Bowling ....

It has been donkeys donkeys years since I last played bowling...

I used to play actively during my secondary school days as there is a bowling alley near my school during that time. Now, that entertainment centre has been soooooo rundown and being abandoned for many many years.

Since then, even moving to Poly, I hardly touched the ball even though my bro became so actively involved in the sport at that time and even competed very frequently.

Fast forward to about 6 weeks ago, my boss happened to book a time slot at the temporary makeshift 'bowling alley' at Velocity for the 40th International Bowling Competition. After donkeys years, this is the first time I touched the bowling ball again. Felt very awkard and just couldn't bowl as I used to do during the younger days... Well, rusty liao mah....

Anyway, coincidently, our association arranged for a bowling competition and my boss wanted to take part....and so all staffs are being roped in to be the members, reserves and supporters. But I need more supporters because being the 'cannot lose face' attitude, I gungho-ly filled in 10 supporters and now I still got NONE !!!!!!

So you come support me okay ?

Date : 06 Nov
Time : 1830 hours
Venue : Orchid Country Club

Whirlwind Week

After a whirlwind trip to Egypt and now I returned to face piles of work in office. I think I need at least another day or 2 to get settle down and continue with where I have stopped the week before.....

Egypt - a fascinating, enchanting and captivating country..... equally enough to put you off if you are not well prepared in certain aspects and such off guards are simply a turn off when touring in this countries...

Oh well, I shall get the pics sorted out by this weekend and keep you guys posted and jealous ! yak ... yak ... yak ...

My NEW Flat (bare)

Welcome to my (botak) flat ! It's a HDB 5-room flat @ 110 sq m.

I took the keys to my new flat last Friday, 28 . 09. 2007. This day is a good day for both of us, according to my mum.....both our chinese horoscope never clash that day's lunar date. Moreover, it's my mum birthday and so, 1 stone kill 2 birds....I will also remember when I got keys to the flat....

Hello.....a nicely vanished fire proof door and a fancy iron gate greeted us as we exited from the lift.... My parents-in-law said I got a 'condo' like door and iron grille...heehee....

This is the living room.... I got a SPACIOUS living room, invisibily joined together by the proposed study room which is wall-less at the moment. I intend to make it a study room area but will not make erect a wall to segregate into a room. Because I like the natural light coming into the dining area, through to the kitchen. Moreover, it's MY DREAM to be able to 'play' my computer and watch TV at the same time. So, I must make sure I achieve it this time....

But I got to trade off with tiny rooms, with a pathetic master bedroom. Our initial plan is to keep the room as it is but looks like I got to make 2 rooms into 1 now, given the MASSIVE things I have now in my old 3-room flat. There's no way I am going to discard a lot of things because most of them are collected over these years, specially for my this new flat. Haa haa !!!

I also have a tiny storeroom much to my mum's dismay.... (all mum loved HUGE storeroom). Contray, it can be a blessing in disguise as the bigger the storeroom, the more things I'm going to keep in there...quite headache too....it is going to be..... But I do find the kitchen small. I would loved to have a squarish kitchen instead of a long one. But anyway, I'm not going to do a lot of cooking so I guess it is fine. But I promised myself I want an oven the next time I have my own kitchen so I need to find space for it.

But I must say this 'made in china' flat is pretty well done up especially the toilets which I am quite happy with it. Not forgetting the doors and iron grille gate, the windows and the 2-in-1 taps all installed in the toilet sinks and shower rooms. I always like 2-in-1 taps like many 4 and 5 star hotels, where I can have hot, warm or cold water anytime I like !

Anyone, want to 'fatt choy' ? Don't you think my unit number is nice ???

Before, we left, some of the flats are already undergoing renovation and so we kay-poh kay-poh and went to peek at one of them. This flat actually erect a wall to separate the cooking area and the laundry area which I am quite impressed with the idea of the designer. Think I can adapt this and do some modification to suit my own design.