Just came back from Lynn's. Had a steamboat cum surprise birthday party. Laughed non-stop til my abs ached. Oh man... how i love my friends! Oh and Lynn got me a Cannes shirt in return for lending her my haversack... Thanks fooey! ~yawnz~ Sleepy sleepy... shall blog more tmr... oh yea! Soccer vs M3s tmr... can't wait to meet up with my Wookie strike partner. Rargh!

Met up with my wonderful Popeye OG. Wah.. gotta say they're really on! organise OG outing somemore. This was after I had dinner with Andrew and Enming at Holland V last night. Since I was in camp, I couldn't join them for the movie session in the afternoon. Met them only for dinner at....... CARL'S JR!!!! YEA! Been wanting to try it after watching the paris hiltion burger ad and hearing so much about how big Carl's Jr burgers are. So I've seen them for myself today. They're as huge or a little bigger than BK's whopper. The cool thing is they've onion rings and bacon in my Double Western Bacon Cheese Burger. Wao... Just saying it is a mouthful. So I changed my fries to Chilli Cheese Fries which I din like cos I found it too salty. Other alternative changes are criss fries(waffle fries) and onion rings. Oh yes! The onion rings are real onion rings so they are large! Not mashed up onion made into equal sized small rings. So that's great. there's a large variety of other burgers and sandwiches. think i'll want to try them all!

Tze Yong saw my chilli cheese fries and decided he made a mistake of not changing his fries so he went to ask if he could do so after getting his order. The guy just told him to go back to his seat and actually gave him a box of chilli cheese fries for free! Yes the guy said it was his treat! wah... i paid more to change my fries and he actually got it for free.. the guy must hvae been gay or got charmed by tze yong. the name tag of the guy read rong so we kept teasing tze yong about him... and finally i named him tze rong. eeeee... gross if he's gay.

After chit chatting for a while, somehow someone decided to go have ice cream. (think it was sheryl) so argh!!!!!!!!! had a single fondue which proved too sweet and too 'ni' for me! stupid geisha boy aka andrew and gay boy aka tze rong refused to help me finish it. so i just had to pile on more calories! grrr.... no choice gotta go to sch to exercise or swim liao...

"If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face" -Carl's Jr

Fun Day!

darth vader
Originally uploaded by dehanh.

Woke up at 7 plus today after I knocked out the evening before at about 6 plus. Couldn't even wake up for dinner! So i was totally famished and had salami sandwich and my 'dinner'-->yummy crab beehoon at 11 am.

Met up with Zhi Jun after not seeing him for a long time. Dong is away in Malaysia fishing.. this fella keeps having new hobbies.
Anyway, ate my fav takopachi and tried macau fried pancake noodles as we chatted. When we wandered into Heeren, there were all these movie characters walking around in the atrium. I couldn't resist but take a photo with Darth Vader. Batman looked sad cos nobody wanted to take photo with him. Anakin and Obi-wan had models were looked too gay to be cool.

So after buying tickets for Bimmer, this russian movie, at cine, we decided to head down to Starbucks at Paragon to pass time until the movie begins. It was then that I met an entire group of Rafflesians outside Paragon. We were the 4th group to join them. There were Jianan, Raymond, Nic Lim, Sally, Shaun Teo, Zac Yee, Serena and Jervis! It's been such a long time since i saw time so we just stood there for so long and updated each other on our lives. It was just so exciting to chance upon such a huge group of friends in the middle of Orchard.

The group seemed like a Rafflesian magnet cos Terence and Qiuyun came along hand in hand too! It was not always that this could happen so I just had to capture the moment. Jianan and Raymond left first so they were not in the photo.

Oh and Serena reminded me how good a baker she was, and that she was gonna sell her cakes. I'm definitely gonna order from her! Oh man... she was such an angel when she surprised me with Bailey Oreo Cheese cake when I had only mentioned it casually. She makes great brownies and now supposedly tiramisu too. It's amazing how she's still so slim when she went overseas and learnt how to bake in her hotelling course.
Really hope to meet up with them again!

Bimmer was interesting in the sense that It was the first time I was watching a Russian movie. Learning about the russian culture was an eye-opener. Just seems so dangerous to live in Russian after reading about mob attacks and now watching it. Glad that I'm in safe Singapore. :)

Medicamp
Yoo Hoo! Fresh memories from Medicamp. Just last year, I was a camper attending a camp which my rj peers thought was too sian to go for cos you'll be seeing the same ole people. But how can I resist the opportunity to meet new people and have fun? Besides getting acquainted with the funkiest OGLs and my beloved Santiano mates, I got to let my hair down after months of training in the army. What followed Medicamp was something which I'll remember vividly, as it was the first time I was doing cheerleading and acting all cutesy and gay. argh!!!! but it was such an enjoyable time because of really wacky people who turned out to be one of my bestest friends.

This year, I'm on the other side of Medicamp, helping to organise and acting as an OGL. Having had such wonderful OGLs myself, I had high expectations of myself to give the M1s one of the best memories they will have. So began the sketching of the Popeye characters, buying of whistles, discussing with Dick and Chee Meng about activities, all just for them. Soon everything pieced together and it was a camp to remember!

Popeye was the OG which did me real proud!!!

First day, everyone was still shy and quiet. I remember cheering louder than all of them combined when we were learning cheers outside Med Library. Sentosa Amazing Race just came and went by. It wasn't really a race as nobody really bothered to rush to complete activities or get to stations. After completing 4 stations, we came in a commendable 5th. Only 1 group managed to finish 5 stations out of 6. Truthfully, I actually din find Amazing Race very exciting but the next activity was.

FRIGHT NIGHT!
Having gone through the dry run, I knew certain stations were really scary and it would definitely be a fun experience for the M1s. My station suddenly had more people joining Yingci and I, which was great because scaredy cat Yingci wouldn't be so scared with increased company and it wouldn't be so boring! Barring the initial screw ups and after a few improvisations, we managed to come up with a super scary station! Kudos to Daniel for giving them the initial scare with his grotesque mask, to Lynn and Liana who really shocked the daylights out of the M1s as wandering RGS ghosts and to us, Yingci and I for playing out the story of a crazy woman seeking revenge for her facial disfigurement caused by her bf .

Many were really jumping and screaming themselves hoarse. It was amusing just to watch different reactions by different groups of M1s. If 2 guys came, they would be very brave, unwilling to show their fear to each other. 2 gals... and they would scream their heads off. A guy and girl, the guy would act the part of a fearless hero protecting the damsel in distress. The most hilarious group was the one with a guy and 1 girls. He was the lucky one with a girl in each arm comforting each one as they scream. hahahaha... take advantage. Overall, it was successful and a few M1s commented that we were good.. :)

Day 2 of Medicamp was at Aloha Loyang Chalet. I'm glad that we were last in position after Day 1, cos it seemed to be the spark which ignited the hidden fire within my OG. They became totally on fire! They won all the games and even managed to come up with new cheers at each station. They cheered with so much zest and charmed the game masters with so much fervour that we had the most points for the day! We climbed from last place in the points standings to 4th. I was totally impressed! Popeye Rocks!!!!

So to my fellow OGLs, Han Boon, Claris, Selene, LArry and Qiumei the Mole. Great Job guys! It was fun working with yuo guys and getting to know you better!

And my Popeye mates, Daniel, Teng Soon, Wee Ming, Andrew L, Andrew F, Jerry, Zhenjin, Zhong Xian, Tze Yeong, Liwei, Enming, Sheryl, Esther, Hilda, Huilin, Hon Lyn, Amanda, Nita and Aileen. Welcome to Medicine. Hope you guys had lotsa fun! Get to know each other better and live the Popeye spinach!

finally... i can blog.
wanted to the past 2 nights but i conked out in front of my com cos i was too tired after 2 whole days of windsurfing.
yea... even tho i seldom windsurfed, i still crazily signed up for the PA windsurfing competition together with bang and ivp champion, yauhong.

i went into the competition just to have fun, not expecting to win anything. but i realised having fun was not so easy in a competition at this high level, besides, i've also 'lost my face'.

well... first of all, there were these lil boys who were half my size and weight but with 10 times our skill in windsurfing. they were the youth team boys, who had their dark tanned complexion as prove to their many hours of gruelling training. all of us were beaten by little boys.

secondly, i couldn't even begin in any of the 4 races cos i couldn't cross the starting line. how embarassing! my windsurfing technique was disastrous. i kept moving parallel to the start line cos i couldn't move upwind. when i'm near the starting line, the whistle would blow, followed by the annoucement "GATE CLOSED". argh!! pissing. so while the others went on with their competition route, i practised a little on my own. i tried to stay as close as possible to the buoy so that i can immediately cross the line the moment the horn blows. pump pump pump... i just couldn't even get an arm's length close to the buoy. so i was drifted away by the current and i was too far from the start line. grrrr....

finally, i think i was too heavy. our competition could only be held in slow winds as the moment the strong wind picked up, the hardsail competition would begin. so with all of my 80 kg, the sail just couldn't get enough wind to drag me forward against the current. so it's either i lose weight or i cut holes in the other competitors sail so that they can join my in my turtle race.

it was just so frustrating and embarassing.

fortunately, when there was strong winds in the afternoon, i could take in the beautiful sight of the pro hardsail windsurfers planing across the surface of the sea. they just showed how cool it was, as they did tricks which i can only be in awe and gape about. not unless i move to the east permanently, so that i can go practise whenever i like. yea... i was totally impressed by the thais who came to compete. they were clearly way ahead of the rest in term of skill and coolness. they deserved to win.

the after windsurfing activities made up for the bad windsurfing experience. paying only 15 bucks for registration,every cent was worth it. besides 2 days of windsurfing, lunch was provided on sunday and there was also a buffet dinner which included beer..... if you thought that was all, we had a free t-shirt and i got to know a few more people. value for money! hope to learn the cool tricks and try it out for myself.

Medicamp in 2 days time!

denise keller's so hot that when i stared as i walked past her, my face reddened like a grilled well done lobster. phew... what a sight.

Samsung Platinum Lounge Official Opening

Really thankful that Jit invited to go with him to the opening cos the entire event was really cool. Walked on the red carpet leading to the lounge and immediately, we felt like celebrities. Just wished there were cameras that we can wave at and pose for. hahaha..

tbc- really sleepy now

first there was russell peters
next mr numa numa.
now there is mr horny man! love his act... really entertaining. go watch-
http://www.extremefunnyhumor.com/mov_hornguy.htm

batman begins was really good~! such an interesting interpretation of how he became batman. becoming a ninja first... whoo... i think this batman is the best of all the batman movies ever made. the others were jokes compared to this. used to only like spiderman n thought batman was the most uncool. my perception has now changed. can't wait for the batman vs joker movie, if there is one.

saw shan, howard and a few other guys from 'eye for a guy' on friday night. howard looks alright.. but he's short. hahaha. shan is the good looking one everyone ogles. saw chen han wei dressed up like a teen too. berms, t-shirt and a cap. really juvenile looking. an ok night... haven't gone chionging in a long time. met kong, ding , tanny, grace and a few other guys. saw leslie, lennard and kennedy too. i don't really miss chionging. i'm fine not going. it's just to meet up with people. albeit at a really unhealthy environment to do so. which is why i like gatherings like the one i just went for just now.

rj batch gathering at rj bishan campus. really nice to see friends whom i haven't met in a long time. army friends and those who went abroad. wow.. and boy do people change. more for better than worse. many i couldn't even recognise!
here are a few photos:

Currently reading The Miracles of Santo Fico. Set in a small coastal village in Italy. Like it for the description of the beautiful scenery by the sea, quaint old houses, charming century-old hotel, small spiralling cathedral and the traditional italian pasta and wine, add these to the exciting accounts of travelling in italy by friends, really sends my heart fluttering. The desire to be there just swells! Marta, the beautiful, vivacious owner of the hotel dreamt of seeing the painting of stars against the black canvas. Well... we can see stars in Singapore too, no big deal. But it's shooting stars which we can't see cos the glare from the bright city lights just block them out. Stars die and fall all the time. Just wanna lay on my back under the vast open sky (w/o the glare) to view streaks of light formed by the deft strokes from God's paint brush. Beautiful Europe...

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Using the scanner to scan ma visage.

Oh yea!
was a little nervous. n every sms that came in this morning made me jump! finally, the real sms came n i passed! yea.. kerl the happy news bringer broke my morning anxiety. so phew... this is not good for the heart man. shan't try it again next year. anyone knows what books to buy for year 2? easy ones similar to baby moore?

Stop making stupid complaints!

To all who intend on making official complaints against the army, don't ever do it. cos it's most probably a stupid ridiculous complaint. Currently, doing analysis and digitising the complaints made against the medical services of army. It's interesting to read cos most are simply stupid, almost all write to MPs (even to PM, chief of defence force) and some are just poor sad and unfortunate. Can't comment much on them cos they are confidential. But what i can say is... it's pissing me off. Have to scan each and every piece of paper using a flatbed scanner and it's ok if they are genuine complaints but they are not! A chao keng guy had 60 over consultation slips just from BMT and his complaints amount to over 100 pages and we have to scan them all in brainlessly like a robot. argh!!! gonna have carpal tunnel syndrome and currently having red eyes from the hours spent in front of the com. what a bitch job!
Another day of this, and i'll go mad! Must find the loading scanner on mon!

Cambodia school hostage

When I heard that Siem Reap International School had a hostage crisis, there was a sense of familiarity. Doesn't someone I know study in an international school in cambodia? Only when the radio mentioned that there was a Singaporean boy, Ly Vung trapped in the sch, I realised who it was! It was the son of Khorn (our cambodian tour guide) and Sharonne (his Singaporean wife). When I had a bad case of diarrhea and fever, I stayed over at their house and I was touched by their hospitality! Remember Ly Vung and his sisters Melia and Dara were so adorable and loved Hi 5. Really glad he is alright after the hostage takers were caught. Relieved... hope he's not too traumatised by the incident.

Lizzie!

I just caught a lizard with my bare hands! It scampered and i chased, but my hands were just too fast for it! hahahahaha...
just when i caught it, it decided life wasn't worth living for and said goodbye to part of its body. its tail! the lizard may be sad and frightened but its tail was certainly in ecstacy. it jumped, wriggled, and danced for 5 whole minutes before it became tired.

I decided not to heed my bro's advice of flushing mr lizard down the toilet bowl for a swim or flinging it out of the window so that it can be the world's first flying house lizard. i found a jar and placed lizzie carefully into it. yes, my sis has named it lizzie. it's so cute! to prevent it from getting too bored, i reunited him with his dancing tail. now i've to find out what does it eat.

In case you were wondering, hey it's only a detached tail. it's like cutting your fingernail off and leaving it behind to dance. no . it definitely hurts to lose its tail. at least i think it will feel pain cos i do see blood. well... that's all for tales of a lizard.

let me think over if i should name it wolfgang and throw it out of the window.

WHY WOLFGANG?

After all that howard had done, she still chose wolfgang? what in the world was she thinking?
howard may not be extremely good looking but his actions were so sweet. i would have been touched.
the funny man would could always bring laughter. the creative genius who could think of new ways to impress.
the poet who wrote a long fairy tale that rhymed. the candyman who was so sweet.
he had put in so much emotion and thought into all that he did and it's such a pity that it all went to naught.
i really hope he can find the girl of his dreams soon.

AMK- the search for good food

The Search has begun. On hearing that AMK has 5 food centres, D. H. Hong has decided to take on the task of looking for food fit for a king. So together with his team, and armed with a video cam, he'll sieve out the bad and find 'thumbs up' food. Stay tuned for the latest updates!

Makansutra
Food! LIVE TO EAT OR EAT TO LIVE?
well... live to eat seems really stupid. make your life on earth so meaningless.
so i'll go with eat to live but eat with colour.

today's food review by d. h. hong-

Soba so good.
East to West Buffet.

Soba so good.
All Jap food lovers, this is the place for you to go. A soba specialty jap restaurant. When you reach the entrance, you are greeted by a long line of patrons waiting patiently for their seat in the restaurant. Large posters showing the health benefits of eating soba and the super friendly jap manager entertains you while you wait. The overly eager manager greets everybody, thanks all who have finished their meal, keeping his torso bent at 90 degrees as you walk out, speaks in jap to the jap patrons and speaks in fluent mandarin to all the chinese.

The food comes really soon after ordering so you won't have to wait long. Their entire menu is soba based. so you can have sashimi with soba, unagi soba, tempura with soba etc. I had a set which consisted of agedashi tofu with salmon, unagi and tempura soft shell crab and vege together with cold soba. The side dishes were good but I like the cold soba best. It's so cool, light and refreshing with seaweed and crunchy fried tempura flour bits which complement it. yummy! Well, they claim that soba is very healthy and it is a carbo which will not be converted to fat so you can eat it as much as you want! yea the next time i go there, i'll just have a plate of cold soba!

dessert was soba cubes eaten with brown syrup and soy bean powder. it was very interesting cos it came with a four pronged square shaped fork and a sieve ladle. so you dip the white cubes in the syrup and then into the powder and you get a chewy muah chee like dessert. but it's not heavy and it's healthy cos there is no oil unlike in muah chee. simple but addictive.

so the verdict.
service:4 munches
quality:4 1/2 munches
ambience: 3 1/2 munches
price: 3 munches

the restaurant is located opp spageddies, basement of paragon.

East to West Buffet
The hotel where it's located is no fantastic high class restaurant. when you enter, you'd think it's a budget hotel as the lobby is dark and the layout is definitely not modern. but let not the ambience affect the spread of food available. ok let me recall from memory. it has 4 major buffet spreads- WESTERN, STEAMBOAT, BBQ and ASIAN. western includes pizza, pasta, lasgne, lamb chops, sauteed potatoes, grilled salmon, grilled tomatoes, fresh oysters, cold prawns, mussels, salad, mushroom cream grilled cheese prawns, roast beef, pork ribs etc. steamboat- din really eat steamboat cos the other food were too good. just your normal steamboat stuff then. BBQ- chicken and mutton satay, chicken wings, lamb chop, stingray, sotong, baby lobster etc. asian- tempura, sashimi, nasi lemak, laksa, satay beehoon, crab, fried noodles, roast duck, roast pork, roast chicken etc. and for the sweet tooth there are choc eclair, ice cream, ice kachang, cakes, kuehs, bread and butter pudding, brownies and fruits. well ok not everything was fantastic, the pizza was terrible, pasta not very nice and the stingray tasted like ammonia. but the others more than made up for it. definitely worth your money.

verdict:
service: 3 munches
quality:3 1/2 munches
ambience: 2 munches
price: 2 munches (about 32 bucks)

it's located at garden hotel at balmoral rd.

sorry no photos. forgot to bring it today. til the next food review.
d. h. hong out.

Exams are over for now. But i dunno what to do. anything interesting i should take up?

Went to camp today, after the study break i took. Thought i had enough of sitting down, getting bum sores from all the studying. but my officers had nothing for us, jit and i. did some nonsense statistic powerpoint, explored a bit of excel. then we had nothing to do! so listened to jit talk about the crappy things he does like taking up an online course by some dubious (which he claims) universal life church and getting himself ordained as a priest. So if anybody needs someone to do marriage ceremonies or excorcism (yes, chasing ghosts away!), go look for jit. he also found out that he could buy himself a phd and get conferred a royal british title like count or duke for just £300. hahaha... things people do to pass time.

and speaking about passing time. time passed sooooo slowly today. after lunch, decided we shouldn't be chatting in front of the doctors while they worked so we planted ourselves in the library. thought we would be uprooted to do some work, but hours passed w/o hearing anything from the officers. most people would be happy to just slack, but i was itching to do something useful. you know, just get out to do something, run, move my body, anything. so just read my book til i was tired. took a nap til my body was sore. then went online til the library closed and it was time to knock off. wow... and nothing interesting planned after work. so just eat, watch tv and get fat. hope tmrw will be better.

YOOHOO! I'm back!

watching LOST now. gotta say it's quite exciting. the lead actor is a doctor. totally calm, professional, intelligent and cool.
shit man. what is that thing? a dinosaur? plane crash one thing. man eating monster another. what's next?!!!!

niwae... been studying for supps. gotta say supps was totally uackukablea! ok i knew more stuff cos i actually studied more this time but the questions were not that easy. most can be found in the notes but not so straight forward. a couple had less definite answers and one totally not found in the notes. so all of us just left that 10 marks question blank. RNAi. siRNA. can't believe they tested us on something that was mentioned in a video in lt but not in the notes. they actually set a more difficult paper for us! from the way i see things are going, it's as if they want all of us to repeat the year or get out of sch. now.. as heard from prof jeya, supposedly even those who pass will have to go for viva next week. sigh.. really hope we don't have to. for now, i'll just not think about it and be optimistic!

seem to have isolated myself from the rest of the world so much that i feel so lost now. didn't know what to do after my paper. fortunately, chanced upon the m2s playing floorball. alas, my lungs had to give up on me. couldn't even last 10 minutes of running. breathlessness due to narrowing and blockage by phlegm. anyone got a cure besides inhalers?
finally saw the married med couple. asrie was one of the m2s playing and he was the best. he ran and changed direction so fast yet the ball stayed close to his stick like it was glued. his shots were accurate and deadly too. hmmm.. maybe my sports comm can include floorball in the next intra fac but ban asrie from playing? haha...

then got a lift from janice the reckless to town. whoa... never have i been a passenger of a reckless female driver. she's even more hiong than the craziest driver i know-dong. hahaha.. speeding, changing lanes so quickly, making an old lady cross the zebra crossing so fast by driving close to her. only a keen mind, quick reflexes and pure guts can allow you to do that. that is definitely not me. i'm a hum chee driver. hahaha

so walked around in town alone. quite sian this gss. din see anything i need or what. except for 1 thing which i planned to get if i pass my supp. but that shall remain a secret. yea ate at some pasta bar in taka which wasn't too good. n home. wow... what a great way to celebrate the end of supp. or maybe cos there is the impending viva or repeating of year 1. we'll see... we'll see.

LOST just ended. will surely watch next week's episode.

Koh Tao. Fay's 21st. MUNUS. Meeting with Dean. what exciting events. just no mood to raconter.
supp in exactly 2 weeks. progress not too good. congested airway is making me breathless. sleeping alot.
attachment at hq ams begins next wed. hopefully, i'll have time to study if it was as slack as last year.
no more bad passes for me!