New Boots!

In virgin condition... Brought them for AU$49. I really have no idea if it's expensive or cheap... But they fit... So it's good!

Had to leave my other pair of boots in Singapore... Because they are so soiled... I can't be bothered to clean them in order to bring them over to Perth...

Pizza Overload!

I went crazy and brought 3 pizzas from Dominos... This is called a pizza-carving...

Hawaiian... Must have...

Cheese...

Toni Pepperoni!

These photos are dedicated to Chris, Azrul, Wong, Ted, Jason, emo medic, hairy indian medic (go shave your chest hair la Mani!), Yaolong, and all the other guys who shared many a sleepless nights and pizzas together in camp...

Tonight... I eat them all!

Flies!

Something weird happened this morning... Woke up to find flies all over the place!

Killed them all! And have to wash the whole kitchen to get rid of the insectide... LOL!

Match Day...

Lose again... 3-0... Haha...

Taped 2 ankle... Attended to 2 injuries... Not too much work! Yippee! Sport Trainers are happiest when they don't need to work!

Did warm up with the team again... I look at an organised warm-up as a psychology weapon... When a team is warming up together properly... It's like a show of force... Telling your opponent we are ready! Sadly... The opponents are more ready then us! =x

Next week we will be playing away against UWA... Location WAIS... Will be a great match!

Looking forward to training on thursday... Lots to learn... Lots to learn... As the head coach said... "You're 22! I'm 50! I have loads of experiences!"

You don't get much stars in Singapore...

The first thing I noticed about Perth's night sky is the number of stars in the sky... I don't know why... But you don't get much stars in Singapore...

I like looking at the night sky... Just a weird habit of mine... Looking at the vastness of it all... You get drunk in it... =P The cold still air at night... Makes everything so calm and peaceful... Nothing to worry about... Just the sky and I...

Suddenly felt like takin photos of the stars to show my friends... I sat at the backyard and fumbled with my camera... In the middle of adjusting my camera's setting... The sky flashed blue... I turned to see a trailing light race across the sky... Ending in a small red dot... It was the first time I saw a shooting star... It was beautiful... Lasted less then 5 second... But etched in my mind forever... Made a wish... Hehe...

Personality Traits...

Come come... Yimian wanna do some self-reflection... Gonna list down some of my personality traits... I guess they can be viewed positively and negatively... Oh well... And well... This is my self-reflection! What I think makes me... Me! If you disagree... You can have your own opinion... Doesn't really affect mine...

I am... Emotional Stable

I seldom panic when facing problems... I am calm... I think and react accordingly... I guess this is something i developed from my cycle-touring... Being alone, I have to be calm... Because there is only me to save myself!

I am... Self-Reliance

I don't need you to survive! Thank you very much! I enjoy aloneness... Aloneness is not loneliness! I like reading and cooking... Two things I can do on my own... I have no problem finding solutions to my own problems... I also have no problem finding solutions to your problems! =P I hope this self-reliance also translate to me being reliable... And as much as I value aloneness... Friends are always and very much appreciated!

I am... Determined

I am driven to achieve my set goals... I have almost always pushed aside obstacles in life and moved forward... I don't give in and up easily... Some people call me stubborn... But determined sounds better!!!

I am a... Procrastinator

If I can do it tml... Den I will leave it till tomorrow... I tell people it's more exciting this way... Seriously I'm just lazy... Until the dateline stares at me... I go slow... The fact that I'm blogging instead of doing my assignment is a sign of me procrastinating... =P

I am... Socially Clumsy

I'm not good with body language... So please don't ask me to read your mind... If you are unhappy with me... Tell me... I step on people's toe quite often because of this... Really... I don't mean to... I'm just bad at it! I'm also shy... I don't go around making friends... But once I marked you as my friend... I won't let you disappear!

I like... Attention

Dex once told me I am an attention-seeker... I tried to be protective... But I guess it's true... I like the spotlight to be on me... I hope the light is positive! But sometimes the attention I got is negative... This also explains why I spam my friends with my blog... =P

I am... Open-minded

I believe that as long as I step into any situation with an opened-mind... I will learn and benefit from it... There is lessons worth learning from every places... And I am not going to lose out by keeping a closed-mind!

I am... Random

Can randomness be a personality trait? I am random... I think non-linearly... And non-circularly... I ask seriously weird questions to my friends sometimes... I am the needle in the haysack... I'm not asking you to search for me... I'm just saying I'm not a hay! I think I'm vital to every group... Because I usually have a totally different and totally random opinion!

I am... Lincentric

Because the World should rotate around me... Because nobody is better then me... Because one of me is more then enough... Because... Seriously... Don't take this one seriously...

This is my hair after 4 and a half hour of washing dishes... I also look like I wanna rip you into a million pieces...

Culture Shocked!

Went down to the club for my attachment...

Had fun today... Conducted a short 15 minutes warm up with the team... Threw in some plyometric works too... Continue the rest of the evening working with the goalkeeper... And standing around waiting for something to happen... =x

After training... Went into the clubhouse for a beer... Haha! Beer and football.... Nice mix? Then I really realised I'm in a different country...

There was this blonde topless bombshell selling raffle tickets! In 5 inches heels and a red miniminiminiskirt... It was a moment of weirdness... You don't get topless blondes going around selling raffle tickets in Singapore... =x

Looking forward to sunday... Home game against Southern Spirit... Hopefully the team will bounce back from their 7-1 lose to Fremantle United last week... Hahaha...

Que Sera Sera...

I don't take much photos of myself... Someone told me to take more...

This is how I looked like when I came back from Korea... Was my first overseas trip alone... 2006... Was 19 then... I remember spending a long long time convincing my mum to allow me to go on this trip... Didn't tell my dad that I was going solo until the day before my departure... He didn't talk to me for the rest of the day... =x

In the end... I have to admit I didn't enjoy the trip to the fullest... I found myself calling my mum every single day to talk to her... The fact that I was in Korea is sheer madness on my part... I can't speak korean... Can't read korean... Can't even read the menu in the restaurants I went to! Only visited 2 tourist destination... And spend most of the rest of the trip surviving...

But I did survive! I made it... All 600kms of it and everything in-between Busan and Seoul! Coming back to Singapore was a feeling of great relief above everything else... This will always remain the last crazy idea of my teenage life...


And this is the photo I took when I was on the plane back from Japan... Same bicycle... Same jacket... Same old me? 2 years passed between the 2 trip... In between I finally gotten my diploma (retained for 1 module... =x)... Passed my driving (after failing numerous time... =x)... Completed my NS... And did 1 year of higher education!

Survival was not the question this time... After Korea, I know I can. I booked my lodging beforehand this time... I spent a little more time planning for fun... I visited alot of beautiful places and enjoyed as much good food of Japan as I can... My trip preparation was however quite haphazardly done... I forgot tools... I forgot reserve ration... And I forgot what else i forgot... The weather was hasher... The route was longer... And I haven't cycled much for the last 2 years...

Before going to Korea, I cried in the departure hall before I boarded the plane... I was emotionally confused... It was a mix of fear and more fear! This time it was difference... Because as I set on the plane coming back to Singapore... I cried... Definitely not fear this time... I was happy I did it... I remembered all the places I went to... The people who helped me along the way... The great food I had! The feeling of despair and impossibility I have at some point of the trip... And then destroying all those feelings at the end of the day! Things don't always go my way... But I will overcome them... Whatever confidence the trip to Korea has given me... The trip to Japan reinforced... Greatly...


Barely 1 month after coming back to Singapore from Japan... I found myself on another flight again... This time to Australia... This is no short trip of 2 weeks... This is the long one...

2 months and 8 days passed since then... I'm not doing too badly I guess... Got a part time job washing dishes (because more money = more fun! =P)... Found a supervisor and an agency for my work experience attachment... Did decently for my mid-terms... Enjoying the pace of life... The people i meet... The place I go to... And enjoying the food I cook!

Not every day is spent with joy... Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here... Some days I wake up with despair... I look out the window... And all is unfamiliar... Growing up in a concrete jungle with high rise buildings everywhere... Joondalup is really flat! The bus don't run frequently here... Miss one bus and you can wait for an hour! Suddenly I'm no longer a racial majority... But a minority! Realised the importance of my mum... Because she's not here with me!

At the end of the year... When I board the plane back to Singapore... I wonder what I will look like... =)

This is no Small Spider...

And it was climbing up my curtains...

Frustrated!

I'm currently 849 words into my 1,200 words paper on anger, aggression and sporting performances! Under the frustration-aggression theory... A build-up of frustration leads to aggression... In other words... If I dun release my pitted up frustration... I'm going to destroy my laptop! So I decided to blog... Today's topic is... Yimian's top 10 babes... In no particular order! Lalala... Photos stolen from all over the net... =x

Ueto Aya... Saw her in 'Attention Please!' and 'Install'... Is still jealous of the little boy in 'Install'... To understand why... Just go watch the bloody movie...

We start off with Eikura Nana... First saw her in 'Proposal Daisakusen'... Some weird J-drama... Next watched her drama 'Dance Drill'... Which is totally stupid... But got Eikura Nana! =x She gives off a totally sunshine-girl feel... Oh... And she plays a mean instrument called the shamisen real well too!

Joanne Peh... First noticed her in 'Happily Ever After' where she co-starred with Elvin Ng... Would like to mention that this show will forever leave a bad taste in my mouth because... THEY KILLED THE AH BENG WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD WANTS THEM TO BE TOGETHER! Thank you Mediacorp... Oh yeah... The above photo is stolen from ajollyaffair.wordpress.com... Which is Joanne Peh's blog... Which has very pretty photos of her... Lalala...

Michelle Chia... What show she acted in.... I also forgot le... Don't care... She's a babe... That's why she's here... Kick me! Photo stolen from benacg at http://www.flickr.com/photos/11999198@N06/... A very beautiful... Well taken photo...

Rui En... Also forgot what show she acted in already... Don't care... I like can already... She's tomboyish... Again... Don't care... I like can already...

Nagasawa Masami... First watched her in 'Crying Out Love in the Center of the World'... Disc 1 is with Natalene... Disc 2 is somewhere in my place... In other words... Nat still can't watch it! Will always remember her line in 'Crying Out Love in the Center of the World'... "Can you feel my breast?" She's also the lead of 'Proposal Daisakusen'... But I was paying more attention to Eikura Nana...

Ha Ji-Won... 'Sex is Zero' is her first show I watched... Watched it with Natalene in a chalet... Next watched 'Love So Divine' in a DVD-Bang in Korea...

Takashi Sorimachi's wife... Nanako Matsushima... First saw her in 'GTO'... Next in the murder-thriller 'Ice-World'... Oh la la... Apparently she and Takashi Sorimachi met on set and started off their romance from there...

Felicia Chin... Forgot what show I first saw her in le... This is her infamous vitagen ad... If you know what it is infamous for... Good for you! If not... Too bad... Either way... She also give off the sunshiny vibes... Teng How had the chance to meet her as a calefare in 'Honor and Passion'... Lucky bastard! Bastard!

Jeon Ji-Hyun... Every guy must have fallen in love with her after watching 'My Sassy Girl'... Right? Right? LIE TO ME! Her performance in 'Il-Mare' is outstanding... 'Windstruck' is well... Bad... I also happen to have a poster of her on my wall... Sad to say... The wall is in Singapore...

Final listing... 4 Singaporean... 4 Japanese... 2 Korean... Which tells you that I don't watch Hong kong or Taiwan dramas and movies... On the other hand... I watch too much Japanese and Korean shows... Which is 1 of the reason why I ended up cycling in Korea and Japan... No ang moh... Don't know why... =x

Ok... Back to filling in the other 351 words to complete my 1,200 words paper... Which is due in about 5 hours... It's more exciting this way... =P

Pan-fried Salmon...

Salmon at $38 per kg from IGA... Supposed to be "skin-on" salmon... But skin got struck to my non-stick pan... So no more skin...

ECU Exercise & Sports Science practicum t-shirt... Suppose to wear it during my attachments... If nothing goes wrong... Will be starting my attachment at Hamersley Rovers Soccer Club, as a sports trainer with it's Football West Amateur Premier Division team... Hohoho...

Hamersley Rovers Soccer Club

Located at Carine regional open space... Hamersley Rovers Soccer Club plays in the amateur premier league of FootballWest...

It's a nice pitch with no bare spot, a little brown in this photo due to the lighting...

In other news... I am now officially a Sizzler dishwasher! For the rate they are paying... Why not? =P

Easter Sunday! House Full of Dogs!

Woke up to a house with more then 1 dog this morning... This is Hugo... Hugo is... Huge... Hugo is a bullmastiff! Lucky for Moko... Hugo is a gentle dog...

Olivio... Pug... 13 years old... Small stouty dog...

Moko and Hugo comparing sizes...

All three together!

Nat! Your scenery shot!

Went down to a SSA's beach and BBQ event... Good to meet up with other Singaporeans studying in ECU... Good clean fun... No photo coz I was too busy jumping around and bbqing...

Leave the event earlier to go for an attachment interview at Hamersley Rovers Soccer Club... Looking to do my attachment as a sports trainer cum assistant coach there... Hopefully it will work out and the school's coordinator will give the go ahead for this attachment... Took me a lot of emailing to find a club there's interested in what I can offer... And I'm looking forward to be part of the team at Hamersley...

Fremantle Street Arts Festival!

Program... The Fremantle Street Arts Festival is a celebration of busking and street performances... Bringing acts from around the world to the port city of Fremantle! Went down with Yuri, who I smsed at 0500hours... =x

Got Nadia to drive me out to the train station because I was running late... Thanks Nadia! Upon reaching the station, noticed that I forgot my ATM card... And I have no cash on me... In the end exchanged the S$50 for AU$34! Totally... Not... Worth... It...

PopEyed! An Australian acrobatic duo pretending to be Russian! A real display of muscular control and acrobatic flexibility from this two... My favorite!

Because my fish and chip is bland and boring... You can look at Yuri's lunch of beef burger instead! And because Yuri is shy... All you can see of her is her hands! Oh well...

The Blackstreet Boyz... Dance-up comedy routine...

Jardu! The Magic of India! All the way to Perth from Sydney... His real name is Andrew something... His magic is routine... But his jokes and comic timing is excellence!

Yuri went home before this act because she was tired... I stayed on to watch 2 more acts...

Ayers Rock Surf Lifesaving Club... Local act from Fremantle itself... Nothing fancy here... But still pretty enjoyable...

Port of Fremantle, as the sunset and I went home...

Is Me Sec Sch Photo!

Nostalgic...

For 2 years, we were 1 class.

This photo is taken in 2001. GreenRidge Secondary School. The story for this class concluded in March of 2003 as we came back to school once more to collect our 'O' Levels, and then we separated for good. Someone once told me that the friends you made in secondary school are the most precious, that statement rings true. On the day I leave Singapore for Perth, I had my family and a group of some of my closest friends from secondary school.

Secondary school is the pivot point of life. We stepped in at 12, innocent and stupid, and stepped out at 16, less innocent but still stupid. In between losing our innocence, we grew taller, bigger and hairier in more place then one!

GreenRidge was never recognized as a good school, and likely never will. We produces the majority of the delinquents within the estate, we were known as trouble-makers, law-breakers, discipline-problems. Some of us take pride in that. Our discipline master called us incorrigible on a daily basis (which was not very helpful since some of us don't even know what's incorrigible!). We were no angels, not even the fairest in school deserve a halo. We were no devils too, a pity everyone gets judged.

Take a look at the photo above. 6 years since we formally parted. Each and everyone of us made a choice and took a different path in life. Today we are nobody, every single name listed there, nobody knows. One day, each and every one of us will be somebody somewhere. Some will end up rich, some strive for fame, some will go on and live their life to the fullest, some may end up criminals, and some will be content to be have a special place in another's heart. We are young, we are constantly moving. Where we will be, only the future knows.

Some of us hated the school. Some of us loved it with our heart. Most of us were in for the ride! Lame as it sounds to me at 12, still the same 10 years on. The school's motto never did leave me.

From Each His Best

And I would mine too.

Good Friday...

Today is Good Friday... The Easter Long Long Long weekend... Good Friday... Easter Saturday... Easter Sunday... Easter Monday... Also start of my term break... Mwahaha...

Make curry today...

This photo is dedicated to Sharon in Sydney... Don't you wish you have some Prima Taste Pre-mix?

Nadia and friend painting the fence... A nice deep blue...

Mako taking a shower... Wet dog!

Moko is a very popular feature of this blog... Not hard to understand why!

Fish & Chips!

Basa fillet from Coles... Egg from Coles... Bread crumbs from Coles...

Can you see the fish?

Final product...

Mid-Term Test...

Yup... It's mid-term test week... Yup... I got 2 papers to take... But studying is boring... Star Wars is better!