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...