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I guessed I did badly 'cause I didn't have time to finish. I totally screwed up my section 1 'cause I didn't even touched on the whole section of E, which means 12 out of 60 marks gone. I miscalculated the time and even thought that I got 5 more mins before I heard the examiner said time up. Hai... I didn't do as well for the maths section too. Spent too much time figuring what each qns asked and left last 6 qns blank after I spent 3mins trying to figure out how the 2 tables work for 2nd last set of qns. I was so desperate for the section 3 that I gave myself a time limit. When I passed that limit, I just guessed and then moved on to the next passage. So I managed to complete section3 but with a lot of errors I felt.
Hai...so I guessed I just take this as an experience. What my final result turns out to be, it doesn't really matters to me anymore. Beside PSC scholarships, there are still other scholarship right? So I must work even harder now and hope to impress other organisation with good A level result...
Ah bing || Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Today is my birthday. Didn't really celebrate very much 'cause I have celebrated once with the class and another time with my relatives already. So all I did was to cut the cake that my dad made for me. This is his uncountable times that he attempted to bake a cake and luckily this time he succeed. Ha, this is his 2nd time he succeed. Most of the time, his cake just refused to expand and remained flat after taking out of oven...Being 18 years old is a sign that I am officially an adult now. So I have to pay adult fare now (sigh, can't pay the children fare anymore the next time I go swimming). But it also means that I can now enter casinos, help my dad buy 4D, watch M18... I can also officially drink alcoholic drinks. My dad even poured me a glass of red wine today to celebrate. Ha, it's not that I didn't drink alcoholic drink before this but now I can guang ming zheng da drink it now. Cheers!!!
Ah bing || Monday, May 30, 2005
I noticed that recently there are a lot of moths around Singapore. I saw them in school and in my flat everyday. Is it their session now?Ha, yesterday night I truly understand a fact that butterfly are straight minded and only fly towards light. This butterfly flew into my room yesterday while I was reading a storybook. It flew around my light. I tried to chase it out but somehow it seems to like my light so much that it wouldn't be chased out. I then remembered reading an article before that butterfly if placed in an empty transparent bottle will fly around in that bottle until it died of exhaustion since it saw light around the bottle. Since I was going to sleep, I wanted it out of my room as I was afraid that it might come to disturb me when I was sleeping if it didn't see any light and couldn't fly out of my room. I went to switch on my sis's room (which was empty since she was sleeping with my parent) light and switch off my room light. The butterfly then flew to my sis's room and I then switched off my light and went to sleep.
My mother told me this morning that the butterfly was still in my sis's room this morning as my sis's room windows were not open. Ops, didn't realise it the night before. It had saw some light through the window and was trying it best to get out of the room. It was very tired when my mum saw it and she immediately opened the window to let it out...
Ah bing || Saturday, May 28, 2005
Today, I went down to GVN to get CIP booklets signed. Peiling didn't wait for me yesterday. Since I got Raun and Joyce's CIP booklets with me, I felt that I have the responsibility to get them signed. But I found myself going to GVN with 8 booklets (she didn't collect all the booklets the day before) and even more annoyed that Peiling's one was inside one of them (because she missed out 2 of her CIP activities). I have forgotten how to get there (as I only went there once before) so I get her to draw a map (which was rather badly drawn) and I set off. Once I reached the MRT station, I discovered that it wasn't as easy as I have thought. The station got many exits and going to GVN also required a few turns. GVN was in 52A and initially I found 52 and 54 but there is no 52A there. I looked at the road sign and frustrated to see crap road (actually craig road) when I was supposed to get to Duxton road. I walked up and down that road but couldn't find any road called duxton road there. Finally I decided to walk all the way back and start again. I then found it. It was not as far from the shops as Peiling has drawn. I met Grant and then got all the booklets signed. Grant was grumbling as usual. He told me that 1 more time we clean the beach instead of the river he would not sign for us. He said that he don't want to hear any crap about dirty, citing the fact that he brought primary school kids to clean the river before...Next, the election today. I was the timekeeper, supposed to ensure that the elects kept to their 3 min time limit. But then, the Q&A stretched to around 10 mins for the 1st 2 candidates and I have to time the Q&A too. The points they brought up was about the same as the interview. Kevin was low confident again today though we told him yesterday to be more confident for the speech. He showed that he cannot handle the job of expanding the spice garden and presenting proposal to Mrs Cheng. In the end, yunjie and qianxin didn't get elected as expected. But surprisingly, Junying got only 20 votes which was the lowest among the 8 elected. Huimin topped with 31 votes. I got a shock as from yesterday's interview, many people supported him but they backstabbed him???
Ah bing || Thursday, May 26, 2005
_Chess election & GL Interview
Today, we have our chess club election. For those running for president, vice president and secretary, we have 5 candidates of which 2 from my chinese chess section, 2 from i chess section (but from cat high). And each of us have 3 votes so means that I can't support all of them. So I listened to their speech and select 3 of them. Dianyang from my section got elected. I felt that he did rather well for his speech with some of the present president's attitude too. Liangyuan did not do as well since he did not answer a few qns that the audience posted. But he got elected later for section leader though he got lesser J1 votes because he got all the 3 J2 votes (as he was better-bonded with us since we went through a competition before).As for the greenlink interview, we have a good chat with the J1 elects. It was rather fun especially we asked all of them a qns that if a water snail and a frog fall into a poison water, which one will u save first? It was just to test their reaction and most of them really got stunned. But we noticed that most of them chose to save the snail as it seemed weaker in the 2. When we asked them who do they think is the best president and they all chose junying. It's like junying already brainwashed them. Kevin was the most funny one. He was a very shy person and normally wouldn't speak up one. He was super low-confident. When answering qns, he was shy and always covering his face. It was really comical. As for junying, he was too ambitious. He said that he will do ...... but we find a few of them really very hard to implement. He also admit that he was bad-tempered. The teacher in the end decided that he can't be the president anymore. The interview ended around 9pm, which was the latest time I leave school this year so far...
Ah bing || Wednesday, May 25, 2005
My uncle booked a chalet this holiday. We were actually looking forward to it but a serie of screw-up makes the chalet less enjoyable this time.The chalet was booked by his friend's friend. There was a lot of miscommunication. Firstly, the chalet was supposed to be book from Saturday to Monday but we found out that it was booked from Friday to Sunday on Friday itself. It screwed up our plan esp mine since I organised a farm-visiting trip on Saturday. Next, the chalet was supposed to be Costa Sand (pasir ris) but it became Costa Sand (downtown east). It got a lot of different as pasir ris one is 2 storey semi-detached house but downtown east one is just 1 room. It screwed up our plan again as a lot of thing cannot be brought there since it was too small. To make thing worse, we discovered that only 1 chalet was booked when it was supposed to be 2 after we reached there on Friday night. So imagine 5 families squeezing into 1 tiny room. In the end, only 1 family stayed overnight while the rest of us returned home.
We went there again on Saturday afternoon. Basically, we got nothing much to play. We initially planned to play mahjong but we were afraid that it would disturb other people next room. It was so boring. To make thing worse, the rain started at 3 and didn't end until around 7. So we wasted our time in the room playing cards. The room contained around 15 people and it was a bad experience.
However overall, I learnt something from this. As an organisier, he shouldn't too believe in others. He should constantly check and ensure that everything is ok. Once the organiser screw-up, he will cause a lot of troubles for others. So if I am to organise something in the future, I will take this as my qian che zhi jian...
Ah bing || Sunday, May 22, 2005
The trip to the farms is generally quite a successful one. This is my first time organising a trip all by my own and I have indeed learnt a lot.We boarded the bus at Kranji MRT station at 9. The bus driver didn't know the direct way to the farms. He drove us up expressway to Chua Chu Kang, passed the cemetery before reaching that area. Then, he don't know how to get to the cow farm. But luckily, I got print a map and directed him there.
At the cow farm, everyone was quite lost and I had to lead the way. I took them to the cow shed. We get to see cattle sucking milk from bottles held by workers there. They are quite cute. Huiling couldn't stand the smell in the shed. She hold her nose and eventually decided to wait for us outside the cow shed. She later told me that there are rats. Ha, this must be her first time coming to places like this. 3 of us bought milk and then we set off to the goat farm.
On the way, we saw snake on a tree. Jun Ying was the 1st one to spot it and everyone quickly gathered below that tree. It was out of sight when we reached that tree and it came out again very soon. It is green in colour. And it's poisonous (which I found out later from my dad).
At the goat farm, we saw the milking of the goats. Ah, we came just at the right time. The goats were gathered at the area with their head locked at a bar. Next, the workers wiped the goat nipples. A man then tested whether they have milk before using the machine to milk them. They even ensured that every drop of their milk was milked by inserting the tube deeper into their nipples. The goats obviously didn't like it and kept raising their foot to kick the workers' hands away. We went to see the goats at the bay after that. They were so cute and we have fun feeding and patting them. The smell wasn't as bad as the cow farm and Huiling even feed the goat this time.
We then set off to the frog farm. It was a long distance and the members were very tired after the long walk. There was nothing much to see in the frog farm. But I get to have a conversation with the worker there. I learnt that the frogs there were fed with dried food. (I initially wondered if there were really so many inserts there since there were hundred of them in a small area and they looked rather fat). Chengyang even handled one of the frog. The frog was a rather fat one. It obviously don't like being handled and was croaking and struggling to get out of Chengyang's hand.
On the way back, I directed the bus driver with the help of Chengyang's street directory. So the return journey took only ten minutes compared to nearly half an hour to get there...
Ah bing || Sunday, May 22, 2005
Today, I settled everything for the farm visit next saturday. Phew... Gives me quite alot of problems. First Peiling insists on Lim Chu Kang's farms as they were more interesting. But the problem is that they were far apart and the teacher said that the bus cannot wait for us while we were there or it will be very expensive. After doing a lot of research, I decided on the Lim Chu Kang farms in an area. So we will trek from one farm to another. When I contacted the farms again, I was shocked that the goat farm want to charge us $3 per head entrance fee. Chengyang contacted the farm one month ago and they didn't ask for any money. The man on the phone line explained that those coming in groups will be charged even if they don't want guided tour and we can choose to deduct from our edusave account. What crap!! I used an angry tone to inform him about chengyang's calling the farm and told him not to cheat our money. He must have got frightened as his stand changed and said that we can go in but there will not be guided tour. Last month when I contacted the cow farm, the same thing occurs. The manager said about $3 per head entrance fee that will go to the "cow fund". Also another piece of crap. I scolded the manager. He then said ok, we can enter for free but need to buy at least $5 of milk product. Those 2 farms are obviously trying to cheat students' money as my family had visited those 2 farms quite a few times for free...Just finished the report for the CIP incident. So next week, we (CT, CT reps, CIP reps and Mingxian's dad) will sit down and debate who is at the fault. So far, his dad has protected Mingxian by saying there is a miscommunication and we will be showing him that the problem don't lay in us but is all because of Mingxian's irresponsibility...
I ran 6km today. I weight 68kg before the run and 67kg after the run. Ha, this has being happening for a few weeks already. During the weekdays, I will eat alot and gain 1kg. Then on weekend I will run long distance to use up that 1kg of fat. But personally, I find it quite strange that I can lose weight so fast. It's like I can lose 1kg just within 40 mins.
Ah bing || Sunday, May 15, 2005
_GL exco outing and college day
Today, Peiling organised a greenlink exco outing in West Mall. This is supposed to be our last J2 exco outing though we still have one more together with J1 exco and senior exco in the holiday. All the excos turned up except Joyces and Sabrina. So there are 2 girls-Peiling and Huiling and 5 boys altogether. For me, I found girls' behaviour quite hard to understand (hmm, maybe it's because i came from a all boy sec sch). For example, when deciding where and what to eat, Peiling said,"Anything." But then, she thought for a while and said,"But don't want McDonale, Burger King." We saw KFC nearby and Junjie said,"Then KFC la!" She then said,"No KFC." So we started walking around level by level until we reached the foodcourt. When we boys felt that foodcourt might be a better choice, she got the "don't really want" sort of expression. So we asked her again where she wanted to eat, she said anything and told Junjie to choose. When Junjie decided on foodcourt, she said,"Huh, really?" But we ate in the foodcourt in the end. Hmm, girl's "anything" got quite a lot of restriction actually. =)In the food court, we found a 8 seat table and we boys went to buy our food first. When I returned, I saw peiling and huiling kept changing seats??? They placed my bag on the table (which I originally placed on the table) and huiling took my seat. Then, peiling wanted me to sit in one seat and huiling wanted me to sit in another. After I sat down, they changed seats again. When all the boys were back, the girls went to buy their food. Throughout the meal, the boys were mostly talking to ourselves and the girls were talking to themselves. After the meal, Huiling then suggested going to Swensen. The boys protested, feeling that it is expensive. She then asked are we sure we want to end our lasting outing in a foodcourt? Qingxiang then suggested Coffeebean as he "thought" that it was less expensive. The girls agreed and we went there.
In the coffeebean, the boys sat down (at a loss of what to buy after seeing the prices) while the girls went to buy their drinks (notice it is the other way round compared to the situation in the foodcourt). When they returned, Chengyang asked how much is their drinks. One of them costs $4+ while the other costs $6+. You can see the boys' faces turn colour on finding out the prices. Sometimes I wondered, how come girls seem to be richer than the boys? =) The girls then wanted to treat us, but we rejected. (Paiseh leh for girls treat boys.) So Junjie and Qingxiang decided to buy something as the situation is becoming very awkward with 5 boys looking at 2 girls having their drinks. Qingxiang asked Junjie to help him buy Espresso small (hope I spell the name correctly). Junjie later returned with a tray with a Cuppocinno and a small mug of around 5cm tall and 2.5cm radius half-filled with brown colour liquid. While we were wondering what the small little cup actually contained, Qingxiang asked,"That can't be mine right?" When Junjie replied,"That's yours!", Qingxiang then was stunned for a while and then carried on talking about being cheated. That tiny cup of coffee costed $3.20. Qingxiang then went to add milk until the brim, drink a little and filled it to the brim again a few times. He said that this is to ensure that the coffee can last longer. It was very comical and we couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes. When he finally finished that coffee, he said that Nescafe 3in1 coffee was better la and that he won't buy Espresso again. He must be very xin tong for buying that coffee.
After that, Huiling, Qingxiang and Junjie left for College Day preparation while the rest of us walked around the mall before spending the rest of the time until 4.30 in library before we left for College Day.
Personally, I felt that the College Day was rather ok, though I find speaker clapping during speech very strange. At least I get to get most of the performing art groups which is my first time seeing quite a few of them perform. The foodfair also quite ok except all the drinks finished very early so I couldn't buy any after my food and was rather thristy. It ended at 9+pm with a performance by the band, which gave the best performance of the night I personally think. It's no wonder they got the gold with honour...
Ah bing || Saturday, May 14, 2005
Today is Friday 13, considered to be an unlucky day but for me nothing unlucky happened for me.I got 21/25 for a FM test. And out of these, 2 marks is because I didn't see a part and 1 more is because of a wrong equality sign in 1 of my working though I put the correct one in final answer. But it is the highest score for a test I got so far. Normally for test I would just go for a pass. Didn't really study very hard for this one. So I guess I am just lucky to use the correct test for qns 1 and my mind happened to be in the right freq when doing the test...
Extra training for chess today since we had missed a lot of monday trainings. The president forced us to forget all our opening and use another opening. I am not used to this one and was defeated by the section leader for my first game. He said that this opening will have a more or less fixed way of playing later in the game and will more likely to gurantee at least a draw. So I think his strategy to win AJC (defending champion which got a few top players) is that the 3 of us get a draw each and he will win his match to get a 5-3 win.
For my dad and uncle in the scholar of scholars grand finale game, they targeted by the host throughout the game. My dad is called leng tian poh and my uncle is leng tian ann. So it is quite obvious that they are siblings. They were arranged to stand side by side each other and the host kept focusing on them like guessing which is the elder brother and when he got it wrong, my uncle said,"wrong answer, deduct 200 points." =) They both got into round 2 but didn't get into round 3 because the competitors were all very smart and quick. However, my uncle answered correctly the bonus qns that the zhuang yan answered wrongly and won $300.
My dad went to TCS again today to film the Renault advertisement that will be shown in the end of the game. He said that the light was very very bright and warm. And there was a lot of NG. Hmm, now we know that filming just a short advertisement is not easy. The advertisement will last barely a few seconds but they took hours to film. This advertisement is for Renault since they sponsored the money for the game, so my dad will not be paid for that.
Ah, just heard that my uncle's game will be shown this coming tuesday at 8pm. And in his game, the zhuang yan got the $10000 for answering all the 3 bonus qns correctly. So TCS decided to show it earlier to boast the rating...
Ah bing || Friday, May 13, 2005
The selection for Raffles Cup chinese chess team A ended today. For my 1st 3 games held last week, I did badly. Only manage to obtain 1 win, 1 draw and 1 lose after playing 3 matches. I was quite disappointed with my performance and started mugging the chess manual. Today, I have 3 straight victories and got into team A. The section leader of chinese chess was kicked into team B. I was back to my top form during my 2nd match, performing a perfect combo kill (means got so many killing angles that the opponent can't block) within 25 steps. The form carried on to the 3rd round which I gained 2 pieces within 20 steps and then another unblockable finish within 25 steps. With 4.5 points after 6 games, I entered team A with 2nd highest score. This implies that my 2nd medal will be coming soon after the competition held in the 2nd week of holiday. Hope to get 1st this time.The president was very serious today. Halfway through the selection, he told us to go to the classroom next door together with Mr Ong. There were a lot of scoldings. He said that we didn't play our games seriously during the trainings. Too many free seeds were given away. He also said that our schools including VJC and HCJC were training very hard now. And they even have the advantage of a coach. So if we thought that we could easily get at least a silver again in Raffles Cup, stop dreaming. Our school also didn't get us a coach because the principal don't care whether we win chess competition. She only interested in sports like canoeing...(a few more). But winning chess competition is better because we use our brain to win and not by physical. He then said that he would increase our amount of training and whoever not interested can walk out of the room now (which none of us did of course). He also wanted us to do additional stuff like doing warm-up and cool-down from that training on, which we discovered that it was just staring at a chess board with all the pieces at starting position for 5 mins. He said that this is to train our concentration so that we will not give free pieces again. Feel a bit like idiot when we actually did that.
Tomorrow, my dad will be going for the grand finale for scholars of scholars and my team will be having the design a game competition oral presentation. Hopefully, I will be able to post more good news tmr.
Ah bing || Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Today my dad went for the tiao zhan zhuang yan bang (scholar of scholars) recording. He was very excited and kept calling home to inform us about the result.For those who didn't watch the show, the format is like that:
Round 1: From 18 contestants, 9 will enter round 2. The host will ask qns and the 1st to press the buzzer will get to answer. If correct, he will enter round 2. If wrong, he will be out of game. Game continues until the 9 are selected.
Round 2: Likewise in Round 2, the 3 fastest players to obtain 300 points would emerge and move on to the round 3. Each qns is 100 points and player can choose to answer even after hitting 300 points to double the score to 600. The max is 1200.
Round 3: Contestants got 80s to answer qns, each correct ans is 200 points while each wrong ans deducts 100 points. The player with highest score for round 2 and 3 added up is the winner.
The winner will get into a bonus stage with 3 super difficult qns. If they are answered correctly, $10000 will fall from a box above.
For the rehearsal, my dad scored a record of 3100 points after 3 rounds. Ha, this is because the qns are the same as the online version game ones. He entered the bonus stage but can't even answer the first qns.
For the actual game, he is the 7th to enter round 2. He pressed the buzzer but couldn't manage to snatch it. 2 people answered wrongly and got out of game. For round 2, it is even more exciting. At one time, 7 people got 200 points. And then 4 peoples who got 200 points answered wrongly and was out. Leaving with only 4 people left. My dad got 300 points and then he pressed the buzzer again. The host asked him confirm or not. Because if he got it wrong, even contestants with 200 points will enter round 3. He and another woman answer 4 qns correctly and scored 600 points in the end for round 3. For round 3, he scored 1400 points and was crowned the zhuang yan of that game.
He entered the bonus stage. Then he was supposed to twist his fingers and said gao zong three times (for getting pass 3 rounds). He didn't do properly and got NG. The cameraman said that he should do it loudly and cheerfully since he was the zhuang yan of the game. There are quite a few NG scene throughout the recording like when the contestants didn't clap loud enough and didn't cheer loud enough. My dad answered the 1st qns correctly but answer the 2nd qns wrongly. So he won himself $1400 for getting 1400 points. And qualify for the grand final game (which all the winner and runner-up will turn up) this thur. So he and my uncle will be contesting this thur one. Good Luck to both of them.
Ah bing || Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Don't really have the time to blog this week, so just doing a summary now.The major event that happened is the passing away of spore 4th president Wee Kim Wee on mon 2/5. So paiseh. I actually didn't know anything him before his passing away on mon. He was the president when I was just a small kid. From what i remember, the first president I start to know is president Ong. There were many stories about him this week and many of them were very touching. He is a people's president. Though he was a president, he once said something along the lines of... if you remove the word 'President', I am just Wee Kim Wee, just like any other taxi driver or cleaner or whoever. He invited many common pple to his house for parties and really cared for his people by visiting them when they are sick and more... These articles made me wonder how he managed to fnd time for all that???
Today, my dad drove me to the farms around Kranji. Didn't know that there are so many farms there. We usually went to these in Lim Chu Kang. The farms there are not so good as the lim chu kang ones but are good enough. In case u are wondering, ya I am in charge of a farm visit trip organise by greenlink. The teacher said that we cannot rent a bus and wants the driver to wait for us there on the spot. He will charge very high for that. And the lim chu kang farms are very very far apart. For the Kranji ones, they are walking distance away and we just have to take bus 925 from woodlands, marsiling or kranji mrt station to sungei buloh nature park and then we can walk from there. Ha, I will try to make the place to meet at marsiling mrt station if possible. Why? 'cause I live there. Must abuse my authority for once... =)
Today at night, my family and san bo and si bo (uncles) families went to Sembawang Park to have a meal to celebrate mother's day. The meal is nice but rather expensive. It costs $400+. I believe it's because of mother's day so they must make use of this opportunity to earn more money. The serving of food is quite fast at first because we are the first few to arrive(at 6.30pm). But for the last 2 dishes, they took 30mins each to arrive. I think it's because all the tables in the restaurants were occupied by 7.30 pm and the chiefs in the kitchen were unable to cope. We finally finished all our food at around 8.50pm. My tang jie (cousin) then gave a self-made flower with a rocher in the centre to all the 3 mothers that went. I was caught unprepared as I didn't made anything for my mother, not to say all the mothers that went. And I was the eldest in my family. We didn't really celebrate mother's day the years before this and this time is because my uncle invited us along one. Hai... so paiseh for not showing my graditude to my mum these years. Maybe I should help my mother with housework tmr...
Ah bing || Saturday, May 07, 2005
A good week so far...1) My dad finally received the call from tcs to go for the tiao zhan zhuang yan bang (scholar of scholars). He has been mugging alot now and challenging himself in the online version. The webpage is at http://event.mediacorptv.com/scholar/online_login.php
Click on the scoreboard and don't be surprised to find my name there. He has been using my username to play.
2) The band has gotten the gold with honour. They have been practising very hard and they did it. Well done. I wouldn't be surprise that there will be a half-day next week. Rest is exactly what I need now. Has been stressed up by the amt of work this week from the academically, cca and class position. The CIP incident has finally been settled.
Ah bing || Thursday, May 05, 2005
_Opening ceremony of my cousin's shop
Today is the opening ceremony of my Yisheng tang ge (cousin)'s shop. He opened the shop together with one of his friend after working with my biao ge (cousin)'s shop for a few years. His partner is once a member of a lion dance troop and today they came down to cai qing for free. A total of 5 lions came down today. This is my first time seeing a shop's cai qing live instead of from tv drama. I would say it's a total different experience from watching it from tv drama. The ceremony tales place over 40 mins and my ears were almost deaf from the loud noise of drum and cymbals. There is quite a big crowd gathered when the ceremony started.Firstly, the 5 lions went into the shop and went around it. I notice that they moved backward when stepping out of the shop later but don't know the reason (anyone can enlighten me?). At this point, the name of the shop is still covered. After that, 1 lion jumped up and bit a lettuce hanging just in front of the shop name. It then uncovers the cloth covering the shop name.
Next, the lion started "eating" the oranges on the floor and arranged a word everytime it "eats" a pair. The words formed is sheng yi xing rong (may your business blooms). The final tray consists of pineapple, lettuce, a dozen oranges and sweets. The people under the lion skin must be shocked to find so much things on the tray that the back guy signals to a person standing nearby and he activated a second lion to help. The 2 lions sat side by side. It takes them 6 mins to finish that tray and the lions "spit" orange skins, lettuces and sweets during this period.
After the ceremony, we had a buffet. And gosh, there is a wide variety of food. My plate is filled entirely with food even though I only took one of each type.
I have uploaded the photos at:
http://community.webshots.com/album/335266412VxscDD?89
Ah bing || Sunday, May 01, 2005