. [a] . [b] . [c] . [d] .

Lost. Sadded.

Yi Sedol (B) vs Gu Li (W)

Lol. The betting system at eweiqi just shows it all. At the start it was more or less 50-50. At 50 moves, it became tilted to Black at 85-15!!

HAHAS GOGO HWAITING YISEDOL

WHEEE 吴清源 IS COMING TO SINGAPORE ON 1 MARCH!!!

Went to my uncle's shop again today. Spent many hours in the lorry, sleeping. Lol.

Finished all the nametags for the available names. Some YC, all the exco, most of the guests. And a highlight: Go Seigen (Wu Qing Yuan), the chief judge.

Look forward to the arrival of the 2 finalists as well as the renowned Master of Go.

Daniel, his sister and I went recceing Sentosa today. Met at 10.20 (I was late, as usual, cos I didnt hear my alarm at 7.50 and instead woke up at 9.) and took a cable car over. Glass cabin was super not worth it . Don't ever EVER try it, its just an extra 6 bucks to turn the opaque floor translucent-transparent plastic thingy, so that you can look underneath the cablecar and stare into the ocean. Super big waste of money.
After everything I called the cablecar hotline for corporate bookings; for 20+ tickets for SWA it costs $10 per pax, excluding admission to Sentosa.

Went to Cineblast. I didn't think it was that great: it was just sitting in this chair, buckling up then watching a movie which you sort of "participate" in by being the rider. No water no whatsoever, all that happens is that your seat jerks around and leans forward backward rightward leftward everywhere, together with the movie (its 3D, you get this pair of glasses). Quite boring, would have preferred simply 3D movie (its pirates now) but we didn't watch it. Cineblast and 4D Magix are all not suitable for the elderly and the weak at heart (lol imagine old Mr Ing taking this ride). So now we have it up tentatively, with Butterfly Park and Insect Kingdom as an alternative. Images of Singapore would be nice too (we didn't go).

Next was lunch at Underwater World foodcourt. There was only chicken rice and chicken cutlet rice or noodles available. Price range $6-10. AND THEY CALL THIS A FOODCOURT?!?

Checked out prices of Underwater World and the "fish-bite-leg" thingy (this term was coined by Daniel). We believe the guests are that rich to just spend on this luxury.

Took the luge-and-skyride at Imbiah Lookout after that. NICE! Its a MUST-GO to almost everyone who goes Sentosa!

Anyway thats that for Sentosa. We took the cable car back to Harbourfront.

Duck Tours package: $450+ for 1 entire Duck (31 pax). Cheap, considering the normal price: $33 for an individual adult. Meaning around $1000 for 30 people!

Oh and anyway, congrats to JIEHUI, JIEHUI'S FATHER MR KWA, ZILONG, WENJUN AND ZHENGLI (whos that) for successfully upgrading dan!

And condolences to FCC and all the high dan people who always had such a great handicap. If not for that handicap you would have won most of your matches. Try again next year (;




Lol. I just realized I've been accessing the sentosa website for like 5138 times this year. And its only February.

Sigh.. Seems like I'm not really suitable to be some "main judge" or "sole judge". I'm too benevolent perhaps. The rules just don't seem fair: why does a walkover win (or a win where your opponent was absent) mean 5 points out of the maximum 10 points you get for a normal victory? If you win 5 games and your next opponent absents himself, doesn't that garantee you only to be able to achieve 55 points, which is just 5 points short of the minimum for a 1D to raise dan to 2D? The system simply shows so many loopholes all over.

Xingwei and I were arguing over whether Kinokuniya (Takashimaya) was bigger than Popular (Bras Basah Complex, all 4 levels of Popular). My hypothesis: Popular is bigger. Xingwei: Kinokuniya.

Any votes? Hahas

and I'm the judge for the Dan section at tomorrow and the day after's Dan Upgrading Tournament.

Hopefully I won't screw it up. The rules are uber complicated as it already is.

Ahh.. I think the problem with CBox is simply the type of layout used. I am using this table layout where the main table "box" changes its content via layers of [div] and [/div] which were hidden originally. Its some javascript function which helps in changing, and I don't really understand it but just edit it accordingly. Other blogs which also use this layout (all table layouts seem to have to use this javascript function thingy) also encounter this problem with refreshing in cBox.

So that means it isn't MY problem with my html skills. Its just the refusal to accept javascript content. So next time I make a template, its either I'll just make a div template or I'll not use CBox as its tagboard. TA!

There is something really wrong with my coding, although I can't discover it. Everything seems correct, all opening tags have been ended, but why doesn't the cbox auto refresh?!? Haiz...

Naruto 436 and Bleach 346 are out! Hahas both the main characters Naruto and Ichigo seem at their wit's end; as if they're out of hope anymore. Most probably Ichigo will go into a state of transformation or whatever as usual and then later learn some new skill or maybe his father enters battle? Naruto's case doesn't seem so hopeless though...

But still, Naruto is much more interesting than Bleach. Bleach is tooooo slow already.

I've been designing the lanyard today. Seems fine now. Hopefully the elders will approve.

And I will change a template soon. But most probably only after Ing's Cup.

CONGRATS LEE SE-DOL ON WINNING GULI AND WINNING NONG SHIM CUP!!!

Haha my "idol" won. That's his first appearence at Nong Shim Cup and he won 2 games consecutively to achieve the team champion :D

Anyway today was actually my first day this week that I spent not a single moment at SWA. Monday I went printing invitation cards then met Mr Tan then went to DHS to teach weiqi. Tuesday I went to my uncle's shop then went SWA to edit introduction on Ing's Cup (to be printed and sent with invitation cards). Wednesday I collected invitation cards, bought envelopes, went Bukit Timah Hill to meet Tahan juniors then went Bishan to make phone calls to invited guests, before writing their names on the invitation cards. AND TODAY I JUST SPENT ALL THE TIME AT MY UNCLE'S SHOP!!!

Scm and I went to my uncle's hardware shop to borrow a belt sander. o.O whats that? [wikipedia] A belt sander is a machine used to sand down wood and other materials for finishing purposes. Random orbit sanders combine almost the speed and aggressiveness of a belt sander, with the ability to produce a finer finish than that available from a standard, slow speed, orbital finishing sander.[/wikipedia]

He left after lunch, borrowed the belt sander and bought a pvc pipe and kangaroo enamel paint. Its for some sort of time-wasting thing of his, he's trying to make this excalibur sword thingy from the latest anime series by Type./moon.

Delivery of some pvc pipes at Lorong K Telok Kurau or something like that, at Joo Chiat area. First time I ever heard of some Lorong K. Hahas.

Went SWA Bishan in the evening. Hsien-Yu was there, mugging for this GMAT for applying to finace engineering NTU. Anyway I just spent some hours there editting the introduction of ING's Cup.

YAY FINALLY the invitation cards have been sent for printing!! That signifies the end of a huge part of the job for me. YAY :D:D:D

And I learnt today that we must come up with another banner design (welcome banner) and landyard design (for officials, both int'l and local, and players) for the competition. Haiz... But welcome banner should be easy. All I need now is the translation of "To Weiqi (Baduk) Officials and Players, WELCOME TO SINGAPORE!!!" to Korean. Anyone knows?

Took mrt/bus to DHS today. Reached there just on time at 4pm. Damn weird, today again there was really little students (5). Hahas so that means the school is just spending money to teach 5 students. But I'm not complaining anyway.

After DHS I walked to Kallang MRT, stopping at some busstops on the way to check out the bus guides and buses available. Then I took 980 home. The entire journey, including walking to Kallang, took 2 hrs. Thats damn long and damn sian. I think I'll ride bicycle next time to DHS.

Finally. I spent 3 hours yesterday night editting this template which I had come up with in sec 2/3 (2004/05). Don't ask me what keiichi means, I think its just the name of the character/the anime she appeared in. Had some headaches with the background/table codes where the background in the table with words just wouldn't show up! Luckily there were some available templates online where I could go to learn/kope some codes from. If you want, go to here for some nice templates as well as their codes.

Wow. Art by Greg Martin is really cool. My desktop wallpaper now is this "pheonix revisited" piece done by him. Go to artbygregmartin.com for more information about his artworks (abstract/scifi/photos).

Yesterday afternoon was spent mostly in Bras Basah Complex. Visited almost all the art shops there to enquire about the price and types of fancy papers the have available. The printer which my mum's friend recommended, Colordoc, was really helpful. Even though they closed at 3pm, they were still "open (unlocked)" until 5+, such that even after I broswed through all the shops available in BBC AND couldn't find any satisfactory paper material, I could still go to Colordoc for advice. In the end they told me to cross N Bridge Rd to this shop "Fancy Paper" just beside "Great River Book Co (长河书局)". Hahas the fancy papers they sold were simply much cheaper than Popular/ Art Friend/ Sagacity/ etc. $.30 per piece of fancy paper at 260gsm, $.15 per piece of tracing paper at 90gsm, 5% discount for bulk. Next time go there le :D

Hansiong doesn't seem to like the currently chosen design for banner. Its this red-yellow gradient background one, and he prefers this chrome-white gradient background one (which is similar to the invitation card ). So we held a ballot at SWA yesterday, with results of 3 votes for each design! Argh. Anyway the red-yellow one (he refers to it as the lion dance design) should be easily accepted by the elders at ING/SWA. So its fine larh.

Dinner with Yangls and Minyi and Hansiong and Wenjun at Hansiong's favourite QQ. But I didn't eat as I would have had steamboat later at my aunt's house. So we just talked and talked and talked, mostly just "interviewing" Yangls regarding him and weiqi. Like one question was "do you ever find weiqi boring?", and Yangls's reply was something like "cannot help it its my job already". So that means it doesnt mean anything even if you find weiqi boring or you begin to dislike it, even professionals sometimes find it that way too!

A happy St Valentine's Day to one and all.

I spent this year's vday in Bras Basah Complex, with tonnes of fancy paper and art paper as my "partner". Weird huh.

INVITATION CARD DESIGN GOT DISAPPROVED BY MYSELF AFTER PRINTING OF ONE SAMPLE. This means shit for me. Need to re-design.

ARGHHGHRGH

I WANT TO BUY AND READ "Aidmheil".
This book is by some Jessica Stover. The description sounds imba. Go to here to find out about Aidmheil.

OKAY THE INVITATION CARD AND BANNER DESIGNS FOR ING'S CUP IS FINALLY FINISHED AND FINALIZED AND COMPLETED AND SENT. IT IS TIME FOR PARTY!!!

Latest Naruto and Bleach are out. Naruto is interesting, Bleach is getting boring. Tite Kubo of needs to know that he/she is getting too long winded with Bleach, with today's 19 pages simply reaving how imba Ulquiorra, when unleashed, is. Haha the Kurosaki is typically the weak and stupid main character who grows stronger throughout the series, yet never seems to win any of his opponents. Rather a common theme for adventure/journey genre manga series.

Went delivering grey PVC pipes at Kingsmeade Rd (coronation) and 5 ladders at Yewtee NTUC today. Frustratingly we met with troublesome incidents at both locations.
At Kingsmeade, we couldn't find 54 Kingsmeade Rd initially!!! After reading through the long long description for the project for construction of a new house at the end of Kingsmeade Rd (that house was demolished liao and doesnt look like a house) we realized that WAS 54 Kingsmeade Rd.
At Yewtee, NO STAFF FROM NTUC WAS PRESENT!!! It was at this new NTUC at the basement of Yewtee Point, the new (and uncompleted) shopping centre beside Yewtee MRT. Present only were the contracters and workers building NTUC. And the biggest problem was THERE WAS NO MOBILE RECEPTION at the basement of that shopping centre. Yet. So we went downstairs with 5 ladders, they said cannot receive, went upstairs with the ladders, called boss who said go downstairs and tell them just pass to this guy cos no PO, then went downstairs with the ladders, they said no NTUC staff present, all were contracters and workers only, went back upstairs again with the ladders, called boss who said he will call Ah Lei, went to dabao coffee and yewtiao, went back, received call from Ah Lei who gave me Martin's number, called Martin who said he was on his way, went to wait, finally Martin came, went downstairs with the ladders and Martin, put the ladders in this room after going through piles and piles of debris and whatnots, and finally we left. Waited for approximately 40 minutes. Zzz

Notice that around half of the above paragraph concerning Yewtee NTUC was typed in one single sentence. Although the sentence structure sucks.

Finally had dinner at home with mum today. For the past few days, it was either that she came back late or I was caught up at SWA designing the card and banner. And throughout today's dinner, I was again, ultra busy with calls to important persons in charge of Ing's Cup overall, taking notes on what to edit later after dinner, and this and that. Sigh...

My brother came back from orientation at NYJC today. They don't have CAMPFIRE!!! HWACHONG ORIENTATION IS SO MANY TIMES BETTER THAN NY ORIENTATION! WAHAHA. Anyway today is the last day of orientation for J1s. Hope you guys enjoyed orientation. Try not to sleep too much (ironical that this is coming out from the sleeping king in 07s6b) during tutorials and lectures. Hahas.

Looking forward to Tahan juniors training their juniors. Shall be joining them for either Hort Park or Bukit Timah Orientation Hike. See ya!

Again I woke up late. But this time I heard my alarm. Only on its 3rd ring (20 minutes after the first). And I went back to sleep. Until the 4th ring. If this continues, I think I will totally screw NS and BMT. And my platoon mates will like, hate me? For giving them all the punishment for being late for morning PT. Sigh...

Haven't had time to change the template yet, even though I already have ready ones for use. I think I'll be using a Lee Sedol template so some editting will be involved as it was originally meant to be a "fan club" template. Hahas yea I was (and am) that crazy.

Just realized today that carrying a laptop in a sling bag while riding a bicycle to work isn't all that fun. The bag is heavy and keeps dropping to your lap, and then your legs keep knocking into the bag as you cycle... Really troublesome. Next time I'll use a backpack. The double-sling bag.

Singapore's finally raining more frequently!! 2 days ago, yesterday and today. But I shouldn't be able to cheer as I turned into a wet chicken due to the rain on tuesday. Wet like crazy. Had to go home to shower before I went to SWA lol.

I think I can start to celebrate already, as I believe that the invitation card design has more or less been finalized!! Was having headaches translating the invitation message to chinese, so I went baidu to search. And today, Dr Chan made the whole thing so much easier by telling me where to write what and what! So now its done! Just waiting for the final verdict.

I'll put the format for the chinese invitation here, in case anybody needs it (or in case I need it in future and lost the original on my computer)
《×××女士/先生：
兹定于日、时
在地点
举行活动
届时敬请光临。
此致敬礼！

××协构
发送时间》

To HC J1s '09, HAPPY CAMPFIRE TOMORROW!!

Is there any way to ensure I wake up by myself? I was late for work at my uncle's hardware shop again today, having not heard my alarm even though it repeated itself so many times, and I think I even "woke up" half way in my sleep to switch off the alarm. 

Went teaching weiqi at Dunman High School today. Set off 1.5hours ahead of time so as to not be late, and I reached there 50 minutes early. So I wasted that 50 minutes walking around the school compound (it's small la.) and bought a Pokka Lemon Tea ($1 only!! so cheap!) and saw their indoor volleyball/basketball court (wah!! cool!). Lesson started at 4. Lion dance drums disturbed us throughout the lesson. 

Lessons at DHS was weird given that I don't really understand what I should be teaching at all!! Is it supposed to be beginner classes? Or Intermediate classes? Also there was simply too little students to teach normally, so it became more of a "friend friend tutor-research" session. 3 people at the start!! That's rather fresh. So in the end we just played handicap games, and towards the end of the session I just gave some people who came in later tutorial regarding what exactly was weiqi. I think it was rather successful?

Cycled to DHS from Serangoon, and back home from DHS. Route passed by Tanjong Rhu Bridge (nice!), National Stadium (construction -.-), Balestier, Boonkeng, Thomson. Dead tired when I got home.

I've been busy designing Ing Cup related items these few days. Banner and invitation card. Invitation card is very tedious, as I had to translate text from English to Chinese. Sigh... Spent hours on it and its not finished yet. Also I really need someone fluent in Chinese to evaluate my translated text. Got the format from Baidu.com, really weird. Don't really understand some of the words they used LOL.

Ahh its late already. 1.51 AM!!! And I need to wake up early tomorrow again, for work at my uncle's place. Sigh...

Hello world!

This is osh. Osh has decided he will try to maintain a blog!! (to pass time)

Firstly, regarding the title of the blog. Osh is my initials, and thus I have put all the words I can think of which has "osh" in it into my title :D
Osh kosh is the brand of a children's wear.
P.osh is a type of a really nice cookie!! (and I'm a cookie monster!! ARRGH!)
Gosh! is a exclamatory tool.
Roshan is a "boss" character in Defence Of The Ancients (DotA)

TADA! OSH!!!

Right now I'm using some really normal template I borrowed from blogger. I shall change to my own (self-created) when I have time. (since I just started this blog at 1.35AM, 11 Feb 2009)

Haha. Link me if you come accross this page! :D

osh kosh begosh
P.osh, oh-gosh! rosh(an)
19 yrs old
aitongprimary
hwachong
hcwq chairperson
swayc recre coord
pure singaporean

cheerful most of the time
sometimes serious
tendency for violence
"immune to pain"
previous line comes from "eh sai tahan!"
weiqi fanatic
designer

HNG hikaru no go
KGNE kimi ga nozomu eien
ST shingetsutan tsukihime
HS hellsing
STUDIO GHIBLI
EL elfen lied

零
恋爱ING
少年
知足
夜曲
一生绝望
Lilium
this list is outdated

AT LEAST 3Bs 1A FOR 'A's
GET INTO ARCH@NUS
rep sg in wagc
rep in asiangames 2010
stronger at weiqi
master photoshop?
become a chef
stand on the peak of everest

Lost. Sadded.

Yi Sedol (B) vs Gu Li (W)

Lol. The betting system at eweiqi just shows it all. At the start it was more or less 50-50. At 50 moves, it became tilted to Black at 85-15!!

HAHAS GOGO HWAITING YISEDOL

WHEEE 吴清源 IS COMING TO SINGAPORE ON 1 MARCH!!!

Went to my uncle's shop again today. Spent many hours in the lorry, sleeping. Lol.

Finished all the nametags for the available names. Some YC, all the exco, most of the guests. And a highlight: Go Seigen (Wu Qing Yuan), the chief judge.

Look forward to the arrival of the 2 finalists as well as the renowned Master of Go.

Daniel, his sister and I went recceing Sentosa today. Met at 10.20 (I was late, as usual, cos I didnt hear my alarm at 7.50 and instead woke up at 9.) and took a cable car over. Glass cabin was super not worth it . Don't ever EVER try it, its just an extra 6 bucks to turn the opaque floor translucent-transparent plastic thingy, so that you can look underneath the cablecar and stare into the ocean. Super big waste of money.
After everything I called the cablecar hotline for corporate bookings; for 20+ tickets for SWA it costs $10 per pax, excluding admission to Sentosa.

Went to Cineblast. I didn't think it was that great: it was just sitting in this chair, buckling up then watching a movie which you sort of "participate" in by being the rider. No water no whatsoever, all that happens is that your seat jerks around and leans forward backward rightward leftward everywhere, together with the movie (its 3D, you get this pair of glasses). Quite boring, would have preferred simply 3D movie (its pirates now) but we didn't watch it. Cineblast and 4D Magix are all not suitable for the elderly and the weak at heart (lol imagine old Mr Ing taking this ride). So now we have it up tentatively, with Butterfly Park and Insect Kingdom as an alternative. Images of Singapore would be nice too (we didn't go).

Next was lunch at Underwater World foodcourt. There was only chicken rice and chicken cutlet rice or noodles available. Price range $6-10. AND THEY CALL THIS A FOODCOURT?!?

Checked out prices of Underwater World and the "fish-bite-leg" thingy (this term was coined by Daniel). We believe the guests are that rich to just spend on this luxury.

Took the luge-and-skyride at Imbiah Lookout after that. NICE! Its a MUST-GO to almost everyone who goes Sentosa!

Anyway thats that for Sentosa. We took the cable car back to Harbourfront.

Duck Tours package: $450+ for 1 entire Duck (31 pax). Cheap, considering the normal price: $33 for an individual adult. Meaning around $1000 for 30 people!

Oh and anyway, congrats to JIEHUI, JIEHUI'S FATHER MR KWA, ZILONG, WENJUN AND ZHENGLI (whos that) for successfully upgrading dan!

And condolences to FCC and all the high dan people who always had such a great handicap. If not for that handicap you would have won most of your matches. Try again next year (;




Lol. I just realized I've been accessing the sentosa website for like 5138 times this year. And its only February.

Sigh.. Seems like I'm not really suitable to be some "main judge" or "sole judge". I'm too benevolent perhaps. The rules just don't seem fair: why does a walkover win (or a win where your opponent was absent) mean 5 points out of the maximum 10 points you get for a normal victory? If you win 5 games and your next opponent absents himself, doesn't that garantee you only to be able to achieve 55 points, which is just 5 points short of the minimum for a 1D to raise dan to 2D? The system simply shows so many loopholes all over.

Xingwei and I were arguing over whether Kinokuniya (Takashimaya) was bigger than Popular (Bras Basah Complex, all 4 levels of Popular). My hypothesis: Popular is bigger. Xingwei: Kinokuniya.

Any votes? Hahas

and I'm the judge for the Dan section at tomorrow and the day after's Dan Upgrading Tournament.

Hopefully I won't screw it up. The rules are uber complicated as it already is.

Ahh.. I think the problem with CBox is simply the type of layout used. I am using this table layout where the main table "box" changes its content via layers of [div] and [/div] which were hidden originally. Its some javascript function which helps in changing, and I don't really understand it but just edit it accordingly. Other blogs which also use this layout (all table layouts seem to have to use this javascript function thingy) also encounter this problem with refreshing in cBox.

So that means it isn't MY problem with my html skills. Its just the refusal to accept javascript content. So next time I make a template, its either I'll just make a div template or I'll not use CBox as its tagboard. TA!

There is something really wrong with my coding, although I can't discover it. Everything seems correct, all opening tags have been ended, but why doesn't the cbox auto refresh?!? Haiz...

Naruto 436 and Bleach 346 are out! Hahas both the main characters Naruto and Ichigo seem at their wit's end; as if they're out of hope anymore. Most probably Ichigo will go into a state of transformation or whatever as usual and then later learn some new skill or maybe his father enters battle? Naruto's case doesn't seem so hopeless though...

But still, Naruto is much more interesting than Bleach. Bleach is tooooo slow already.

I've been designing the lanyard today. Seems fine now. Hopefully the elders will approve.

And I will change a template soon. But most probably only after Ing's Cup.

CONGRATS LEE SE-DOL ON WINNING GULI AND WINNING NONG SHIM CUP!!!

Haha my "idol" won. That's his first appearence at Nong Shim Cup and he won 2 games consecutively to achieve the team champion :D

Anyway today was actually my first day this week that I spent not a single moment at SWA. Monday I went printing invitation cards then met Mr Tan then went to DHS to teach weiqi. Tuesday I went to my uncle's shop then went SWA to edit introduction on Ing's Cup (to be printed and sent with invitation cards). Wednesday I collected invitation cards, bought envelopes, went Bukit Timah Hill to meet Tahan juniors then went Bishan to make phone calls to invited guests, before writing their names on the invitation cards. AND TODAY I JUST SPENT ALL THE TIME AT MY UNCLE'S SHOP!!!

Scm and I went to my uncle's hardware shop to borrow a belt sander. o.O whats that? [wikipedia] A belt sander is a machine used to sand down wood and other materials for finishing purposes. Random orbit sanders combine almost the speed and aggressiveness of a belt sander, with the ability to produce a finer finish than that available from a standard, slow speed, orbital finishing sander.[/wikipedia]

He left after lunch, borrowed the belt sander and bought a pvc pipe and kangaroo enamel paint. Its for some sort of time-wasting thing of his, he's trying to make this excalibur sword thingy from the latest anime series by Type./moon.

Delivery of some pvc pipes at Lorong K Telok Kurau or something like that, at Joo Chiat area. First time I ever heard of some Lorong K. Hahas.

Went SWA Bishan in the evening. Hsien-Yu was there, mugging for this GMAT for applying to finace engineering NTU. Anyway I just spent some hours there editting the introduction of ING's Cup.

YAY FINALLY the invitation cards have been sent for printing!! That signifies the end of a huge part of the job for me. YAY :D:D:D

And I learnt today that we must come up with another banner design (welcome banner) and landyard design (for officials, both int'l and local, and players) for the competition. Haiz... But welcome banner should be easy. All I need now is the translation of "To Weiqi (Baduk) Officials and Players, WELCOME TO SINGAPORE!!!" to Korean. Anyone knows?

Took mrt/bus to DHS today. Reached there just on time at 4pm. Damn weird, today again there was really little students (5). Hahas so that means the school is just spending money to teach 5 students. But I'm not complaining anyway.

After DHS I walked to Kallang MRT, stopping at some busstops on the way to check out the bus guides and buses available. Then I took 980 home. The entire journey, including walking to Kallang, took 2 hrs. Thats damn long and damn sian. I think I'll ride bicycle next time to DHS.

Finally. I spent 3 hours yesterday night editting this template which I had come up with in sec 2/3 (2004/05). Don't ask me what keiichi means, I think its just the name of the character/the anime she appeared in. Had some headaches with the background/table codes where the background in the table with words just wouldn't show up! Luckily there were some available templates online where I could go to learn/kope some codes from. If you want, go to here for some nice templates as well as their codes.

Wow. Art by Greg Martin is really cool. My desktop wallpaper now is this "pheonix revisited" piece done by him. Go to artbygregmartin.com for more information about his artworks (abstract/scifi/photos).

Yesterday afternoon was spent mostly in Bras Basah Complex. Visited almost all the art shops there to enquire about the price and types of fancy papers the have available. The printer which my mum's friend recommended, Colordoc, was really helpful. Even though they closed at 3pm, they were still "open (unlocked)" until 5+, such that even after I broswed through all the shops available in BBC AND couldn't find any satisfactory paper material, I could still go to Colordoc for advice. In the end they told me to cross N Bridge Rd to this shop "Fancy Paper" just beside "Great River Book Co (长河书局)". Hahas the fancy papers they sold were simply much cheaper than Popular/ Art Friend/ Sagacity/ etc. $.30 per piece of fancy paper at 260gsm, $.15 per piece of tracing paper at 90gsm, 5% discount for bulk. Next time go there le :D

Hansiong doesn't seem to like the currently chosen design for banner. Its this red-yellow gradient background one, and he prefers this chrome-white gradient background one (which is similar to the invitation card ). So we held a ballot at SWA yesterday, with results of 3 votes for each design! Argh. Anyway the red-yellow one (he refers to it as the lion dance design) should be easily accepted by the elders at ING/SWA. So its fine larh.

Dinner with Yangls and Minyi and Hansiong and Wenjun at Hansiong's favourite QQ. But I didn't eat as I would have had steamboat later at my aunt's house. So we just talked and talked and talked, mostly just "interviewing" Yangls regarding him and weiqi. Like one question was "do you ever find weiqi boring?", and Yangls's reply was something like "cannot help it its my job already". So that means it doesnt mean anything even if you find weiqi boring or you begin to dislike it, even professionals sometimes find it that way too!

A happy St Valentine's Day to one and all.

I spent this year's vday in Bras Basah Complex, with tonnes of fancy paper and art paper as my "partner". Weird huh.

INVITATION CARD DESIGN GOT DISAPPROVED BY MYSELF AFTER PRINTING OF ONE SAMPLE. This means shit for me. Need to re-design.

ARGHHGHRGH

I WANT TO BUY AND READ "Aidmheil".
This book is by some Jessica Stover. The description sounds imba. Go to here to find out about Aidmheil.

OKAY THE INVITATION CARD AND BANNER DESIGNS FOR ING'S CUP IS FINALLY FINISHED AND FINALIZED AND COMPLETED AND SENT. IT IS TIME FOR PARTY!!!

Latest Naruto and Bleach are out. Naruto is interesting, Bleach is getting boring. Tite Kubo of needs to know that he/she is getting too long winded with Bleach, with today's 19 pages simply reaving how imba Ulquiorra, when unleashed, is. Haha the Kurosaki is typically the weak and stupid main character who grows stronger throughout the series, yet never seems to win any of his opponents. Rather a common theme for adventure/journey genre manga series.

Went delivering grey PVC pipes at Kingsmeade Rd (coronation) and 5 ladders at Yewtee NTUC today. Frustratingly we met with troublesome incidents at both locations.
At Kingsmeade, we couldn't find 54 Kingsmeade Rd initially!!! After reading through the long long description for the project for construction of a new house at the end of Kingsmeade Rd (that house was demolished liao and doesnt look like a house) we realized that WAS 54 Kingsmeade Rd.
At Yewtee, NO STAFF FROM NTUC WAS PRESENT!!! It was at this new NTUC at the basement of Yewtee Point, the new (and uncompleted) shopping centre beside Yewtee MRT. Present only were the contracters and workers building NTUC. And the biggest problem was THERE WAS NO MOBILE RECEPTION at the basement of that shopping centre. Yet. So we went downstairs with 5 ladders, they said cannot receive, went upstairs with the ladders, called boss who said go downstairs and tell them just pass to this guy cos no PO, then went downstairs with the ladders, they said no NTUC staff present, all were contracters and workers only, went back upstairs again with the ladders, called boss who said he will call Ah Lei, went to dabao coffee and yewtiao, went back, received call from Ah Lei who gave me Martin's number, called Martin who said he was on his way, went to wait, finally Martin came, went downstairs with the ladders and Martin, put the ladders in this room after going through piles and piles of debris and whatnots, and finally we left. Waited for approximately 40 minutes. Zzz

Notice that around half of the above paragraph concerning Yewtee NTUC was typed in one single sentence. Although the sentence structure sucks.

Finally had dinner at home with mum today. For the past few days, it was either that she came back late or I was caught up at SWA designing the card and banner. And throughout today's dinner, I was again, ultra busy with calls to important persons in charge of Ing's Cup overall, taking notes on what to edit later after dinner, and this and that. Sigh...

My brother came back from orientation at NYJC today. They don't have CAMPFIRE!!! HWACHONG ORIENTATION IS SO MANY TIMES BETTER THAN NY ORIENTATION! WAHAHA. Anyway today is the last day of orientation for J1s. Hope you guys enjoyed orientation. Try not to sleep too much (ironical that this is coming out from the sleeping king in 07s6b) during tutorials and lectures. Hahas.

Looking forward to Tahan juniors training their juniors. Shall be joining them for either Hort Park or Bukit Timah Orientation Hike. See ya!

Again I woke up late. But this time I heard my alarm. Only on its 3rd ring (20 minutes after the first). And I went back to sleep. Until the 4th ring. If this continues, I think I will totally screw NS and BMT. And my platoon mates will like, hate me? For giving them all the punishment for being late for morning PT. Sigh...

Haven't had time to change the template yet, even though I already have ready ones for use. I think I'll be using a Lee Sedol template so some editting will be involved as it was originally meant to be a "fan club" template. Hahas yea I was (and am) that crazy.

Just realized today that carrying a laptop in a sling bag while riding a bicycle to work isn't all that fun. The bag is heavy and keeps dropping to your lap, and then your legs keep knocking into the bag as you cycle... Really troublesome. Next time I'll use a backpack. The double-sling bag.

Singapore's finally raining more frequently!! 2 days ago, yesterday and today. But I shouldn't be able to cheer as I turned into a wet chicken due to the rain on tuesday. Wet like crazy. Had to go home to shower before I went to SWA lol.

I think I can start to celebrate already, as I believe that the invitation card design has more or less been finalized!! Was having headaches translating the invitation message to chinese, so I went baidu to search. And today, Dr Chan made the whole thing so much easier by telling me where to write what and what! So now its done! Just waiting for the final verdict.

I'll put the format for the chinese invitation here, in case anybody needs it (or in case I need it in future and lost the original on my computer)
《×××女士/先生：
兹定于日、时
在地点
举行活动
届时敬请光临。
此致敬礼！

××协构
发送时间》

To HC J1s '09, HAPPY CAMPFIRE TOMORROW!!

Is there any way to ensure I wake up by myself? I was late for work at my uncle's hardware shop again today, having not heard my alarm even though it repeated itself so many times, and I think I even "woke up" half way in my sleep to switch off the alarm. 

Went teaching weiqi at Dunman High School today. Set off 1.5hours ahead of time so as to not be late, and I reached there 50 minutes early. So I wasted that 50 minutes walking around the school compound (it's small la.) and bought a Pokka Lemon Tea ($1 only!! so cheap!) and saw their indoor volleyball/basketball court (wah!! cool!). Lesson started at 4. Lion dance drums disturbed us throughout the lesson. 

Lessons at DHS was weird given that I don't really understand what I should be teaching at all!! Is it supposed to be beginner classes? Or Intermediate classes? Also there was simply too little students to teach normally, so it became more of a "friend friend tutor-research" session. 3 people at the start!! That's rather fresh. So in the end we just played handicap games, and towards the end of the session I just gave some people who came in later tutorial regarding what exactly was weiqi. I think it was rather successful?

Cycled to DHS from Serangoon, and back home from DHS. Route passed by Tanjong Rhu Bridge (nice!), National Stadium (construction -.-), Balestier, Boonkeng, Thomson. Dead tired when I got home.

I've been busy designing Ing Cup related items these few days. Banner and invitation card. Invitation card is very tedious, as I had to translate text from English to Chinese. Sigh... Spent hours on it and its not finished yet. Also I really need someone fluent in Chinese to evaluate my translated text. Got the format from Baidu.com, really weird. Don't really understand some of the words they used LOL.

Ahh its late already. 1.51 AM!!! And I need to wake up early tomorrow again, for work at my uncle's place. Sigh...

Hello world!

This is osh. Osh has decided he will try to maintain a blog!! (to pass time)

Firstly, regarding the title of the blog. Osh is my initials, and thus I have put all the words I can think of which has "osh" in it into my title :D
Osh kosh is the brand of a children's wear.
P.osh is a type of a really nice cookie!! (and I'm a cookie monster!! ARRGH!)
Gosh! is a exclamatory tool.
Roshan is a "boss" character in Defence Of The Ancients (DotA)

TADA! OSH!!!

Right now I'm using some really normal template I borrowed from blogger. I shall change to my own (self-created) when I have time. (since I just started this blog at 1.35AM, 11 Feb 2009)

Haha. Link me if you come accross this page! :D