ALMOST SHI SHAN YAO

today i went to twin's house to play mahjong.. overall won money, (chips) $4.20. but i wasnt top winner! ugh. the top winner was $4.60 or so, cant really say who cos that seat got several ppl play before (halfway they switch)


BUT BUT. SOMETHIGN TRAGIC HAPPENED.

I ALMOST MADE SHI SHAN YAO!!!



LOOK SO NICE MAN. (theres an extra useless tile at the right end i didnt include it in the picture)

AND THE NEXT TURN I DREW A ONE BALL.

ZOMG. MEANS JUST WAITING FOR NAN FENG. (the wind)

THEN GABS WON LIKE IN 2-3 TURNS LATER!!
SOME NUB 2 DAI WIN SOMEMORE.


omgomg it's so tragic la. in case you dont know, 'shi shan yao' (in english known as thirteen unique wonders) is THE RAREST win in the game of Mahjong, and also the hardest to build (obviously)
You need 1 and 9 of every suit, the 3 dragons and the 4 winds. And one other tile that is the same as any of these (i.e. a pair)
It's almost impossible to build this hand, because you have to zi muo everything (self-pick) and cannot take from other people.

THen when i started out i had 2 dragons and 3 winds and 1, 9 and 1 of different suits. So i went for it.. and the next 5-6 turns i think i drew 3-4 of what i needed .. so i decided to go for it.
Then.. when i got the 1 ball i almost heart attack.. cos just need nan feng to win.
but.
zzz.

it's like a once in a freaking lifetime thing..it's really like only if you're fated to get it then you will.. i mean, you gotta draw all 14 tiles on your own! it's like 0.00001% probability!
and i came THIS CLOSE. ONE TILE AWAY. ZOMG.


SIGHHHHHH. MY SHI SHAN YAO.

you are invited

nice nice nice nice nice? i design one. hahaha.


Anyway yea, joel's having a birthday BBQ this coming sunday, 1st June, and it'll be held at Simsville (gabriel/christabel's house) !!
It's gonna be super fun and awesome cos.. I say so! and it's joel's 21st!! that's like the biggest milestone you can have in life!! adulthood foooo!

If you know how to get there yourself, meet there at 5 (or whatever later time you can make it, i think we staying there till 10 or something lidat) (map attached below)
Otherwise, meet at Paya Lebar MRT at 4.45pm!!



Buses that reach Paya Lebar MRT (the busstop is next to Singapore Post Centre, which is on your left. The MRT is on your right. [that's if youre going in the eastcoast direction] )
24, 28, 43, 70, 70X (dont ask me whats X), 76, 135, 154, 155
(map from www.streetdirectory.com , bus list from www.sbstransit.com.sg )

The RED STAR is Simsville. The RED LINE is the path to take from Paya Lebar MRT . (aljunied MRT is at the left side out of the map)
You notice it stops in the middle of nowhere? Well that is the side gate of Simsville, just call gabs or joel or someone inside and someone will come and open for you.


So what are you waiting for! go contact joel and tell him you want to go!! Tell by THURSDAY NOON so can order enough food. (yea that's tmr) (if you never tell him in time.. eat less haha.)

chowz =D

alan nigel cheryl lois

i was bored. and i love this picture. hence.





I thought the bottom blurred part should have some words.. but i cant think of anything fitting. so rather than place some random no-sense phrase there.. just leave it blank =)

chem/phys paper 3 tmr. gg

oh my, oh my

ok my blog title is the title of someone's blog but i cant remember whose! hmmm.

anyway, exams start tomorrow.. and i'm not all panicky or nervous or anything. which is bad cos i should be, so ill study more.

This whole holidays i clock MINIMUM 6 hours a day of computer games, and even go out for supper and Mahjong and stuff. I mean, this is not to say i didnt study, i did, but i'm pretty sure this was the least i have studied since Sec4.

anyway, my papers are something like this:
Mon: Econs
Tues: Chem/phys
Wed: Math
Thurs: GP
Next Mon- Wed - chem/math/phys again.

I cant remember exactly which day is which for the next week, lazy to check.

Huhhuh? why are there two papers for those subjects you ask? well there are THREE papers actually for sciences, and 2 for math. my Paper 3 (the essay part) is this coming tues -_-. yes both chem and physics. So i dunno how i'm gonna study for them when econs is 1-4pm tmr.

ok well, gg to me. off to play Warcraft.
(see how unconcerned i am. whats the word.. apathetic? fooooo.)

seaweed FTW

(btw FTW means for the win. means like. seaweed rocks. )

anyway i went to buy a huge packet of seaweed today.. no particular reason i just wanted to eat. I previously bought TaoKaeNoi which was freaking $4.50 damn ex so .. cheaper abit la this one $2.20 and like a gazillion small packets.

yum.



Then when i was queuing at the counter.. i was just idly reading the words on the packet of seaweed. Like ingredients.. blabla. Then as i read the paragraph on the top right i almost burst out laughing.

Not very clear so i cut it out and put it against my brown cupboard backing.. but still not very clear cos my HP camera sucks



Ok here's EXACTLY what it says: (i didnt make any typos)

"We are very care about quality control when product has been send out. If any damang please notice us. Please write down the date of purchased and name of retail with damage product mail back to our company. We will send you a new product to exchange. We will pay for all postage. Thank you very much"

LMAO!!!! ROFL!! LOL !! (what other laughing acronyms do you know) HAHA!

Easily more than 3 grammatical errors in this short sentence, and wth is damang!! hahaha. So if there's any 'damang', please notice them? Oh yes i noticed them, noticed their terrible English hahahahaa.
I just love these japanese->english translations. ^^


Ok back to study/playing. Remember, i very care about you so please come back often ;p

crazy TIME

Remember this post?

Well today TIME sent me ANOTHER letter. It starts like this:

"We have not yet heard from you regarding your subscription. please renew now to reinstate your service. If your delay has been because of some failure on our part, we want to know. In order that we might better serve you, the editors of TIME ask you to complete the brief survey below. As thanks for your thoughts, we will send you a FREE GIFT and take 62% off your subscription rate with your subscription reinstatement."

Lol i wonder if i keep waiting how far they will go to lower the price and make me subscribe. Maybe like.. 99% off for half a year!

Then back to original price for the rest of the year which may be worse or equal to the 62% offer. -_- ha.

what to say, but i, keep thinking about you.
i tried to forget. i did. but i failed.
i want you.

jesslyn is crazy

Q: Jesslyn consumes sweets and chocolates at a rate of 3 chocolate bars every 10 minutes. What is the probability that she consumes only 1 chocolate bar in 1 minute?

A: 10 mins --> 3 chocolate bars
1 min --> 0.3 chocolate bars
Let X be the random variable "number of chocolate bars Jesslyn consumes in 1 minute"
X~Po(0.3)
P(X=1) = 0.222 (Using GC)

Hence, the probability of her consuming only 1 chocolate bar in 1 minute is 0.222.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

seriously jesslyn is like a sweet eating machine. she should go set guiness record or sth. today during service i was just sitting there then every 5 mins she'll turn and pass back some sweets or sth. Then every 15 minutes will be a new one. lol.

oh on a side note, yknow the song by Jet:
'1, 2, 3
take my hand and come with me
because you look so fine and i really wanna make you mine'

you know before last night or two nights ago, i ALWAYS THOUGHT was :
'1 , 2, 3
turn my head and count to 3
because you look so fine and i really wanna make you mine'

I only just found out like last night!!! so malu all these years of singing the wrong lyrics. haha.
ok bye time to game or sth. shack after basketball.

britain's got talent!

i've been watching clips on youtube of this show 'britain's got talent'.. it's basically a Talent show with simon cowell as one of the judges. You can do anything.. sing, dance , rap.
(the previous clip of that little girl singing was from britains got talent)

They are quite entertaining! heh. first time ull hear simon praise so much. I think it just shows how.. out of touch he is with the world hahaha. only know how to critique singing.. everything else he dunno so he just goes 'absolutely brilliant'. :p
check em out :)



ok simon doesnt praise this.. but it's a 70year old woman rapping ! lol.



a kid dancing some great hiphop! i hate how the stupid camera keeps panning to the audience and judge's faces. should just keep it on the kid most of the time man.



beatbox! the video's a little out of sync though.

and i dont get this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNpd6iXf2Bg
It's a little boy doing a stand up comedy.. i dont get the 'spider spider' joke! someone watch and tell me why it's so funny please

haha ok hope you had fun. just go youtube and search 'britain's got talent'!

lose 2 win 1

meh, this 2nd day of competition was more disappointing than the first. let's do this quick.

1st match was against a noob team.. besides one player the rest were lousy and slow and lazy. We won quite comfortably, i made 4/4 Freethrows yay :)

2nd game i didnt play, joel gabs and tianen started. I was quite frustrated with game because they were playing badly and i couldnt do anything. then i dunno whether i am too critical or they just.. didn't perform.
Firstly joel made like, 3 shots from long range!? and worse still he shot when noone was inside. the plan was to post up (score from closer) cos we got taller players so i dunno why he shot.
next they didnt cover the shooters well, gave them ALOT of space like 2 metres of space. We were pwned by their shooting, one guy had a great match shot like 4-5? which is alot .
So i was like 'eh ben should sub' then ben chose tianen to sub out i dunno why also. alwyn subbed in and scored like 8 points or something. (previously 0) lol. but still lost, cos their shooters were hot, burn alwyn alot.

3rd game i cant rem who else started with me but i played la. then i stayed damn close to my man and marked him till he barely touched the ball. but when he got he qie past me easily (cos i'm not fast) lucky alwyn help to cover.
and i think i solo alot in 3rd game also. but scored 2 field goals la =) both jump shots after qieing abit.
then we made one stupid play which i think was the turning point. when i was starting the ball, tianen and alwyn ran out seemingly to receive. So i thought one of them will run out and get it so i threw a light bounce pass quite far away so that the opponent cannot intercept.
Then the moment i released the ball BOTH of them ran in!?!? like wthhh. then the ball bounced out.
Then after that i think morale low already , we lost by 2-3 baskets.

rawr. oh and the stupid thing is the team we beat yesterday got 2nd place -_- wth

bye.

conny can SING.

zomg chris just showed me this video.. this l'l girl is so cute and adorable .. and her singing is one of the best and most controlled i've heard. and she's freaking 6 years old!!!!!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En0A8KGMgq8]

AMAZING

2 wins 1 draw

ahhh. as i sit in the comfort of my computer chair, adrenaline level still fairly high, boasting cuts and scrapes on my arms and legs.. i can only smile and think back about today's games.

okok let's start from the basics. Basically this was a 3v3 competition, 7 minute game, team that scores most points win, if both teams are level then draw. If you score, opponent gets to start ball. 2 free throws if you're fouled on shot attempt, 1 FT if u score after ure fouled.
Normal field goal (shoot, layup bla) worth 2 points, 3 point is 3, freethrow(FT) is 1.

OK. So we reach there very early like 5+ , then 6+ then they had some opening briefing. Then after that we got our schedule, first match at 8 -_- so we went to the nearby prata shop and ate :p only 2 teams went to eat haha.

OK FIRST GAME. ok wait our team was me, gabriel, joel, tianen and alwyn (my sch friend) (the rest from my church)
Me, alwyn and tianen started. I'll just say what i remember la ok.
The guy i was marking was too fast for me, then i let him run free several times. Then got one possession he completely qie past me, but i blocked him on his layup attempt :p yayness.
Then i managed to draw a foul, and i made both free throws! =) yayness.
Think i missed 1-2 shots also. Then my friend scored from shots.
THEN.. we were up by 4 points.. then they just got a foul-in (means 2 points for the basket and they get to shoot 1 FT) . Then at that time gabs just subbed in, so i was still a little blur blur. Then the guy shoot i was still stoning and the guy next to me dashed in got the rebound and scored -_- zzz. with that 4point play they tied the game.. and played awhile more but ended in draw.
AHHH I MADE US DRAW :(
(oh this game had a stupid incident also, gabs caught the rebound then i swiped the ball out of his hand. lol. i didnt really see i thought was opponent so i just swiped. ugh)

ok nvm 2nd game i didnt start, joel tianen gabs started. Then gabs made some nice shots (2) and joel also shot some. Tianen dunno why also wanna shoot then miss haha (he not shooter more of an inside player)
Then halfway gabs shack then ask me sub in.. i was sitting down then caught unaware sia so had to get myself heated up as i ran in.
This game i also got fouled on the way to the basket, then i made 1/2 FT.
Then on the last possession, score was tied and they had the ball.. then TIANEN pressured the ball handler then he made a lousy pass with i intercepted. Then i quickly qie in and i saw joel open so i bounce pass to him.. and he scored!! yayynessss!!! we win!

THIRD GAME. i started this one, against a fairly aggressive team.
We were down 6-0 from the start i think, then alwyn made two 3-pointers and we were even ! :)
Then i made one nice move, i got the ball, faked my man then he jumped and so i qie past him, there was a guy in front of me but i think he scared foul or sth so he didnt move. So i just jumped up and lay the ball in =D wootwoot only field goal.
Then i got another 2 FT, again 1/2.
So the other team losing already.. so they pressured and stepped up defence. Then cos i cannot really dribble the ball well. Then made some bad passes. Then like we start from outside.. my team never run free so i dunno who to pass. So i throw in then kena stolen :S
After another bad pass after getting harassed by my defender, i asked to be subbed out, otherwise we no momentum and i demoralised ma.
Then last ball i think joel caught the rebound and scored and WE WON!!!


heheheeee. Ok so we qualify for the cup playoffs.. basically one group 4 teams, top 2 go to cup playoffs, bottom 2 go to plate playoffs. hope i can shoot better on Thursday (i scored 0 shots today, only field goal was the layup. Made 4 points from FT though)

ohoh, and a funny thing - our team because have no team name, so by default our name was the captain's name. and i was the captain. =X lol so yea we were Team Alan. :p hahaha.

Thursday 6pm @ CCAB , come support!

it is time.

hmm is anyone getting random popups from my blog? for me everytime i load the page some popup wil appear and once or twice my antivirus says got threat then will delete it. :S How to remove ah why is this shit popup around.

anyway first of all, thanks all that replied to my previous entry!! haha ok the final poem which i think makes the most sense and sounds the most correct is :

Itsy bitsy spider, climbing up the spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Up came the sun and dried up all the rain
And itsy bitsy spider, climbed up the spout again.

=)

Ok im suppsoed to study now but my STUPID NEIGHBOURS are removing their wall or sth they put some notice saying tues and wed afternoon will be noisy. And now the drilling and drilling is damn damnd amn annoying. GRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Later got basketball competition at 6pm! :D very very excited have been thinking about it the whole day. Hope i can play well later :) hope i can chopchopchop score alot :p heeheeeeeee

Oh btw, thanks those who have been tagging on the tagboard it's making coming to my blog more fun :) woudl blog more if more exciting things happened but.. aiya. haha. i blog after the basketball thing ok! =D

BYE. WISH ME LUCK.

itsy bitsy spider

yawn.

now @ 9:27... the guys at church camp probably having.. group discussion or something. Yea. then after that they're gonna go back to their nice hotel rooms.. have a shower maybe. and sleep. dang so weird to be not at camp and everyone's gone.

anyway, i went for my cousin's wedding today (the main reason why i didnt go for camp) @ Marriot Hotel. The first part of the programme was GOSPEL MESSAGE and there was like prayer and stuff...

Apparently my cousin's church they all talk like KJV ' i pray thy will will carry thy name to thine forth and . . ' . So that was how the person who prayed before the solemnization spoke. And the prayer was like one of those dontyouwishitendssoon prayers that is just SLOW (like 3-4 words at a time) and looooong.

Then came the message..ZOMG. He started off in the worse way possible : "This message will take .. twenty minutes" -CUE SIGH/GASPS- (im serious i could hear abit of this) "so.. let me carry on"
And the bad thing is HIS ENGLISH IS QUITE BAD.
"the lady was doing this. in another words, she meant that .. . "
WTHH!?! (there are more examples of bad english but im lazy to think of them , this was just the most glaring one)
And the whole thing was just really really boring i think half the ballroom was asleep and the other half was whispering to themselves.

Hmm and he told the story about Jesus going to meet the woman who was drawing water from the well. Then he says alot of irrelevant stuff like 'oh the woman went to draw water at noon, which is a weird time to draw water at. at noon the sun is usually quite hot (DUH) and so, it was unusual'
?!?!?!
And one thing i didnt get was .. yknow in the story the woman says she has no husband or sth lidat. then Jesus says 'you are right, you have 5 husbands and the one u are living with is not ur husband'.
Then the speaker said 'Jesus was being gracious when he pointed this out'.

?!?!?!?!? Does this not make sense or does this not make sense. So what.. he was being gracious by not.. killing the woman? :S i dont geddit. Then straight away after this he goes on to something else and doesnt explain much about his 'gracious' comment.

Anyway besides the lousy message , everything else was.. average. Besides the roast chicken which i swear is the best roast chicken i ever ate in my life, everything else was just sub-par.



THEN. remember my previous post i mentioned something about a nursery rhyme which i couldnt finish? And i forgot what it was? Well i was on my way home on a train.. and this little kid was making alot of noise. I was a little annoyed at first, then i realised he was chanting some nursery rhyme
'itsy bitsy spider, climbing up the -???-
down came the rain and washed the spider out'

THATS IT!! THATS THE NURSERY RHYME I WAS THINKING ABOUT! THANKS LITTLE BOY!

lolol. so does anyone know how to finish the nursery rhyme? those are the only 2 lines i know. and i dont even know what the last word is . i thought was 'wall', but it doesnt rhyme with 'out'. hmmm.

a random tirade at 'classics'

Practice makes perfect.

This is one of the biggest lies in history, and also a very grammatically incorrect phrase.

Firstly, 'perfect' is an adjective, so you can't MAKE an adjective. It's like saying 'Make-up makes beauty'. Totally wrong!! It's 'make-up makes one beautiful'.

Second, it's obviously false isn't it. Since we all know that perfection is not achievable, and noone has came close to achieving perfection (i'm not even saying all-round perfection, maybe like even small stuff like.. shooting a ball into a ring)
All we're doing is IMPROVING. We are just getting better at whatever we are practising, but we'll never ever ever hit perfection.

Hence, it should be 'Practice makes one improve' or 'practice is striving for perfection'. - alan teo 2007


Next .. isn't Humpty Dumpty a rather ridiculous nursery rhyme. It doesnt make sense at all and has zero educational value. At least Mary Had A Little Lamb teaches about sheep and its color. And twinkle twinkle teaches about stars. Humpty dumpty just leaves kids wondering what on earth is a humpty dumpty when they grow up.


AND lastly , ok there was a nursery rhyme or sth like that i was thinking about all week but forgot the ending of it. Was gonna ask for help here.. but i completely forgot what it was. ugh. ill post when i do.


That wraps up the random thoughts ive been having. :p toodles.

cam whoreee

ok i wore a shirt which becky from school gave me and also wore this nike chain(some people called it a necklace but i thought that's too girly. ha. CHAIN) that gabs bought from me from china to church yday.. and I really liked the look!!

Haha . i know some people were like :o wa why alan dress like that. but i was just trying for fun. and i liked it alot!! so i started taking pictures :p

well the first onewere taken by joshua.. i dunno what he doing he just whipped out his phone and tried to take a pic of me. my paparazzi :p so i just did a dao look.


Sepia mode is damn nice.





ugh my own hp camera is like grainy grainy quality :/




I like my outfit :p


Oh and i saw hozzy's HP background pic and i thought it was quite nice. so i asked her send to me:
NICE MAN!! I really like it alot. danggg. she has hozea's imba photoshop genes.
(as i said sepia mode is damn nice. see!! so nice effect)



Tried making my own :p

can you spell?

Have you all heard of the latest game show on TV? no not Deal or no deal.. 'spellcraft'! It's some spelling bee game show for kids. One of the advertisements is the guy opening his fried rice stall and the sign is 'singapore's best fried lice' and the kid goes 'uncle ur sign spell wrongly'.

So along with one of the trailer the host goes 'ok the next word to spell is.. mississippi' (think i spelt it wrong but that's not the point ) and the kid confidently goes ' m .. i.. s .. s.. etc'

At that moment a funny scenario jumped into my mind.. what if some REALLY bad speller went to join the competition. i think it'd be really funny like he confidently spells out the word then it's wrong.
THEN, ANOTHER funnier scenario jumped into my mind .. what if it was some ahlian hU sPeLLs lyk tT wOrx?


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Spellcraft, 31 June 2007

HOST: Good evening ladies and gentleman, and welcome to a brand new episode of Spellcraft! This game is not about wits, not about cunning, but all just about one question, 'can you spell?'
So tonight we have a young lady here with us.. erm.. Iceangel is her name

Ic3Ang3L : hi everybody! im from toapayoh ah, live near the HDB hub one lor. veli nice leh the building. and i can spell lor everybody in my gang say i can spell the best lor. b-a-s-t best hor.

HOST: Er.. yes i'm sure you are the best, otherwise you won't be here. So ladies and gentleman, this game is simple, we will be giving a series of words for our contestant to spell, and the more words she spells correctly, the more points she'll get! There will be a special round in the future where all the top scorers return for a spelling showdown!

Ic3Ang3L: wa showdown ah. i am da best one leh. i call my bf gang and his brudder gang all come down, showdown with knife and stick, sure win one leh. w-e-e-n win.

HOST: ?? Ok erm getting on with the show.. We'll commence Round One!
Ok Iceangel, the first word you have to spell is.. ok this is pretty simple. Just a preliminary round alright. It is 'cute'

Ic3Ang3L : oh i know dis. k-e-w-t!

HOST: er.. i'm sorry that's not correct.

Ic3Ang3L: wait wait! i kidding with euu one! it's c-u-u-t-e right!!

HOST: no sorry, next word.. spell 'school'.

Ic3Ang3L: aiya, this one i everyday go one, sure noe larx. ok not everydae go la, some daes i go pah tor wif mi bf soo neber go. okie okie i noe i noe i spell now. 's-k-o-o-l'
-beams happily-

HOST: i'm sorry.. that's incorrect too. It's ok you have one last try .. spell 'telephone'

Ic3Ang3L: haha! dis one i sUREeeee noe okie! i every nite use 2 tok to mi hubby. it's 't-e-l-e-f-o-n-e'!

HOST: I'm sorry.. you got that wrong too . Looks like you cant spell at all! i'm sorry, you are eliminated.

Ic3Ang3L: OI! wat toking u! i spell everything corect loh! i can spell well ok! i can spell my own name also ok! 'i-c-e-a-n-g-l-e'! donch pray pray! eh euu com bak ! OI! y euu calling security? OI!

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ahh. the wonderful brainstorms i have :p


on a sad note - i think i'm sick. cough. :/

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