Fish No 2

I am really really busy now preparing for my exam. My blog will be back in activity after 3 Dec. By the way, this is my new fish. I have no time and mood give him a name. Can someone help me? This fish is very mild, shy and eats little compared to Piranhna. Best if his name can start with "P". Thank you everyone. Sms me or post your suggestions here.

On its way to Heaven...

Piranhna was officially dead last Sunday morning. It had been suffering from severe fin rot in the previous week and for the whole of saturday, it was struggling on the surface of the water and breathing heavily. I never seen a fish struggled so so long against death. While struggling, it even has appetite to eat the food i throw in.

Though eventually Piranhna failed to survive, Piranhna displayed very strong and fighting spirit.

Do I know you?

There was this guy called Brune Huang who added me on Facebook twice. First time was many months back which I rejected because I seriously have not friends called Brune. I eat Prune, My pokemon game has a character called Brune, but I relaly don't know you Mr Huang. The funny thing is, we have close to 30 common friends. Recently, this same Mr Huang added me as friend on Facebook again. Hence, I sent him an message on facebook. Here it goes...

Olwe Tuor October 9 at 10:45pm: Do i know you?

Bruce Huang October 9 at 10:48pm: Hi, you dunno me, coz i want to have many friends here, sorry if any inconveniences caused.. :D

Olwe Tuor October 9 at 11:04pm: no inconvenience caused. but maybe i see u b4. or u tell me where do u see me?

Bruce Huang October 9 at 11:28pm: Maybe we met before, but I forgot already.. (*^__^*)

Olwe Tuor October 10 at 12:10am: Ok, Sorry, my facebook is solely for friends I know and those who have common memories & shared background with me. 恕我直言. Forgive my straightforwardness.

Bruce Huang October 10 at 12:12am: ^^ It's okay~~

WEIRD... Now, I am asking some friends whether I am really supposed to know him, since so many people all knew him. I suspect most of them just added him blindly.

Happy Birthday Er Jie!

Happy Birthday Er Jie!!!

From everyone in our family

Lor Ar & Lor Ba

(Above) Ingredients and Marinated Duck

(Above) The Frying and Braising process...

You know, all my aunts and a few aunt-in-law has their own 看家本领. For instance, my 8th aunt is best known for her cakes and pastries, my mum is famous for his dumpling (Ba Zhang) and 5th aunt is most famous for her Braised Duck.

And... I am proud to announce that I learnt my 5th aunt's recipe of Braised Duck!!! Such food posts will definitely make my readers like Jun Sheng very happy. It's not as difficult to cook as any of you think, It's very easy really. I shopped for the ingredients in the market, did all the marinating and cooking myself. :)

Finished with the cooking, my mum added some pork belly because we are sharing this dish I cooked with my 3rd aunt. :) hence, my final product is....

(Above) JIANG JIANG JIANG JIANG TM! My finished product Lor Pork & Lor Duck with garnish

RE: Wei Hao

THIS POST IS M18.

PARENTAL GUIDANCE

Hello Wei Hao,

I read your comment on my reality story series. You said the following, "i luv ur stories sia! u should come up with a short sketch and act it out...... so drama!".

It is not easy to sketch out the story, it will probably take me many days to come out with one post as it is a labour intensive job. AND.... I think what I visualise when I am not happy is not very pleasing to my audiences' eyes.

Like for Friday's repeated act-blur scenes, I just have one vulgar picture of me in my mind. (See Below) Felt like showing him this hand sign in front of his face. THOUGH, I NEVER SHOW THIS PHYSICALLY. My friends should know such action does not come from me.

Anyway, Just for your entertainment. Hope you like this image I painted. :)

Piranha can Fight, Fin & FLY

兜着你玩...

Final Episode!

It's e learning week this week and I am going to NUS for two days for tutorials. Lecture are mostly uploaded online. I am having an extremely rare 3 hours break in school now and I shall complete this story.

Episode 4 (Final)

It was a fun day at Sentosa. I left the collection of money from Friday to Ringo. Vineyard was preserving his slience and continued acting blur-like-he-forget-his past-life the entire day at Sentosa.

Around 6 o'clock in the evening, a group of my friends, Friday and I left Sentosa to go home. On the train back, it was me again, I suddenly recalled and asked Friday, "Have you give Ringo the money?"

"Oh... I forgot!"

I was seriously expecting this. People asked from you 2x. I reminded you a few times. Now Ringo was still at Sentosa and you would not see him for another few months. Then, now you acted like "Oh my God.... it was an accident". He made me felt so disgusted and wanted to puke all the way on the MRT. Hello... you 'deliberately caused the accident lor...' There were 气点s Number 4 & 5. (I wished I could label it till infinity.) Number 4 for self-creating 'accident' and Number 5 for that horrible acting. Actually, your mistakes no need to be numbered, I am just doing it to quantify how many times they digusted me. This only is enough to conclude one thing - there is something very wrong IN them.

Ok... The problem came back to me again.

My Troubleshoot: Luckily I was sharp enough that moment to think of this solution.

I told Friday to call Vineyard up (who still chose to remain silent and acting blurring at Sentosa) who was with Ringo, to pay the money to Ringo for me (and clear his debt).

The latest situation was:

• I 一笔勾销 with Ringo,
• I also 一笔勾销 with Vineyard, since Vineyard paid Ringo on my behalf.

Obviously, since Friday eventually did not pay Ringo for me, he still owe me money, right? Common sense right?

After he hanged up his phone, all the way from Habourfront to Dhoby Ghaut, from Dhoby Ghaut to Orchard, he acted blur and remained quiet. This was 气点 Number 6 already.

It was seriously not about the mere 10 bucks. I was so disgusted by these people were trying so so so so so hard and acting blur to avoid paying up just $10. Hello... It's only $10 and not $10,000. It's not even enough for me buy my cousin Awfully Chocolate or Hatto ice cream. Why are you all so petty over a $10?!?!? Now it made me looked like a crazy man chasing about $10. That was so... illogical.

Finally, I asked Friday on the train, "Hey, logically, since you did not pay Ringo the money FOR ME, ain't you supposed to pay me back the money then?"

He gave me his iconic blank and puzzled face for very long AGAIN!!!

"OH YA HOR!!!" (Enough... Stop pretending -_-" 气点 Number 7)

He reluctantly took out a $10 note from his wallet and passed to me.

Conclusion: Now I know you two so much better.

This is how I "Use a cheap $10 note to know more about a (two) friend"

Use a cheap $10 note to know more about a friend

Episode 3

What was his reaction? What was his reaction? Wei Hao was some what correct. He gave me a blank and puzzled face for very long. Trust me, it felt like 5 secs to me, then he replied "Got Meh?!?!?".

"Got! Remember... .blah blah blah...".... he responded with another empty face before he exclaimed loudly "OH YA HOR!!! I will return you LATER." (I almost wanted to put this as 气点 Number 2...)

"No, I need to pay Ringo $10. Why don't you pay him the money for me, and we 一笔勾销" and Friday readily agreed. Next, I informed Ringo about collecting my money from Friday.

Here comes the 气点 Number 2. You guys may not know, Vineyard was standing beside him all the while during our conversation. He was behaving like he totally hasn't heard anything. Actually, this is not the 1st time I saw such reaction. This is a very common tactic.

You think I was done with Friday? No.... I heard Ringo asking Friday to pay him $10 first before both of them forget about it when as we were spending the rest of the day playing in Sentosa. Friday said "Later." Seriously, 如果你有心 and earnestly want to return/pay up, you do not need so many reminders.

About an hour later, we were still at Habourfront Vivocity, same exact location all the well... Ringo approached Friday the 2nd time in front of me, "Friday, can you pay me $10 now?"

Friday replied coldly, "等一下".

WOW LIAO... Oh my 天!!! Can I put this a 气点 Number 3? Although this is no longer my problem (for the time being), I tell you, even if Buddha witnessed this few scenes, he would whack his beads on Friday. Allah would give him two tight slaps and Jesus would body slam him. I want to 捶心肝... 又看到人丑陋的一面.

Wanna know what happened next? Stay tune to the final episode of Use A Cheap $10 Note To Know More About A Friend

Use a cheap $10 note to know more about a friend

Ok, I finished my 2nd mid term paper today on Econometrics. Tomorrow is my free day and I am feeling more at ease now. 话不多说, let's resume with...

Episode 2

One month later..... 很巧的, Friday, Vineyard and me (with many other people) met again at the same place, Habourfront. Coincidentally, someone nicknamed Ringo was collecting funds from some people including me. 也是很巧的, it was EXACTLY $10!!! Of course, I am not that forgetful la... My 老天 already reminded me and of course I was reminded.

And you know where is the 气点? 气点 means 生气点 (the issue that makes my blood boils)

Ringo was asking for $10 from all of us (including Friday, Vineyard and me) simultaneously since we were all standing and gathering around. Did not being at the same venue and mentioning of the same amount by other people reminded them that they owe people money? This is 气点 number 1. And not like I am very 熟 with them.

Ok, nevermind. Let's take it that not everyone's mind so flexible and can link issues in the past to present so well. Not everyone is like me, borrow money go home immediately transfer via ibanking.

Since I am not very 熟 with them and I want to break through 传统. What 传统? My family's 传统 of not asking people to return money. Because my mum says, "don't ask people for money, its very Pai Sei... for both parties, lender and borrower". Due to this 传统, the 吃亏 people are always my family, even my uncles and aunts, as well as my close friends, because of some people are out there to take advantage of other people.

Some very infamous cases in my family including value amounting over $20,000. Also one very infamous cases my friends are more familiar with, includes a family friend (not very 熟 also ) who went to Korea with my family/relatives and till today, never paid a single cent. That was more than $2000 and about 7 years ago.

Why the "paisei people" are always at the losing end and always being taken advantage of? Somemore by people who we are not 熟 with and who don't genuinely forget.

Then, I broke free of the shell of tradition and in front of everyone, asked Friday (Vineyard just beside him, remember this)... in a very "give you face" and direct way, "A!!! Friday, remember you still owe me $10?"

What a breakthough!!! So proud of myself.

You know what was Friday's reaction?

Stay tune for Episode 3. More 气点s coming up.

Use a cheap $10 note to know more about a friend

I have a story to share and it is the first reality moral-story series I am sharing in this blog!!! I have told some of my friends like Jia Wei, Para and family members. There is a moral (in fact many morals) behind this story for everyone to learn. I am not gonna elaborate on the atmosphere and surrounding too much, just some dialogue and my thoughts. If you find this story too 'Olwe'-poganda, you can choose not to read too.

Episode 1

Two friends of mine, let's give them names, Friday and Vineyard. We ain't close friends of course, just associate-friends, knew each other for less than 2 years.

One night, Friday & Vineyard approached me at Habourfront, "Hey Jeremy, can you lend us a few dollars for dinner?". "There is no ATM around and we will return you later", they added.

"Can.", I replied singlish-ly. "Why I don't I lend each of you $10, two of you can go and buy whatever you want.... Keep the leftover and just return me a $10 bill. It's easy this way", I continued.

Of course, you must be expecting this to come next. It's coming!!! Yes, they totally forgot their words though we spend the next 48 hours together. They drew money for their other meals.

Frankly, I totally forgot about the two $10 the moment these two notes left my wallet.

Until one month later...

(To be continued...)

The Thai Boy's Birthday

It's our Thai Boy's birthday and we had a celebration, which no one ever mentioned it was a celebration yet everyone knows it was. Very informal, no cake, no present, we went cycling and lunching at Pulau Ubin. The island was rather packed on Monday due to the Hari Raya public holiday. It was a really sunny and great day to spend outdoor. Not only did 3 of us paid for Yew Boon's ALL DAY expenses, I finally get a chance to pay for Bing En for his virgin trip to Pulau Ubin's bicycle and boat rides. It took me so so long for me to have chance to repay his help and thank him for finding me my holiday job at SMRT. :)

Happy Birthday Yew Boon,

Selamat Hari Raya to All Singaporeans

and a great Thank You to Bing En once again

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My Pet

Hi, Blogger is finally back and I hope it would go dead again.

I wanna show everyone my pet fish named Piranha Oh Tian Lan. It is one of my 22nd birthday present given by my 1st sister and Jeremy. This pet belong to the P Series of pets in my family, sidelong with my 2nd Sister Prick and Pony (See Below).

I think the name Prick is self-explanatory right? Then, the other one is Pony.