Hansel Portal

An outing @ Shokudo for Edmund and Yi Neng before they leaving for Australia to further their education! Nice food, price about $20 per person, very much depends on what you eat.

All the best in Australia!!

As mentioned it’s a small size trombone, I think it’s made for the kids. best of all it uses a trumpet mouthpiece! and according to my friend who is a trombonist, she said that its harder to get in the rite position as the slide is short to it’s rather hard to find the right spot for the notes.

ORD function a 9 + 1 course dinner held at Safra Jurong on 4th May 2010. Why plus 1? found an ant in the cold dish after almost finishing everything, so had a replacement. Ha ha.

held early this week, half happy half sad..

Happy -> ORD soon, Freedom soon, back to life soon, back to who I am, back to what I want.

Sad -> Wasted 2 years, learned almost nothing, achieved nothing, had a meaningless 2 years, missed a ton of opportunities.

Table no. 30

Best Armour unit 08/09

Will it matter after 10 years?

Well it’s a day of chilling out and getting the invitation of an old time buddy of 1999 till 2010 (11 years), James is getting married soon on the 16th May! Congrats James!! wishing you and wife, Xue Ni, 白头到老 (Bai tou dao lao) !! Thank you for the invitation! Had some ad-hoc baileys mint chocolate by the Yishun Dam in the early hours of 2nd May 2010. LOL.

Hwee Peng and James.

Keng Guan and myself.

APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO SINGAPORE INSTITURE OF TECHNOLOGY ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-11

Dear MR KOH ZHI REN HANSEL,
Congratulations! The Institute Admissions Selection Committee has approved your application for admission to the
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) to read the following programme(s) in academic year 2010-11 :
1 . B. Sc in Real-Time Interactive Simulation

Well, accepted to Digipen’s B. Sc in Real-Time Interactive Simulation as of above, last school to apply, 1st to get a place. Unsure to be happy or sad, sometimes more choices means more headache! Well shall still keep the options open till 1st Jun and see if other schools reply too.

Yes.. My Sony Ericsson C905 is dead! with a failed speaker where by I can’t hear the other party speak over the phone! so goodbye phone, traded in for a new HTC Legend, it’s a Android 2.1 phone with unibody design!

Weight:126 grams (4.44 ounces) with battery

CPU Processing Speed 600 MHz

5 megapixel color camera
Auto focus and flash
Widescreen photo capture
Geotagging
Connectors

HTC Widgets
Bookmarks, Calendar, Clock, Footprints, Friend Stream, Mail, Messages, Music, News, People, Photo Album, Photo Frame, Search, Settings, Stocks, Twitter, Weather

Social Networking
Facebook™ integration
Friend Stream
Photo sharing on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter
Video sharing on YouTube™
HTC Peep for twittering
Recommended Windows System Requirements

Special Features
Automatically lowers the ringer volume as soon as the phone is picked up
Mutes the ringer when the phone is flipped face down
Backs up certain data and settings to the microSD card automatically, such as SMS/MMS messages, bookmarks, and Wi-Fi passwords

Display
Type: AMOLED capacitive touch screen with pinch-to-zoom capability
Size: 3.2 inches
Resolution: 320 X 480 HVGA

Platform
Android™ 2.1 (Éclair) with HTC Sense

Storage
ROM: 512 MB
RAM: 384 MB

Internal GPS antenna
Google Maps
HTC Footprints™

Well it’s should be the last university that I’m going to apply this year after NUS and NTU i guess, spent the whole week at home preparing for all the documents that are need rushing out some video as well as and updated CV, squeezing my brain off to recall what I have done and participated in the past, running after ex team members for works that have been lost due to hard disk failure. Everything for applying the 3rd school.

Also, meantime rushing for MDA’s Media Education Scheme as much work as Digipen’s application, rushing for time and travel up and down to Gambit lab getting recommendation letter, and alias with Mr Lim to collect recommendation letter, truly running around Singapore! truly time well spent to prepare for future education.

Its an really awesome week this week! really pack, busy, meaningful, and its just great, probably the best week of the year! It’s so good that I almost forgotten that I am still serving army. 100% no regrets on spamming my 3 days off for next year away like this!

The week starts off with Console development @ Nanyang Polytechnic on 21 and 22. really great to see all the ex lecturers that are still around, Mr Quah, Ms Tan Siew Lan and some others! getting together with friends like Melissa, Shu Wen, Ren Hao, Gabriel and Adrian to code together again! and what impress me was that I am still able to code with all the shortcuts to compiling and running around the codes. And for eye candy, recorded Shu Wen’s “AAA” title game in making! =X

Next will be Gambit’s new game lab at 23rd level of shaw tower with an impressive view of the city, able to see esplanade, IR and many others. It sure be a great spot to see fireworks, F1 and so on.. Had a super full pizza + Ham + Hot Dog, and console games, card games, drinks, dominic’s nurf guns, and some urban ops in the office =X

And there’s my secondary school band’s chalet for the sec 4s that are leaving, really great to see them after so long, hardly able to go back ever since enlisted in army. Really had some fun there, Liang Rong and some others are still the same as when there are sec 1, still screaming, shouting  and playing. Although only get to see Benedict and Tian Hoe, and Tian Hoe have a girlfriend called Joanna *i think* all have grown up!

Then it’s my birthday on the 24th, nothing epic just simple dinner of  log cake, wine and ham at home with family in front of television, and count down to Christmas!! Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Well that’s all so far for this week 26th will be an ITE class  gathering @ Mr Wong’s place which should be another cool times with friends known during ITE, quite an anticipated gathering as we weren’t able to get together during Chinese new year early this year! oh well! it will be great anyway

Well just finish packing my civilian bag right after coming back from dinner at Saizeriya @ Liang Court with old time polytechnic buddies, really happy that able to have this dinner with them, felt really happy and excited about the Ex Wallaby 09 after dinner. Don’t know why! but you guys made my day! Thanks!

Its almost 7 hours to be at the airport, 11 hours to take off, 19 hours to reach destination, 22 days to return home and it just goes on…..

Taken too late! melissa and her boyfriend had left! Melissa!!! next time we shall take 1 more alright!

Bye bye singapore!! hello australia!!
Bye bye home!! hello kangaroo!!

Woot! I am so excited about this new gadget I got. Yea I know it not the latest SE Satio 12.1 mega pixel camera phone, but I have long wanted a SE cybershot phone since K800i period.

Spent nearly the whole wet afternoon at Toa Payoh with Wen Liang just to find a good deal for this 2nd phone with working, physical and price in mind. This was the last phone we hunt and was in the best condition!