iMum: my hip mum

Those who have seen my facebook - yes, my mother is a proud owner of an iPod Touch! Happy birthday in advance mum - love dad and son.

I guess this is just proof of how endearing Apple products can be. Kudos to the company for designing a hip and trendy product that is capable and easy-to-use. Mum still has a long way to go before you could coin her truely tech-savvy, but this is a first step that would otherwise have not been taken if not for the Apple iPod.

I shall still adamantly declare that the iPod is not the best mp3 player out there, and getting stuck with iTunes is quite nonsense. Especially in SG, where you just simply can't buy songs or movies over the store.

But it is pretty.

(mum, elated that there are korean dramas on youtube)

Apple still hasn't quite sold me on their mp3 players.. i think i now look for convergence, and the iPhone's camera and inability to multitask can't quite cut it, though i must say everything else about it is pretty attractive. I finally gave in after the months of waiting and got a new (old) phone. We shall see how that comes out over the next few months - will i like it as much as i did my N78? Nokia, don't fail me now...

In the meantime, go mum! Lead the charge for a generation of aunties.

random

(clones)

(look at that, asher, i'm a brand!)

CNY thus far

Day 0 started with reunion dinner @ uncle francis' place. we had red wine chicken noodles (which would be a recurring dish on day 1), popiah, and lo hei. And we played agricola, though josh had to leave early so it was just yang, alden and myself. Haha, i had a really bad game - made all the wrong assumptions about the market (reed and animals disappeared too quickly) and yang had a field day - end score, yang 43, alden 29, nick 28.

After sever lack of sleep, the morning of Day 1 found most of us cousins in church earlyyyy. But we had an awesome worship, though 'most everyone was a little stoned. Forgot a few cues and was not warmed up enough, but it was fun. And with andrew recording, the drums came out really nicely! can't wait to get my hands on the mix.

Then after that we went to ama's place for our annual red wine chicken noodles breakfast (now brunch - wait, deja vu?). Followed by visits to the usual people:

Oh did i mention, aunty kat and uncle chris are back! With baby bel - you can see aunty grace carrying her above. They have the other car, so it was awesome that i got to SLEEP IN THE BACK. Some others were not so lucky, see Josh below:

(that's the sofa, not someone's stomach, silly... oh wait. then again...)

(some were less fortunate than others and had to be chauffeur for the day)

I had red wine chicken for every meal after that. What a day. None of them could beat ama's one though. ngoi recipe FTW.

Visited dad's side as well - this year the annual late night movie did not materialise - guess the cinemas were filled with valentinos. toyed with the idea of hanging out, but in the end, went home and just chilled. man, need to get a drum teacher to get me back in practicing shape.

Didn't take as many photos this time, will try and do something about that! In the meantime, alden has a better photo of josh, i'll let him see what he wants to do with it ;)

Ah yes, asher, enjoy! You have visitors soon!

pandora's box

haha Asher - if you don't have enough of agricola...
http://banach.ucsd.edu/Agricola/Board7/Agricola.html

can even play a one player game! though the rules are slightly different... haha.

Alden just took his NAPFA today - wanted to go take photos, but i guess i haven't woken up at 6 plus in the morning for quite sometime.. anyhow, he'll be going in early - cause of chin ups, SBJ and 2.4km :(

the house is a little bit quieter now, with one less (a-ngoi-ing) cousin. which is good, and bad. on one hand, it means i get to study a little more, on the flipside i do miss having the mushroom around.

and it also means one less player for agricola. just kidding.

Perth So Far

Perth so far has been great, reuniting with Mum and Dad *Note:Alden RARELY picks up the phone when Mum and/or Dad calls*. The weeks have been slow and not per say difficult but I am SURE it will get harder...soon enough.


Well, interesting things so far: Cell now has more people *Yay*

Got ALOT of music cd from the store for $10 a disk

All the younger students seem to move out of my way
when I walk *Age Superiority ftw*

After studying the driving manual, I suddenly
realised how many driving rules there are.

I should be getting my Learner's license soon

My iPhone can now sync with Corden's lappy and my
computer =D

Perth's major music department store is the size of
a supermarket *NTUC and stuff*

Well thats that for now...My essay is still in completion in case you're wondering. Uncle Joe is going back so if theres anything for me you can pass it to him, and I'm currently practicing my guitar.

Oh, and by the way, good job Cornik on teaching Uncle Koh and Auntie Ad Agricola

family growth? what's that?

gasp. i just taught my parents how to play agricola. what will this lead to?

A note from my friend Tanya.

Hey Ngoi-clan,

I'm helping my friend Tanya forward out an email she's been sending. I hope you can help me too by copying this and pasting this to all the social networks that you can spam. Thanks.

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Hey Beloveds!

Some of you might have heard of American band Paramore. They'll be playing in Singapore on 7 March and they're looking for a Singapore band to open their show. So let's vote for Stellar Memory, our own NCC indie band (disclaimer: they're not authorised/endorsed by NCC but all of them are NCC members except Josh, who attends NCC occasionally).

Sign up for an account at http://onevent.biz/paramore/ and vote for their video (rate them a 5!). If they get the most votes, they might be able to open for Paramore!

Some information about Stellar Memory:
Vox: Edmund Quek
Guitars: Ernie Lim and Joshua Lim
Bass: Justin Garner
Drums: Cliff Ethan

Ernie, Justin and Cliff play in NCC main and/or dare/arrow/genrev services.

This is the video they uploaded for the contest:
http://onevent.biz/paramore/videos.php?id=10

As you can see, NCC's very own JEN!!!!! is playing the guitar (sessioning for Josh that day)! That's one of their original songs, Inside to the Outside (it's a Christian song by the way [: )

They'll also be playing for Youth Olympic Games at Marina Barrage on 27 Feb.
You can find out more about them or listen to their other songs here:

http://www.myspace.com/ourstellarmemory
http://www.purevolume.com/StellarMemory
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stellar-Memory/35853560624?v=wall

Sorry for the spam, quite excited about this cos Paramore and Stellar Memory are two bands I support. No obligations to vote, but it'd be good if you can vote and spread the word!

heh.

Tanya [:

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Forward it around! Spread the news!

Love y'all

Josh.

So.

So, I went to the Singapore Airshow recently. Paid $21 for it and another 21 for the other person that came along with me. I can't say I enjoyed myself. I mean, the company I was with was the saving grace. Apart from that, the show was like being in a sardine-tin cooking in the microwave.

My favourite part of the Airshow wasn't the aerial display, because that involved 3 planes flying around doing barrel rolls. I kinda expected like 5 planes in a 5 finger formation, or something that would make me flip out. What I really liked about the airshow was the butterfly garden. Instant I walked in, I thought of Bao.

Cute. They also had chips hidden in bamboo. Not the edible kind though. I mean, that would be an insult to pandas around the world if they had fries inside bamboo.

The picture I would use to describe the airshow best is.

Seriously.

Regards,

Josh

Non-airshow convert.

There you go! Literally one of asher's last suppers in Singapore.

Hope you are doing well over there. Now that you're back, this blog should be up and running again!

asher, we will miss you!

Asher Ngoi
Dec 09 - Jan 10
Singapore

"I don't know"

expect the asher tribute to come soon. don't worry mr ngoi, we will see you soon again. remember to keep us updated - and keep that determination!