A Trip to the Super Zoo

Here comes the school holiday and brother decided to bring his whole family out to the zoo and asking me and mei to tag along. It was a hot bloody Sunday and we arrived at the zoo @ 2pm. Damn bloody expensive, 7 adults and we were charged for $120/- and without the rides somemore. The whole zoo was packed with families bringing their little ones. Nevertheless, we had a great time with brother & sister.

Met Aaron and Lynn at Bugis in the later part of the evening. Thanks to Aaron for the lovely Japanese meal and desert. Aiai got her maricure done up at Tip Top Nails, Icon for FREE !!!!
Oh yes.. tao hway again, to end the whole weekend episode.

Engagement Party for Rodney & Ally

Congratulations to Rodney & Allison for their engagement. A party held at Il Lido Cafe, Sentosa. They invited the Admin team of Vagsg and together with their other 60+ guests. To view more pictures of them, visit http://public.fotki.com/karsoon/rodneys-engagement-party/

Brotherly Love

I like this picture also. It tells me how close these brothers are and specially in such an occussion - Wedding Day.

Lonely man in thoughts

What can you tell from this picture? An advertisement piece or simply a snapshot?

6th month in Whitford

Time really flies when you are enjoying the good times. Within this 6 months, I have done the following projects/tasks for my company:

- Leased lines upgrade for both Hong Kong / Jiangmen offices

- Set up Disster Recovery Plan for Singapore office

- Complete IT Audit Findings

- Roll out Sharepoint Portal for AP offices

- Implemented Paperless and removed standalone printers

- Implemented Recyle Program for printer toners

- Implemented new password policies for AP offices

- Implemented paperless faxing and terminate old smart fax

So, boss.. when is my next pay increment? ;-)

I have turned BAD!

Mama says smoking is bad... Papa says smoking kills... and now, I am smoking just to feel HIGH

My best friend's wedding

Knowing this dude for more than 10yrs already and finally, he is tighting his knot. After so many years, Daniel found his love, Elizabeth.

Daniel and myself used to rollerblade together every weekend at East Coast Park and during the young days, Pleasure Dome was our favourite spot to party. Daniel is a sincere and helpful buddy which someone you can trust and lend a listening ear too.

04 March 2007, Daniel & Elizabeth made that vow at Fort Canning ROM center. We simply feel happy for both of them and wishing them blissful marriage and happiness always.

The Topless Babes

You just cant beat these babes !

A group photoshoot with the cab buddies at Riffles Range Road near bukit timah. What a sight!

CNY at Kampong

Every year is the same lah! Nothing special. Dinner at Kampong and giving ang bao to the little cousins of ours. Whats there to write about? I miss those days when I can still collect my ang bao from my uncles and aunties and go buy heaps of fire crackers and play with my cousins. When mid night comes, we will set up a gambling deck and start playing our black jacks. Love those days.

Eve of Lunar New Year

We were just done with our reunion dinner and the kids will begging us to bring them to Chinatown. We wanted to bring them last year but due to Val's chicken pox outbreak and thus we cancelled the program. But this year, we couldnt find any excuse not to bring the kids out.



Just look at their faces... kids just simple hate the crowd !

Pups at the Yishun Dam

This pups are just simply adorable. 6 pups and they all born on the Valentines' Day. Cool ah? You want one? Then you got to go see my Daddy as they are now currently under special care by the folks at the Yishun dam.

Birdies on the Charity Act!

Weeks of hardwork and minutes of glory. The Birdies have done it again. Thanks to Aaron and James for the chronography and without the support from Alison and Azmi, this performance will not a success. We did a hip-hop dance show for the residents in Silra Home for the Lunar New Year celebration.

Tiong Bahru Market

Since 1999, havent been there to makan already so today, before we drive to Vivo to meet Alison, we managed to get to Tiong Bahru Market to have our dinner there. We were lucky to get a carpark lot as it was packed with cars and its always a problem finding a lot there.

Had prawn noodles, pows, Chee Choo Fun and Carrot cake. This picture is especially for Aaron. Red red one..

An evening in Chinatown

Just like any other tourists, walk walk, shoot shoot a pic.. thats what a tourist do in Chinatown.

Had dinner with Jaslyn & Eugene at the famous porridge shop and later shopped around the Chinatown to get the early lunar new year atmosphere.

Garden Design Festival

All the world top garden design under one roof - Suntec. Its the last day of their exhibtion here and aiai get her family to come down to this once in every 2yr event in Singapore (this is the first). Seeing all this garden setup, really make one feel like in heaven.

At the end, I got myself 2 little pot of plant for my office.

We had our dinner at Surdonesia and met Jon, Shaan and his friends.

Yishun Dam Countdown Party

... 5...4...3...2...1....Merry Christmas !!!!!



We had a very special way of celebrating our Xmas. Arriving at the Yishun Dam at 6:30pm which the rain had just stopped. Daddy & his mates had setup this cosy place right at the downside of the dam where everything you need for a fun party, BBQ pits, tables, chairs, Hifi with Karaoke system, Party pops & balloons.

The beautiful view of the sea view at the plank walk

Let it snow, let it snow...

Lots of food & drink for the party-goers

The duets - Loving me, loving you

Even the kids were having fun too...

Wishing you a Merry Chritmas

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

Foodie GTG @ Keong Saik Road

Its another fun gtg with the guys (and gals) at kok sen coffee shop, 30 keong saik road.

We had stir-fried sliced fish with bean sprouts tiger prawn crispy noodles fried beancurd skin roll claypot yong tau foo roast port stir-fried with broccoli sweet and sour pork smoked duck with garlic bean paste dip har cheong kai think the winners tonite for many of us were the smoked duck and big prawn noodles . Will definetely bring aiai to try these food.

Ow Pa 2nd Bday Celebration in JB

Yeah mann. He still not done with his birthday celebration. He invited all the employees from Grex and Ganwins, Auntie Jennifer, Rose & Molly and our kuku too. This time, we had the dinner at New Lucky Restuarant (oh ya, my aiai's favourite eating place in JB). heee.

The funny part is... after his 2nd celebration for his birthday, then he realised that he is only 59 !!!

Starbucks Beware !!!

Dagan Cafe is hitting in Malaysia by storm! Stores after stores, outlets after outlets! The coffee taste so much better than Coffeebean or Starbucks. Its the very first coffee family in Malaysia which from plantation to manufacturing and to coffee brewing till the final product - a nice hot cuppa coffee or icy cold ice blended mocha. I hope we will have the coffee selling everywhere in Singapore soon. We will have a special corner for all the vagsg members. hehee

This is the latest outlet at Carrefour, Batu Pahat, right at the main enterance. Welcome!

Ow Pa's 60th Bday Celebration

We celebrated ow pa's 60th birthday at Ocean Restuarant, Batu Pahat together with Uncle David & Uncle Alan. Some big shots from the Malaysia Chinese Business Association. Food was good as usual. The first dish was already extra steamulation to your taste buds. It was the abalone with sharkfin. Followed by many more yummy food and the desert was birdnest, can you believe it? ;)

Despite with all these food, we wish our dearest ow pa, Happy Birthday and good health !

Kids simply love Christmas

Aiai got the kids some jigsaw puzzles & books for their Christmas pressies. You dont see them so excited when you ask them to go study! Kids are always kids!

Philips Shopping Spree

So nice of James to arrange this Philips Shopping Spree for all the birdies. For all the domastic appliances, everything go for 40% off. We met outside the Philips gate at 9am. Dashed like crazy and in the end, only knew that the showroom opened at 9.30pm. Everyone felt like killing James but we got to be cool coz we were there to save some bux! heee..

9.30pm, we rushed into the showroom and started to browse around. Me eyeing the 3head shaver and in the end, got more than we required to buy. We bought, the F1 shaver, 2 steam iron, 2 clock radio and a floor cleaning device (still dont know how it works) and ended up $400+. Viven was the biggest spender and her receipt read $800+. We were nothing as compared to hers.

After the Philips shopping, we crossed the road and went for prata brunch!

Vagsg is 5yr old!

5yrs of hard work running this forum and yes, it has been 5 solid years already.

Thanks to all the admin team members whom have brought the forum from zero to where it is now as an established car club with more than a thousand of members and more than 10 sponsors financially backing us up.

This year, we had our dinner at Changi Village Hotel which just right beside the pool plus the awesome changi beach view. Buffet dinner was delicious and the company was great. As usual, Quek was invited as our VIP and he also sponsored our lucky draw prizes. We had a very good turnout and we even managed to break even the cost.

More photo at http://public.fotki.com/karsoon/vagsg-dd-06/

Kim Thye & Becky be our guest

The Xmas tree has finally setup!
It has been there for weeks just hadnt have the time to do up the deco. So, this afternoon, drove to Causeway point and purchase the Xmas tree lightings and put them on, plus all the accessories. Doesnt it look nice?

Kim Thye & Becky came over to our place and had dinner with us. We had the traditional home made wine and soy souce chicken specially cooked by the great chef, Kim Thye. Simple but delicous.

After the dinner, 4 of us walked to Causeway point and do some shopping. I got 2 DVDs and one
was "See No Evil" by Christina VidalKane. Yummy thriller show with lots of bloody scens. Karen and Becky bought themselves some sports tees and Kim Thye got us some fruits for our hiking session tomorrow.
Best of all, we got 2 tubs of icecream from Gelare - Chocolate Overload and Cookie&Cream. Its Heavenly shiok!

Whitford Company D&D

You bet! Its our company D&D - Cruise to nowhere with the "Pirate" as the theme.
We just got to work for half a day on Friday and everybody left the office at 12.15pm. I went to have a hair cut at my regular hair stylist at JeanKit. 5.45pm, me and Aiai arrived at the HarbourFront and joined the rest of the colleagues and board the party ship. Its also my first time attending Whitford's D&D and my first time doing D&D on a boat. Its simply awesome! Herbert & wife joined our table and we got quite a prime view from all the happening performances at the stage.

Like any other company dinner & dance, MD would give a short speech, followed by the long service awards and some other technical awards. Games, lucky draws (yes yes yes, where were my new bird's luck), disco dancing, and the buffet food. Endless fun ended quickly at 11.30pm when the boat returned back to the shore. We had a great time and hope to attend many more D&Ds in Whitford.

Monster Training by Kim Thye

Its our first time going tracking in Bukit Timah Hill. We got Kim Thye, Becky and Alison to come along with us. Alison came to pick us up at 8.30am and then we arrived at Bukit Timah Hill at 9am where Kim Thye and Becky just arrived with their car parked.

I just put on my new Timberland tracking shoes and we were ready to rock the hill.

Startly, it was easy as it seems. Nice walking path with steep slope up the hill. Going up some hundred stairs and we reached the summit in less than 20mins.

But thats not it. Its just 10% of the whole jounrey. That was just some warm up. The tough ones were all those up and low muddy grounds and hundreds of stairs where my legs almost wanna gave up on me. Even Becky seems to be much stronger and energtic than me.

Thanks to Kim Thye. I almost puke after climbing the 250 stairs in the middle of the hill. This was just very mild as compared to Miri. I think if I go Miri, I will just spend the rest of the day relaxing at the beach and let those guys go have their fun in the mountains. heee...

After all those climbings up and down, finally, we came back to the finishing point. I just felt like I was a good lunch. We had a wash up and then we headed down to Bukit Timah hawker centre to have our lunch.

Last but not least, we all gave ourselves a good treat for a good icecream!

Taka Shopping Spree

Got a $150 taka shopping vouncher by attending the stupid Timeshare presentation by Marriott Vacation at Taka. We walked off after 1hr of sitting there pretending we were damn keen about the package. Infact, it was so expensive that nobody actually signed up for it. Everyone there was just to get the shopping vouncher and go.

So, we got our shopping vouncher and did some shopping. Since I have no tracking shoes for our upcoming Miri trip at the end of the year, so we went to look for a pair of good tracking shoes for me. Came across the Timberland section where they were giving 15% discount for all their items and I spotted this cool stuff...

Which orginally cost $250+ but after discount, its merely $160+. Plus a pair of shoes, I paid just $30. What a steal!

Later, met Bugzilla for Lunch at HK Central Cafe in Taka and then we headed straight to Silra home for our weekly voluntary work.

Dinner with Jas & Eugene

Din know people can actually got into argument in yahoo messager. haha. Anyway, we had a nice dinner with Jas & Eugene at the famous hangout place for MCF (My Car Forum). Those MCF guys will definetely know where I am refering. Pretty nice setups at the restuarant now and best of all, free parking.

After the dinner, we had our desert at Häagen-Dazs icecream at Bishan. 30% discount and you cant ask for more. Eat until my tummy can turn into a bouncing ball.

Boonie's Wedding

Attended Boonie & Martin's wedding banquet at Amara Singapore. Nice and cosy and love the super long walkway to the stage too. Food was fairly good too. 2 Tables of SBS consisting ex-SBS colleagues and it was a nice catch-up session with the fellow Sumitomo guys too.

Congrats to both Boonie & Martin and wishing you happily ever after.

I broke my record - Bowling

Its our company's bowling event and its also my first company event which I joined since my Whitford dayz here. Ok, being the sporty me, I have no reason not to join the event.

Office shuted at 3pm and everyone was at the Raffles Marina at 3.30pm and the game started at 4pm. I was put in lane 8 and was coupled with some pros. 3 games and totol to be the final score. My first game was 79 and I just knew its gonna be a bad day for me. Suddenly, I felt the power was within me and I scored 140 for my 2nd game and followed another 139 for my 3rd game. Wohh.. never in my life, I scored so well. Hhehee.. So damn happy!

Is your Sunday like mine?

Here are my activities on 19 Nov 2006

9am - 12pm Wash & Wax with Jon at my carpark.

1pm - 3pm Went to Vivocity to get my O2 phone for 1 to 1 replaced. Told you, its a smart phone! :)

4pm - 5pm Ate something at Causeway Point

6pm - 8pm Vacuum/mop the floor. Changed bed sheet. Wash and dry clothes/bed sheet.

9pm - 11pm Set up Xmas tree and iron clothes

11:30 pm showered and called Aiai good night

Got my new Stealth!

Always wanted to get a new starhub line to be one of the Hub Club to save on my monthly bills from starhub. Just then, my company is giving all managers a 50% sponsors for all PDA that allows us to read/send our corporate emails. (dont know if its good news or bad).

So, as early as 9am, I was at the Starhub Plaza Sing to queue for a good number and to get the new O2 Stealth but after waiting for 1.5hr for their shop to open, the staff told me that very limited stock available right now. The nearest branch will be at Vivocity.

Called up ow mei to meet me there so that I can use her old K700i to trade in and give her my N70. We both had our lunch first at the foodcourt (as usual, packed like crazy on weekdays in Vivo) while waiting for my queue no to be called.

After like 2 hrs or waiting time, finally got my hands on the new Stealth. Some dont like the rubbery feel on the unit but I love it. Its like its wearing the condom casing. :P

Met Rimei & the gang for dinner at HK Cafe @ Novena.

Where our 5th D&D gonna be

Its thurs evening. The rain had just stopped and 4 of us proceed to recee our upcoming Vagsg annual D&D location at Changi Village Hotel along Netheravon Road. Its one of the finest hotel outside city zone and yet holding its fine quality and lifestyle for its customers. Highly recommended by BlueGti as he always hold his corporate events over here and thus we able to get very special rates from the catering director, Irene. She was so nice to brought us up to the 8th floor where the pool was. Overseeing the whole horizon of Changi beach and the evening sky was just so perfect to hold our event over here. Now, we just need to sort out the date before we launch our promotion.

Vagsg Mega GTG

Photo by Jonzilla

As early as 6am in the morning, both Jon and myself were already up washing our cars at the Rosewood. We just want our steeds to look at its best on the once-a-year Mega GTG event. After the wash, we headed down to Newton Circus to meet up with the Central Convoy team at 8.30am. We got the largest convoy team as compared to the East and the West. The CAM dudes also joined us in the convoy and that made us more than 15 cars in that morning drive. Both Jon and I took the lead and we spilt them up into 2 groups.

The convoy was really cool. Up the AYE highway and exit out from Marina South and we were also the first team to reach the main carpark. But very soon, the other convoy teams had also arrived. With all the 60plus cars to arrange for the formation for photoshooting wasnt easy at all. Thanks to the admin team plus some helpers over there, we managed to get the formation we wanted in about a hours time.

For more pictures... take a tour at http://public.fotki.com/karsoon/vagsg-mega-gtg-06/

A day with the CAM guys

CAM (Club Audi Malaysia) guys drove down, in 4 Audi, to Singapore for 2 events. The Singapore Motorshow and the Vagsg Mega GTG. I was the host for their trip in Singapore by bringing them to makan, SimLim Sqaure, Motorshow and of coz, to the Vagsg GTG.

Ow Ma Birthday celebration

Spent a very nice family dinner at one of the Chinese Restuarant at Danka Bay. Its a family dinner celebration for Owma's 60th birthday. I always love such a family dinner. Make me feel that the family value is so important.

After the dinner, we took a stroll along the bay. So much like walking along Sydney Habour, minus the temperature. hee