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Checked out Timbre Musicfest on Wednesday night with dear. It's organized by Timbre (sponsored by Exxonmobil) and it's FREE~! haha...

Our tickets to the concert

There are quite a few bands performing. Each one lasting bout half to an hour.
The first performance was by Rick Steele from Down Under, tog with uBlues Duo from Singapore.

Interesting thing is, it's a free concert with free booze(Stella Artois somemore!) and free food!
OMG, i never came across such deals before. hahaha... but of course upon exchange with food vouchers which everyone has in their goodie bag.

Dear and I while queueing up for our pizza. =)

While queueing up, another band named Reverie & Rene performed.

I was quite surprised to know one of my coursemate Hanrong is the drummer. Cool~ Recalled them playing a few rock songs and 'Here comes the Sun' by The Beatles.

The next band, Soulfellas, was very very entertaining. They totally brought the mood to a higher level with their colourful and coordinated clothes, and little soul dance moves as they sang.

It's a pity that the courtyard was lighted quite brightly, makes the lightsticks quite redundant. Then everyone's seated down, and nobody really dare to stand up and groove to the beat. Next time they shld dim the lights, pple can go crazy w/o being embarrassed. haha

The last performance is a band from Australia in the theatre. Can't take pics inside. There's a harmonica player who is really lihai! haha.. His harmonica skills is equivalent to pro guitarist manz. When he's playing really really fast, he's body movement is like entering a trance, keep jumping and shaking his head like he's high on ecstasy. lol... We were stunned. really. hahaha... But I really applaud his playing skills. Eye-opener. =D Just feel that their style of playing is really about the same, we got bit bored and started playing w our lightsticks.


I think there should be more of this kinda performances in school (with those freebies of course!) It gets pple high and can relieve stress. woohoo~~

My mum discovered a new member in my house.

It's not very obvious here...

On a closer look...


Very cute lah! haha...it's only a few days old bah, the eyes aren't even open. I thought there would be more. Cuz cats don't usually give birth to just one kitten right? its mama got scared away by my mum. think it should be back tonight to nurse her baby kitty. =)

Woke up bit early today, like 6am... OK that's not a bit, that's very early. Thing is, I didn't wake up for any purpose. I think I was dreaming about my Fea (Finite Element analysis) module and my Fyp (related to Fea), and the thought of it is so scary I automatically wake up. =( haiz...*nightmare* Saturday le still stress. wth~

Wah.. didn't post anything for so long le. haha. Tried blogging once or twice, but uploading the pics w/o lan cable cxn just takes forever. Lazy... But still, let me recap what has happened the past month.

8 July
My first outing since I'm back. Dear brought me to eat Kuishinbo! After 5 long months without Jap food, buffet is the way to go manz! hahaha...
Finally together again after so long! :D :D

Some of the yummy food we had :)


We were waiting for the jingle to come on. The one that goes "Dong dong dong! 1 2 3, WE are KUI-SHIN-BO". haha, then they'll annouce some special dish that's limited in number, so every jingle becomes like a food grabbing competition. People will jump out of their seats to get into the queue. The kiasu Singaporean side is inevitably on display. haha... we're no exception. Just had to queue for the lobster man!~~ Gotta make our money worthwhile, hehe :D

Lobster staring at our desserts.

10 July
Met up with my friends for the first time! *happiness* haha... supposed to celebrate SzeWei's birthday. Wensi and I met up first to get her present. Then we went to another Jap restaurant! haha... *jap food overload* but I don't mind :)
This time it's Shokudo at the basement of Raffles City. Not buffet style, but Marche style. The queue was so long! We eventually got our seats and waited for Panda to join us. Von... is... busy AGAIN. haha, no surprise. She had to teach tuition that evening. Thereafter, Wensi and Panda joined me to send my mum off (she went Genting). And after a long phone call, we managed to successfully coerce persuade Von to come to my house for a little gathering. Was nice to see them! :)

11 July
Dear and I talked bout gg to Southern Ridge even before I'm back. I was really excited to go take a look at this new structure that links 3 parks together - Mount Faber, Telok Blangah Hill Park and Kent Ridge Park. Ayez, but unfortunately, kena diarrhoea. =_="

Rest of July...
Went to work at the zoo twice in July. And from then on, I just turned darker and darker. 5 months work of turning fair in UK - totally gone in just a few hours under the sun.

I also met up with my airens! GJ and MT! :D It seemed so long since I've seen them both! Really glad :) Had our usual updating session and coffee at TCC Bugis. I'm always amazed how mt can take double espresso shots. I never tried that. It gives me an impression that it'll be quite bitter and i'll stay up all night long. haha.

Had another really delicious and satisfying Jap meal with Wensi @ CHIJMES :)




22 July
Dear and I went MacRitchie Reservoir at 9am and took a 5km walk to the Tree Top Walk.



And when we reached the end of the walk, we realised to walk back to Thomson that side is another 5km! Totally shag. haha, so in the end we took a long walk out along the main road from the country club.
We were so tired we even wanted to hitchhike on the cars driving out from the club. haha. Weiann insists on stopping Benz or BMW. Everytime he hopes it's a posh car, a taxi or lorry will come along. lol...so in the end it's pure walking. Finally back to civilisation at noon *tired*

27 July
Made a trip down to Marina to visit the F1 Paddock with dear. There was K1 Rally and Carnival that day. There's drifting performances and car dress-up shows. It attracted quite a number of people :)
Dear with F1 Paddock in the background

Showcasing the new Audi R8 - driven by Ironman in the movies :) They only allow kids to sit in while the driver speeds the car down the race track. Ayez, all the fun kids can get these days. *envy*

Cars dress-up show! Really interesting! It's like watching the results of 'Pimp my ride' haha...This is one cool car~

One of my favs...

Beatles theme~!

Look at how much effort these car owners put into the decoration! Colour-coordinated '70s style



Hm.. what kinda face is tht...=_=

My first close-up with the Singapore Flyer~

Had a cup of gelato :) Oh man... I miss Italy's gelato!!!


Lastly, some of my ongoing collections :)

Dear's super funky hairstyle =P
taken during his fencing match @ SMU

It all started with sounds of wood crakling, breaking the silence of the night. I thought I was dreaming. Then there were loud bangs, like a giant tearing down walls of buildings and hurling them all over.

I heard my mum close her room door. She was up. I looked at my phone...'4.20am?' The noises I heard did not disappear. They were real. I put on my glasses and opened my window. The frequencies of crackling and bangs got faster and louder. Something was wrong.

I walked down the stairs, my mum and brother nowhere in sight. When I reached the living room, my house door was wide open. Outside the gate stood my mum, brother and a small group of Indian workers, staring into the bright orange spectacle ahead. My mum has a look of disbelief written all over her face. I grabbed my jacket and keys and hurried out. Whatever's happening was not good with this amount of attention.

Then I witnessed it. Two one-storey houses at the junction of my street were engulfed in fire. Tall flames reached towards the sky. They were higher than the height of my house despite the house being only a storey high. Behind the brilliant dancing flames, a full moon shone through. Clouds floated in front of the it, as if covering its face in shame of the fate that heaven has bestowed upon this burning house. We were dumbfounded.

The fire was spreading rapidly. Flames were already licking the wooden scaffolding a house under construction next to it. The wind was blowing strong, aiding the fire's fury. Bits of burning wood flickered up into the sky.

My brother told me the Indian workers (from the house under construction) already called the police and fire department. They also saw that the owners had ran out. However, their Honda Civic was parked right in front of the house, and it's too late to move it away. There was this sudden thought that the car may explode. Everyone started to back away from the burning spectacle. Neighbours woke up and joined the crowd of onlookers. A man in his forties with funky mohawk hairstyle came by on his bicycle with cartoon stickers all over. He claimed to have seen the fire first.

"Wah! I saw the fire just now!" he exclaimed in Hokkien. "It was only this big when I saw it", he gestured palm facing each other, from his tummy to his chin. "I thought they were burning joss paper outside so I didn't care". Apparently, this fateful day was the fifteenth day of the seventh month on the lunar calendar, thus any small fire may be easily mistaken as this typical ritual of the Hungry Ghost Festival.

Finally, what seemed like a long wait, a police car arrived. Where are the fire engines?? Then as if my question was answered, 2 firefighters on motorbikes arrived at the scene. Wah... like that will help =_="Neighbours rushed to move their cars away from the huge fire and out of the way of the police. The policemen instructed everyone in my house and the one next to it (we're just 2 houses away from the fire) to evacuate.

My uncle who came over on his bicycle (and typical of his unruly manners... and poor English) bellowed, "Fire car leh? Fire car leh??!"

"They're on the way", the policeman replied.

"ON THE WAY?!!", my uncle repeated in disbelief. Probably the fire was spreading very fast relative to the time which the fire engines took to arrive. Onlookers started to debate on the speed of police and firefighters response. Every minute counts. The police cordoned off all 4 roads of the cross-junction.

Eventually, the fire engines came. Firefighters rushed out, pulling along hoses towards fire hydrants nearby. While doing so, a few firefighters went near the burning house and fired what seemed like powerful shots of water into it. A ladder on the fire engine was elevated and a firefighter spurt water over the flames. Water from hoses gushed out. Firefighters were in action.

I didn't notice how long they took to put out the fire. But by the time we were allowed back into our houses, it was already 5.30am. My brother joked that we can go for breakfast already. But with work and school in the next few hours, everyone just went back to bed.

When I left home at 8am, the police were still around investigating the cause of fire. My poor neighbours. Their car was charred and the front tyres were melted so badly. The house... was just left with brick pillars. Everything inside was charred. The zinc sheet that used to be part of the roof collapsed.

Nothing's left.

As I walked towards the next street, people were doing morning exercises and going to work. They weren't aware of the tragedy that occured just a few hours ago. Life goes on.

A short report of this incident on CNA website