Sandwich Making Competition

The EHS community members just love to involve me in all of their events. Today, we had this Sandwich Making Competition event and I also dont know how the hell I got involved in this event and worst of all, I was teamed up with Tien An (our loud speaker, Finance manager) together with Jenni. Nevertheless, me very onz. I just go ahead and take up the challenge. Anyway, its just for the fun of it.

After gathering ourselves at the canteen at 12noon, my task was to prepare all the utensils and the presentation (got to learn alot from my wifey) and in total, we had 7 teams to compete with.

Lots of curious spectaculars crowded around the tables to view and to cheer. 20mins later, all contestants were asked to stop and the Judges, our MD, Chern and Jenny, the nutritionist were ask to interview and taste the sandwiches which we made.

I personally think our presentation was the best, not that I'm thick-skinned but many had said so. Taste-wise, I think ours was the best too caused we used carrot chicken beast meat, cheese sausages and lots of veggies and fruits for our product and speaking of nutritious, ours was also the best caused we used no salt butter, whole-meal bread and no dressing nor sauce. Now tell me, aint we the best?

Me spreading the butter in the toast

Team mates in the progress making sandwishes

Ho! Result was announced shortly at 1pm. The winner was Lai Fun's team whom was also from IT. They won because they used homemade dressing, which was one of the criteria, which the judges were looking for. They walked away with $30 NTUC vouchers! WOW! We got consolation prize. Hey, no bad liao lah! :)

Nomore V-Power.

For most of the drivers, we all know that V-Power (from Shell) is the most costly petrol here in Singapore. Not only its the most expensive petrol of all, it also gives the abetter milage for your car and the most power and best of all, it cleans the engine when you drive. Because of the high cost, my company has just stopped us (the managerial level) from using it as one of the cost cutting measurement. Best of all, my HR did not even send out any memo regarding to this. WTF!

It makes me so embarrassed when I was filling my petrol at the woodlands shell petrol kiosk after work.


Had been using V Power since day1 for both my TT and the Cab. And now, I got to stick with 98.

This Bug is forsale

Rodney has been always wanted to take some good photos before he sells away his VW Beetle. So, he came over to our place that afternoon and I took him to some ulu places at Sembawang to take some cool shots for his beetle.


After shooting his bug, he told me that he already found a buyer for his bug - Himself.

The final episode for SFF (France)

It was the last episode for the Singapore Fireworks Festival for 2006 and we aint going to miss the world. With all our equipments, we walked from Ris Calton to Benjamin Shears Bridge to take the fireworks. We selected this location because I wanted some city skyline as the background rather than just the fireworks itself.

Quite a distance that we walked and when we were up there ard 7, the crowd was really bad. We hardly can see any space for our tripods. Luckily this chinese family able to squeeze out some space for us to place our tripods. We had a very good spot (middle of the bridge) where we could have a very good view of the entire city.

About 8, poor Jon came along. His dear wife dropped him at the opposite of the highway where he got to walked down the bridge, and came out from the other side of the bridge in order to join us. He was sweating all over. But the urge to take the good pictures aint going to stop him.

3 of us had a good view at the fireworks (tho its aint the best show but we aint complaining) and we are sure to come again next year.

Sunrise at Yishun Dam

Call us crazy but we are just wanna have fun with our Canon 30D. Me dragged aiai off the bed at 5.45am and we arrived at Yishun Dam just to capture those beautiful sunrise at the dam together with Jon and Aaron.

The beach was so beautiful when the ray shinning on the low-tide shore. Giving that glore on the sand. Daddy came by and he brought us to the inner side of the village where we saw old containers used as houses for the fishermen. Interesting senaries which we dont see on our daily lives.

After the photoshoot, together with Aaron, we drove to Kallang to have his favourite chee-chong-fun. Then we headed back home to take some rest so that we can continue our part 2 in the evening.

Friday Chillout at Changi Expo

We had our dinner at in-laws' place (always love mummy's cooking) before we pop over to our new kopi venue Changi Expo. Came to know this cool pub called Jazz Pub right at the middle of the expo. Some regular faces like Subbie, Chief, Ash all turned up for the kopi session and our new member, Jonzilla, was invited to come along too.

We left the kopi early as we had important mission to do. So we drove back home at 11pm and Aaron staying over at our place. Its time to get a set of clothes for Aaron to put in our guest room.

Want a free postcard?

Took this during the fireworks fest last Tues together with John, TeckLong, Edmund and Ben.

Download the original size: http://images14.fotki.com/v21/fileEO16/0e306/4/47447/3867812/IMG_4624.jpg

Dancing is always my passion

and till then, it took me to another level - Strip Dancing.





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Singapore Fireworks Festival 2006

Right after our silra home service that evening, we drove to Lawrence's office at UIC Building to shoot the beautiful fireworks by Italty. About 10 of the Silra volunteers had join in the fun including John (from vagsg) and Ben.

Lawrence was so kind of him to let out his office and his conference room for the bunch of crazy photographers - us (Teck Long, John, Edmund, Me and Ben) all squeezing through that tiny windows to get the best shots for our photography. Tho it was half blocked by the NTUC building infront, nevertheless, we had lots of fun and laughters eating pizzas, sharing the fun times which we had during the show during the fest at Silra and also our upcoming mooncake festival coming in Sept.

Time to rock Esplande again this coming Tuesday for another great fireworks photoshoots.

7th month celebration @ Silra

After weeks of planning, finally, its SHOW TIME!
Displaying lots little hampers, lightings, stage, buffet and AV system, all ready to rock and roll for our Lunar 7th Month Celebration for the residents of SilraHome.
Lots of prizes for the residents to bid and also lots of performance to be entertainned by the volunteers.

Yes, I was ready. Waiting patiently for my turn to come, which happened to be the last performer. When my name was called, I walked up to the stage and started to shake my boo-boo. O-yeah! Strip them all to the last piece. The audiances loved it and I like it! Ha! Everything went smoothly except my limps were almost giving away. After the dance, I almost couldnt walk. Went up to the meeting room with aiai and I dropped dead on the chair for some cool aircon. Mine.. what a dance.

S.H.E.

The 70s Dance

Aiai and Me (The Alex To)

Me doing the Alex To Dance

Prelude to the 7th Month Festival @ Silra

There will be a grand celebration for the 7th Month Fest at Silra home this coming Saturday and being one of the fest comm members, I have no choice but to volunteer myself to be part of the game. I will be impersonating Alex To, dancing along with the song - 脫掉
Which means, theoritically, I will be doing a strip dancing. Curious to watch me strip?
Come down to Silra Home this Saturday and check it out lor. heee...

A teaser picture for you.

Private Audi Gathering @ Marina South

We had our very own private audi gathering early in the morning at Marina South. Surprisingly, we had 12 members attending to this exclusive event. Thanks to Greenback for organizing it. We had the chance to see Stage 3 (more than 300 hp) A3 sportsback, the 2 RS4, A4 quattro avant and many more.

Portrait of Aaron Gong

Even a professional photographer got to start somewhere. I got my buddy to be my model and it all started in my very own studio - Karsoon Studio.

Model: Aaron Gong
Makeup artist: Karen Loh
Hair stylist: Karen Loh
Photographer: Karsoon

SBS Charity Bowl @ OCC

As early as 7.45am, I already at MINDSville (located at Yeo Chu Kang) home awaiting for the children from MINDS residents to get ready to board the bus to Orchid Country Club as we have a special bowling event for them. Its one of our RC charity event which we take the MINDS resident out to have fun in the bowling center and as well as donating the number of points which all players accumulated multiply by a faction of amount as a donation to the home.

9am sharp, we arrived at the center and all players including the MINDS were all line up at their own respective lanes. We started off right after our MD's roll off bowl (and it was a strike)!

The whole event lasted till 11.30am and I took the same bus back to MINDS together with the residents and back home with another event - our Saturday regular Silra Home activities.

Another lazy Sunday

After those facial sessions for Aaron, KimThye and James at our place, plus a DVD movie, it all ended up 3am. James went back home while Aaron and KimThye slept over at our place.
9am wasnt too early for everyone to wake up. Aiai got her doctors seminar and appointment at Sheraton while 3 of us went across the road to have our breakfast. Aaron was kinda disappointment as the CheeChoonFun stall did not open that morning. We all had prata instead.

Aaron drove us downtown and both me and KimThye carried on with our latte and cheeze cake outside Heerem shop. Reading Sunday papers and watching people walking by. Ohh...

10am, KimThye left for his Yoga class at Taka as for me, took a slow walk along Orchard road, not really into shopping but was eyeing for some interesting shots to take. Yep, I brought along my 30D and walked up and down across the malls. Gezz.. I do look like a tourist tho.

3pm, Rodney done with his golf and he came to fetch me at Paragon. Both of us went over to his condo as he was going to help me with my resume enhancement. He polished up my resume like it was so easy for him. Thats his ricebowl by the way. Being up at the VP level, he had seen much more resume than what I have done for my IT weekly report to my boss. Ha!

and of coz, I just couldnt help it with a couple of shoots in his house. One in the living room (kinda of untidy for a single-manhood) and one in his bedroom. The lighting was just perfect for a white environment like this one. Simple love the effect!

Kranji Family Day

Its our company event - Family Day and we were brought to Kranji for a good fun of educational tour in the Goat farm, Aero-green farm and telematches with the kids plus a good buffet lunch at the end. It was also a good opportunity for me to practise on my photog. Appointed by the organizer - TH to be the company photographer and here are some of the pictures which I had taken during the day.

Cute Baby Goats - Kits @ Goat Farm

Red Dragonfly @ Aero-Green Farm


Wild Flowers @ Aero-Green Farm

Fresh Tomatoes @ Aero-Green Farm

Asia Gardens


More photo can be found here
http://public.fotki.com/karsoon/sbs_-_family_day_to/

A little surprise for my Aiai

It was early Friday morning when the door bell rang. Aiai was still on the bed and she wondered who would that be. She wasnt expecting any courier service in this morning. To her surprised, she saw this at the door.


Love you, Always, my dearest!

Finally the course has ended

Wed 19th Jul marked the last day of my 8class course for my Basic Photography lesson by
Blackbox. It just seems like I took up the first class yesterday. So soon, it has come to an end. We were taught how to make our own photo album from scratch by using hard boards, blinders, sticking sheets and black papers. Ken also took time to go through all the photos that we took, the nightshots, Chinatown and the Zoo and explained to us whats the good/bad points for the photos. Tho its only 8 classes, but I really enjoyed every moment of it. Everytime when the class ended, I always look forward for the next one. I learnt almost everything you need to operate a SLR such as ISO, White Balance, Apeture, Shutterspeed, types of lens, use of tripods, composition, framing and all the way to how to make your own album, way too cool!

Now, my next question is .... should I go for the Advance?
Let me polish up my skill by taking more photos and will consider again.

My final fieldtrip - The Zoo

This will be my final fieldtrip, the zoo. Met up with Ken and all my other course mates outside the entrance. Before we entered to the zoo, Ken had a look at my assignment and he was rather please with my work. *Happy*

The morning was wet. It drizzeled abit and then came the hot and humid morning. Here are some of the highlights I took at the zoo. Much more difficult than those ones I took at Chinatown cause these animals aint static. They move!

More to view at http://public.fotki.com/karsoon/fieldtrip_to_the_zoo/

SBS Blood Donation Drive

This is the 3rd time I am organizing this special and meaningful event for my company. The Red Cross team came as early as 8am to setup the equipment and beds. But the nurses and the doctors came slightly late due to the morning peak hours.

This year, we targeted to hit 94 attendance rate. Can we make it?

Bearly! We have 92 registered, 79 turned up and 61 successful donor (me included)

Our RC chairman is buying us dinner next friday :-)

Audi Roadshow

Go the whole day with buddy Rodney. After sending aiai to the airport in the early morning (yep, she is flying to ShangHai again), I went straight to Rod's house to do our regular weekend wash&wax together. Spent our 3 hours of hard work in his condo doing up our cars, then we drove down to Raffles City to check out the Audi roadshow. It was kinda impressive where they had all the latest models of the audi on disaply, including the new A4 cabriolet 2.0TFSI.


We also checked out the new price for the new Audi TT 2.0TFSI and it is currently going at 183K for early bird promotion. Both of us were like jaw-dropping when we heard the price. I think its time for a group-buy!

A field trip in Chinatown

#1 - Pushing Cart

#2 - My Breakfast

#3 - Table Runners

#4 - Buddha Sculpture

#5 - Rows of shophouses and stalls.

James Birthday Celebration

Just a small birthday celebration for birdie James. 3 cars - 2 integras and my cab drove our way to Bamboo restuarant for a good feast there. We got ourselves the whole of second floor upstairs and seems like we booked the whole restaurant. After the heavy dinner, thats not about it as Aaron was dying for his Chee Chong Fun real bad! We went to Taman Pelangi hawker place to have his Chong Fun and also deserts. He contended? Hmm.. almost! He wants the 'red red ones' haha.


After the saga of JB, they all came to Rosewood for another round of desert - Aiai's long-an drink.

VAGSG alike Competition

Out of nowhere, Chewschews came out with this idea of putting the most vag alike face on the web and asking members to vote for the funniest photo. And after a few days of voting by members, we have the runner up and the winner.

The 2nd runner up - Broke Deck Moutain aka Hard Gay!

The 1st runner up - John Pole, volumn 1.

and our Winner - Big Cock Goes Karting