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Special Thanks to XH's Sis - YZ

Yep, you see it right ... ^^;; recently, we both (XH & me) often hang out at her place whenever free XD Why - simple! ... We need urgent tutoring help for our Accounting Subject (Financial Accounting 1) ... cause' the teachers' teaching style was really so "special" that neither of us can understand. So what we did - (exams coming up soon ... last minute went to grab hold of whomever/whichever kami-sama that we can get hold of ...) Her sis just happened to be one of them ... While her sis was unable to help us with anything too challenging, she at least, managed to "teach" us the foundation chapters - such as Trial balance, Profit & Loss (With Trading) & 50% of the Bank Reconciliation Statements. Although, we learnt these topics way back in our secondary school years but as too many years had gone by without us using those skills. WE had literally forgot everything about them ... thus, had to be constantly supervised and reminded by YZ as we t...

X'mas Shopping for Eve

XD As Eve gave me the flute & flute book earlier on for my birthday, her X'mas gift had to be 'bigger' ... Since both XH and I had no idea what to give her, we took a look at her wish list and eventually decided to take a look at the sewing machines. So we went to Toa Payoh, shop for 'Singer' sewing machine ... XD XH mom paid the 100 bucks deposit, and I shall pay the remaining 99 bucks when they delivered the machine to SH home on X'mas Eve ... At first, that was what we decided ... so afterwards - we went to Orchard, XH msg SH to call her once available. We were in Kino when the call came through, so XH started informing SH on the plan. SH reaction was: Oh ... at first haven't fix the day for celebration, but since you guys had already told the guy to deliver on X'mas eve, we shall made the celebration on the eve itself. How much is the sewing machine? XH told her if she had yet to purchase Eve gift, then maybe she can chip in on the machine t...

To take or not to take Grades Test/Exams?

Recently, I'm debating whether or not to take grades test/exams when the time comes around for it. XH says, I probably should - since I spend that much already on lessons ... and my mom was like: no need to go for exams lah, just know how to play a few songs can already ... personally, I hope to attain a cert eventually ... but I am not so confident of myself. Last night, I was comparing between Trinity and ABRSM Exam syllabus again ... Eventually, I come to the conclusion that if I were to attain a cert - I might go for ABRSM. Why? - Simple, first of all ... their directions/instructions are simple enough. Trinity seems more complicated ... Second, you can get information and stuff (such as exam pieces) more easily - as compared to the specified pieces for exams from Trinity. Right, anyway - its' still too early to be thinking about the exams - since I'm only at the stage of the beginner. Well, I'll blame it on XH - since she was always talking about the grades ex...

X'mas Gifts settled & I'm broke ...

Yep, went out again with XH today ... This time, for the x'mas gift hunt for the rest of them. Seeing as I had already bought XH's gift, XH - on the other hand hunted for Eve and my gift (rather idea of what to give me ) ... Can't reveal very much on the gifts stuff, else there's no surprise in store for them liao :P Anyway, kinda spend the first part of the trip with her mother and her mom's friends. Apparently, one of them was celebrating her birthday, so me & XH joined in the fun :P Instead of birthday cake, they had birthday fruits tart instead. :P The tart was damn nice lor XD ... After which, we went to Orchard - forget to mention, was at Toa Payoh earlier on. Right, XH booked a room at Cash Studio Family Karaoke at 4.30pm. We kinda still have time, when we arrived at Orchard ... So we went to Takashimaya Kinokuniya to do some window shopping around. At first, I wanna buy Jamie's birthday gift too ... but can't find the pen that I would like ...

Passport Collection, Flute Practice & X'mas Shopping ...

Went to collect passport this morning, XH went with me XD We meet up at Clementi MRT then took train down to Lavender ... So now, the passport holder that Shuhua gave me have some use XD Took my lunch at one of the hawker centre there, while XH waited until she reaches home. After which, we took bus 175 back to Clementi - as its' raining. At first I didn't realized the fact that bus 175 passes by my ex-work place (office work) ... until the bus arrived at Jalan Bukit Merah ... then I started to find the buildings getting more and more familiar looking ... Then suddenly, found myself staring at the HP building and the blue and white building of the JTC ... I was like 'WTF?!' Isn't this the bus-stop thats' outside 'Sanmina-SCI' - the company that I was working for, prior to switching jobs. @@ then the bus took the route leading up to Habourfront - before traveling up to west coast then, finally to Clementi. After which, we switch to bus 184 and went ...

First Flute & Theory Class ^_^

Alright, today's my first day at Do-Re-Mi music school ... XD Reach there about 9.25am ... actually, was much earlier but I loiter downstairs ... eat breakfast XD Journey from home to the school took only 10 mins ... XD When I went upstairs, the teacher is still having breakfast with someone else. Probably her partner ... ^^;; btw, her co-worker/colleague/partner (?) is a guy XD Anyway, paid the balance of 85 dollars today ... and I bought the theory book as well. It cost me another 8.80 dollars XD Am so nervous the first 5 minutes, took a long time to get the sound out XD Ended up learning the slur, when it should have been the tongueing first XD Like the slur better XD finally managed to hold the note for 4 beats, but anyway, have to go back home and practice more ... (e.g. look myself in the mirror when practising ... so I know if my positioning of the mouthpiece is off ... ) Finally, know the correct way to hold the flute and support it while letting go of some of the note...

Flute and Theory Lessons Confirmed!

I had finally decided on a school for my music classes ... after much consideration, I had decided to go for the Do-Re-Mi Music School that's situated just a street down from my home. Its' located at Blk 342, level 3 ... XD Am taking both flute and theory lesson on the same day, back to back. The lesson's on sunday morning, 9.30 am to 10.30 am ... Thus, went to the school with Xinhui earlier on in the day, after my work to settle the admin stuff. Paid a total of 100 dollars today, and shall paid the remaining 85 dollars on sunday when I go for the first lesson. The total of 185 dollars, included a 20 dollars enrollment fee, 90 dollars deposit for the course, and 45 dollars and 30 dollars for the remaining two lessons in the month of November at pro-rate. The pricing for the course I'm taking on a monthly basis are as follow: Theory (Beginner/Grade 1) - 60 dollars/mth, 30 mins per session. Flute (Beginner/Grade 1) - 90 dollars/mth, 30 mins per session. I'm suppose...

Trip to ICA ...

Yesterday morning, went to the ICA building and fill up an application form that came with the application of the passport. Paid the $70 by nets, and drop the form together with the attached passport size photo into the deposit box (with nets 1st receipt stapled on the form ) ... Now, all I need to do is wait and see if the application is approved ... once approved the ICA ppl will mail me the details - when to collect the passport. Later on, went on to work place ... but since there's still time I decided to drop by the jurong point for a while (actually, I need the toilet there :P) Went to Comic Connection to take a look about ... later took breakfast at KFC ... Ack! Their breakfast really taste 'yucky' ... not nice at all ... but since macdonalds is so full ... no choice, have to go KFC ... Anyway, went to work until 3pm plus ... then left for Orchard to meet up with XinHui. Together, we went to the Yamaha at Plaza Singapura. Bought a music stand (me) for $20 ... XD ...

Pictures of my gifts Received :P

Alright, below are the pictures of the gifts received by me - for this year's birthday. Even got one today at work XD. These are from Xinhui to me ^__^ Gifts Received on 8 Nov - minus the Flute ... that will come later on in time XD Again, the same picture from another angle XD The Internal Yamaha Instrument Box that contains my Flute within ... The carrying bag that comes along with the flute package ... :P Eve's other gift to me, the flute scorebook with two cd within ... XD (Had not listen to them yet ... no time XD) The Mp3 player given to me by Shuhua ... ^__^ Love it a lot XD Am using it already XD Since its' only 1GB ... must select the songs to put in, carefully ... and regularly remove unwanted songs and add new songs into it XD This is what I get from Jamie, a colleague of mine at work today. Apparently, this is supposed to be a frame for the pc monitor ... for a slim one of course. However, mine was the old fashioned bulky version so can't really make u...

Birthday Entry 2 - With photos XD

WELCOME to XinHui and My 21st Birthday Celebration !!!! The Party Commences Now!!!! Special thanks to Shuhua for the contribution of the below pictures ... she emailed them to both xinhui and myself. As there were too many to select, I only picked a few that I like :P Xinhui playing with the flute that Eve gave me XD ... Try very long time (abt at least half an hour to get the sound out ... XD Hold the flute until hand went numb, and went out of breath too while blowing into the flute mouthpiece XD ... The lotus roots soup that I made for all of us, left enough for Shuhua's family members too xD. Brownies made by Xinhui ... even though, it looks kinda 'yucky' ... its' actually 'yummy'! :P Smoothie drink (Mango, Banana and Yoghurt) and the Sweet & Sour pork is by Shuhua. The Jiaozi (shape like curry puff) was made by Eve-chan ^_^ ... Wonderful dinner right? XD The Birthday Cake (Green Tea, with Red Bean) flavour from 'Bread Talk' - supplied by Shuh...

21st birthday celebration >.<

I had a really big surprise yesterday, over at Shuhua House when the four of us, celebrated Xinhui's and my birthday. Shuhua and Eve gives me a really big, big present - I love it, you gals! We cooked for ourselves, Xinhui made brownies ... Shuhua, sweet and sour pork, I made lotus roots soup and Eve made us jiaozi. On top of it, Shuhua made us drinks too ... mango and banana smoothie drink ... I think, and we had a cake from breadtalk. Green tea with red bean flavour ... wonder if it's bought together between eve and her or not ... Chances are, very high and likely. Anyway, will have cake again later today ... a customer brought us cakes on friday, but when she arrived, I'd left. Jamie save a portion of it for me - in the fridge XD Although, I had to say ... am kind of ashamed that I only give xinhui a recipe book ... but no choice lah, no $$$ that day when I go shopping for her gift. Shall give her a better one, in the coming year or during X'mas. Anyway, first ...