vrooooooooommm!

Staring at what? - You may ask.

Well it begins with a short story. I was in school today, and I got an SMS at about 4pm:
'Nick, would you like to watch F1? From my office?'
Yep, the ever cheapskate resourceful Singaporean, always ready to pounce at a good deal. Turns out mum's office had a good view of half of the track. In case you are still unenlightened, Singapore is hosting Formula One's first ever night race. I must say while they were still resurfacing the roads in Marina Bay I was a little skeptical, but just looking at the track today, I must say, it was pretty impressive. All this done in a few months!
Lately Singapore has been a little F1 crazy, though not as bad as some expected. If you look in the far right of the photo, you'll see the Grand Stand, the same one that was used for National Day. Ingenious.

The view was great, unfortunately not the camera(man):


One excited daddy. I just had to put this in:

Ah! That's better:

attack of the candid-man

A little dinner @ Aston's after XYQ:
Asher - Karrington wanted to show you how much he missed you:

some late photos

Finally! Haha - cousins dinner @ Sun with Moon, Wheelock. To send Lianne off:
A sleepy Chang Qiyang, and more proof that my phone camera isn't good enough for indoor romantic shots. Lol!

And did you know? Nat has a car. A convertible to be exact:

First time i've sat in one. Woot!

Introducing Juxtaposition

At the end of the beginning lies the beginning of the end.

At the end of sanity lies the beginning of insanity.

Welcome to flashover week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcICp7_95n8

Found an interesting video of a backdraft,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cQOUuJ1DWI&feature=related

Yours sincerely,
Josh

a picture(s) says a thousand words

14th September (Sunday): The Taming of Choon Hiang (in other words, his birthday!)

14th September: Li Ern decides to be a mouse15th September: Lianne GETS a mouse (okay, so it's a rabbit)
15th September: Aunty Kat is HUNGRY
15th September: The chicken wings are there, but where's Lincoln?

15th September: Aha - there he is!(obviously, i need a better flash and camera sensor)

An Encounter

I don't really enjoy encounters with the unknown, especially if its something I don't know. This is one example, so for the day (09/09/08) I decided for some unknown reason to take a nap. Now I bet everyone who reads this loves a nap, good or bad one whatever it is, you just like it. Yes, no? So, I laid in bed, and somehow dozed off but didn't. In under 10 seconds, SOMETHING, which isn't human, TO NO EXTENT human, grabbed my arms.

If I knew what it was then I could tell, but no idea what it was. It had no flesh, was more like bones, but like an animal, yet human bone structure, its head was like a skull, part animal, part human, in which fire brimmed from its eyes. Somehow it GREW limbs, and grabbed my neck, it all seemed so real. So I opened my eyes, and saw a floating head next to my blanket and it SMILED. I couldn't shout so I just tried to move, after awhile it left me.Apparently, it was the demon of oppression, so please pray for us as we are here in this foreign land. Because this isn't the only encounter so far.

Alden was here.

You have been warned.

Stellar Memory

3rd October - Friday 9pm

The Cathay Grand

[don't say I didn't warn you]

Go for it

Reach for the stars Nik. Get ur mum to blog. It will be fantastic...Well Nik, Yes I will blog has just blogged and if ur refering to Alden, I'm sorry for taking credit XD..OH XIONG I'm so lucky I'm not u lol. I have a fear of heights. Wondered how it felt up there... Oh well, I am quite busy.

Things to do:
1)Finish the Feature Article which has been haunting me since monday[X]
2)Play TF2[O]
3)Email Uncle Francis[O]
4)Study for test nxt week[X]

Well educations unfinished, well I'm finishing both. Lets just say i have an inspiration to study eh.

Signing Off
Lil Burnt Rooster

Can you take me higher?

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves first.

Now imagine being 30 metres high in a cage. Seeing an immensely spectacular view of all your immediate surroundings for over a few kms. Then being in control of a pump that pushes water at 25 bars or 250 psi.

Most of all, doing it with great friends. Had a superb week.

-josh

goal #01

i shall get mum to blog.

Nik

Love Is A Movement

As Jon Foreman puts it, love is a movement. Do you dare to love? Do you dare to move?

A little bird, who shall not be named, told me that my posts are too long, so I'll keep this one to the juicy bits. This week, real fire, real water, charged hoses and real hose management. A lot of what we've been drilled about, like keeping good hose management and good bights really came to life this week when we did our first wet drill.

Fire is hot, very hot. We had 3 minutes to set up a cooling monitor, 2 more minutes to set-up snatch rescue (i.e hydrant to pump to breeching to two jets). If within 3 minutes, it isn't set up, the LPG tank explodes, that is if it wasn't a simulated fire. Hopefully I can get a picture, this is the coolest looking solution to a fire. Imagine the formation of four guys walking forward together with a shield of water. Needless to say, it was very very fun.

This week will be shooting jets at high pressure and being in a raised platform to 16 storeys. Think of it as a "Wild Wild Wet" week.

Stellar Memory's on Facebook!

till next week,
josh

i want to be a helicopter

Here we are, ladies and gents, the creations.

1. Bringing me back to the days of Bananas in Pyjamas, and our Australian escapades, plus a marvel of food engineering, is the helicopter - ah, nostalgia:2. Courtesy of a very raunchy mr. Yeo and mr. Lau (not ps Lau), my future girlfriend - yummy?

3. Ah, food, mr K's specialty - happy meal!


4. New from Hasbro, the vampire Wen Yi toy! Complete with hidden six-pack.


5. From Jay and Co., a most interactive Nicky toy, complete with whipped cream down your ears and neck:
6. Moses crossing the red sea, with edible descendants like the Honey Stars:


And, once again, the one that took the grand prize:
Kudos to second place ties - bikini lady and red sea!

life is not what i thought it was...

...21 hours ago


Yup! I'm 21. OH NO! Haha...

I had my party on Saturday night at home, with relatives and church people from some of the ministries i'm in - MKC, Youth Comm, my BS group etc. Had to try to keep it as such, if not would have to invite the WHOLE CHURCH! I didn't even invite any other friends.
Still, the party was great! Good food (from the stamford, darn, no photo) - it was an international buffet! Pasta, soft shell crab, green curry, cheesy fish etc. Very unconventional, and not too much more expensive than the pure chinese spread. Good fun - everyone was pretty upbeat. Good gifts - mmmhmmm haha. Figure shall not be disclosed, but i shalt have to treat my cousins!
We had a game that night - it was really funny! Basically everyone was split into groups (so all the heads went together, the hands went together, etc.) and was given a set of food items eg. bread, peanut butter, whipped cream, and had to come up with something creative, with a story behind it. Till now i still laugh at the stuff, it was really funny!
I shall go into more detail, with photos to come :)

Really thank my parents, and especially mum, for being so thick-skinned and for working her ass off to help organise the party. Would also like to thank everyone who was present, and even those who weren't but well-wished :) I would really liked to have been able to invite everyone, but it wouldn't be practical, and I would have died.

Any regrets? Yeah - there was some element of this, but I was hoping my dad's side would be able to integrate more. Kudos to the aunties and uncles for being so friendly. Wish the game groups had split more evenly though... Was hoping to regroup for the second game but didn't have the time for it.
The other regret would have been not being able to invite everyone who has been a part of my life, especially my dear cousins over in Aussielasia. Miss you all!
Oh yeah. And i didn't take enough photos! D'OH!

pleasant surprise!

So here I was, walking out of the LT, and I turn around and, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!..."

Yeah! My friends were so nice and thoughtful to get a cake and all - i don't even remember telling them it was my birthday!

So thank God for such friends :) I was just so sheepish after that. Will blog more on the actual party soon - just had to blog this first! It was so sweet of them!


And, just so you know, i'm actually staying in Prince George's Park:

My room, thanks to mum and dad. Mum and I came to clean it up the other day - it was pretty terrible, but now very livable! Thanks Mum! The chair and lamp courtesy IKEA.

Oh, and I got into both the CAC band and the Jazz band. Will have to pray and hope everything works out well.

Love,
Nik
(no more Nicky lol)