How to Park #101

After a friend's birthday party one fine Saturday night, a group of us decided to head out for bubble tea. We went to the recently-opened Chatime in Greentown (it's opposite MP, behind DiGi Centre if you didn't know!).

The catch was, the place was full to the brim. And it was already past 10.00pm ! Talk about popular. I chose pearl milk tea and got my friend to order it for me (line was long too).

When I sipped the drink, it was sour. Turns out the variant I ordered was sold out, and the staff recommended this Sour Plum tea. Which my friends conveniently forgot to tell me. Oh, great.

Me, Ivan and Saw headed out to the Dataran food area nearby for supper with some dudes. After that, me and Ivan saw this crazy scenario. A guy parked about 3 inches away from another car. IT'S SIMPLY RIDICULOUS and I immediately decided to take pictures.

Ivan with his shiny white fedora!

Like dude are you serious?

Oh well. It was hilarious while it lasted

Me and Ivan had a good laugh. And oh well, we headed back home! (Hey if you ever spot the same car, do give him a holler on my behalf! And a tremendously cynical snicker while cracking a joke about his amazing parking skills)

Around the World (Part 1)

Here's one to all the bloggers in my sidebar. As they are it's like a Yellow Pages list, mere names and addresses that carry no meaning. Tonight I'll try to tell you their story; the song within the blog. Most of them have a specific niche, maybe you'll find one that appeals to you!

The Shadow Gamer - Ho Xing-Yi 

Here's an award-winning blog to start off with! The name is Ho Xing-Yi, and he blogs mostly about video games, technology, news in the mentioned fields and all sorts of happenings. There are also photo walks and other events stuff cropping up after his BRATs experience and all. I need not say much - just check it out!

Jason Mumbles - Jason Lioh 

Oh, how much do you know about Malaysia's blogging scene? Here's one of the big ones - Jason Mumbles! It's technically his personal blog, but there's plenty of stuff on it; mostly renowned for food, also including product reviews, outings (including one of his loops, blogger outings) - most notably he posts movie OSTs which you can then download. Great stuff, great PHOTOs to boot.

Her Effervescence - Amanda Ng 

How do we go about this - there isn't any way to pigeonhole this blog - it's just a well-written blog on everything 'bout life. A perfect example (an overachieving one by any means of measure) of quality penmanship. You might be interested note that this is one ASEAN scholar - accepted for one of South East Asia's most prestigious awards for students at the O-level equivalents.

I scrapped a few because I'm behind schedule on this update, and lacking any steam to push through on this. Nevertheless, expect more from the next update. It'll continue with additional websites that I read often and all. Make whatever you want of it! Till then.

Verbal Revamp

If you've noticed, or have not, the blog has undergone quite a few cosmetic changes. Although they're minor, they give the blog a better feel, IMO.

• There's a Twitter button, not gonna bother with a Facebook button as well, you can just do a simple search, there are not that many Abel Chi's in the world.
• Then there's this new link especially for BRATs, which'll access the BRATs tag and load the posts related to the camp. The awesome camp, I might say.
• Also, there's a page view counter in the bottom left most corner of the page. Scroll down to see it. Just started a few days ago so take heart of the low number, and visit my blog more often. Yay!

There's also been a tweak in the page width which displays wider, and text size has been boosted to match. And yeah I think that's about it.

I Know It's Kinda Late

A tiny tribute to my parent's 19th anniversary.. Guess you've been hearing 'bout the date non-stop :)

BRATs Camp (For No Reason) - Part 5 of 5

Here's part of the entire draft I cooked up while blogging up my BRATs experience. The precedent texts are edited and posted in the BRATs series all in the June archive of the blog, with pictures! This one hasn't a thousand words to tell (nor could they be captured with photos) so yeah! It's just bonus stuff anyways, here we go.

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Oh, did I mention the prank calls? Haha. Marcuse and Xing Yi, they tried to prank me and Joash on the first night you know! Joash was fast asleep (he is a REALLY heavy sleeper!) so I cancelled the call on his phone. I got slightly panicked about the phone ringing and possibly waking Joash thing and all. Little I know that was the least of my worries.

Okay so they called me later, with the same number. It kinda gave the game away lah. They claimed I was a witness to some murder... -.- Marcuse the eavesdropper claims the prank call was hilarious on the premise of me responding to all accusations and evidences of murder as "cool". It went something like this:

Xing Yi: Did you know that s Mr. Lim (I'm not sure what random name they used) was murdered?
Abel: Cool.
Xing Yi: And you're apparently a witness to the murder. So you have to fly back to Ipoh by tonight.
Abel: Oh... cool.
and so on.

On the second night of Camp, Xing Yi and Marcus(e) dropped by to "visit" me and Joash. Haha. They wanted to prank some fellow BRATs so they "harvested" numbers from my phone to prank. Next they tried calling up some people but a couple of them were sleeping. They managed to get through to Ee Laine and pranked her with some random crap. (edit: I remember now. It's about spotting her planking and asking her to help spread the art of planking. And stuff like that)

Xing Yi dropped his organisation name as the "Singapore Planking Association" and the rest of us in the room burst out in laughter!!! He claims we broke his cover but yeah. That was the most absurd thing we heard all camp, I'm pretty sure. Worst prank call ever xD

THeir third night prank was the funniest and dumbest, they basically got pranked back as far as I'm concerned. Haha! I have most of it on record, so maybe I'll make a subbed video of it soon... or not so soon!

They were asking for some random name - Larry, and Amy took it up and started acting as "Larry"! (Larry: I'm at the end of the rainbow, and just wanted to tell you that there's no pot of gold here) Haha then there was this Spanish girl, Maria Gonzalez.. (Maria: I think your voice is so sexy Señor),  Awesome stuff. Ben Jie also did some pretty hilarious stuff, his recording's real clear! Probably'll post it first. If I ever post it. Haha.

On the final day.. We had to touch up the assignments we were working on... Watched all of 'em.. and said our goodbyes! With plenty of photos going round.. Well they're all over Facebook somewhere, you can check out my album by clicking right here!

Scholarship Statement

I applied for an internal scholarship from my school recently - the form required a personal statement approximating 200 words. It's really too short to make anything out of it - I wrote it by hand and maxed out the provided space even! But here goes; do note the brief and rushed nature of it all. Enjoy. Or maybe not

My name is Abel, and the focus of these very brief lines will be to quickly detail the stories of my life that do not translate into paper and certificates. 

In my heart I am many things - outstanding among them a keen communicator. I've learned it the hard way through life that the people around us often have a extremely vast collective experience. 

It is also notable that tapping such a reservoir is slow and cunning work, and requires more than persistence. This tiny realisation has changed the way I perceive people, and also the way I talk with them. 

This education I receive is but a complement to my lessons outside the classroom and this I know that my formal education will mold my future. When such an opportunity to surround myself with such a curious and social environment is offered, I shan't let it pass me by. 

I can give you an endless list of reasons telling you why I feel I am deserving of this scholarship, but I don't believe it will win it for me. But I know if I stand up and perform to the expectations of the scholarship it will mean something - not to anybody but myself.