Not to forget Zoe Tay's marriage to LTC Philip Chionh in 2001...

The Miss Singapore World scandal seems to be coming to a head... Ris Low aka "Miss Voomz" or "Miss Fraudster" has voluntarily stepped down and given up her Miss Singapore World title earlier today. Her replacement is to be announced later this week, most likely to be the 1st runner-up Claire Lee. This is what I have to say in regards to the "best decision ever made"... GOOD RIDDANCE. (evil smirk)

Click on the following link to read the report... MSW 2009 quits after criminal record revealed

Reservist duty coming up, plus more dirt about Ris Low

Happy Birthday to Edmund Leck and Calista

I seriously don't know what to expect of my upcoming reservist duty which is to commence in a few hours' time. It's been 5 years since I was last involved in anything related to NS, so I guess I have to get used to the fact that I will have to be in No 4 uniform as well as eat not-so-tasty food. I hope I don't feel too alienated by this encounter... anyone out there who still read my blog now and then, do wish me all the best of luck yeah?

As if the "Tragic sagas" of idiots who refuse to follow simple instructions such as setting their phones to silent mode before going to church or ignorant parents who don't bother to bring their wailing toddler kids to the Cry Room weren't enough to piss me off, what truly sickened me was the 2-page main article of Ris Low in today's Straits Times. I was even more disgusted by the fact that the organisers of the Miss Singaproe World franchise has got no comments about the scandal, made worse by the revelation that Ris is actually seeking treatment for what is known as bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression). What exactly do they mean by "no comments"??? How can they pick a bimbo-cum-fraudster to win??? How can the organising team not know about Ris' past records earlier on?? And how can Ris not be aware that she has to declare her past records upon filling the application form beforehand?? This is damn kelong xiah... is a 2-page article necessary for this kind of BS?? What would the whole world think about us Singaporeans???

Things that can piss me off

Happy Birthday to Rebecca Lim and Suriani

If I have to name a few things that anger me or irritate me, this is the list...

1. I am not the type who would like to write up longwinded or pointless entries that shift focus here and there.
   
2. I am not the type of person who would go to the extent of creating about 80 entries per month, just sop to share the amount of BS loaded in my mind. There are some things in life that are meant to be kept confidential and not published in the WWW!
   
3. I also don't like to share about what I did during work, unless something remarkably interesting happened (eg a well-known senior pastor came over to the shop). Likewise I don't like to go into specifics on what I did during lunchtime or what I had for dinner.
   
4. Reading blog entries on how Mr A has a crush on Miss B and keeps sending her invites to attempt 'wooing her', and even tries to make defenses with 'contsant apologies and pardons on being rather sarcastic'. Please stop this nonsense already and straighten your damn thinking!!!
5. Having my Facebook inbox flooded with invites for late-night events or updates on Singapore Idol blog, from the usual people.
6. I can't stand the increasingly hot weather, but that's beyond anyone's control.
   
7. I hate it when people think that just because I upload lots of photos on sexy babes on Facebook, I am "the type of guy who spends late nights partying and mixing around with hot babes"... cos truth is, I AM NOT!!!
8. I get rather annoyed by people who either talk too loudly, talk too fast, or talk with a stammer.
   
9. I hate it when Person A asks me to do something, when I am in the midst of doing something important for Person B.
   
10. I hate it when the phone in the workplace rings at the most inappropraite time, such as when I am doing cashiery work. I hate it even more if I had to be the one to pick up the phone most of the time!!
    
11. I feel quite irratated when anyone askes me via phonecall on what time the shop cloes, and nothing more.
12. I feel rather heartpain whenever someone asks me to help him reserve a few books, then calls less than 10 minutes later to say that he doesn't need them anymore.
    
13. I hate it when a phone call comes at the time of closing hour, esp if it's on a Saturday.
14. I get irate when people forget to set their damn handphones to silent mode before Sunday service.
15. I don't like it when I am unable to find a book that is rather difficult to locate or may not be in stock.
16. I feel quite uncomfortable when certain guys try to stand too close to me in the train. I'm not the homo type, mind you!
    
17. I feel irritated whenever I see people that I don't like, people like Melvin the Giant, Paul the Hobbit, or Alvin The Hutt (to name a few).
18. I feel equally annoyed when, despite many reminders, someone whom I know for at least 6 mths still continues to mispronounce my name. My name is pronounced as TAH-NUT, not TAH-NET, remember that!!!
19. I don't like it when anyone in general "borrows" a lot of photos from other people's photo albums (mine included!), add them to his own photo album, and claim them to be his own. Plagiarism is not to be tolerated!! Pls come up with your own photos and don't ever steal photos belonging to others!!
    
20. I don't want to use the word "hate" here, but reservist duty is something that I am so not looking forward to. Something I have to do from this coming Monday onwards...
    

My thoughts on F1, Ken Lim and Ris Low

Happy Birthday to Michelle Chia and Kailin Soh

SingTel F1 fever is back, but frankly speaking, I don't give a damn about the ongoing race. I'm already too occupied by work commitments to even bother finding out who's gonna win the race here in Singapore. Lewis Hamilton or Fernando Alonso or Piquet or any other racer, the outcome wouldn't matter to me. I will be having my own go at driving during my first ever reservist duty which starts this coming Monday. And even though this is the second time the F1 race is being held in the City Hall region, I didn't enjoy the same enthusiasm as I did last year, esp with the recent audio system cock-up for the performances at Fort Canning Park.

And just when you thought that Singapore Idol 3 is already lacklustre enough, here comes another piece of controversy... or shall we call it, Kentroversy. Chief judge Ken Lim's remarks on Malaque's rendition of Pussay Cat Dolls' "Hush Hush/I Will Survive" caused a furore among the Tamil community. He said abt the good-looking Malaque, "Your performance was amateurish, it lacks quality, but you'll make a good Vasantham Star." What in the blue hell does he mean by that, may I ask?? Even "Mr India Curry House" Vadi PVSS wasn't very amused by this tasteless remark. Most of the SI fans and the Indian viewers wanted Ken to make a public apology. And to think he dared to say that he stands behind his original comment "1000 percent" (???) and that he's not going to take back what he said, as he 'did not see anything wrong about his remark'. What a lame and stupid defense made by Ken, sigh. Are we seeing another Jacintha here?

Whatever the case is, I have begun to lose some respect for the Simon Cowell wannabe, since the 1st Piano show (starting with his remarks on Nurul Huda in regards to her "7-Eleven interviewee" image), and I seriously hope that he come up with something much more constructive than said remarks, or risk being forced to bite his shoe. Dick and Flo won't even dare say anything stupid. And another thing... how can Ken not be fully aware about the existence of the Vasantham Star talent show, which is already in its third season?? Where has he been all this while?? In the planet Uranus??? He should go for Lasik or double eyelid surgery already, his eyes are too small!!!


And... and... if you think Miss Singapore World 2009 winner Ris Low being slammed for her powderful Engrish was bad enough, this piece of news will perhaps shock you even more.

Ris Low, the beleaguered Singapore Miss World who was earlier criticized for her sub-par command of the English language now sparked off a new round of controversies following the revelation that she was recently convicted of credit card fraud.

In April and May last year, she spent more than $2,400 on at least four separate occasions, using at least three illegally obtained credit cards, at times impersonating the identity of their owners. She was sentenced to 24 months of supervised probation in May this year.

Court documents show that Miss Low spent a total of more than $2,400 on at least four separate occasions, using at least three different credit cards in April and May last year. She bought two gold anklets worth almost $1,000, a $698 mobile phone, and food and drinks at a swanky restaurant. It is not known how she obtained the credit cards.

my paper understands that her previous employer, a healthcare company, made a police report about her in April last year.

It suspected that Miss Low, who worked there for five months as a patient-service assistant, had used credit cards belonging to its patients. It asked her to leave the following month.

Before leaving, she was said to have returned a part - an unspecified sum - of the total amount she had spent using the cards.

When contacted by the state media, Miss Low said that she was not in a position to comment. Multiple e-mail messages and phone calls to the organiser of the Miss Singapore World pageant, ERM World, went unanswered.

It is unclear if Ms Low, crowned Miss Singapore World on July 31, will be able to leave Singapore to take part in the Miss World pageant to be held in Johannesburg in December, for which she will need court permission.

Singapore netizens were outraged that Ms Low was selected to represent Singapore in the beauty pageant despite her conviction.

This is really sad and shocking, a nightmare come true. First the broken grammer and the robotic walk, and now the revelation of Ris's past convictions from last year. As if Rachel Kum in a phallic costume wasn't frightening enough, this is the one that truly brings controversy to a whole new level (not the first time such thing had happened... one case was when the winner for Miss Universe 2002 got stripped off the title for being a married invidual,a nd the crown went to the 2nd place winner). And what a bold thing for a 19-yr old lady to do!! I just can't seem to find the right words to phrase this issue as a whole... but I dare to say that the organisers for MSW are indeed totally BLIND to promote Ris heavily via ads and magazine shoots, and perhaps 'book' her to win the pageant!! What's so good about her, seriously?? We need someone with integirty and a CLEAN record to represent our country, not some lowlife bimbo who looks rather plastic, can't speak proper English, and cheats her way to the bank!!! And to think that only now did she reveal that she is actually suffering from BIPOLAR DISORDER!!! The verdict? STRIP RIS OFF THE TITLE ALREADY!!! >:-(((

This is certainly an issue I must include in the "Year in Preview" entry come end of the year... besides other pointers such as the economic downturn, the spread of the H1N1 virus, and yes the passing of the great Michael Jackson...

Temasek Review: Miss Singapore World winner slammed for credit card fraud

Straits Times: Netizens slam Ris Low

AsiaOne: Ris Low's past convictions revealed

My thoughts on Singapore Idol Top 13 episode

Happy Birthday to...
23rd Sept- Rainie, Yunjia and Javin
24th Sept- Ren Liangyi and Alex
Start of the Libra Star

Although I personally don't quite enjoy watching the latest episode of Singapore Idol (to be truthful, I missed about half of it cos I finished work rather late and went for haircut at Heartland Mall between 8 to 8.30 pm!!), I still wanna express my thoughts about this show anyway. But I won't want to go into specifics as in express my thoughts for each performance, given my love-hate relationship towards the Idol franchise I once supported at a great scale (at least for Season 2).


Looking at the Top 13 grace the cover of this week's 8 days magazine (as is the case for Season 1 and 2), I just couldn't quite get the same "feel" as that for the finalists for the past 2 seasons, but eventually had to accept the eventual outcome (maybe it's all predestined after all). Ok, this time round there are 13 finalists (the 13th Wonder Nurul Huda included), all of them intact and none of them pulling out at the very last minute a la Candice Foo.


Having gotten back home from haircut, I was probalby thankful to have missed out on the first half of the show, cos I would still most probably be bored to death anyway. Watching the recaps of all the contestants' performances goes to show how lacklustre and dull the show is in general. Doesn't help either that the results show comes 30 minutes after the Performance Show. It was quite a pain to wathc Duane's take on "Pokerface" (playing piano may be a brave thing to do, but the former Kids Central actor's rendition of Lady Gaga's No 1 hit sounded NOTHING like the original). so painful that I actually switched channels after the first few seconds. And it's still painful to see Gurmit attempt more lame jokes as always, like he's being forced 'at gun-point' to do so against his own will. Even Hady didn't sound half-baked in spite of his lack of experience in hosting (but still quite pointless lah).

The results are, as usual, rather disappointing. The 6 contestants with the lowest number of votes consist of 5 girls and 1 guy... the guy being Sezairi, the gals being Mae, Tabitha, Amira, Malaque and Syltra. What, you mean the girls didn't do well at all?? Whatever happened to the overall voting strategy man?!? Thankfully, Mae Sta Maria avoided the fate of doomed foreigner finalist Jeassea Thyidor from Season 1 by being the first of the 6 to be announced safe, rather than to be in the Bottom 2/3. Next 2 to head back to the seats were Sezairi and Tabitha.


The first 'casualty' from the Top 13 turned out to be Syltra, who turned out to be one of the better performers for the night (but just wasn't good enough to win the majority of the viewers or the favor of the judges). Ironically, the pouty-lipped rock chic of Chinese, Malay and Indian parentage turned out to be the very first contestant interviewed in 8 days. Man, if this kind of outcome (aka mostly girls in Bottom 5/6 position) is gonna occur in the next few weeks, then the competition is in serious trouble. And as far as watching the show is concerned, I am most probably going to swear off watching the show from TV for good if most of the girls get wiped out before the Final 5. Not that I care about this season anyway. The cynicism as well as the skepticism towards Singapore Idol 3 continues...

Events I had gone for between Sat to Mon

Happy Birthday to Audrey H and Elaine G

My apologies for the slight delay, I've been really, really busy going for various functions for the past few days, til i come back home with a lot of energy to upload pictures on Facebook, but very little motivation to update my blog. I mean come on, if I had 'as much energy and stamina' as that attention seeker Mr Koh Tze Seng, I would have jolly well sacrificed my bedtime every night just to upload as many as 100 nonsensical blog entries for this month alone!! Anyway, this was what I did for the past 3 days...

Saturday, 19th September
Happy Birthday to Ross, Kah Yin and Farah

Went to work as usual in the afternoon, serving customers of various walks of life. After leaving the place upon lockdown, I took taxi to Bishan Park 2 to attend Jesseca Liu gathering (for fans and assorted supporters) at the Acacia restaurant located there. Jess arrived a little late at 7 pm, but that's totally alright with us. Got about 26 fans present, committee included. We all had 3-course meal of mushroom soup, main course and dessert (which we finished very fast to get on with next segment). We all took pic with Jess (some of us 3 times), we all got her autographs, and some gave her gifts as well. Although the gathering was scheduled to end at 8, it overran for more than an hour. After some of us saw Jess off via taxi, we went separate ways. Many thanks to Karyan and Michelle for making this gathering a success!! ;-)

Gathering with Jesseca Liu at Acacia Restaurant, Bishan Park 2

Sunday, 20th September
Happy Birthday to Mr Timothy Leong and Tracy Tan
Selamat Hari Raya Puasa

Although I was supposed to do projection duty during morning service in church, the AV staff arranged for me to do the inside work while a newer personnel did the camera manning in my place, just so I would get a better understanding on the 'behind the scenes' work from inside the AV booth. After that, I took direct bus to Suntec Convention. Shuffled the next 6 plus hours between Travel Fiesta at Hall 603 and Games Convention at Level 4.

1200-1240 hrs: joined Naturals to watch Nat Ho perform on stage in Hall 603. Managed to take group photo with him, as well as get autograph from him.
1240-1345 hrs: had quick lunch at World Food Fair with Naturals.
1345-1400 hrs: took pictures of some Cosplay characters lingering outside Hall 401. Some of the female characters looked really hawt.
1400-1500 hrs: headed back to Hall 603 to see Huang Wenyong sing 4 old Chinese songs. Something very funny happened during the segment... an old guy suddenly got off his seat and started dancing to ALL the songs!! :-p Oh, and I did see the stupid giant Melvin and the vulgar dwarf Paul. The Jess Liu fans arrived at around this time.
1500-1545 hrs: some slim and attractive (but very chatty!!) part-time DJ named Huifang took over hosting role and brought in Jesseca Liu, who sang a Chinese song and a Teochew song. Got huge queue as expected, and among the queue were the Weirdo Brothers, Mr Hao Lian (in blue attire!!) and his retarded brother Mr Gwai Lan.
1545-1730 hrs: finally went into Hall 401 for Games Convention Asia 2009. Got characters like Predator, Xenomorph Alien, Wolverine (same guy I saw during Toys and Games Convention in mid August), and even Iron Man (portrayed by some well-known Cosplay veteran named Reno Tan). Fewer familiar faces this time round. I know I missed out on Bryan Wong and Michelle Chong at Travel Fiesta during this time, but it's ok... I wasn't a big fan of these two anyway.
1720-1800 hrs: went down to Level 3 to take picture of variious Cosplay characters posing for shutterbugs (unsurprisngly, 90% of them are guys, hee!!). The busty babe in red dress and the cutie pie in blue mini-skirt were most steamy xiah...
1800-1840 hrs: rushed back up to Hall 603 to catch Zhang Yaodong singing a David Tao song as well as a Cantonese song. He sabo'ed Huifang and a middle-aged lady from the audience to sing 'Liang Zhi Lao Hu". Being one of the first few to form the queue, I manged to take picture with Yaodong again as well as get his autograph.
1840-1930 hrs: spent a bit more time lingering with Cosplay characters with a few guy friends, namely TH, KC and SH (all dressed in red coincidentally). Nearly wanted to slash KC for going out in slippers and still mispronouncing my name yet again (he's gonna be in big trouble if he were to wear like that to St James Power Station come October 6th, seriously!!). I left Suntec soon after, had dinner at Raffles City, and headed back home via train and bus... reached home by 9 pm.

Click on the following links to see the various photo albums...
Travel Fiesta 2009
Games Convention Part 1: Cosplay characters at Level 3 and 4
Games Convention Part 2: Stage activities in Hall 401

Monday, 21st September
Happy Birthday to Yumi

Work as usual from 10 am to 5 pm. I went down to Tiong Bahru marketplace to buy packets of chicken rice for my colleagues, then took turns to take lunch break. Right after closing, I headed down to Tiong Bahru Plaza to have early dinner, then took train to Expo Hall to see SIN (Super Import Nights). Although the admission fee for thie event was quite a bomb (10 bucks mind you!!), the time spent ogling at the local and foreign babes was definitely worth it. Seeing the bikini-clad babes and saantily-dressed imports from Taiwan, Thailand and USA nearly errmmm, 'burnt a hole in my pants', WHOOPS!!! Ended the day by taking group photo with fellow 'perverts' Terence and Shanwei... took train to Eunos and then bus back home by 10.45 pm. :-)

Click on the following links to view the carious photo albums...
Super Import Night Part 1: Local babes and awesome cars at various car booths
Super Import Night Part 2: Bikini babes and imported babes on stage

Miss Earth Singapore results

Happy Birthday to Jon Phipps, Cindy Quek and Da Xiong

Yesterday was a crazy night... the results were kinda expected, but Im really glad that my personal fave made it to the Final 4. Here's the lowdown...

Top 8 positions
- Suet Yeo (No 03)
- Michelle Lee (No 04)
- Stella Zheng (No 05)
- Valerie Lim (No 07)
- Deborah Chan (No 08)
- Ashley Ng (No 09)
- Nur Amira (No 10)
- Cindy Quek (No 11)
Coincidentally, it was Cindy's birthday on that day... that could be the best birthday she could ever ask for, I believe :-)

Subsidary award winners...
Miss Photogenic- Nur Amira
Miss Friendship- Valerie Lim
Miss Popularity- Deborah Chan
Best in Redesign- Deborah Chan
Best in Swimsuit- Nur Amira

Top 4 positions, and eventual winners...
- Stella Zheng, crowned MES 2009 Fire
- Deborah Chan, crowned MES 2009 Water
- Nur Amira, crowned MES 2009 Air
- Valerie Lim, crowned Miss Earth Singapore 2009 (Grand Winner)

Stay tuned for links to the photo albums on Facebook while I try to find sufficient time to complete uploading them...

Encore of MJ show tonight!!!

Happy Birthday to MM Lee Kuan Yew and Dad
Rest In Peace, Patrick Swayze


Fans of the late King of Pop, do catch the encore telecast of "Michael Jackson HIStory World Tour- Live in Munich" tonight at 7 pm on Channel 5!! It's a concert you won't want to miss... and it's in HIGH-DEFINITION!!! You can also catch the show on Youtube... ;-)

Set list for concert...

01. "Gates of Kiev" Computer Animation Introduction
02. "Scream" / "They Don't Care About Us" / "In the Closet"
03. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
04. "Stranger in Moscow"
05. "Smooth Criminal"
06. "The Wind" Video Interlude
07. "You Are Not Alone"
08. Jackson 5 Medley: "I Want You Back" / "The Love You Save"
09. Jackson 5 Medley: "I'll Be There"
10. "Remember the Time" Video Montage Interlude
11. "Billie Jean"
12. "Thriller"
13. "Beat It"
14. "Blood on the Dance Floor"
15. Black or White "Panther" Video Interlude
16. "Dangerous"
17. "Black or White"
18. "Earth Song"
19. "We Are the World" Video Interlude
20. "Heal the World"
21. "HIStory"