I nearly forgot my dear friend Shirley knew how to sleep talk last time, lol! This message was received long long long long ago.

Next time when you sleep with your boyfriend better don’t mention some other guy’s name! Haha.

Both Miss Tan and I are proud members of the October babies club. And recently both of us were granted membership to ‘Club20′.

T_T……. We are now 20 years OLD.

Guess what we prepared for each other’s birthday?

She….

…mixed some melamine and chemicals, and created a flame spitting chocolate monster!

Nahhh just kidding. That’s a birthday cake she baked for me. XD It is the best best best birthday cake I have ever gotten in my life!

We had my birthday celebration at Miss Zhang’s house. (I realised this photo is very yellow-ish. Has that old photo feel huh?) Mr Neo’s face was unfortunately blocked by Miss Tan’s V sign. -_-

Still blocked, but at least there’s about 30% improvement. Lol.

Even though some of my friends could not make it for my celebration, at least the most important person was around. Hehe.

Samurai & Daisy. Haha. That’s the weirdest combination I’ve ever heard. Daisy is me, it’s some weird nickname they came up with when I got to know this bunch of wacky friends about a year ago. At that time they were working on an animation about Samurai, so they called themselves the samurais.

Here’s what the samurais gave me. Lovely pink shirt! That’s the PINKEST shirt I have now in my wardrobe! So pink I think it looks more like magenta instead? Speaking of my wardrobe.. it is now going to be nearly rainbow colour!

For more information about my clothes, click the photo above. Some are presents from others, some are designed by me! XD

I sincerely thank Miss Tan and Samurais for arranging this celebration for me! I was really touched when I ate the cake.

A few weeks later, we celebrated Miss Tan’s birthday at FRE(N)SH at Vivo City.

FRE(N)SH is a simple and cosy cafe located at a quiet (probably unnoticed) corner of Vivo City. It’s quite near the sea and has a spiral staircase nearby which I descended with the beautiful birthday cake, romantic huh! Hahahaha.

On my first visit to this cafe (about 1 week before the celebration) for research purposes, I was instantly greeted by this short and euro-asian looking waiter. European eyes and asian skin, something like that, haha.

He enthusiastically and patiently introduced me various items in their menu. He had to be patient because most of the things I saw in the menu were words I didn’t understand.

Savoyarde. Quiche. Tartine. Rue Mirbel.

Whoa. (this word is not french, nor an item in the menu, lol)

I quickly jotted down everything he told me, hoping to show off some knowledge of the cafe when I meet my girlfriend and friends on the celebration day. But aarrgghhh I forgot to bring those notes! So we had to get the same waiter to introduce everything to us again. -_-

We ordered some set meals at $17.50 each (no GST and no service charge omgggg-where-else-can-you-find-this-nowadays?).

A tartine is an open-faced sandwich. Think Subway with one slice/piece of bread missing on top. Ahh something like that.

There are many toppings and flavours to choose from, and they serve their food rather quickly. The sandwich turns cold quickly too -.-, but stays crispy til the last bite. They also serve vegetarian food!

Oh! Can’t forget their desserts! Really mouth-watering.

Since there were many of us, each of us ordered different desserts from each other so we could try everything. Heh!

I highly recommend their Apple Crumble and Crème Brûlée. =)

This is definitely a great place to go if you are looking for affordable authentic French cuisine and provides excellent service with -omggggg- no service charge and GST! Haha.

Due to time constraint, I didn’t bake a cake for Miss Tan. Instead, I..

…made a double sided pop-up mega birthday card! Haha. Quite cute huh. The ‘train’ you see above can be pulled out to the right to reveal birthday messages from the Samurais and other friends!

Miss Tan’s pulling it out.

And pulls up in 双天至尊 style! Effectively blocking my face in front of the camera!

Once again she has blocked another person’s face, this time the victim is Miss Zhang! Lol.

Argh we totally forgot to take a group photo that day. -.- All in all it was a nice celebration, we all had a great meal and had a great time.

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Some of the movies that I watched in October..

This French animation, Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure, was shown as part of the Singapore French Film Festival from 3 to 12 October.

It’s an insanely wacky and funny movie that entertains you for 90 minutes non-stop, complete with very well-done animation. The storyline is unfortunately forgettable though.

7.5 / 10

I have been waiting for Tropic Thunder to be released for months!

It’s offensive and crude, but at the same time pretty funny. For an army boy like me to watch a movie that is nearly full of males and guns.. it’s a little.. sad. -.- (go look at the cast list and you’ll realise most of them are males)

The spoof materials (coughtrailerscough) at the beginning of the movie are worth a mention here, I’ve never seen anything like that! Haha.

Sit back and relax, you will have fun watching this. =)

8 / 10

I jumped straight to High School Musical 3: Senior Year without even watching the first two movies.

Some parts of the movie are so cheesy I felt like laughing, haha. All in all it’s an enjoyable show with great songs and high quality dance choreography.

It was easy for me to relate to the story because it deals with graduation and moving on to the future, which was what happened to me a few months ago when I graduated from NYP. Ah~ I miss school so much! T_T

Everything in this movie is just so polished and beautiful, go feast your eyes!

8 / 10

Now my name is ‘officially’ Daisy or Dessy. -_- Please don’t forget my real name!

Lol. Thanks to everyone who remembered! XD

P.S.: Some important photos are not with me yet.. so I will write more about my birthday next time instead. =)

Heh.

I know that the Christmas holiday gift-exchanging season is still quite far from now, but someone’s birthday is coming really soon. Who ah?

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Miss Tan and I share a common interest in making handmade gifts. Somehow we feel that handmade stuffs are more sincere and meaningful, and allows you to add more personal touch to it.

Last year, we folded many many colourful origami penguins for our dear friend Miss Huang’s belated birthday present. Penguin is her favourite, that’s why we chose to fold that.

It wasn’t easy though, as we had to search through the internet to look for various penguin origami techniques and decide which one looks better. And then we had to learn how to fold. (It sounds easy but it’s not! Lol.)

Next..

This is my Christmas present from Miss Tan last year. I was really really surprised and delighted to receive it. It was a really simple yet meaningful gift. There’s a letter inside too! Hehehe.

Can you tell what animals she folded?

A few weeks after that.. I folded a 3D origami flying creature for her!

It’s a New Year surprise gift. XD

The arrow thingy is actually an origami book, folded using only one piece of paper. Inside the book I wrote some messages~ Haha. And there’s also a folded letter attached to the back of this creature, it’s like a tail!

During May this year, Miss Tan and I planned a huge birthday surprise party for Mr Lai at his house, with the help of many of our friends and his family. It turned out to be a success!

Batman is Mr Lai’s favourite hero character, so a few of us hand drawn a ‘The Dark Knight’ poster for him, using our style of course. The original poster looks like this. Haha.

Some of us baked a cake for him too!

I know it doesn’t look super appetizing, but it’s really super delicious! =)

That was the first time I was involved in organising a surprise birthday party (furthermore it was really big scale!) for someone, so I was really happy that everything turned out great that day.. thanks to everyone who made it a reality.

Fast forward a few months later.. Miss Huang’s boyfriend Mr Ooi, along with Mr Lai and I prepared a surprise birthday party cum picnic cum mid-autumn festival celebration at the Chinese Gardens.

It was ultra-challenging because we guys were in army and didn’t have a lot of time to plan and get the things ready. The ladies have to work too. Most importantly, we all had to keep this surprise a secret.

We prepared sushi (learnt and made on the spot!), sandwiches, baked bread skin (created by me ^^) with chocolate/strawberry flavours, hotdog buns and fruit salad.

It turned out great too but I don’t have many pictures of the stuff we did to show you because we were too busy making them.

That’s our birthday girl and her boyfriend! =)

Recently, Miss Tan and I coincidentally made 2 different WALL·E 3D papercraft models for each other, without informing each other beforehand!

I was really amazed by this coincidence and telepathy between us. Hoho.

WALL·E shaking hand with Mini WALL·E. Very cute right?? If you want to make the one on the right yourself, here’s a link to find out. ^^

What kind of presents do you give? What’s the best present you’ve given/received so far?

Everyone Cycled Painfully along East Coast Park, and Everybody Chiong-ed Persistantly to reach our destination, which was Changi Beach Park. (Hey this line rhymes. Lol)

Why so pain? Because we hadn’t cycled for quite some time and the total distance back and forth was about 20km! Our buttocks were all burning throughout the afternoon.

Very ouch. Now I can still feel a bit of the ouch. I don’t know if it’s red or blue-black now, lol.

Using Yao Hui’s method of describing, I would say.. Actually nothing much really happened yesterday, other than meeting everyone at McDonald’s at 12pm and realised that everyone was not there at 12pm because they were late. -_- Then we had lunch.. cycled.. had dinner.. talked to each other and then went home.~

I know that sounds a bit boring. Lol. It’s not boring okay! It’s super super boring. Nah just kidding. -_-

Before we begun our cycling session we did a little warm up…

… by carrying our girlfriends! The girlfriends get warmed up by being carried!

4 couples piggyback-ing and in a photo together! Totally classic and rare moment. You probably won’t see this happen again for another 5 years.. unless I’m wrong. =p

Walter and Samuel (our photographer) are not included in this photo though. =( Yaohui (wearing grey) is inside, can you spot him?

Second warm up exercise: Butt rubbing cum massage. This is to prevent very very serious butt injury during cycling. From the photo you can tell it’s very comfortable and fun, just look at our faces, we’re all smiling happily. =)

You need a minimum of two pairs of couples (shown in photo above) to execute this butt rubbing. You wouldn’t want that butt to rub against some foreign object (eg. tree trunk, wall, bus, someone’s face) right?

Next exercise:

Butt pinching. For this you have to pull down your trousers a little so that the pincher can pinch directly on your butt, to circulate the blood flow. Again, this is to prevent serious butt muscle aches when you are cycling. Hey look, everyone’s enjoying it! XD

But please take note that you should only pinch the muscles outside. NOT AROUND THE ANUS.. or your hands will turn BLACK. Negative demonstration below.

Look at his shocked face. You wouldn’t want to end up as shock as him.

There’s one more exercise that only Walter knows how to execute.

It’s called ‘Form a T shape’. You gotta get yourself into that position as shown above, and hold it there for Three minutes. This exercise stretches your upper and lower limbs to the max.

Very easy huh?

Now comes the most important part…

…

All of the exercises above are untrue and totally crap, please do not follow. I was just typing for fun. But if you really tried them.. then.. um.. thanks. =)

And then the real exercise (cycling) began! XD

And then there are no more photos! Because we were all busy cycling and chatting and eating and washing hands. Would you rather have good photos and bad outing, or no photos and good outing? Wise people like us chose the latter. Lol.

( That's Miss Tan and I. In case you don't know, we're now attached! XD )

Overall, it was a rather tiring day for us.. =_=.. but we all had fun! ^^

The title of the design is ‘Illiterate‘. Front part shows a guy pulling the ‘Push’ side of a door, and back of the shirt shows a guy pushing the ‘Pull’ side of a door.

Very interesting right?????? Lol. If I were you I would buy 2 pieces of this t-shirt, one for my partner and one for myself. *refer to photo above*

You can buy 2 pieces for your parents too! Better still, you can buy for your whole family, I’m sure they will like it!

What are you waiting for? Log on to www.crowningstroke.com! XD

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WALL·E

Romantic, adorable, funny and touching. If you miss this movie, you’ve missed one of the best movies this year. Despite the lack of dialogue most of the time, Pixar animators and famous sound designer Ben Burtt managed to portray even wider range of emotions and messages, through pantomime animation and sound effects, that many movies nowadays lack.

WALL·E rocks!

9.5 / 10

Finally… finally.. finally.. after 2 months of training, we’ve completed our Basic Military Training!

These are my section mates and section commander! Are you able to find me inside? Lol.

Joy is completing tough trainings safely to become stronger and faster everyday.

Joy is understanding new perspectives and opinions of bunkmates from all walks of life.

Joy is remembering how fortunate I am to have the best parents in the world, perfect girlfriend and so many good friends who love me so much.

Joy is enjoying the ultra fresh air amidst the lush greenery.

Joy is looking back at mainland Singapore knowing that home is not far.

Joy is resting and slacking when there is absolutely nothing to do.

Joy is reading messages from girlfriend.

Joy is breakfast time, lunch time and dinner time.

Joy is laughing together with bunkmates and joking around.

Joy is knowing how lucky I am to have wonderful commanders who treat us very very well.

Joy is wet weather.

Joy is hearing the voices of loved ones over the phone.

Joy is when BOOK OUT DAY arrives!

Inspired by Mr Brown’s entry What is Joy?

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Feels like some theme park roller coaster ride. Very fun to watch, but ‘not there’ yet. Some story elements feels forced and not very believable, but that’s not important if you are just looking for a 90 minutes sci-fi adventure flick that purely tries to keep you entertained all the time.

7 / 10

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Another movie with Brendan Fraser in it in the same month. All I can say about this movie is…. it sucks! T_T This movie follows strictly to the ‘formula’ that has been done to death in the previous 2 movies in the series, and fails to deliver something satisfying. The chemistry between the main couple is nowhere to be seen. The story has very little relevance to mummy too. Sometimes I wondered if I was watching a movie about mummies or a Chinese Jet Li movie?

I have a lot more to complain about this movie.. but.. never mind that’s all for now. Haha.

3 / 10

Money No Enough 2

I love this movie! It is not super funny or has a very original new storyline, but it managed to deliver a few very important messages about our society and lives (which I think are what director Jack Neo wanted). As I was watching, I could relate to the characters and the obstacles they met, and I must say the production team has done a very good job at making the problems realistic.

Overall it’s a touching movie with meaningful messages behind it. If you are looking for refreshing plot and 120 minutes of non-stop laughter, then you will be slightly disappointed. =/

8.5 / 10

The Dark Knight

I watched this very long ago. Can’t really remember what I want to say about this movie. Great performances, great story, great fun. What more can I say? Heath Ledger’s Joker is just unforgettable and scary at the same time. I believe most of you have watched eh?

9 / 10

Some of you might be curious about how I look now with my brand new hairstyle created by the famous Tekong Barber™, after I got enlisted about 3 weeks ago.

Ladies and gentlemen, here’s my latest hairstyle.

Cool right?! Lol. The previous time my hair was so short is probably when I was 4 to 5 years old?

K that’s all for now. I will be back again soon!

Okay, I’ll be away from home for about 2 weeks plus from today onwards. Thanks for the comments on this layout! I will be back to try to fix this layout so that it doesn’t look weird in Internet Explorer when I’m free!

Yes, the day for me to serve the nation has finally come. T_T

I have really enjoyed the past 14 days of pre-National-Service life very much. I have so many things to blog about, but am really lazy and have no time to write them down. Heh.

Miss me! =)