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Wednesday 26 August 2009

多四天

4 more days...


Looking at the countdown on the right, there's only 4 more days left... I doubt more 10 people remember this though...

Oh well, I'm not unhappy about this... Actually I am, but there are other stuff to keep me happy... In fact, this might be the best birthday of my life... Can't wait for the weekend to come... Woohoo!!!

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Thursday 20 August 2009

尋鬼 - 農曆六月十九

Ghost Hunt - 09/08/09


2 posts in a day?!? Haha...

This ghost hunt on National Day includes the addition of 2 new members, Lawrence and Chong... Including Brandon and Kailing, the 5 of us ventured forth to our first destination, old Fuchun Primary School...

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Is that a camera or a laser gun?

This school has not been in used for many years and was left standing there... It looks pretty well maintained without any broken windows nor peeled paint... In fact, the paint looks like it was done last month... Actually, I couldn't really tell since it was late at night... :P

We circled all the way to the front and couldn't find any point of entry except the fence in the middle... There were too many people watching there and the slope was pretty steep which would post some difficulty for me let alone the 2 girls... We circled back to the rear gate where Brandon was talking about how we can climb over the fence since there is a small space where there's no barb wire... They were also discussing about something which I don't really remember as I was busy untangling a part of the fence which was cut before... After 10 minutes, I finally made a big enough opening for us to go through...

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Its dawn already?!?

Don't be misled by the above picture, that night was a lot darker than that... I don't remember what setting I used to take that picture, probably was frustrated and just used auto... The place was pretty well sealed, with all openings locked... There wasn't anything interesting about this place since we couldn't get into the building, definitely nothing eerie except for the slow exposure photo of Brandon's "ghost"...

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This is in fact pretty spooky...

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Crap... Shutters behind the door...

We left the place without any rewards and decided to go Old Changi Hospital since the new members haven't been there before... On the way there, Brandon was hungry so we had a pit stop at Changi Village to refuel... Reached around 1.30am and only saw one transvestite... So late and still haven't start work?

After refuelling, we explored OCH... I scared a group of Malay and a group of Indians by throwing to the roof of the porch a stone and a piece of glass respectively... They were immediately silent then started talking even louder... Haha... As if we couldn't tell that they were scared... Forgive me for being childish, but that's what I do there when I wasn't scared - I scare others...

When we reached the 5th floor, I was freaked out by the sight of the coloured flags hung across the entire room... I first thought it was hung by some cult when they did their ritual there and didn't dare to enter the room... After exploring some more, we found more flags hung all over... On closer inspection, I realised its written in Thai, or at least it looks so at that moment... Not sure who would want to do that though, probably some shooting or sorts...

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Happy National Day!!! Erm... Those flags look somewhat different...

Well, another uneventful ghost hunt... These events are getting boring, maybe I should stop organising them already...

過度過期的書評

Long overdue book review...


Its that time of the year again and I'll have to take my IPPT... Well, its a birthday present from the government so I'm not complaining (though I got the present 2 months in advance)...

Was surprised when someone called my name while I was doing my warm ups, looked up and saw Shu Qiang!!! What coincidence - he is my Secondary School classmate and the best part is his birthday is 2 days after mine!!! Normally it wouldn't be much of a surprise if I were to do it in August, but its only June!!! We did the statics individually but the 2.4km run together... I was quite worried that I couldn't make the Silver timing as my previous days' training didn't give me much confidence... Humble him said he didn't have much confidence either, so we were to pace each other...

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The results...

Compared with previous year's results, I've not worsen much... I know... I'm 30 seconds slower... Then again, its not like you can achieve much in 30 seconds, other than storming a hijacked plane and killing all 4 hijackers with hostages and commandos uninjured... Hey, at least 2 years past the age of a CAT X and I can still obtain the Silver timing for it is some achievement by itself...

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I've long finished "Empire of Lies", its a boring read I would say... Sure, there are lots of action and suspense, but it just moves very slowly like what I said previously... That is until yesterday that I read Andrew Klavan's blog and understood his mind... This book and most of his others are written to scorn the modern leftist America... There's just so much resentment in the current media, politics and everyone that I can't really explain properly myself... I pretty much agree with him; except his extreme racism...

Its not like I condemn racism like "the majority Americans" he described, but it is just not fair to condemn every other race/religion because of a particular group... The way I read it, it seems like he is thinking that Americans are the only humans and Christianity is the only true religion... For the record, I have nothing against Americans or Christianity... I agree that when reporting about terrorists, they should just use the word "terrorists"... However, being a Muslim is NOT equal to being a terrorist!!! Can someone please kidnap him to Singapore and let him witness how we can live harmoniously "regardless of race, language or religion"?

This doesn't make me hate him or anything, its just because of the environment that he resides in that gave him his views... Hopefully putting him in another environment will give him other views...

Right... I still love his works and I found out that there really is a sequel to "Dynamite Road"... "Dynamite Road" is the first of a 3-part series, the second being "Shotgun Alley" and the third, "Damnation Street"... The problem is "Shotgun Alley" is not available in the National Library neither I can find it in any of the Tertiary libraries!!! I'll have to search all the small private book stores but most probably not gonna get to read it at all... Still, can't wait to read the 2nd book of the "Homelander" series...