with bb Charlene

with my bb Charlene

bald cut!

 playing with us. neh neh neh!

It's her 4th month yesterday.
Heard it is good for a baby to have a bald cut.

Abit unwilling to let her go for it
as I've like her curly hair.
Scared wait new grown hair becoming straight.

Called up people from babyspa for house visit.
Coincidentally was the same guy who cut for my nephew.

 getting ready

 she was shocked

 the "huh" look

botak!

 hehe! finally

 Call her.... recruit Tan.

 savouring food for 1st time

On the 4th month she'll b able to taste food.
So mum prepared tou fu and fish.

drumstick! yummy!

She even tried my huge chicken drumstick!


Happy 4th month bb!!

sis's 1st attempt

 

marinated with black pepper

Last weekend my sis's hand itchy,

got into her cooking act.

Menu? - western food

Gosh, saw her marinated the chicken,

then the pork.

 bought by mum

 pork chop is ready!

 delicious pork chop

 my fav chicken chop

When it was done,
(I skipped the cooking process because I went hidding)
I salivated at the dishes.
Looks good.

She even included mini tomatos, garlic bread (frm sunshine?!)
and onion rings (fav!)

To be productive,
I went 7-11 buy instant mashed potatos as side-dish.

Add in root beer float.

garlic bread

the feast

Surprised her 1st attempt so successful.

It was finger-lickingly good.

Time for round 2!!!

ATM

 ATM

Thai movie- ATM

Casts:

Chantavit Dhnasevi, Preechaya Pongthananikorn

Story:

Sua and Jib has a hidden relationship
because of their company's strict “Non-Fraternization” policy.

The strained relationship got worst when they decided to get married.
Both wanted the other to quit their job. (to save their own job)

One day one of the ATM that belongs to their bank was hit by a technical glitch,
giving out double cash on every withdrawal.

Worst, the bank was unable to retrieved the money due to poor monitoring system.

Jib (the lead female actress) was assigned to recover the lost money.

She then thought of a game- whomever recovers the money, the loser would have to quit his/her job.

Will love prevails over career?

Plotting against each other

How I feel:

I was drawn to this movie because
I've thought the casts would be similar to the movie "hello stranger"
with a story that is romantic yet entertaining.

They changed the lead female actress- disappointing.

The whole movie was entertaining,
with nuggets of funny jokes that sprinkled the audiences with laughing powder.
Altho I should say, some were lame jokes
as cold as those cracked by our own (and only) director in his silly movies.

There was no twist to the ending, which was another disappointment.
The story not as touching/ meaningful as the previous "hello stranger".
Perhaps that's the norm for a sequel.

The casts

My Reviews:

2 AND A HALF OUT OF FIVE

The way they hit against each other was quite entertaining,

esp one of the supporting actor who has a silly yet expressive face.

Overall, still entertaining lar,
if u've got cash to spare.

天后娘娘诞辰

@天后娘娘's temple

lion dance, but never reveal any numbers

 newspaper article on the red eggs

Today's 天后娘娘诞辰.
We went to the one at Sin Ming Road.
To pray plus 还愿.

Last time got friend recommend us to pray there for kid.
 

If successful, must return red eggs to the temple
60 eggs for baby girl,
120 eggs for baby boy.

 dyed by my mum+sis, their 1st attempt

 spiral joss-stick for a spiraling luck!

lotus candles to light up the year's luck

Armour Live Firing

84mm rocket launcher

Just did my reservist,
one incident came to mind.
Funny one, during live firing,
when I was still an active NS man.

It was during our 84mm rocket launcher live firing.
I was one of the safety specialist.

Let me give an intro to the weapon.
84 mm rocket launcher is an anti-tank weapon.
A specialist would be assigned to a firer,
and that specialist would be close to the firer (not more than an arm's length).

The sound is extremely loud,
reverberation impact so strong u can feel it meters away.
Analogy to standing beside a bomb explosion.

Because of the strong reverberation,
end of the day your chest feels the pain, after standing one whole day there.
This is how strong it is.

As a safety spec, ear plug will never be enough to muffle the sound.
I would use my fingers to press in the ear plug when they fire,
and half squat to minimize the reverberation impact.

If you are the firer, you press the trigger, you know when to expect the blast.
As a bystander, u can only wait for the rounds to be fired, wait to be scared.

during live firing

I was with a firer when my OC walked towards us.
My OC has just being transferred to our company.
From an infantry man to armour,
bet he had a steep learning curve.

"How's everything?"

"Fine, Sir" I replied,
as I instructed my firer to load in a 84mm round.

Captain P****** spoke again, perhaps to show his rank supremacy :

"When u ask the firer to fire, always sense where the rounds land,

so that you can tell the firer to adjust his next firing."

As he spoke, both his hands were on his binoculars, happily scanning for the best view.

"Sir! Permission to fire." I asked,
surprised he WAS WITHOUT his ear plug,
and still standing tall holding his bino.

I repected him, at the same time I wanted him to get ready.

I've never known of anyone sensing the rounds like that.
And I've never seen anyone there without ear plug.
I wanted to warn him, but hold back
because I presumed he should have done his own live firing already.

"OK, FIRE!" He gave his approval.

"Fire!" I echoed.

"BOOOM!!!"

It was followed by 5 seconds of dead slience,
before I heard my OC again.

"Wah, so loud one huh!"

I giggled and replied a "yah".

Sia, I was surprised he was able to keep his cool.
As the smoke settled, I looked at him.
He acted composed as if nothing had happened.
Wah sia! He my idol! Shock proof!

I instructed for another round to be loaded,
with eyes fixated on my firer doing the right drill,
totally ignoring Captain Idol.

When it was loaded, I got myself into my firing position.
Fingers on the ear plug, half-squat near to the firer.

Next, I asked for permission.

"Sir, permission to fire!"

"Fire! fire!..."

I heard him. 

He was not beside us anymore.

His voice came from somewhere far away,

behind his land rover far far away.
Totally out of sight .

Hahaha!

He thought he firing M16, still can look look see see without ear plug.
This is armour. This weapon holds a 84mm round and is damn loud.
Ironically, he did not know the impact of the blast.
Guess that was the first time he heard a 84mm live firing.
And he will remember it for the rest of his life.

Somemore without ear plug and standing so tall.
Most funniest was the second round
when he retreated back to his land rover and hide behind it.
I should have asked him to come out of that rover-
"Sir can u help us sense the round again?"